Gulfstream aerodynamics engineer Cathy Downen leads the airframer’s certification team, and has the final say on what flies and what does not When Gulfstream’s Cathy Downen was a teenager, she often watched her father tinker in his workshop. “He was...
Five bidders have been asked to submit formal offers for Piaggio Aerospace. It comes a year after the state-appointed commissioner who has run the ailing Italian airframer since 2018 invited applications of interest. Source: Piaggio Aerospace Piaggio is based at...
IAG airline Aer Lingus has appointed Lynne Embleton as its new chief executive, effective 6 April, replacing interim head Donal Moriarty. IAG airline Aer Lingus has appointed Lynne Embleton as its new chief executive, effective 6 April, replacing interim head Donal Moriarty. Embleton has been chief...
Whether Ukraine should have closed upper airspace – saving flight MH17 – depended on its view of separatists’ capabilities. If there is a country that understands the unintentional threat to commercial aircraft from a missile launch, it is Ukraine. Its...
Airbus’s A321XLR will be subject to special conditions proposed for the aircraft’s integrated rear centre tank, intended to ensure adequate protection from fire. The large 12,900-litre centre tank, located in the aft hold of the twinjet, will contain the fuel...
Hundreds of aircraft are sitting in storage across the world, awaiting their fate. Will the rate of retirements pick up in 2021, and what actually happens to an airliner when it is parted out? For admirers of the Queen of...
The lighter side of Flight International Moon monikers NASA famously named its Space Shuttle test orbiter ‘Enterprise’ in honour of the television show Star Trek, so surely there’s an opportunity for a similar homage via the Artemis programme to return...
Your views about the aerospace industry and our reporting Stick to the facts In the ‘Accidents and incidents’ section of your annual airline safety report (Flight International, February 2021), there seemed to me to be a thread of sensationalism creeping...
Competence, not gender, should be the only factor to affect success, says Pilar Wolfsteller. Aerospace and aviation have a serious man problem. Despite support programmes, mentorships, training, resource groups, workshops, outreach efforts and other corporate initiatives that ostensibly strive to improve gender...
Boeing’s failure to launch its New Mid-market Airplane (NMA) was behind the suspension of the airframer’s auxiliary power unit joint venture with Safran, the French aerospace supplier has confirmed. Boeing’s failure to launch its New Mid-market Airplane (NMA) was behind...