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Political pressures are building in Europe and elsewhere as airlines are about to face new emission control regulations. The aviation community agreed at the United Nations' Kyoto climate conference that the ICAO should set emission standards, but nothing further was decided. The European Community will require a 16% reduction in nitrous oxide beginning in 2000, but promises not to marginalize any engine manufacturer., While agreeing that ICAO should set aircraft-emission standards, each of the aviation industry's segments has its own agenda The aviation community breathed a sigh of relief when the UN's Kyoto [...]

Commercial operators and government agencies are pushing for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the US airspace system to aid first responders. Unmanned aerial vehicles are more advantageous as first responders due to lower costs, higher operational flexibility, and the ability to respond on short notice.

The FAA has been criticized by the aircraft and airline industries for the way it formulates and implements regulations. The industries believe that the FAA is not prepared to deal with the forecasted expansion in the airline industry in the 21st century because of political pressure and budgetary constraints.

When I was in college in New Hampshire, I worked for a company that specialized in greeting cards and Republican politics. And not always in that order. The company had [...]

The aviation industry was pleased to see proposed legislation designed to curb the excesses of oil speculators. The initiative followed the creation of a new coalition - Stop Oil Speculation [...]

As EADS gears up for the presentation of the Power8 restructuring plan on which it is relying to reverse the fortunes of its troubled susidiary Airbus, the dissenting voices are [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union have called on Congress and federal antitrust officials to stop the wave of mergers in the [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) general vice president Robert Roach, Jr. has testified before the US Senate Commerce, Science and [...]

Lockheed Martin has presented the US Army with new options for its Aerial Common Sensor (ACS) platform, yet faces a new competitive attack for part of the aircraft's sensitive payload. [...]

The US Senate is supporting Boeing's campaign to preserve its C-17 production line beyond 2008, but has stopped short of allocating new funds. The Senate has passed an amendment to [...]

Lockheed Martin is rebutting claims made to justify a new attempt within the US Department of Defense to eliminate one of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) variants and is [...]

Airbus's decision to drop its support for Microsoft in a European antitrust battle is a welcome relief for its own supply chain As Flight International closed for press, Airbus reversed [...]

EADS is urging European governments to include a legally binding commitment to new defence programmes within the framework for the new European Defence Agency (EDA), which is now being finalised. [...]

EADS is working to persuade European governments to create common unmanned air vehicle (UAV) requirements as the company moves to increase its unmanned systems activities, including work on datalinks, sensors, [...]

Dassault says it will boycott future South Korean defence competitions in protest at what it claims is Seoul's predisposition towards buying US equipment. Calling the South Korean market a 'private [...]

Boeing is lobbying the US Congress to support a proposal in the forthcoming defence appropriations bill for the US Air Force to lease up to 100 new 767 tankers. This [...]

MAKERS OF environmental technologies, including pollution prevention equipment and fuelcells, say they support Republican-led efforts in Congress to simplify regulatory requirements and provide industry with more market-based incentives for energy [...]

The Boeing Co. has been a fixture on the central Puget Sound landscape for nearly a century, and, for many of those born after World War II, the company has [...]

The German Aerospace Industries Association (BDLI) has warned that budget cuts and tighter export controls are threatening the future of the country's defence businesses. BDLIpresident Dr Gustav Humbert says the [...]