Morning Call – Monday 8 July 2019

Commercial Aviation

• Boeing share buybacks since 1998 have consumed $70 billion – enough to finance several entirely new airplane modelsBoeing share buybacks since 1998 have consumed $70 billion – enough to finance several entirely new airplane models – Source: SeattleTimes

• Boeing loses big order for 737 Max aircraft – Source: BBC

• Boeing 737 Max Reportedly Has An Autopilot Problem – Source: UberGizmo

• Researchers Manage to Land a Plane in Full Autonomous Mode for the First Time – Source: Techeblog

Business Aviation

• Asia’s jet set being forced to buy old planes or sell up and fly commercially – Source: SCMP

Airlines

• Nominee to lead FAA faces questions about tenure at Delta – Source: AP

• Why Google will own travel – Source: AFR

• South Africa’s CemAir looks to resume flight ops – Source: ch-Aviation

Airports

• Stowaway who hid in the undercarriage of a jumbo jet 23 years ago and survived a 4,000 mile flight from Delhi to London now works at… Heathrow – Source: DailyMail

Defense

• Dutch astronomer captures rare photographs of mysterious US Air Force X-37B – Source: DailyMail

• Sweden to join British ‘Tempest’ next-gen fighter push – Source: DefenseNews

Social Media of the Day

• 7 Hurricanes. Simply beautiful – Source: Twitter

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