Category: aviation

Oil Giant Shell Sets Sights on Sustainable Aviation Fuel Take-Off

LONDON—Royal Dutch Shell plans to start producing low-carbon jet fuel at scale by 2025, in an attempt to encourage the world’s airlines to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Aviation, accounting for 3 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, is considered one of the toughest sectors to tackle due to a lack of alternative technologies to jet…


US Awarding $482.3 Million in Aviation Manufacturing Assistance

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Transportation Department said it was offering $482.3 million in aviation manufacturing assistance to 313 businesses, including up to $75.5 million to Spirit AeroSystems. Congress earlier this year created a $3 billion aviation manufacturing payroll subsidy program that will cover up to half of eligible companies’ compensation costs for as long as six months….


India’s SpiceJet Settles With Boeing MAX Aircraft Lessor CDB Aviation

BENGALURU—Budget airline SpiceJet said on Monday it has settled with another lessor of Boeing Co’s MAX aircraft, CDB Aviation, as it looks to start operating the aircraft by the end of September after India cleared the 737 MAX to fly last month. The 737 MAX was grounded worldwide in March 2019 after two fatal crashes…


White House Targets 20 Percent Lower Aviation Emissions by 2030

The White House on Thursday said it is targeting 20  percent lower aviation emissions by 2030, as airlines facing pressure from environmental groups to lower their carbon footprint pledged to use more sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The push to accelerate carbon cutting is part of President Joe Biden’s target of making the United States net…


World First: Airplane Flies Through Tunnel at 152 MPH, Sets World Records

Italian pilot Dario Costa clears Turkey’s Çatalca Tunnels in under 44 seconds. Just after dawn on Saturday, September 4, 2021, professional race and stunt pilot Dario Costa of Italy wrote a new chapter in aviation history as he flew a race plane through the narrow confines of two enclosed auto tunnels just outside Istanbul. In…


Top Flight: With a Storied Aviation Career, Terry Tomeny Is Inspiring a New Generation

As a preteen, Terry Tomeny and his father, Edward “Ted” Tomeny, had no clue that one flight in a Cessna 172 would send the youngster up a path that would lead him to approximately 10,000 hours of flying time in more than 80 types of aircraft. “Flying was the coolest thing I have ever done,…


History Takes Flight at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach

I stood outside the Military Aviation Museum in the cool breeze, holding my daughter in my arms as the Spitfire and Hurricane engines roared. “Airplane! Look!” My daughter squealed over the noise of the propellers of the World War II military aircraft. Because the weather was so windy, the working military planes were not going…


Pilots Issue Mayday As Data Suggest UK Aviation ‘Worst Hit by Travel Rules’

Pilots are calling for urgent action to help aviation because of the “devastating” impact of the pandemic-related lockdowns on UK airlines and airports. The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) said the UK aviation industry has been the hardest hit in Europe by restrictions on international travel. Its analysis of official European air traffic data for…


Aviation Bosses Call for Reopening of UK–US Travel

Aviation leaders have demanded that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. President Joe Biden ease restrictions on transatlantic travel when they meet this week. Bosses from UK firms British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and Heathrow Airport joined senior figures from the United States in calling for travel to reopen between the countries.They issued the plea…


A Modern-Day Da Vinci: Art Thompson Fabricates Dreams Into Reality 

Along with more than 3 billion spectators, Art Thompson’s anxiety grew as he intensely watched monitors in a packed control room in New Mexico. Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner was about to leap from a capsule, 128,560 feet (24.5 miles) above the earth’s surface. On Oct. 14, 2012, 50 seconds after stepping off the capsule ledge,…