The World of Aviation

The NAA, the oldest not-for-profit aviation organisation in the United States, will award the winner a trophy on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

The deal will include Azul purchasing 220 of Lilium’s jets, the single largest eVTOL (air taxi) order in the start-up company’s history.

The increasing spread of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus has alarmed carriers to make the change as Frontier was the first airline to report “softening” bookings since the outbreak.

The European planemaker released its orders and deliveries brief on 6 July, counting 47 deliveries to 32 customers and two orders to one customer.

A Boeing 737 MAX departed from the United States on Wednesday to China for its imminent test flight, in hopes of restoring the relationship with one of its key customers.

The airline said it will remove the wide-body jets from service until it has defined the “root cause” and can establish a solution for its safe return to the skies.