USA – America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber made its debut Friday after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China. The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than ...
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QAT – The 2023 FIFA World Cup final match in Qatar ended with an intense penalty shootout, and Argentina ultimately won. Qatar has become the first Middle Eastern nation to host the football world’s premier tournament. The World Cup, as previously reported by APN News, ...
UAE – The 2022 MEBAA show was held in Dubai in early December after being postponed for several years due to the worldwide pandemic. The host, the Middle East and North African Business Aviation Association (MEBAA), called the show a great success. The biennial show ...
AUS – Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) recently released its guidelines for the construction of vertiports to service electric air taxi networks. The agency has invited comments from stakeholders on the guidance covering site selection, physical characteristics, and visual aids, with a closing date ...
Groupe ADP, Skyports, and Volocopter showcase end-to-end passenger journeys through a vertiport featuring crewed test flights. Today, Groupe ADP, Skyports, and Volocopter commissioned Europe’s first fully integrated vertiport terminal for the urban air mobility (UAM) industry at the Groupe ADP, RATP Group, and Choose Paris ...
Have you ever considered an internship program as a means of developing your organization’s pipeline but thought your company was too small for an internship program? While airlines and major maintenance repair organizations receive many headlines for their internship programs, these opportunities are not reserved ...
New legislation, proposed regulation, and policy initiatives are working together to support the future Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) market. The FAA and Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) jointly signed an agreement to support future AAM aircraft development. The Declaration of Cooperation ensures the two aviation ...
Innovation was in focus right out of the gate at the National Business Aviation Association’s Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), with the Day 1 Keynote Session in Orlando, Florida. While celebrating inspiring and emerging concepts, the session recognized that innovation requires policy support to ...
As air travel to Mexico picks up for the winter season, announcements regarding new (and delayed) infrastructure and possible policy changes related to cabotage and safety are in the news. Felipe Ángeles International Airport (IATA: NLU, ICAO: MMSM), run by the Mexican army, wants the ...
The Citation Jet Pilots (CJP) Owners Pilot Association convention, NBAA’s Single-Pilot Safety Standdown, and FAA events, including a two-part virtual Surface Safety Symposium, put general and business aviation safety in focus this fall. The CJP convention, held in late October, focused on the advantages of ...