Number of new orders appeared to be less that cancelled. Boeing Company published data of the airplanes quantity delivered to the Customers in 2019. This data appeared to be the worst for the Company since the end of 2000’s. Besides, number of new orders reduced by 74% till minimum from 2003 – for the first time during 30 years Boeing went into the red of…
Airplane Boeing 737 of the airline company Ethiopian Airlines cancelled landing in the airport of Dire Dawa city on the East of Ethiopia after getting into huge swarm of locusts during lowering, – informs Kenyan Newspaper The Standard. According to the newspaper’s data the airplane with the route from Djibouti has come in for landing twice but wasn’t able to land because of restricted visibility….
Cargo airplane Beluga XL engineered by European aviation consortium Airbus specially for oversize cargo transportation on January 9th made first flight. Which cargo was transported is not informed. According to the consortium message till 2023 will be introduced five more airplanes of this type. Cargo airplane Beluga XL was engineered since 2014. As the base for new transport airplane specialists took passenger airplane A330-200. First…
Crew member fell out of the airplane Airbus A320 in Helsinki airport – Vantaa. It is informed in Twitter account of Finnish Agency of accident investigation (OTKES). In consequence of this fall crew member was injured. The Agency marked that airplane was parked after finishing the flight. OTKES declared that they will investigate the incident. Local edition Ilta-Sanmat writes that airplane belongs to airline company…
Brazilian company Embraer finished tests of fuel transporter KC-390 the heaviest from ever engineered in Brazil by airdrop from cargo compartment. As Jane’s informs airplane tests were made in USA on military ground in Uma, state of Arizona. Tests that took place were considered fully successful. Elaboration of KC-390 is made by Embraer company since 2007. First flight of the airplane took place in February…
The most diversified menu appeared to have Singapore Airlines, air carrier offers 26 variants of special meals. OneTwoTrip experts studied menu of airline companies considering accessible variants of meals in 111 airline companies. For presence of each type of meal that differs from the standard, airline company got one point. Maximum number of points that could be received – 27 points – such number of…
Perspective airplane Embraer E175-E2 has taken first flight. Airplane of new generation made first flight on December 12 in the sky above the plant of Brazilian manufacturer Embraer in San Jose do Campos (San Paolo state). E175-E2 took off at 11:07 a.m. local time and flew 2 hours and 18 minutes. The airplane took off and landed with the help of fly-by-wire control system in…
Today the biggest company-manufacturer of flying passenger aviation Airbus launched official declaration that it intends to stop creation, project and launching models of civil airplanes Airbus A380 that appeared to be quite sad news both for the company and all fans of Airbus aero technics. As company management stated in their declaration the main reason of such decision is significant reduction of the orders from…
Sport electric airplanes are also elaborated: during Dubai Air Show that took place in December 2019 was presented electric airplane for races White Lightning created by Condor Aviation company. White Lightning looks like common sport one-seat airplane but it is equipped with electric engine and may reach speed 186 kilometers per hour. Airbus is also sponsor of Air Race E – competition of races on…
Britain company Cranfiels Aerospace Solutions that is division of Cranfield University together with Rolls-Royce and Britten-Norman works on creating hybrid airplane on the base of the light nine-seat Britten-Norman Islander. The project in which government and companies invested 9 million pounds sterling (11,6 million USD) should take 2 years and a half, it is supposed that the flights of the fully ready prototype should begin…