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STS A01 Amphibian Jet: An Experimental Sci-Fi Concept Aircraft by Rene Gabrielli

STS A01 is a “SCI-FI” based project, focusing on design ideas used in movies and video games industries. The name STS stands for “Sea To Space”, while A01 is a shortcut for Amphibian 01, which means that this vehicle can travel over land, air, and water. It can be used underw...

Airbus sees China overtaking US in civil helicopter buying

Airbus Helicopters, the top player in China's civil helicopter market, believes China will surpass the United States to be the world's biggest civil helicopter market soon－and aims to increase its market share from the current 40 percent to 60 percent by 2020. "The Chinese civil (he...

9 Companies Building Flying Cars

As Peter Thiel wryly quipped, “we wanted flying cars and all we got was 140 characters”. This made us think, just how far are we away from realizing flying cars? Is this next on Elon Musk’s to-do list after he makes them all electric first? Just three days ago, Google co-founder Larry Page made the news with his $100 million investment to fund a flying car venture called Zee...

U.S. declines to say if Boeing has license to sell planes to Iran

The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it could not address whether Boeing has obtained a license to sell commercial aircraft to Iran, but a spokesman said the Iran deal allows licensing of commercial aircraft sales on a case-by-case basis. The department commented after Iran said it had reached an agreement with Boeing Co. for the supply of jetliners, reopening the country's skies to ne...

Azerbaijan to firm MC-21 lease once flight-tests start

Azerbaijan Airlines has tentatively signed to lease 10 Irkut MC-21-300s from Russia’s Ilyushin Finance. The aircraft would be delivered over the course of 2019-20, the leasing company states. Azerbaijan Airlines would take the MC-21s in a 159-seat configuration including 20 in the business-class cabin. It has not specified an engine selection but the type will be tested wi...

How NASA Wants To Build a Supersonic Plane Without the Boom

When the Concorde, a 1970s design, made its last flight in 2003, few may have guessed how hard it would be to achieve commercial supersonic flight once again. Aerospace companies have underestimated the challenges of developing a supersonic airliner ever since, though we might finally be getting close to overcoming the technological hurdles that have stymied supersonic air trav...

Airbus silences the A320's 'barking dog'

Airbus has modified its A320neo to eliminate the characteristic ‘barking dog’ noise generated by the A320’s power transfer system during ground manoeuvring. The noise has been a familiar feature of the A320 family and originates in the power-transfer unit, a bi-directional device enabling the green and yellow hydraulic systems to pressurise one another. It typically activat...

Bell 505 Jet Ranger X makes Japan debut

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, announced the unveiling of the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday, June 7, 2016. This is the first time the Bell 505 has been on display in Japan and marks the beginning of a four-month demonstration tour across the region. Bell Helicopter leadership was available onsite at the unveiling to discuss the aircraft and it...

Cessna marks another program milestone, powers on first Citation Longitude

Cessna Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. company, today announced it has powered the electrical distribution system on the revolutionary Cessna Citation Longitude super-midsize jet, completing the next major step in the aircraft’s path to accomplish first flight this summer. This milestone occurs just three weeks after the company successfull...

Embraer Executive Jets delivers first Phenom 100E to Etihad Flight College

Embraer Executive Jets has delivered the first Phenom 100E to Etihad Flight College, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates. The aircraft arrived yesterday in the city of Al Ain, base of the flight school established to train ab-initio pilots for the airline’s rapidly expanding fleet. “Designed for high utilization with a pilot-...

Chinese consortium acquires 100 H135s from Airbus Helicopters

A Chinese consortium made up of China Aviation Supplies Holding Company (CAS), Qingdao United General Aviation Industrial Development Company (Qingdao United) and CITIC Offshore Helicopter Co. Ltd (COHC) has ordered 100 H135 light-twin helicopters, becoming China’s first customer to form an industrial partnership to launch a H135 final assembly line (FAL) in Qingdao, Shandong province. This...

Counting the cost of H225 grounding

How do you calculate the cost of an accident? Beyond, that is, the simple, unquantifiable human tragedy of the event. But as more details emerge on the fatal April crash of an H225 helicopter on Norway’s west coast, some of those costs are also becoming clear. With the Super Puma fleet now grounded for safety reasons, operators are faced – again – with a potentially long-te...

Canada willing to work with Bombardier on share structure: minister

Canada is willing to "find a solution" with Bombardier Inc as the parties consider the company's dual-class share structure during talks on a $1-billion government fund-infusion, the minister responsible said late on Saturday. The struggling Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier has asked for $1 billion from the federal government to support its new CSeries passenger jet, though sour...

Boeing wants in on the solar airplane craze

Boeing filed a patent application in recent weeks simply titled "Solar Powered Airplane," which proposes a wing-shaped drone with enormous winglets on either end completely covered in solar panels. The idea would be to make a drone capable of staying at high altitudes for long periods of time, similar to projects that are currently being undertaken at Facebook and Google. Why would Bo...

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