Month: May 2021
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60 YEARS OF HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
This spring we celebrate 60 years of human spaceflight — with the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic first spaceflight earlier this month and the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first American in space next week. We’ve come a long way since those first few trips to space. Our monthly theme for April…
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Iata’s research has revealed that airlines are still in the doldrums
The association says passenger traffic for March 2021 is still at rock bottom when measured by pre-COVID standards (March 2019), although there has been a slight improvement overall in the numbers when compared with February 2021. Iata is using the ‘normal’ month of March 2019 as the comparison due to the extraordinary circumstances surrounding airline…
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Airbus Fly-By-Wire visionary Bernard Ziegler passes away
Airbus is saddened to learn of the passing of Bernard Ziegler, at the age of 88. Ziegler, one of Airbus’ engineering pioneers, was instrumental in the introduction of the world’s first digital Fly-By-Wire (FBW) and side stick controls in a commercial passenger aircraft with the A320 in 1988. Ziegler’s career spanned some four decades. He…
