Joby Aviation acquires Blade’s passenger brokerage and marketing business

US air taxi developer Joby Aviation has agreed to acquire Blade Air Mobility's passenger-transportation brokering and marketing business for at least $90 million, positioning itself to access established infrastructure and customers ahead of its eVTOL launch

https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/joby-aviation-acquires-blades-passenger-brokerage-and-marketing-business/164058.article



Exclusive: new Canadian air chief affirms plans for ‘fifth-generation air force’

In an interview with FlightGlobal, newly appointed commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force Lieutenant-General Jamie Speiser-Blanchet says her service remains committed to a sweeping set of modernisations, including fielding Lockheed Martin F-35A stealth fighters

https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/exclusive-new-canadian-air-chief-affirms-plans-for-fifth-generation-air-force/164110.article 


Controversy grows over donkey evacuations from Gaza via Liège Airport, Belgium

Hundreds of donkeys have been airlifted from war-torn Gaza to animal sanctuaries in France via Liège Airport, in an operation led by Israeli NGO Starting Over Sanctuary. Marketed as a humanitarian mission to rescue neglected animals, the initiative—dubbed the "Donkey Flying Project"—has drawn sharp criticism for being ethically and politically charged. Critics, including Al Jazeera […]

https://www.aviation24.be/airports/liege/controversy-grows-over-donkey-evacuations-from-gaza-via-liege-airport-belgium/


Robotic spaceplane flies to edge of space to spy on the spysats




Who watches the watchmen and who spies on the spy satellites? It turns out it's an optical package called Morning Sparrow made by Scout Space and carried by Dawn Aerospace's Aurora spaceplane to the edge of space to snap low-orbit spysats.