Aviation poised for 'third revolution'

Amsterdam

THE aerospace industry is on the brink of a "third revolution", and Airbus boss Tom Enders is determined that his giant company will play a leading role in its future.

"I do genuinely believe that we are at a point where those technological changes and breakthroughs in electric propulsion, autonomous flight, artificial intelligence, machine learning, new materials, all come together, plus the data usage, (and) will be nothing less than a third revolution in aerospace," Mr Enders told AFP in an interview.