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Airport take-off slots to return to pre-pandemic levels.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
The Ministry of Defence is investing £80 million in new world-class equipment to help train the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy helicopter pilots and rear crews of the future.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
The Ministry of Defence, through the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), has joined Aerospace Xelerated as a new programme partner.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
New regulations on airport slots will help to minimise flight disruption ahead of the summer peak.
Soldiers, sailors, and aviators will race from arctic warfare to fast jet landings thanks to a new virtual reality training system, under a £7.2 million contract secured by Defence, Equipment and Support.
Fifteen successful projects have been awarded funding to help support UK airports in handling new types of electric and hydrogen aircraft.
A contract worth over £230 million for the RAF’s Poseidon Maritime Aircraft fleet has been signed with Boeing Defence UK (BDUK) creating more than 150 UK jobs.
The CMA investigated whether airlines had breached consumers’ legal rights by failing to offer cash refunds for flights they could not lawfully take.
Cutting edge new technologies that could enable electric flying taxis and hydrogen powered aircraft to take to the skies will be developed in the UK.
Anniversary Statement for accident to Flight Design CT2K, G-CBDJ, at Beccles Airfield, Suffolk, on 24 March 2022.
A Cessna Citation CJ1+ had been modified with a performance enhancing system. Shortly after takeoff this system suffered an electrical failure causing one of the control surfaces to deploy separately, causing an uncommanded roll. This resulted in the pilot having...
Employment Tribunal decision.
The engine oil temperature rose and the oil pressure started to fluctuate. The engine then seized, forcing the pilot to make a landing in a field near Button End, Cambridgeshire, 4 August 2020
On 12 March 2021, during the demonstration of an engine failure after takeoff emergency procedure, the commander of a MBB-BK 117 helicopter reduced one of the engine’s throttle to idle. When the throttle setting was later increased, the engine did...
Move gives aviation sector flexibility and protects environment as airlines will not have to operate ghost flights to retain airport slots.
New funding to develop skills and careers to support the future of the aviation industry.
Move provides aviation sector with much-needed flexibility and protects environment as airlines will not have to operate carbon-inefficient 'ghost flights' to retain their slots.
Fatal accident involving a Flight Design CT2K (G-CBDJ) at Beccles Aerodrome, Suffolk, 24 March 2022.
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