The World of Aviation

Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo has come to a sale-and-leaseback agreement with GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) for 14 LEAP-powered Airbus A320neo-family aircraft. Under the agreement, seven A320neo and seven A321neo aircraft are scheduled to be delivered between the fourth quarter of 2021 and the middle of 2022. Currently India’s largest airline (by both passengers carried

The US Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing have confirmed that 106 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft have been grounded around the world as the planemaker continues to investigate a way to fix the jets’ numerous electrical faults. Earlier notices to operators of the affected jets suggested that operators could themselves organise engineers to repair the aircraft

The US has added the UK to its “Level Four: Do Not Travel” advisory lift, among 150 other countries, just weeks before the UK is expected to allow Britons to travel across the pond. The US State Department announced this week that the UK, along with 150 other countries making up nearly 80 per cent

In this cross-posting with The Conversation, York University Assistant Professor Jesse Rogerson discusses the future possibilities of space exploration in light of the Mars helicopter’s first flights. History has been made on Mars: NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter just achieved the first powered and controlled flight on another planet. Ingenuity is a small, lightweight, drone-like helicopter that

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has successfully completed its second flight test on the surface of Mars, flying higher and farther than it did during its first test earlier this week. Ingenuity’s second flight, which occurred on Thursday, saw it fly five metres above the Martian surface over Jezero Crater, an area now dubbed Wright Brothers Field.

It’s one for the history books! In an exceptional feat of engineering, NASA has flown the first rotorcraft on the surface of another planet, with its solar-powered and remotely operated helicopter Ingenuity taking to the Martian skies for 39 seconds. In this episode of the World of Aviation Podcast, host Adam Thorn and reporter Hannah