China’s largest operator of Airbus aircraft, China Eastern Airlines, has taken delivery of its first A320 aircraft equipped with Sharklet fuel saving wing-tip devices, becoming China’s first carrier to do

Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, has placed an order for three A330-300s, growing its A330 Family fleet to a total of ten Airbus aircraft. The

For the first time ever, a production-grade Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II has performed a vertical takeoff (VTO) maneuver, followed by a short hover at low altitude and vertical landing.

Tourism is booming in the United Arab Emirates and as a result, many expansive projects are underway in this trendy vacation spot. Dubai’s first underwater hotel, the Hydropolis, has been

At our semi-weekly contact on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, we found the Kepler spacecraft once again in safe mode. As was the case earlier this month, this was a Thruster-Controlled

The innovative solar-powered aircraft, Solar Impulse has launched from California on a flight across the USA, the first of its kind aiming to showcase what is possible without fossil fuels.

China launched a large missile on Monday that reached 6,200 miles above the earth, its highest suborbital launch since 1976, according to a U.S. scientist at Harvard University. Jonathan McDowell,

Mobile chat apps eat into SMS in China: Person-to-person text messaging is down 11% in a year Traditional SMS text messaging appears to be losing steam in the People’s Republic

BlackBerry on Thursday announced that the US Department of Defense (DoD) has approved the use of BlackBerry 10 smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets with BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. The approval

INDIA. The name usually brings to mind imagery of a land filled with snake charmers, magic carpets and more recently, characters from the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire. But what most of

The legal and ethical troubles that have enveloped Finmeccanica have, so far, left its electronics businesses largely untouched. That has allowed the company to continue with a major restructuring, formally

Some European aerospace companies are shifting their focus—and staff—to markets where there are more growth opportunities. Saab recently established an Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Bangkok headed by Dan-Ake Enstedt, who