New B-21 Stealth Ramping Up

With lessons learned from the B-2 bomber, development is under way for 100 of Northrop's newest B-21 (www.latimes.com) Ещё...

Small jet bursts into flames while taking off in Northern California airport; all 10 on board escape injury

All 10 people aboard a small jet escaped injury Wednesday when the aircraft aborted its takeoff at a small Northern California airport, went off the runway and burst into flames, officials said. (www.latimes.com) Ещё...

(Video) Transportation of GE9X Engines in the Antonov

Short Video of how they transport the GE9X Engines at Victorville, using the Antonov. (m.youtube.com) Ещё...

Seven Hawaiian Airlines passangers taken to hospital after smoke in the cabin forces plane evacuation

Seven passangers were taken to hospitals when a Hawaiian Airlines flight landed in Honolulu on Thursday with smoke in the cabin and cargo hold, officials said. (www.cnn.com) Ещё...

Cracks in Salvaged A380 Engine Prompt Checks

Cracks found in the GP7200 Engine manufactures by a US group of companies (GE & PW) on a salvaged A380 have prompted safety checks on the fleet (www.aerotime.aero) Ещё...

Qantas Tests 20-Hour Non-Stop Flights to See If Passengers Can Bear It

Qantas Airways Ltd. will run marathon ghost flights from New York and London to Sydney carrying just a few staff to see how the human body holds up before commercial services start. Qantas said Thursday it will simulate the world’s longest direct flights with Boeing Co. Dreamliners as soon as October. The payload of 40 passengers and crew, most of them employees, will undergo a host of medical checks and assessments. (www.bloomberg.com) Ещё...

Indonesia Threatens to Halt Airbus Jet Orders Over Palm Oil Feud

Indonesia is pushing its domestic airlines to halt purchase of Airbus SE planes in retaliation for curbs imposed by the European Union on use of palm biodiesel. Indonesia’s Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita is also asking carriers including PT Lion Mentari Airlines to consider switching their outstanding aircraft to Boeing Co. Lukita has spoken to Lion’s co-founder Rusdi Kirana about dumping Airbus and the country’s largest low-cost carrier supports the government move, the minister said in a… (www.bloomberg.com) Ещё...

Brazil: ANAC Issue the new License CHT Digital for Pilots Civil Aviation Professionals

With QR Code technology, model brings agility for data update and economy... (cmsherbert.blogspot.com) Ещё...

Boeing is hiring as it expect resuming 737 MAX deliveries in October

Boeing said on Tuesday it plans to add extra staff and hire “a few hundred” temporary employees at an airport in Washington state where it is storing many grounded 737 MAX jetliners, a key step in its best-case plan for resuming deliveries to airline customers in October. (www.airlive.net) Ещё...

GE recalls 777X turbofans to address compressor issue amid scramble to minimise 777X delays

GE Aviation is recalling four GE9X powerplants from Boeing to address a previously disclosed engine compressor issue that already forced Boeing to delay the 777X's first flight. (www.flightglobal.com) Ещё...

Fuel supply to Air India stopped at six domestic airports: sources

Jet fuel supply to state-run carrier Air India has been stopped at six domestic airports because of unpaid dues to fuel provider, Indian Oil Corp (IOCL), three sources said on Thursday. "Jet fuel supply to Air India has been stopped for commercial reasons at six airports," a source at Indian Oil Corp told Reuters. India, for years, has propped up the debt-laden airline by infusing equity to keep it alive - the government injected 39.75 billion rupees ($553 million) into Air India in… (www.yahoo.com) Ещё...