European aviation company Airbus together with Nottingham University of Great Britain began to develop perspective electric racing aircraft. As Flightglobal writes the company also became partner-founder of the first races of electric airplanes in the world Air Race that will take place in 2020. Elaboration of the racing ground, above water or air equipment allows receiving new technologies some of which are later used in…
On this market presence of electric engine may provide ne airplane with huge advantage because today fuel expenses according to the different estimates are from 29 to 34% of all expenses of airline companies. Use of electric engine will allow reducing this figure by 5 times! But taking into consideration high prices of oil products (and in the future they may be even higher), electric…
13th year in row German audit company Jacdec that specializes in the world passenger aviation makes rating of the world’s safest airlines.
Tests of unusual flying machine started in USA. New elaboration of XTI Aircraft under the name TriFan 60 at present moment is on the stage of so-called “ground tests” (i.e. it hasn’t got-off). However, engineers have already registered their air vehicle and promise to make first flight soon. Engineers are checking functionality of all airplane systems, operation of engines, electronics and so on. The main…
Henry Wu worked as software developer in Chicago and decided to drop everything, sell his house and go travelling. In 2016 the man has registered travel-blog in Instagram but is sharing not places of interest of various countries but pictures of the meals from the airplanes. Henry flew almost with all big airline companies in the world and collected quite big gallery of pictures with…
Forgetful people more often leave in the airplane gloves and electronic devices but some passengers may even forget baby carrier, informs aviation specific web-site. In the research carried on the travelling service web-site participated 25 thousands people among which were flight attendants and passengers. According to survey the most popular forgotten object is gloves; more than half of respondents lost the gloves at least once….
As the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism affirms it will be “the biggest underwater amusement park in the world that will take surface of more tan 100 thousands square meters”. The biggest underwater amusement park in the world will appear in Bahrain. The main adventure of this park will become submerged by the sea 70-meters long airplane Boeing 747. As department asserts it will…
American aviation consortium Boeing tested the prototype of perspective quick electric air-taxi NeXt. According to the message of the company first flight of the machine took place on the company’s practice ground in Manassas and Virginia and was recognized fully successful. Large majority of electrical and hybrid air-taxis is elaborated in the form of multicopters that may do vertical take-off and landing and relatively quick…
Trade unions that represent the interests of American air traffic control officers, pilots and stewards released common statement in which they named the shutdown “unbelievable” danger for national security informs New York Times. The text of this document was published on official web-site of Association of Flight Attendants (AFA). Authors of this statement have addressed with absolute appeal to the White House and the Congress…
The biggest airline company among Baltic countries AirBaltic is planning to provide maintenance services for airplanes Airbus A220-300. These changes are only the beginning of the new strategy of AirBaltic Company that also includes plans to renew fleet of the airplanes by 2022-2023 by replacing existing airplanes with aircrafts Airbus A220. At present moment AirBaltic possesses 8 Boeing 737-300 and 737-500s, 12 airplanes Bombardier Q400…