On July 14, 2008, the day of France’s Fête nationale, more commonly known in the US as Bastille Day, many French cities and villages will be celebrating with parades, fireworks, and other festive events.

A team of researchers at the Ocean University of China has developed and tested a mobile lidar (light detection and ranging) station that can accurately measure wind speed and direction over large areas in real time -- an application useful for aviation safety, weather forecasting and sports.

Investigations have been launched after an air hostess was filmed stripping in a jet cockpit during flight.

Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of the world's first 64 kilobyte (KB) ultra-high frequency (UHF)-band radio frequency identification (RFID) tag with high-capacity FRAM, featuring memory capacity sufficient to store large volumes of aircraft part and maintenance history data, while supporting a number of different radio frequencies to enable traceability worldwide.

THE PRESIDENT: Thanksgiving is a week from today, and Christmas will quickly follow. This is really a time of joy for our families. Unfortunately, this is also a season of dread for too many Americans. Holiday travelers faced with the prospect of long delayed and cancelled flights and lost baggage, and other problems have become all too often an occurrence.

Russia's Ulyanovsk-based Aviastar-SP has delivered the first of four Tu-204SE transport airplanes it is building for Cuba's flagship carrier, Cubana de Aviacion, the company said Friday.

CAE has signed contracts to design and manufacture three CAE 7000 Series full-flight simulators (FFSs) and a suite of Boeing 787 maintenance training devices valued at C$51 million at list prices. This brings the total FFS sales that CAE has announced in fiscal 2008 to 16, including two Phenom FFS committed to by the CAE-Embraer planned joint-venture and previously announced on May 28, 2007.

Aviation industry to launch helicopter services for public in India.

New technology can do much to improve certain aspects of aviation in terms of sustainable development over the next fifty years, but this will be nowhere near enough to compensate for the expected growth in air travel. This is the view of researcher Alexander de Haan, who will receive a Ph.D. at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands on Wednesday, June 27 for his research on this subject.

Indian officials have ordered Russian airlines to stop flying in Indian airspace amid a dispute over air rights. The order goes into effect immediately, said Moushami Chakravarty, spokeswoman for India's civil aviation ministry.

Air India would be adding four more aircraft to the Air India Express fleet this year to expand its budget flight services, with plans of increasing it to 25 by 2008.

The world's largest passenger aircraft, Airbus' A-380, would make its maiden flight to India on 7th May and would be spending three days romancing in skies of India.