ch-aviation
• Dirk Andrei Salcedo
Virgin Australia is moving faster to retire its Boeing 737-800 fleet, signaling a shift in the carrier’s narrowbody fleet strategy. The accelerated exit could affect fleet transition planning, aircraft availability and the timing of capacity or operational changes.
Payload
• Muon Space
By Payload: For decades, the model for building national security space systems was relatively straightforward. The government defined a mission, established requirements, funded a spacecraft designed specifically to meet them, and ultimately owned and operated the resulting capability.
Bloomberg
• Isolde MacDonogh
By Bloomberg: Investors are being offered a new way to bet on space via a fund that focuses exclusively on a sector thrust into the limelight by the IPO of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Associated Press
• Anton L. Delgado, Sakchai Lalit
By Associated Press: The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has arrived in eastern Thailand after its grueling deployment in the Middle East.
DVIDS / U.S. DoD
NBAA
By NBAA: NBAA’s most recent analysis of business aviation accidents and incidents finds that among six recent fatal accidents included in the study, powerplant system or component failure was the leading occurrence category, cited in two events.
Bloomberg
• Sri Taylor
By Bloomberg: JetBlue Airways Corp. said it will roll out its new domestic first class for travelers later this year, building on the cash-strapped airline’s strategy to capture demand for premium travel.
Airline Geeks
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: One airline has already been accused of using its own gate announcement system to help set up an arrest.
Associated Press
By Associated Press: 1 of 6 | Nearly 10 weeks after two devastating earthquakes struck Venezuela, the country’s main airport partially resumed commercial operations on Tuesday.
The Daily Debrief
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Flying Magazine
• Jack Daleo
The War Zone
• Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway
The War Zone
• Ian Ellis-Jones
DefenseNews.com
• Michael Peck
Washington Post
• Victoria Craw
defence-industry.eu
• Lukasz Prus
Seeking Alpha
• Preeti Singh
Via Satellite
• Anne Wainscott-Sargent
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
