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The first official flight was flown on Virgin Atlantic’s new Airbus A330-900neo, named “Billie Holiday”, an aircraft that has been dubbed one of the most fuel-efficient aircraft flying today.

The retrofit program is expected to take up to two years and will involve work on 120 aircraft.

SAUDIA and Lilium announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the delivery of the eVTOLs which will make them the first airline in the Middle East and North Africa region to receive the jets.

Australian police have arrested a former US Marine Corps pilot and flight instructor at the request of US authorities for his work in China. Daniel Edmund Duggan, 54, was arrested on 21 October in Orange, NSW, Australia and appeared in court on the same day, according to court records, his lawyer, and two police sources.

Credit: Fighterbomber (YouTube) In what is the first video of its kind, headcam footage of a Russian pilot ejecting from his fighter jet before it crashes and explodes nearby has gone viral online. Flying what has been identified as a Russian Su-25 Frogfoot, the pilot appears to pitch up aggressively before ejecting and watching his

California-based eVTOL manufacter Archer Aviation has predicted that it will produce approximately 250 battery-electric air taxis in 2025 with production ramping up in following years. “In our first year, we will build 250 aircraft, our second year will build 500 aircraft, our third year will build 650 aircraft, and then we scale it up to