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
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.
The director-general of International Air Transport Association has said aviation’s recovery has “hit a wall” after new figures revealed passenger traffic has flatlined.
Two of Hong Kong’s biggest aviation unions have said they are to join forces to fight against Cathay Pacific’s controversial changes to working conditions.
The US Navy is attempting to speed up the delivery of its new USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier by issuing a contract modification.
According to the business, the decision not to extend the initial agreed lease period was in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
