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One major development in the US Defense Department’s aviation training enterprise remains the continued delay of Boeing T-7A Red Hawks entering the US Air Force’s aging training force. Group Editor Marty Kauchak updates the impact of this program’s missed acquisition milestones and the Air Force’s challenge to meet its pilot readiness goals – without a purpose-built fifth-generation jet trainer. 4 July 2023
Team Fisher, the Capita-led consortium including Raytheon UK, Elbit Systems UK, Fujitsu, the University of Lincoln and several smaller British suppliers, has assumed responsibility for engineering and maintenance support for a range of 34 training systems and simulators. 4 July 2023
Delta broke ground on a new pilot training facility in its key Mountain West hub, Salt Lake City. that is scheduled to open in 2025. 4 July 2023
Textron Aviation has announced an agreement with ATP Flight School for the purchase of 40 Cessna Skyhawk aircraft. 4 July 2023
Aviation industry leader Anna Smallwood has been appointed as Professor and Head of the Centre for Air Transport Management at Cranfield University and will take up her post in October 2023. 3 July 2023
Team Topography Troopers emerged victorious at the NATO Modelling and Simulation as a Service (MSaaS) Coalition Jam. 3 July 2023
21 AIR, an all-cargo airline headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, has awarded Avsoft International a long-term contract for B767-200/300 Special Freighter (SF) online pilot training. 3 July 2023
Researchers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California are exploring how passengers may experience an air taxi ride by building a custom virtual reality flight simulator. 3 July 2023
Yale will create a new Center for Geospatial Solutions (YCGS) to enhance the university’s research, training, and engagement infrastructure in the rapidly evolving areas of geospatial science, data, and analysis, university leaders have announced. 3 July 2023
During Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s White House visit, US President Joe Biden called out Boeing’s intention to make a significant investment in the Indian civil aerospace industry and help address that nation’s burgeoning demand for pilots. 3 July 2023
More than 40 students from schools across Hertfordshire and North London, UK, have taken to the skies at London Elstree Aerodrome. 3 July 2023
CPaT Global, a leading provider of distance learning for the airline and aviation industry, has been awarded a new contract with US-Bangla Airlines and Air Astra 30 June 2023
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