Flight

• [New] A U.S. bankruptcy court will allow Grupo Aeromexico, which operates Mexico's largest airline, to increase the size of its fleet of planes. / Reuters
• [New] Repatriation flights from India will resume as soon as possible after the federal government's mandated three-week pause, with Labor calling for purpose-built quarantine facilities to be built in every state and territory to help bring home more Australians. / The Sydney Morning Herald
• [New] After making history and completing two additional flights, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter could soon attempt even more ambitious forays into the skies of the Red Planet. / Engadget
• [New] Stratolaunch is a company that plans to launch hypersonic vehicles not from a runway on the ground but from beneath an airplane soaring high into the Earth's atmosphere. / SlashGear
• [New] With four flights now complete, NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter will transition from being strictly a technology demonstration to a test of its ability to work in cooperation with the Perseverance rover. / SpaceNews
• [New] Many overseas Chinese workers are stranded abroad, especially in Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and have been suffering from endless lockdowns, job loss, poverty, and little hope of returning home. / REPORT
• [New] Airlines may continue to operate flights to and from India, but from then on, non-US citizens will not be allowed to enter if they have been in India in the last 14 days. / Simple Flying
• [New] The Federal Aviation Administration will require airlines to fix a manufacturing flaw on electrical components on Boeing 737 MAX jets. / usfunds
• [New] 3D Printing can and will change the aviation industry, companies such as Airbus and Boeing are already using 3D printing and if you fly in a plane in the next few years, you are statistically likely to be flying in one that contains 3D printed parts. / Aerospace 3D Printing Conference
• [New] As Western states prepare for 2021's wildfire season, the world's largest firefighting plane has been grounded and could be converted to help fight against another crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. / Kaiser Health News
• [New] Stratolaunch is developing its own family of hypersonic vehicles, including a reusable 28-foot-long (8.5m) craft called Talon - A, which will be the first to fly with Roc. / Space.com
• [New] Numerous imported COVID-19 cases, potentially comprising mutant strains, lend further credence to Hong Kong's decision to ban flights from countries deemed 'high risk', including India. / A2Global Risk
• [New] Given the current market conditions for commercial aviation, Embraer has rescheduled the start of operations of the E175 - E2 by one year to 2024. / Simple Flying
• [New] We need to ensure that drones can continue to advance and bring new opportunities, jobs and services to cities and states across the U.S. / iHLS
• [New] SpaceX has launched astronauts to the International Space Station, and plans to fly non-astronauts as soon as the end of the year. / The Atlantic
• [New] Though space is replete with asteroids of all sizes flying about, it seems the risk of one of them hitting Earth anytime in the near future is slim to nonexistent. / Singularity Hub
• [New] The U.S. and Israel will establish an inter-agency working group on the growing threat of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAVs] and Precision Guided Missiles produced by Iran and provided to its proxies in the Middle East Region. / Forbes
• [New] There are other challenges, as well, including uncertainty about where the U.S. will be able to position counterterrorism assets, such as drones, in case they are needed. / Voice of America
• [New] As additional aircraft are outfitted with enhanced connectivity and the Delta Portal Platform, customers can expect a unified and consistent Delta-branded experience across all Viasat-enabled aircraft. / Delta News Hub
• [New] China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, a major defense contractor, plans to produce a reusable aerospace plane and put it into commercial flight by 2030. / China Daily
• [New] As Congress debates the American Jobs plan, there is a new opportunity to invest in the future of infrastructure: not only in the structures themselves but also in modernizing the processes that maintain them. / Commercial UAV News
• China rolled out the rocket Thursday that will launch the first module of its space station next week. / the weekly ledger

Last updated: 03 May 2021