by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jan 30, 2023 | Adventure Travel, Recruitment, Travel
UK-based travel security and health business International SOS has appointed ex-Boeing vice president and chief security officer Dave Komendat as its senior security advisor. SOS lauded Komendat as “one of the best in the business” and said he “will...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jan 30, 2023 | Space, Technology
A second Airbus-built Inmarsat-6 geostationary telecommunications satellite (I-6 F2) has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The satellite was carried across the Atlantic Ocean on an Airbus Beluga ahead of it being launched in February 2023, the French...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jan 30, 2023 | Flight, Trending
Almost as soon as the teams had traipsed off the pitches in what were effectively the semi-finals of the American Football season, Southwest Airlines had added extra flights to its home city of Phoenix, which on February 12 will host the 2023 Superbowl, the showpiece...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jan 27, 2023 | Flight, Technology
The US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has asked Boeing to lead the development and test-flying of a “full-scale transonic truss-braced wing (TTBW) demonstrator airplane”. The belief is that the technologies will “inform...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jan 27, 2023 | Sustainability
Wizz Air is giving arty types “from across the world” until February 12 to send in designs for a “sustainability livery” for one of its Airbus A321neos. The winner will get €2000 worth of Wizz vouchers, a prize that could literally go a long...