Royal Jordanian Airlines has restarted direct passenger service between Amman and Aleppo, marking the first such flights in over a decade. The airline resumed operations on Tuesday, with flights now scheduled three times per week—on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays—according to Jordan’s state-run Petra news agency. For more stories from The …
Read More »Funding boost for Highlands and Islands low carbon aviation project
PLANS to develop the Highlands and Islands as a “sustainable aviation region” have received a government funding boost worth nearly £9 million. The Sustainable Aviation Test Environment (SATE) project is led by Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL) and is based in Orkney. But the £8.9 million funding from UK …
Read More »British drones ‘to monitor traffic jams and deliver medicine to remote islands’
The plan will be unveiled at the Farnborough Airshow, which returns for the first time since 2018 in a boost for the UK aerospace industry Drones could monitor traffic jams under plans due to be set out today ( Image: Tim Graham/Getty Images) Electric drones could be deployed to fly …
Read More »Drone deliveries poised for take-off in Britain’s skies
However, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has warned that a widespread rollout of drone deliveries can only happen after new safety crash-prevention technology is developed. Radio signals used to control drones can interfere with each other unless they have their own dedicated frequency. Interference from other signals can also ground …
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A rainbow from a passing rain shower sits over Virgin Australia aircraft at Sydney’s Airport in Australia, August 5, 2016. — Reuters pic PARIS, July 30 — Shuttered shops, idle production lines, grounded planes — the coronavirus pandemic has devastated several industries, not least the aviation and automobile sectors, but …
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