NASA-Inspired Commercial Technology Helps Grow The Economy, Saves Lives

The 2018 edition of NASA’s annual Spinoff publication, released Tuesday, features 49 technologies the agency helped create that are used in almost every facet of modern life. These include innovations that help find disaster survivors trapped under rubble, purify air and surfaces to stop the spread of germs, and test new materials for everything from airplanes to athletic shoes.

Engineers Study The Natural World For Modern Aircraft Design Solutions

The growing science of biomimicry focuses on what humanity can learn from the world, and Airbus engineers are learning quite a lot about efficient solutions for aircraft design that nature has spent millions of years refining.

Company Adds To More Than $3 Billion In Profits With Another Profitable Quarter

JetBlue pilots, represented by ALPA, responded to JetBlue Airways’ fourth quarter financials by calling on management to come to the negotiating table with a contract. The airline announced its 31st consecutive profitable quarter, with $170 million in pretax gross profits. Since the pilots began negotiations three years ago, the company has made more than $3 billion in pretax profits. Yet, JetBlue management has been slow to provide the pilots with a market-rate contract that would bring them in line with their peers at other airlines, according to the union.

Industrial Proposals As Part Of The Eurofighter Offer To Belgium Would Create Opportunities To Participate In The Future Development Of The Aircraft

Further details about the Eurofighter consortium’s long-term industrial proposal to Belgium were revealed last week at a Eurofighter Typhoon Belgian Aerospace Industry Day, held in Brussels.

Passed Stringent Safety Management Audit In November

London Oxford Airport, one of the UK’s busiest business aviation hubs has been formally awarded Stage II of the International Standard for Business Aircraft Handling (IS-BAH). This industry leading accreditation is the global standard for best business aviation safety practice. Significantly, Oxford Aviation Services Limited, OASL with its OxfordJet branded FBO, is one of only a handful of FBO’s in the World to have received the Stage II endorsement and only the second in the UK, after TAG Farnborough.

Company Executed Transactions For 162 Aircraft

CDB Aviation Lease Finance DAC, a wholly owned Irish subsidiary of China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co., Limited, has announced its increasingly robust activity and growth in 2017. During the year, CDB Aviation executed transactions for 162 aircraft, marking the company’s best-to-date operational results.

Checking Equipment Used To Monitor Global Nuclear Treaties

With 24 hours of daily sunlight in their favor, a team of seismic technicians traveled to the southernmost point on Earth to conduct annual maintenance of the equipment they use to monitor global nuclear treaties.

Flies From Chicago To London Without A Ticket Before Being Caught

For most of us, flying on an airliner means buying an (often expensive) ticket and dreading the security line. Neither of those things is true for 66-year-old Marilyn Hartman, who has been arrested for at least the 10th time for avoiding security and airline personnel to board an airliner.

Vortices Circular patterns of air created by the movement of an airfoil through the air when generating lift. As an airfoil moves through the atmosphere in sustained flight, an area of area of low pressure is created above it. The air flowing from the high pressure area to the low pressure area around and about the tips of the airfoil tends to roll up into two rapidly rotating vortices, cylindrical in shape. These vortices are the most predominant parts of aircraft wake turbulence and their rotational force is dependent upon the wing loading, gross weight, and speed of the generating aircraft. The vortices from medium to heavy aircraft can be of extremely high velocity and hazardous to smaller aircra

Aero Linx: The Canadian International Air Show (CIAS) The Canadian International Air Show (CIAS) is Canada's largest and longest-running aviation display; and one of the largest air shows in North America! Over its six-decade-plus history, the CIAS has been proud to feature many air show 'firsts' including appearances by the Concorde, F-22 Raptor, the V-22 Osprey and more! Powered by the incredible efforts of almost 200 volunteers, the CIAS continues to thrill air show fans from around the world with its diverse line-up of aviation awesomeness each Labour Day weekend.

“Year after year, quarter after quarter, JetBlue Airways posts industry-leading profit margins. However, when management comes to the negotiating table, they refuse to offer market-rate pay and benefits to the professional pilots who fly their planes.” Source: Capt. Patrick Walsh, head of the JetBlue unit of ALPA, discussing the fact that JetBlue pilots, represented by ALPA, have responded to JetBlue Airways’ fourth quarter financials by calling on management to come to the negotiating table with a contract.