DEFENSE

Boeing Still Tracking Toward First KC-46A Delivery This Year

James Drew | Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Boeing is forging ahead with KC-46 Pegasus FAA airworthiness certification in the hopes of getting the aircraft certified for delivery to the U.S. Air Force by year’s end.

COMMERCIAL AVIATION

ACI Europe Warns Of U.S. E-Ban’s Disruptive Effect

Helen Massy-Beresford | Aviation Daily

Ahead of a meeting between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the European Commission on May 17, European airports have warned that an extension of the U.S. electronics ban to their facilities would have far-reaching consequences.

BUSINESS AVIATION

Approach Impossible: 'Chair Flying' To Minimums Or Not At All

James Albright | Business & Commercial Aviation

The key is to “chair-fly” the approach by visualizing each step of the procedure while considering terrain, country-specific and other local restrictions, and aircraft descent and turning performance.

MRO

MRO Workforce Shortage Looms, As Providers Seek Solutions

Paul Seidenman, David J.Spanovich | MRO Network

For airlines, it could be argued that their lifeblood is the cadre of technicians that keeps their airplanes flying. Unfortunately, that supply has been chronically anemic in recent years.

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