According to engineers’ affirmation on full charge of electrical batteries airplane will be able to spent in the air up to half an hour but in hybrid regime with switched on diesel-generator this time will increase at least up to five hours. During first flight of the updated hybrid DA40 specialists were checking operation of the hybrid engine unit, the airplane’s trim balance, controllability and…
Perspective hybrid two-engine light airplane engineered by Austrian Company Diamond Aircraft on the base of DA40 made first flight. According to the message of the Company tests took place on October 31st 2018 and were declared fully successful. All together first flight of the hybrid airplane in engineering process of which also takes part German Company Siemens lasted about 20 minutes. In the nearest future…
149 passengers had to get off the plane of Ryanair Company in Paris. The Airline Company owed money that European Union considered illegal. Passengers were emplaned on another route that brought them to London five hours later. The incident took place on November 8th in Bordeaux Merignac Airport on the West of France. French authorities have claimed that Airline Company has to return funds that…
Changi airport in Singapore for the thirty first time became the best airport in the world for and was awarded with Business Traveller Awards 2018. Leader among European airports became Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. At the same time London airport Heathrow is considered the best airport for those who like to return TVA amount for tax free shopping abroad. British Airways Airline Company is marked…
Qatar Airways for many times declared the best airline company in the world is still planning to start flights to Tallinn, informs Postimees. From the list of new destinations that was announced in March disappeared Luxembourg but the company still has serious plans for Estonia. On March 7th Qatar Airways on press-conference informed that it is going to open 15 new destinations in 2018 and…
The newest Apache modification known as AH-64E Block 2 Compound includes fixed wing of big size, deployment directed backward, lower vertical stabilizer and pusher screw. Machine will keep tail rotor for protecting against the torque effect. At present moment novelty is going through tests in Boeing air tunnel in Philadelphia in 30% scale. It is expected that tests will be finished to January. Addition of…
Rolls-Royce recognized that it falls far behind the schedule of engine deliveries for new airplane Airbus A330neo. Britain manufacturer of aviation engines has faced “technical and operational” difficulties informs Bloomberg with reference to the letter sent by company employees. To the end of October will be delivered 10 of 30 the promised engines Trent 7000. In such a way to the end of the year…
Problems of aviation companies appeared, in particular due to delays in delivery of the Boeing engines. To September Aviation Companies Boeing and Airbus have managed to overcome production slump and increase delivery volumes of narrow-body airplanes. Both manufacturers faced problems in deliveries of the airplanes of the families Boeing 737 and A320 because of the problems with suppliers – in particular, delays in delivery of…
Hackers could also steal full data of bank cards of many passengers. So, hackers could steal data not of 380 thousands customers of British Airways Airline Company as it was previously informed but about 565 thousands. International Airlines Group that owns the company informs about this. British Airways has informed about theft in September. It was also information about bank cards. Attacks have been made…
Engineers from Pisa University (Italy) make tests over the local lake. They are checking fine tuning of the flight management system. Collected data specialists will pass to aviation workers. But is the industry ready to such radical innovations? Scientists are sure that their elaboration has convincing advantages. Engineer Vittorrio Chippola says that it is airplane of the same category as Boeing 737 or Airbus A…