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Jet Airways on Sunday conducted the first set of three proving flights with 18 people, including officials of the aviation regulator DGCA, on board the aircraft, sources said. The second set of two proving flights will be operated by Jet Airways on Tuesday, they said.Proving flights is the last step for the airline to obtain the air operator certificate (AOC). The first of the three proving flights was conducted on the Delhi-Mumbai route, sources said.The second flight was scheduled to return to Delhi, but after it…

Image used for representation. (Photo: IANS)Jet Airways had announced in April 2019 that it was temporarily shutting down its operations after it failed to secure emergency funding from any sourceIANS Last Updated:May 09, 2022, 10:02 ISTFOLLOW US ON:The Ministry of Home Affairs has granted security clearance to Jet airways to resume its commercial services in the country in the coming months. The security clearance comes in wake of the proposed change in Jet Airways’ management control and shareholding pattern, for the…

Jet Airways. (Image source: Twitter/Jet Airways)Jet Airways conducted its test flight to and from the Hyderabad airport on Thursday in a step towards obtaining the air operator certificate.PTI Last Updated:May 06, 2022, 10:28 ISTFOLLOW US ON:Jet Airways conducted its test flight to and from the Hyderabad airport on Thursday in a step towards obtaining the air operator certificate. Jet Airways, which has not flown since April 17, 2019, is currently in the process of re-launching operations under its new promoters…

Scientists at a laboratory in England have shattered the record for the amount of energy produced during a controlled, sustained fusion reaction.The production of 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds at the Joint European Torus – or JET – experiment in England has been called "a breakthrough" by some news outlets and caused quite a lot of excitement among physicists.  But a common line regarding fusion electricity production is that it is "always 20 years away."We are a nuclear physicist and a nuclear engineer who…

Jet Airways is likely to fly by early October. (Image used for representation.)Jet Airways has already started hiring employees at the CXO level. This will soon be followed up by concrete steps towards getting the Air Operating Permit to start the services. After being grounded in 2019, Jet Airways is inching towards taking off again. The airline has already started hiring employees at the CXO level. This will soon be followed up by concrete steps towards getting the Air Operating Permit to start the services. The airline…

A Tesla vehicle was caught on video crashing into a $3.5M Cirrus Vision jet after being ‘summoned’ in a dangerous way by the owner. Smart Summon builds on Tesla’s previous “Summon” feature, which was used by owners to move their cars autonomously for a few feet in their driveway or in tight parking situations. With the new version, owners are able to Summon their Tesla vehicles from further away, and the cars will navigate more complex parking environments. CEO Elon Musk described Smart Summon as “Tesla’s most…

Video footage showing a Chinese Y-20 cargo plane unloading personnel and cargo in Shanghai last week as part of the country's response to the COVID-19 outbreak there has highlighted one of the aircraft's more unusual features. The four-engine military cargo jet can be configured as required with an upper deck with seats for dozens of passengers that allows for cargo to still be loaded underneath. The domestically-produced Y-20 became a bigger topic of discussion this weekend when six of them were tracked online carrying…

A revolutionary cryogenic tank design promises to radically boost the range of hydrogen-powered aircraft – to the point where clean, fuel-cell airliners could fly up to four times farther than comparable planes running on today's dirty jet fuel.Weight is the enemy of all things aerospace – indeed, hydrogen's superior energy storage per weight is what makes it such an attractive alternative to lithium batteries in the aviation world. We've written before about HyPoint's turbo air-cooled fuel cell technology, but its key…

SpaceX signed its first deal with an air carrier to provide in-flight wireless Internet using the Starlink satellite network, the space company said on Thursday as it jockeys with other burgeoning satellite firms to put high-speed Internet on commercial airlines.The company, owned by Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, has been in talks for months with airlines to provide Starlink Internet in-flight, a key prong in SpaceX's strategy to scoop up enterprise customers beyond consumers and households in rural areas of the globe…