Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
A mid-air collision between two commercially operated, heavily loaded jetliners over the Atlantic was narrowly avoided after an onboard emergency alert—widely described by aviation experts as “the last line of defense”—commanded both crews to take evasive action.
Bloomberg
• Benedikt Kammel
By Bloomberg: Airbus SE won an order from Air China for 15 A350-900 widebody aircraft as well as 40 A320neo series for its Shenzhen Airlines subsidiary, with a total transaction value of about $12.4 billion, according to a filing to Shanghai stock exchange.
AINonline
• Charlotte Bailey
By AINonline: Larger UltraFan 80 returns to the testbed this year.
Reuters
• Akhtar Soomro, Ariba Shahid
By Reuters: Relatives of the five crew members aboard a Boeing 737 cargo plane that crashed into the Arabian Sea off Pakistan last week are urging an international search effort to find the flight recorders to determine the cause.
ch-aviation
• Sanja Stefanjesko
By ch-aviation: Discover more news on Condor at ch-aviation, the leading aviation news and data provider.
AINonline
• Curt Epstein
By AINonline: Millions in facility upgrades are paying dividends.
eVTOL Insights
• Thomas Sleightholm
By eVTOL Insights: Hitachi Energy and Eve Air Mobility have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the electrical infrastructure required to support urban air mobility (UAM) operations at scale.
ch-aviation
• Hilka Birns
By ch-aviation: At least eight airlines were affected after the Saudi authorities temporarily closed Abha airport near the border with Yemen on July 13 after Houthi rebels targeted the facility with missiles and drones.
Wall Street Journal
• Alison Sider, Jacob Passy
