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Skyborne expands pilot training at Gloucester Airport
Skyborne Academy has expanded its pilot training facility at Gloucestershire Airport to increase its UK training capacity for commercial airlines. The expansion includes additional hangar space for the academy’s growing aircraft fleet, alongside new ground training classrooms and staff breakout rooms. The expanded site will work in tandem with Skyborne’s existing base at Bournemouth Airport…
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Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB-2 Breaks Hiatus and Destroys Russian Boats in the Black Sea
The Ukrainian TB-2 drone resurfaced once again after being nearly absent from the battlefield, striking what is believed to be Unmanned Surface Vessels. Russia’s Black Sea Fleet lost two small boats, believed to be Unmanned Surface Vessels (USV), following aerial strikes captured in footage released by the Ukrainian Navy on Jun. 24, 2026. Defense observers…
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Flytrex and Wing Report Zero Airspace Conflicts for Multi-Operator Drone Delivery
Flytrex says automated UTM coordination with Wing has deconflicted 100% of operations in Dallas–Fort Worth shared airspace, with zero conflicts. Flytrex has announced that multi-operator drone delivery in Dallas–Fort Worth has scaled to thousands of automatically deconflicted flights per month, less than a year after the company and Wing became the first U.S. commercial drone…
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News Analysis – the easyJet takeover bid
The narrative just changed and easyJet’s moat starts to look more like a price tag The proposed takeover of easyJet by US investment firm Castlelake took a dramatic turn this morning. The deadline that was meant to force Castlelake’s hand by 5pm tomorrow has been pushed to Sunday week and the reason tells you far…
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UK Successfully Test-fired Three Low-Cost, Deep-Strike Weapons Intended for Ukraine
Named One Way Effectors (OWE), these weapons are ground-launched and capable of hitting targets more than 500km away while carrying a powerful 225kg warhead. Over the last year, three British defence companies, MBDA UK, MGI Engineering, and Rotron Aerospace, have produced new OWE weapons for the Ukrainian military under a programme named ‘Project Brakestop’. Each…
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FL Technics acquires software developer Sensus Aero
MRO provider, FL Technics has announced the acquisition of software developer Sensus Aero. The company is best known for Sensus MRO, a software platform for MRO organisations focused on base and heavy airframe maintenance operations. The platform replaces fragmented systems and manual processes with a single connected workflow. As part of FL Technics Group, the…
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Airbus and 3M strike insulation deal
Airbus has signed a long-term supply agreement with 3M to provide thermal and acoustic insulation solutions for the aircraft cabin. The thermal materials will help improve the aircraft’s operational performance, while the acoustic insulation will be integrated throughout the cabin to absorb and reduce engine and airframe noise, creating a more pleasant environment for passengers…
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PAM APAC: The data infrastructure constraints holding back predictive maintenance at scale
Our second in a new series of PAM webinars explored why predictive maintenance in aviation remains difficult to adopt and scale despite advances in AI and machine learning. Sponsored by FTG, the webinar highlighted that while analytics capabilities have matured significantly, their effectiveness remains constrained by the underlying data infrastructure. William Cecil, FTG sales director,…
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Utilities Prepare for BVLOS While Navigating the Post-DJI Transition
Utilities face challenges in establishing drone programs By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill While the owners of electric utility assets were some of the earliest adopters of drone technology, they are facing new challenges and opportunities – such as the expected adoption of new beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) regulations and government pressures to…
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MQ-28 Ghost Bat to Take Part in Exercise Valiant Shield 2026
The MQ-28 will join the flight operations of Exercise Valiant Shield 2026 to refine tactics, techniques, and procedures, and evaluate its contribution as a force multiplier. The Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) announced that the MQ-28 Ghost Bat will take part in the ongoing Exercise Valiant Shield 2026. The aircraft is expected to fly together with crewed…