All the headlines from our Aerospace Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 28 2005 // The Airbus A380, the largest passenger airplane ever built, successfully took to the air in cloudless skies over the Southern French City of Toulouse yesterday, April 27, 2005. Pilots, engineers and ground crews reported...
Feb 2 2005 // Five insurance companies are set to recover 2.3 million euros ($3 million) from the French government, while Air France will collect 850,000 euros ($1.1 million) as the result of a court ruling in Marseille stemming from...
Dec 27 2004 // The total number of tornadoes reported in the United States reached a record high during the year 2004, surpassing the previous record by almost 300, according to officials at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center in...
Nov 29 2002 // Global Aerospace Underwriting Managers (GAUM), the world’s largest managing agent in the aviation market, is undergoing major changes. Aviva and Royal & Sun Alliance both announced that they will drastically...
Sep 25 2002 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd. announced that its space and aviation operations, previously part of Brockbank Insurance Services, Inc., will now “be operating under the trade name of XL Aerospace, a division of XL...
Jul 26 2002 // Eclipse Aviation Corporation, manufacturer of the Eclipse 500 jet, will partner with Global Aerospace, the world’s largest aerospace insurance underwriter, to provide aircraft hull and liability insurance to owners...
Mar 11 2002 // Maurice Greenberg, chairman and CEO of American International Group Inc., has undertaken efforts to persuade the Federal Aviation Administration to stop providing war-risk insurance for ground damage to U.S. airlines,...
Feb 27 2002 // AIG is putting pressure on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to cease providing war-risk insurance to U.S. airlines with hopes of substituting FAA coverage with its own insurance program, as first reported in the...
Feb 14 2002 // SAFECO named Ed Heffernan, an executive with extensive federal government experience, as vice president of Government Relations.In his new position, Heffernan, 38, manages SAFECO’s nationwide legislative agenda and...
Aug 16 2001 // As the country gears up for hurricane season, researchers from the Convection And Moisture EXperiment (CAMEX) are getting ready to conduct an in-depth study of the storms by meeting them head-on. CAMEX is the fourth in a...
Dec 18 2000 // Singapore Aviation & General Insurance Co. filed a complaint in Federal District Court in New York to recover damages from Boeing and several other companies it claims to be responsible for the 1997 crash of a Silk...