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Beijing court orders compensation for MH370 flight families
Dec 08, 2025 (AFP)
The Chaoyang District People's Court said in a statement that 47 other lawsuits had been withdrawn, after the families settled outside of court with Malaysia Ai...
Milei welcomes Argentina's first F-16 fighter jets
Dec 06, 2025 (AFP)
The US-built aircraft are among the 24 used supersonic fighters bought last year from Copenhagen for roughly $300 million, an exchange Milei's government descri...
NASA prepares long duration Antarctic balloon campaign to probe neutrinos and dark matter
Dec 05, 2025 (SPX)
The PUEO mission is the first balloon-borne project selected under NASA's Astrophysics Pioneers program, which supports astrophysics investigations at lower cos...
UAlbany Atmospheric Scientist Proposes Innovative Method to Reduce Aviation's Climate Impact
Dec 05, 2025 (SPX)
The formation of these wispy ice clouds is a complex process that involves the mixing of hot exhaust gases with cold air. Depending on the atmospheric condition...
Taiwan says test flights of US fighter jets to start this month
Dec 01, 2025 (AFP)
The $8 billion deal for 66 warplanes was approved during US President Donald Trump's first term in the White House, with delivery scheduled for 2026. Speaking i...
Venezuela foreign airline ban slammed as 'disproportionate'
Nov 27, 2025 (AFP)
Venezuela's aviation authority said Wednesday that it had banned six airlines -- Spain's Iberia, Portugal's TAP, Colombia's Avianca, Chile and Brazil's LATAM, B...
Indian warplane crashes at Dubai Airshow, killing pilot
Nov 21, 2025 (AFP)
The warplane executed a low roll before crashing in flames about a mile (1.6 kilometres) from the show site, an eyewitness told AFP. "A Tejas fighter aircraft f...
NASA's X-59 soars on historic first flight, marks breakthrough for quiet supersonic travel
Nov 20, 2025 (SPX)
The X-59, designed to fly at supersonic speeds and reduce the sound of loud sonic booms to quieter sonic thumps, took off at 11:14 a.m. EDT and flew for 67 minu...
Trump says US will sell F-35 stealth jets to Saudi Arabia
Nov 17, 2025 (AFP)
"We will be doing that. We will be selling F-35s," Trump told reporters when asked if Washington would agree to sell Riyadh the jets at Tuesday's meeting. "They...
Colombia inks $4.3 bn deal to buy Swedish warplanes
Nov 15, 2025 (AFP)
The government had said back in April that it would acquire fighter planes from Saab but did not say how many or for how much money. Petro specified Friday in a...
Light powered micromotors achieve flight in open air
Nov 14, 2025 (SPX)
Each micromotor is shaped like pollen and measures only 12 microns wide - about a tenth the width of a human hair. These particles are manufactured from zinc ox...
NATO allies ditch Boeing for new surveillance planes
Nov 13, 2025 (AFP)
The Western military alliance had announced in 2023 that members would acquire six Boeing Wedgetail jets in one of its "biggest-ever" joint purchases as it look...
Turkey suspends C-130 flights after fatal plane crash
Nov 13, 2025 (AFP)
The plane crashed on Tuesday while returning home from Azerbaijan, with the victims' bodies due to be repatriated on Thursday, the ministry said. "Flights by ou...
Stevens researchers advance hypersonic flight with breakthrough turbulence study
Nov 13, 2025 (SPX)
"It really shrinks the planet," says Professor Nicholaus Parziale, whose research focuses on making such hypersonic flight a reality, and who is a recent recipi...
Turkish military plane with 20 on board crashes in Georgia
Nov 11, 2025 (AFP)
"Our C-130 military cargo plane, which took off from Azerbaijan to return home, has crashed at the Georgia-Azerbaijan border," the ministry said in a statement,...
At COP30, nations target the jet set with luxury flight tax
Nov 07, 2025 (AFP)
Rooted in the idea that a small elite of premium flyers should pay more for their outsized contribution to global warming, the proposal will likely pit them aga...
India buying over 100 GE engines for its Tejas fighter jets
Nov 07, 2025 (AFP)
The deal comes at a time when ties between the US and India have come under strain over President Donald Trump's decision to impose harsh tariffs as punishment ...
Qatar Airways to sell all of its Cathay Pacific stake
Nov 06, 2025 (AFP)
The airline's stake in Hong Kong bounced more than 4.0 percent at HK$11.7 each on Thursday, a day after the exit was announced. "The buyback reflects our strong...
New silicon carbide motor drive reduces weight and size for hybrid aircraft
Nov 04, 2025 (SPX)
Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor and project lead, stated, "We were the first university to do this for a hybrid electric aircraft. That's a feather in ou...
Indonesia mulls buying more Airbus military aircraft: president
Nov 03, 2025 (AFP)
Prabowo was speaking to reporters at a military airbase in Jakarta, where the first of two A400M airlifters that the Indonesian defence ministry had already bou...
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