Aerospace Report

Jeremy Taylor has an unconventional way of opening monthly networking meetings of Gatwick Diamond Business, a 350-member group promoting the area around London’s second largest airport.

Two large motor coaches were required to transport Airport City Conference and Exhibition (ACE) delegates from the conference site in Ekurhuleni, South Africa, to the Denel Campus in Kempton Park on April 24th.

Boeing announced this spring that it will locate its Brazilian research and technology center at the hub of Brazil's aerospace industry – in the city of São José dos Campos' Technological Park.

Less than one full year after rolling out its first aircraft at its assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C., Boeing announced April 9 that it will invest $1 billion and create 2,000 new jobs over eight years at its manufacturing complex for the 787 Dreamliner.

The Isle of Grain, located in the Hoo district of Kent at the confluence of the Medway and Thames rivers, is home to, among other things, an LNG terminal, old anti-tank fortifications from World War I, and, not far away, a sunken World War II ship loaded with munitions, a familiar navigation hazard that it would cost some $40 million to disarm.

There is nothing like new competition to keep a player on his game. And there are new kids on the aviation services block in Southeast Asia that other contenders in the region will want to keep an eye on.

The Government of Jamaica has unveiled ambitious plans that will build the Caribbean into a Global Logistics Hub for the Americas and position it as a regional trading mecca similar to Singapore, Dubai and Rotterdam.

A new "unique urban design strategy" has been announced for the area surrounding Stockholm Arlanda Airport, in a bid to transform the region into "an attractive international meeting point for businesses, logistics and transportation".

The world’s been paying attention to the mega projects that are under way in Brazil as part of the nation’s latest economic expansion and its preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. Monstrous stadiums, a bullet train between Rio and São Paulo, super highways, new deep sea oil rigs, and of course, huge seaport and airport expansions all are in the works.

International flights into and out of European airspace have been granted a small reprieve by the European Commission, which has suspended their inclusion into the controversial EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for one more year.

Birmingham Airport (BHX) officially marked the start of its runway extension development November 28th. The project will see the existing runway length increase 405 metres (1,328 ft.) to 3,003 metres (9,850 ft.), giving aircraft unlimited range from the Midlands. Aircraft will be able to take off from Birmingham with more fuel and fly direct to destinations currently out of reach, such as China, South America, South Africa and the West Coast of the US.