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The development of a new generation of large commercial airships is creating interest worldwide, and air cargo demand has been growing rapidly for the past three decades, despite the rising costs of operating jet aircraft and the increasing recognition of adverse environmental impacts of jet aircraft.

Just a week after taking off for the very first time, the world's longest aircraft has come back down to earth with a bump, the Airlander 10, part plane, part airship, crashed during its second test flight in a field in Bedfordshire, U.K., a spokesman says the flight went really well - the only issue was when it landed!

Pratt is buttoning down its network of 1,600 suppliers, which provide about 80 percent of the GTF engine’s content, and is holding them to such a high standard that many do not quite measure up.

Science Fiction became science fact in New York today when for the first time in history, an aviator flew by jetpack in a controlled and sustained flight around Statue of Liberty.

Solar Impulse 2 pilots Piccard and André Borschberg are taking turns flying the aircraft, which is scheduled to head to New York this summer to continue its mission of promoting energy efficiency and the use of renewable energies.

Igor Pasternak, the CEO and chief engineer of Worldwide Aeros, is fulfilling his lifelong dream of creating aircrafts that are lighter than air, more fuel-efficient and "greener" and his Aeroscraft is gaining recognition and significant funding.

Transportation professionals help create the future so it is important that we consider the overall context of long-term planning decisions.

In a deal with potentially wide-ranging implications, Amazon fulfillment services, a subsidiary or e-commerce behemoth Amazon, has inked a deal with Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) in which ATSG will operate an air cargo network to serve United States-based customers.

SEKO Logistics has created a new Aerospace & Aviation industry vertical with global centers of excellence and core competencies to deliver value-added services and technology solutions for customers, and opportunities to drive cost out of their supply chains.

Uber is partnering with Airbus, a European aircraft company, on a test program to provide helicopter rides on demand through its application just as it currently does with car rides.

Amazon.com, Inc. is about to become a supply-chain powerhouse, the e-commerce retailer is in talks with Boeing to lease 20 of its 767-freighter jets.

Amazon has been increasingly investing in its own shipping alternatives, from contracting additional couriers to rolling out its own trucks in some cities, and the latest rumor is that Amazon has a new shipping venture named Aerosmith.

UPS today announced it has made a significant expansion to its UPS Worldwide Express service by adding more than 41,000 global postal codes, which it said will result in earlier guaranteed-delivery options for shippers that only previously had end-of-day guarantees.

The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) has called on world leaders meeting at the United Nations this week to work together to find solutions to the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe.

Through the company’s monetary and transportation contribution, FedEx will deliver immediate relief and longer-term support for those affected by the crisis.

Air cargo traffic rebounds after two years of either flat or slightly negative growth, with demand for air cargo transport beginning to grow slowly and steadily.

The Independent Pilots Association (IPA), a trade union representing pilots at UPS, said its leadership has called on its 2,528 members to authorize a pilot strike against UPS.

The Aeroscraft is a vertical-lift and hover capable vehicle that significantly reduces infrastructure development, operational, and maintenance costs, while eliminating traditional LTA ground-handling limitations.

The Aeroscraft Corporation revealed another milestone completed in the development of the world’s first "Vertical Takeoff and Landing" capable heavy-lift cargo airship, the Aeroscraft, featuring independence from external ballast.

UAS must be integrated into the NAS without reducing existing capacity, decreasing safety, negatively impacting current operators, or increasing the risk to airspace users or persons and property on the ground any more than the integration of comparable new and novel technologies.