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...Regional aviation group Surf Air Mobility went public through a direct listing on Thursday at less than half the valuation it received in a private transaction last month, in a deal that highlighted the...
...Gates’s biggest UK investments, for example, have been in retailer Carpetright, jet servicing group Signature Aviation and Bunzl, a distributor of disposable cutlery....
...The failure is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration, with New Shepard grounded until the investigation is over....
...The US Federal Aviation Administration says it is looking into safety concerns raised by 21 current and former employees at Blue Origin, the space exploration company owned by Jeff Bezos....
...In February, Blackstone and Global Infrastructure Partners made a similar move, ending a takeover battle for the UK-listed private jet services company Signature Aviation with a joint £3.5bn bid....
...Last week the company was granted the go-ahead by the US Federal Aviation Authority to put paying members of the public on board, paving the way for Branson’s long-awaited flight....
...Fly around your room with the early pioneering flying dinosaur, Diamorphodon, as it hunts down a fluttering dragonfly....
...The company was given the green light by the US Federal Aviation Administration last month to operate a commercial service, the final hurdle on the way to carrying up to six paying passengers on each of...
...The EU Aviation Safety Agency awarded it “type certification” in June last year — meaning it can be used in commercial operations and carry passengers....
...Carmakers, airlines and heavy industry all hit out at the proposals, which include a de facto ban on new diesel and petrol cars in the EU from 2035, a tax on aviation and maritime fuel, and the decision...
...Spacs as the route to a public listing through a blank-cheque shell company really gained altitude in the second half of last year, and while automotive tech companies have been much in vogue, aviation has...
...If it goes through, the deal with GE Capital Aviation Services will create the largest aircraft leasing business in the world, putting AerCap in an opportune position to take advantage of a travel recovery...
...He is also a regular at Geneva’s European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition....
...(Bloomberg) News round-up Blackstone in talks with private jet group Signature Aviation over £3bn deal (FT) Coinbase files for US listing in a first for a cryptocurrency exchange (FT + Lex + Alphaville...
...In Ireland, there is Merx Aviation, which provides finance leases for aircraft....
...One flying taxi scoop to start: LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and tech entrepreneur Mark Pincus are nearing a deal to merge their blank cheque company with Joby Aviation, valuing the flying taxi developer...
...That is roughly the same as emissions from the aviation sector. In countries such as the US, where electricity usage is fairly flat, data centres are among the fastest growing sources of new demand....
...Law firm Reed Smith has hired Christopher Jackson and Adam Longney as partners in its London aviation group. Both join from REN Legal....
...fiscal and monetary stimulus programmes on a scale not seen since the second world war, ranging from central bank-backed credit facilities to loan guarantees and bailouts for industries including the US aviation...
...The group’s abortive effort to re-enter China, Project Dragonfly, was shelved amid backlash from employees and some US politicians....
...Last December, Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai stated again that there were no current plans for a return to China, but did not rule out launching Dragonfly....
...past year, Google employees have staged protests over what they saw as mishandling of sexual harassment cases and its controversial plans to launch a censored search engine in China, codenamed Project Dragonfly...
...But the effort, dubbed “Project Dragonfly”, horrified many employees, who protested against a mobile app that would still strictly censor results, and Google mothballed the plan....
...“As we’ve said for many months, we have no plans to launch Search in China and there is no work being undertaken on such a project,” the company added, referring to its previously leaked “Dragonfly” plan...
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