The World of Aviation

Italian aerospace company Leonardo has announced a new contract between its wholly-owned subsidiary AugustaWestland and US-based EMS operator Life Link III for two additional air medical transport helicopters. Life Link III has reportedly agreed to purchase a new AW169 and an AW109 Trekker, for air medical transport missions, with delivery expected to take place in

ENAIRE, Spain’s air traffic management authority, has officially announced plans to begin demonstrating flying taxis throughout the cities of Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela in 2022. Spain hopes to be the first to see its returned tourists offered a new and novel opportunity to explore the city from above, while removing congestion for the streets

Spanish flag carrier Iberia has finally joined the long list of airlines to convert passenger aircraft into freighters, starting with its A330.

With mounting regional tensions, Japan has revealed more details on the nation’s in-development, next-generation fighter aircraft, with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries the lead contractor and international collaboration on the table once again. The current global and regional transition from fourth to fifth-generation fighter aircraft, like the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter platforms, is reshaping

Etihad has officially moved one of its Airbus A380s into long-term storage in Tarbes, France, joining a long line of airlines pressing pause on their four-engine fleets. The six-year-old aircraft, registration A6-APA msn 166, was the first A380 to have been delivered to Etihad, back in 2014. Now, it has been transported to the infamous

In this cross-posting with The Conversation, The University of Nottingham’s Roger Tyers explores how a policy introduced in the 1940s has kept demand subdued for low-emission alternatives to fossil fuels in aviation. Before the pandemic, aviation was on course to be the UK’s most polluting sector and produce as much as 22 per cent of global emissions by 2050.