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Airbus Foundation launches youth development programme in Kenya

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Beechcraft receives certification on Fusion equipped-King Air 350i/ER

Emirates COO recognised for achievements in aviation by Cranfield University

PASSION | AEROCONTACT | Mon, Nov 30^th 2020 |

Cranfield University, one of the world’s leading academic institutions for aviation and aerospace programmes, has awarded its Distinguished Aviation Alumnus Awar...

A new President for the Air and Space Academy

PASSION | AEROCONTACT | Fri, Nov 27^th 2020 |

Nomination

Michel Wachenheim elected President of the Air and Space Academy at its 185th Session, will take office on January 1st 2021.The Air and Space Academy, an association created in 1983 in Toulouse on the initiative of An...

HAI Heli-Expo 2020 Roundup

PASSION | AEROCONTACT | Wed, Feb 19^th 2020 |

It is always exciting to see so many people who love helicopters as much as we do! This year HAI Heli Expo was held in Anaheim, California. Thousands of exhibitors and attendees travelled from all around the world for...

Boeing to Showcase Innovation, Partnerships and Safety at 2019 Paris Air Show

PASSION | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Jun 13^th 2019 |

Boeing (NYSE: BA) will showcase its broad range of commercial and defense products, services and technologies at the 2019 Paris Air Show, which runs June 17-23 at Pari...

Block chain to empower charities

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Oct 11^th 2018 |

The Heritage open source project developed by A³ by Airbus will allow non-profits and charitable organisations to accept donations in crypto currency.A block chain technology developed by A³ by Airbus will open a new ...

The Airbus Foundation celebrates its first decade

PASSION | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Aug 30^th 2018 |

On 30 August 2018 the Airbus Foundation – the company’s vehicle for corporate philanthropy – marked a milestone: its 10th anniversaryOver the last 10 years the Airbus Foundation has grown in size and...

Retrospective : Safran on board Concorde, 49 year after its maiden flight

PASSION | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Mar 8^th 2018 |

Concorde is an aircraft which captivates many more people than just aviation enthusiasts. The supersonic airliner, capable of flying at twice the speed of sound, compl...

George Dowty, a Safran pioneer from across the Channel

PASSION | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Feb 1^st 2018 |

After the Seguin brothers, George Messier and Marc Birkigt, we take a look at the career of George Dowty, whose company founded in 1931 is at the heart of the history ...

Airbus Perlan Mission II sets new World Record for Glider Altitude

PASSION | AEROCONTACT | Mon, Sept 4^th 2017 |

Engineless Perlan 2 reaches 52,172 feet, breaking record set by Perlan 1 in 2006Airbus Perlan Mission II, the world’s first initiative to send an engineless airc...

Two dead in crash at Moscow airshow

PASSION | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Sat, Sept 2^nd 2017 |

Two crew members were killed Saturday after their Soviet-era biplane ploughed into the ground at an airshow near Moscow, local police said. The vintage An-2 aircraft crashed as it was performing an aerial acrobatics ...

Airbus Foundation holds second round of youth development programme in Singapore

PASSION | AEROCONTACT | Wed, Aug 30^th 2017 |

Cooperation with the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Space and Technology AssociationProgramm...

Airbus Foundation and THAI organise goodwill flight

PASSION | AEROCONTACT | Mon, Jul 17^th 2017 |

The Airbus Foundation and Thai Airways International (THAI) have organised a goodwill flight to transport school supplies for underprivileged children aboard the airli...

British glider pilot killed in French Alps crash

PASSION | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Sun, Jul 16^th 2017 |

A British pilot reported missing in the French Alps was found dead on Saturday in the debris of his crashed glider, the prosecutor for the Gap region said.Mountain rescue had been alerted late Friday to the disappear...

Photo revives speculation on Amelia Earhart fate

PASSION | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Fri, Jul 7^th 2017 |

It is one of the most tantalizing mysteries in aviation lore -- the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.What happened to the legendary American aviatrix and her navigator, Fred Noonan, during their 1937 round-the-world f...

Dutch firm aims to deliver first flying car in 2018

PASSION | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Sun, Jun 18^th 2017 |

From "The Jetsons" to "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", flying cars have long captured the imagination.While several futuristic projects are under way in different countries...