Airbus A380 airplane of Emirates Airline Company “materialized from nowhere” in London airport. Unusual video was published in the Internet. London airport Gatwick was folded in the dense fog. On camera was caught flight strip of the airport on which aircrafts were parked. Suddenly from a thick cloud hanging not high above the ground “materialized” giant liner of Emirates Company that was landing. According to…
It will be first case of use of such airplanes in commercial purposes marks TV Company. Airplane with hybrid power unit – traditional piston engine and electric engine – till the end of current year will start to operate in test mode American airline company Ampaire. As TV Company CNN informed on Tuesday it will be first time of operation of airplane with hybrid engine…
Michelin expands collaboration with airline companies. After comprehensive tests Brazilian Embraer decided to equip regional jet airplane E170 with radial tyres Michelin Air X made after NZG technology (Near Zero Growth). Embraer E170 was presented in 2004 and as initially equipped with bias tyres but in 2010 Michelin became first supplier of radial type tyres for this model of the airplane (when Michelin Air X…
American aviation company Boeing postponed to 2020 first flight of perspective passenger aircraft Boeing 777X. As Flightglobal informs the reason of this became unreadiness of GE9X engines construction of which has to be reworked because of the defects that were found in it. Defects in the construction of GE9X were found for the first time during tests in February 2018. Then it was found out…
Perspective American hybrid three-fan airplane TriFan 600 elaborated by XTI Aircraft company will receive helicopter turbo-prop engine Catalyst. As Flightglobal informs XTI Aircraft and GE Aviation the engine engineer intend to determine construction of the engine unit for perspective airplane shortly. Hybrid airplanes make flights with the help of electric engines the power of which may be arranged in two methods: series and parallel. In…
Opening is planned for autumn 2019. Building of the International Airport Beijing Daxing has finished in China. The project was elaborated by Zaha Hadid Architects. Hadid herself worked on the design but construction began after her death. Architectures gave the shape of gold star to the building but from the point of view of Chinese mythology it reminds of phoenix. Beijing Daxing is located 48…
According to Company calculations the manufacturing cost of Boeing 737 increased by 1.7 billion USD in the second quarter. Losses of American Company Boeing in consequence of suspension of Boeing 737 MAX operation and postponements of deliveries of these airplanes to Customers will make 4.9 billions USD. This information was published in the message on Boeing web-site on Thursday. “Boeing will record load in the…
Britain Airline Company British Airways is going to appeal against decision of the regulators to impose fine in amount of 183,4 millions pounds sterling for Customers’ data breach that took place back in Autumn 2018. This was informed by International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (IAG) CEO the parent company of British Airways Willy Walsh while commenting decision of the regulators. The fine imposed in the…
Sky performance was shown in Argentine. Of course, in the framework of such event Airline Company hasn’t arranged exclusively “touristic” flight only for solar eclipse because it is unlikely that there would be so many people who would pay high price only for one take-off of the airplane just to take few pictures. That is why on July 2nd passengers of the airplane that made…
Uber Corporation informed about launching helicopter taxi service under the name Uber Copter. First flight will take place in New York. The flight will connect John Kennedy airport and Manhattan. Passengers will be able to order the flight with the help of Uber application. Service is available for Platinum and Diamond users. The order will consist of the 8 minutes long flight together with the…