The World of Aviation

Labour unions, in conjunction with airline executives, are pushing the US government to extend federal COVID-19 relief packages to the aviation industry, as the pandemic continues to hit the industry, and layoffs loom. To date, the US Congress set aside $32 billion of a $2.2 trillion CARES package for the aviation industry, on the condition

Sporting Boeing’s new testing livery, WH003 took off Paine Field in Everett, Washington, at approximately 1:55pm local time on Monday. 

Russia has wants to receive its long-awaited S-70 Okhotnik “Hunter” unmmaned air vehicle (UAV) ahead of schedule.

An Antonov An-74TK-100 registered to Russia’s Utair crashed in West Africa while carrying out a cargo service on behalf of a United Nations.

The proposal address the issues raised by the manoeuvring characteristics augmentation system (MCAS), which were at the heart of two fatal crashes.

In this crossposting from The Conversation, the University of South Australia’s Javaan Chahl explains why ornithopters are a trend taking off in civilian and military circles.  We have developed four-winged bird-like robots, called ornithopters, that can take off and fly with the agility of swifts, hummingbirds and insects. We did this by reverse engineering the aerodynamics