Last month, the Jacksonville International Airport had a royal visitor. Standing 8 feet tall and weighing a whopping 8,000 pounds, Mundi is a 41-year-old king of the jungle. The female African savannah elephant touched down at the freight area of the Florida airport on May ...
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NH – Business boosters are excited about the expansion of biotech firm United Therapeutics in New Hampshire. Still, the corporate hangar it will build at Concord Municipal Airport is exciting for another reason: Glulam. Lots and lots of glulam. “The entire skeleton and truss system ...
PA – The Reading Regional Airport Authority is taking the next step in the process of becoming the sole provider of fuel and related services at the Bern Township airfield. At a meeting Tuesday, the board voted unanimously to hire Houston-based JLL Valuation & Advisory Services to ...
VA – A remote tower designed by Saab began operating at Leesburg Executive Airport in 2015. The program has been operational for 10 hours per day since then, recording more than 75,000 takeoffs and landings at the airport annually. In September 2021, the FAA conducted ...
US – Two priorities, “Achieving Sustainable Aviation” and “Promoting Connectivity and Speed,” tightly align with Boom Supersonics’ key speed, safety, and sustainability principles. The report specifically highlights the emergence and importance of commercial supersonic flight to enhance connectivity, and the need for new aircraft and ...
US - Signature Aviation, the world’s largest private aviation terminal operator, announced today that it had achieved carbon neutrality for 2022 across its global network of more than 200 FBO locations. Signature’s investment in carbon neutrality covers greenhouse gas emissions from all of its ground equipment, vehicles, facilities,
The Goliath Series, a firm specializing in polar-class expedition yachts, drafted one of the most over-the-top watercraft ever rendered. The 215-meter/705-foot-long superyacht G-Quest is designed to tackle humanitarian and research objectives in total luxury. Most of the superyacht’s space is devoted to accommodating oceanographic and ...
CH – Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS), the flag carrier of Switzerland, and its parent company Lufthansa Group have finalized an agreement with Synhelion for using its solar aviation fuel. With this deal, SWISS is said to become the world’s first carrier to use ‘sun-to-liquid’ fuel or ...
TX – McKinney will host its first open house for residents to view the environmental study of the proposed commercial air service terminal at McKinney National Airport on Thursday. A $200 million bond item to fund improvements and projects at McKinney National Airport (TKI), including ...
AK – Alaska has become the first frontier in the drone industry with the new ability to grant permission for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to operate and test to secure certification for national airspace flight. The FAA granted the state a Special Unmanned Aerial System ...