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The chief executive and chief financial officer of Airborne Capital, a Dublin-based specialist aircraft leasing and management firm, have been accused by a former shareholder of conspiring to deliberately mislead it and induce it to sell an interest in the business “at a far lower price than it otherwise would have done”.

From ‘greedflation’, ‘debanked’ to ChatGPT – the terms that defined the past 12 months

The UK has selected two companies – Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and Airbus subsidiary AALTO – to compete in the second phase of Project Aether, learnt. Janes SNC's HAB will participate in the second phase of the UK's Project Aether. Proj...

“Despite our best efforts to navigate the balloons to land and recover them, both flights had to be terminated over the Pacific Ocean and unfortunately recovery was not feasible,” Sierra Nevada Corporation said in an email to Big Island Now.

When the US Air Force shot down an ‘unidentified object’, it became clear a patchwork community of balloon enthusiasts were now on the radar

The aerial anomaly was no soaring cephalopod. It also wasn’t a Chinese spy balloon or Batman looking for his parking spot, as suggested in other social media posts and replies. The reality behind the object’s appearance that spurred all the chatter is far less imaginative than scientific.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) could invest in a fleet of spy balloons in a bid to boost ...

Project Aether, a 19-month research initiative, will examine ‘surveillance and reconnaissance’ possibilities of ‘unmanned air systems’

In today’s newsletter: The use of surveillance balloons has gone largely under the radar until several floating orbs were shot down in North America. But China’s not the only country full of hot air – a look at this mysterious twist in international espionage

US aerospace firm Sierra Nevada Corporation completed the first demonstration of a rapidly deployable high-altitude balloon in Page, Arizona.