Tim Johnson

A photo with the US President or British Prime Minister is rare. But not as uncommon as being photographed next to Chinese President Xi Jinping, especially if you don’t happen to be a senior member of his administration or foreign head of state. Chen Feng has such a photo. Chen is the co-founder and chairman

Congratulations to Boeing Commercial Airplanes for — after a day’s weather delay on top of over a year’s programme delays — conducting a successful first flight of its 777X, the re-engined large twinjet on which the airframer is pinning many of its future hopes. The die seems cast for the 777-9 (though perhaps not the

Like many times throughout history, the Baltics are once again becoming a struggle between local and foreign influence. But now, it’s for the airspace above the region. airBaltic is fending off the much more powerful foreign low-cost carriers in the skies above Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — and it’s doing it with technology, including growing

Masks are a symbol of the Covid-19 novel coronavirus outbreak concentrated in mainland China, first detected in Wuhan. When the outbreak ends, masks won’t — not just as a physical object but a cover to make significant changes in Chinese aviation. These changes won’t be nefarious or negative, but instead will be change for the

In the past, keeping aircraft flying involved either reactive maintenance, in other words fixing anything that broke, or proactive maintenance, replacing parts based on a notional historical or predicted lifespan. Today, aircraft have onboard sensors connected to the Internet to tell maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) systems that they need to be fixed even before

Owning a piece of aviation history is easier than ever before The Catalina PlaneTags are manufactured from the aluminium skin of a PBY-5A Catalina, Serial number Bu.46590 manufactured for the US Navy in 1944 at the Consolidated factory in New Orleans. It saw active USN service on patrol over the Atlantic and training missions over