FRANKFURT / Reuters France’s Dassault Aviation aims to take the lead on the development of a new European fighter jet, its chief executive told a German magazine. “Experience has shown, if you want a defence project to be successful it needs someone to be responsible, a leader,” German weekly WirtschaftsWoche quoted Eric Trappier as saying in an interview. France and …

DUBAI / Emirates Business Airbus will intensively contribute to the next steps in finding a global standard for mission-critical multimedia group communication. After the 3rd Generation Partnership Project’s (3GPP) completion of release 14 of secure multimedia group communication in December 2017, Airbus and its partners within 3GPP are now working on release 15 and 16 by the end of 2019. …

Bloomberg Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner planes equipped with a batch of potentially faulty Rolls-Royce Holdings engines face restrictions on how far they can fly following a ruling by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The measure, which Boeing has said affects about a quarter of in-service 787s, restricts the planes from operating more than 140 minutes from a diversionary airport, …