Aviation and space news
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August 19, 2026
DJI made pocket gimbals popular. HoverAir wants to make them fly. With the official debut of HoverAir Versa, the company has combined a professional handheld camera with the autonomous flying…
The temporary route adds to the airline's 26 domestic and international destinations from its Biscay base.
The temporary link complements the 26 domestic and international destinations the carrier will maintain from its base in the Basque Country.
Cargo handler Air India SATS (AISATS) has signed two agreements aiming to attract new freighter services to its facility at the recently opened Noida International Airport in northern India. The…
What does a mechanic do? Machines and engines are all around us. They power everything from cars and boats to airplanes and even rockets. Mechanics are experts who know how machinery works…
What to Know Eurowings will introduce proper First Class recliner seats on short-haul flights to London, Mallorca, and Málaga starting December 1, following a successful market test on its Berlin to…
I understood the science and had seen thousands of eclipse photographs, but nothing prepared me for the emotion of watching totality unfold above the icebergs and fjords of East Greenland.
F-15 Eagle DACT Vs other ‘teen’ series of US fighters In 1969, it was announced that McDonnell Douglas had been selected as the prime airframe contractor of a new fighter for the USAF, the F-15. The…
StandardAero has been awarded a place on the US Air Force's (USAF) new maintenance contract for T56 engines, which power the C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft.
The three companies intend to combine Hornet interceptor technology, naval platform engineering, and standardised ship
It's the closest and fastest star ever discovered around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy! S301, a star revealed by a European team using the Very Large…
20 August mobilisation The CGT marches on 20 August against rising household debt, arrears and the weight of loan repayments on wages. MundoGremial Published on…
Tuifly Netherlands is expanding its offering for summer 2027. The Dutch airline wants to offer both more flights and more seats and concentrate its capacity more on particularly…
China launched the reusable Zhuque-3 Y2 rocket on Wednesday morning, achieving its first recovery of a rocket’s first stage on land. The rocket blasted off from the Dongfeng commercial space…
The jet has been stuck in Canada for 4.5 years now.
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A Falcon 9 rocket carried 24 Starlink satellites into orbit this Wednesday (19th), and the booster that landed had already completed the company's 600th landing in April The post SpaceX completes…
www.aviacionline.com/Tuesday 18 August 2026 09:02 Flybondi's website shows a 504 error and became inoperative. The situation worsens the airline's outlook, which already has twelve days…
A team of researchers has determined that exoplanet GJ 523b is a rocky planet... but has a very high mass. It is a very interesting case study because it will help to better understand how…
The contract is worth €99 million. The European manufacturer will supply twelve UH-72B Lakota, the Americanized version of the best-selling H145M, to the US Army. Twin-engine helicopters that…
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Russia decided to simplify the certification process for the Tupolev Tu-204 and Tu-214 family, combining into a single document the type certificates covering different aircraft versions…
A Velis Electro, the first certified electric aircraft, has been available since 2025 at the Angoulême flying club. This experience allows for an initial assessment. Let's look then at the different…
Rheinmetall and Hensoldt have achieved a significant advance for networked air defence during the Timber Express 2026 air force exercise. One of… more...
Port Polska is working with the Integracja Foundation to assess the accessibility of designs for its planned airport and multimodal transport hub near Warsaw, Poland. The foundation will audit key…
Virgin Atlantic (VS) has challenged the UK Government’s economic case for a third runway at Heathrow Airport (LHR), warning that rising expansion costs could make the airport too expensive for…
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At Zurich Airport, a partial IT system failure in Apron Control caused restrictions on Tuesday (18 August) and Wednesday (19 August), according to the newspaper Tagesanzeiger…
The flight attendants are asking the airline to either increase staffing or reduce service.
Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to attain the proper touchdown point, and his delay in aborting the landing.
Lufthansa launches Starlink Wi-Fi: the A320neo "D-AINM" became the first aircraft in the fleet to fly with high-speed internet from Frankfurt to Rome.
Airbus is said to be targeting late September for the maiden flight of its new A350F freighter, with 24 September 2026 emerging as the preferred date, according to sources cited by…
South Korean carrier Korean Air will launch a new direct connection between its Seoul-Incheon hub and the Australian city of Melbourne next Northern winter. The…
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