Report on RAeS President’s ‘Future of Flight’ Summit

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Report on RAeS President’s ‘Future of Flight’ Summit

A recent ‘Future of Flight’ summit at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London (20-21 September 2023) highlighted the growing significance of new in-development aircraft powered electrically or by hydrogen, many of which can take off and land vertically (the so-called ‘eVTOLs’). The Future of Flight summit was opened by RAeS president, 2023-24, Kerissa Khan, who has spectacularly broken the mold of typical RAeS presidents who tend to be male (not always) and late in their career.

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EBAA ‘Ambassador’ Medaire Highlights the Value of Bizav as Sector Faces Ongoing Image Challenge

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EBAA ‘Ambassador’ Medaire Highlights the Value of Bizav as Sector Faces Ongoing Image Challenge

The push by the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) to better communicate the value of business aviation took another step forward last week when reps from 26 EBAA member companies that have become sector ‘ambassadors’ gathered at the London Assistance Centre of Medaire, a subsidiary of the International SOS Group that specializes in medical services for business aircraft and maritime vessels.

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Industry’s Image is Key Theme at Isle of Man Conference

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For over ten years now, with a two-year pandemic gap, the Isle of Man has held an aviation conference to bring together the business aviation community on this ancient isle in the Irish Sea. Not part of the UK or the EU (it never has been), the island is a fiercely proud part of the British Isles with its own parliament, ‘The House of Keys’/Tynwald, laws and traditions.

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Single-Engine Turbine Ops Still Proving Difficult in Europe

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Single-Engine Turbine Ops Still Proving Difficult in Europe

When the European Union enacted a new regulation in 2017 to allow Commercial Air Transport (CAT) operations using Single Engine Turbine (SET) aircraft, many in the industry thought that at last something that had grown solidly in the United States and some other countries since the 1990s would add a new dimension in Europe, adding considerably to connectivity and boosting the economic contribution of such aircraft – produced by manufacturers such as Pilatus, Piper and Textron.

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EBACE 2016: EBAA Chairman Baviera Honored

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The European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) and National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) presented EBAA Chairman Rodolfo Baviera the prestigious European Business Aviation Award at this year’s European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE2016), underway now, from May 24 to 26 at the Palexpo center and Geneva international Airport in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Europe's Biggest Business Aviation Event to Continue at Geneva's Palexpo Through 2021

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Officials with the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), Palexpo SA and Geneva International Airport today welcomed a new agreement, signed by all four parties, to continue to hold the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) at the Palexpo convention center, and on Geneva Airport in Geneva, Switzerland, for another five years.
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2012 European Business Aviation Awards Presented to Eurocontrol's David McMillan, IBAC's Don Spruston

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The European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) and National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) announced that David McMillan, director general of Eurocontrol, and Don Spruston, director general of the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC), were the recipients of the 2012 European Business Aviation Awards.
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