At the Heli-Expo 2020 exhibition Airbus Helicopters company signed contracts for delivery of 38 helicopters and also agreed about retrofit of 20 helicopters H145 to new five-blade version. German air search and rescue service DRF Luftrettung placed order for 15 machines H145 what makes it the biggest operator of helicopters of this model. During the exhibition Airbus Helicopters company also announced increase of H125 cargo…
The market of Latvian civil aviation – the biggest in production performance among Baltic states – continues to develop. The main players of this market are two passenger airline companies – Air Baltic and Smart Lynx and also Riga Capital Airport demonstrated positive dynamics during previous year. Taking into consideration that population of Latvia in 2019 made about 1,9 million people their data do impress….
Britain aviation industry plans to combine economic growth with ecological measures. According to new strategy Sustainable Aviation is going to reach zero emissions to 2050, increasing at the same time number of flights by 70%. Ecologists doubt about success of such plan and consider that without flights’ reduction climatic progress cannot be reached. As Business Traveler informs, Sustainable Aviation published their Decarbonization Road Map in…
The safest airline companies were estimated according to several factors, including the age of the airplanes. Australian Airline Company Qantas was named the safest in the world. New Zealand airline company Air New Zealand and Taiwanese airline company EVA Air took second and third place correspondingly. Experts estimated airline companies according to number characteristics: the age of the airplanes, number of air crashes and serious…
The airplane spent in the air about four hours. Wide-body airplane Boeing 777X on Saturday, January 25th made first test flight. Broadcast of the take-off and landing was made on the web-site by American corporation Boeing. Flight duration made almost 4 hours, it took place above Washington state. Airplane took off in the airport of Everett city suburbs and landed in the Seattle airport. As…
European Commission is the last instance that has to approve transaction on merging Boeing and Embraer companies to be considered fulfilled. Administrative Council for Economic Defense in Brazil approved merging of American Consortium Boeing and Brazilian aviation company Embraer. As Boeing press-release, published on January 27th, informs now European Commission is the last regulating instance that has to approve transaction so it can acquire legal…
Woman managed to get to international flight on a baby’s passport – Independent informs. 33 years old Lenesha Riley was going to fly to Berlin from London airport Luton with the airplane of EasyJet airline company. When going to airport woman mixed up passports and occasionally took with her the document of her little son James. Not the Customs control in Luton not the personnel…
Airbus confirmed that one of their test airplanes took off automatically in the Tolouse-Blagnaq airport in France in December 2019 – informs CNN. European space company conducted series of successful tests in autopilot mode last month. Two test pilots were in the cabin but they haven’t controlled the airplane. According to Airbus unmanned A350-1000 made eight automatic take-offs during 4,5 hours. “We moved the throttle…
One of prototypes of the perspective passenger electric airplane Alice, engineered by Israeli company Eviation Aircraft got significant damages as result of the fire that started during testing the airplane systems. As Flightglobal writes, engineers will investigate reasons of the fire in the nearest future and also will estimate damage caused to airplane’s prototype. The fire accident happened in Prescott airport in Arizona where ground…
Difficulties that American company Boeing faced may collapse economy of the USA. Such hypothesis expressed by Minister of Finance Steven Mnuchin. According to his words country risks to lose up to 0,5% of gross domestic product. The politician’s words are quoted by CNBC. “There are no doubts that situation with Boeing will detain growth of GDP”, – Minister concluded and added that company is the…