
A concept to use batteryless wireless switches for aircraft systems has won the top prize at Airbus's 2019 Fly Your Ideas student competition.

Tom Ballantyne writes about the challenge coming from China and Russia in the commercial aircraft market in the June 2019 edition of Australian Aviation.

Frenchman Roger Béteille, the driving force behind Airbus's first commercial aircraft the A300B, died on June 14 2019. He was 97.

John Walton sums up all the orders and announcements at the 2019 Paris Air Show at the end of the trade days at Le Bourget.

Airbus has built a remotely controlled scale-model plane which it has called AlbatrossOne that features wing tips that flap like those of birds.

There were close to 200 aircraft orders for Airbus on Day 3 of the Paris Air Show, along with orders for ATR, Boeing, Embraer and Mitsubishi.