Boeing has completed major assembly on the first set of wings for its 747-8 aircraft, which will be part of a freighter airframe. Continue reading....
April 2009 Archives
Boeing has completed major assembly on the first set of wings for its 747-8 aircraft, which will be part of a freighter airframe. Continue reading....
Boeing's P-8A Poseidon sub hunter has completed its first flight, marking the start of the aircraft's rigorous flight test campaign, the company confirms.
HeliSim and Eurocopter officially inaugurated the world's first EC225 full-flight simulator (FFS) in October at Eurocopter's base at Marignane in France. Continue reading...
Read more about civil simulators in our special report
A Dutch Lockheed Martin F-16 lights up the sky with the afterburnerplugged in on take-off in this photograph by AirSpace user APG Photography.
See this image plus more in the APG Photography gallery on AirSpace
Daher-Socata intends to formally launch a new 10-seat, twin-engined jet early in 2010, but will proceed only if it can find programme partners prepared to finance most of the required investment. Continue reading...
If you thought that you'd missed the chance to take the controls of Concorde for a supersonic flight, think again.
Thanks to the Brooklands Museum near Weybridge in Surrey, the original full flight simulator used to train British Airways pilots has been restored and is being made available for private hire. Continue reading...
The Boeing 737 has reached an historic milestone with the delivery of the 6,000th aircraft, almost exactly 42 years after the twinjet first took to the air. The delivery makes the 737 by far the most produced jet airliner in history. Continue reading...
Boeing 737 in the Flight archives
Pictured - Lufthansa Boeing 737-100
Picture credit LH-Bildarchiv / Lufthansa
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has released the first public images and the new name of its Predator C "Avenger" unmanned air vehicle. Continue reading...
Fractional start-up Jet Republic is aiming to entice Europe's "working class millionaires" into business aviation, with an offering of hot food, wi-fi connectivity and continental-style interiors on its Bombardier Learjet 60XRs. Continue reading...
A century of British naval aviation history began with an order in 1909 for His Majesty's Airship 1. The Mayfly emerged from Vickers two years later. Read more about the Royal Navy's first 100 years as an avaion power in our feature on a Century of Fleet.
"At last our leviatan of the air has emerged from the interior of its hiding place." is how Flight described the Mayfly in our 27 May 1911 issue.
AirSpace user Ranger703 uploaded this image of a Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado GR4 departing Lossiemouth on a cold December morning.
FedEx Express plans to shed 14 aircraft from its fleet in its fourth quarter ending 31 May. The cuts are part of an effort to keep capacity in check amid weak economic conditions.
The company has told US regulators that it plans to permanently remove from service 10 Airbus A310-200s and four McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10s it owns outright. Flight's ACAS database shows that the carrier operates 49 A310-200 freighters and 60 DC-10-10CFs.
Marcel Bloch, the youngest of four children, was born on 22 January 1892 in Paris. He adopted the name Dassault in 1949.
Dassault Aviation's website describes his life. It says that Marcel, "one sunny day in the school playground looked up at the sky and saw the Count of Lambert's Wilbur Wright passing the Eiffel tower for the first time. I had never seen a plane before. There and then, I knew that aviation had become a part of my heart and thoughts".
Flight described Dassault as a France's most celebrated aircraft designer and manufacturer, who survived a Nazi concentration camp and built some of the world's best-selling military aircraft.
In 1986 Flight noted his company "Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation gave birth to the Mirage family of fighters, the Mystere, the Super Etendard, the Atlantique 2, the Alpha Jet in conjunction with Dornier, and, most recently, the next-generation Rafale. A line of business jets including the the Falcon 50,100, 200, and 900 and the Gardian."
JetWhine, an AirSpace user brings you... A baby 7X
Picture credit: AirTeamImages
Earlier this month Stephen Trimble's blog The DEW Line reported that the US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recommended halting the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor production at 186 aircraft. Pictured here is the F-22 production line.
In the meantime, the US Air Force has cleared a five-year upgrade project to allow the Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor to communicate with other stealthy - and perhaps some non-stealthy - aircraft types. The project will cost roughly $900 million.
Last month the US Air Force suffered its first fatal accident involving an F-22, when a test aircraft crashed near Edwards AFB in California.
Picture credit - Lockheed Martin
The US Air Force has cleared a five-year upgrade project to allow the Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor to communicate with other stealthy - and perhaps some non-stealthy - aircraft types. The project will cost roughly $900 million. Continue reading...
Swiss is taking delivery today of its first Airbus A330-300E. The aircraft, serial number 1000 and registered HB-JHA, is seen here during an acceptance flight at Toulouse on 9 April.
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates last week proposed the most radical reshaping of the Pentagon's spending priorities since the end of the Cold War, including halting Lockheed Martin F-22 production at 186 aircraft.
Another major aerospace target was in the area of missile defence, especially the Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser (pictured). The first prototype will be kept as a research asset, but Gates will propose scrapping the second planned prototype. Continue reading...
Check recent posts from Stephen Trimble on his DEW Line blog on the subject including a liveblogging session during the budget press conference in which he interacted with 30 Flightglobal users.
This image is this week's Pic of the Week and will appear on page 3 of this week's Flight International.
This picture of a Lufthansa Regional CRJ700, registered D-ACPF, was taken "on short finals to London Heathrow's 27R, Sunday 29 March from the perimeter road at the East Church Road roundabout, shortly before the sun started setting behind clouds."
Picture credit Kevin Stokes
Flight testing has begun for spaceline start-up Virgin Galactic's carrier aircraft and beckons for tis rocket glider payload SpaceShip Two later this year. For more of Flight International's cover story read on...
Wataniya Airlines is a Kuwaiti start-up carrier formerly known as Kuwait National Airlines.
The airline began operations in January with a pair of Airbus A320 aircraft, configured with just 122 seats, from January 2009.
Here is one of the airline's pair. Find out more about about this airline on Tuesday's new issue of Flight International on the newsstands.
Picture credit Airbus
The first Lockheed Martin C-130J tactical transport to be permanently assigned to a US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) unit was been delivered during a 7 April ceremony at Ramstein air base in Germany. Continue reading...
British protoype Concorde 002's (registered G-BSST) maiden flight from Filton, was flown by Brian Trubshaw (left) and co-pilot John Cochrane (right).
For more images of Concorde see the gallery on AirSpace including a mock up of the interior and an image of the first landing back to Fairford on the same day (9 April 1969). Why not join in the discussion with other users sharing their Concorde experiences.
This blog has featured Concorde on numerous occasions. See how it has showcased the supersonic marvel.
Last year Flightglobal hosted a campaign during Farnborough in celebration of 100 years of the industry as well as in publishing and was an obvious contender for our users suggestions to appear in Flight's 100 Greatest. The aircraft made it into the Top 5 of Flight's Greatest Civil Aircraft.
In 2003 Flight recorded Concorde's last scheduled flight with a commemorative issue which includes a timeline showing the key dates, a cutaway among other pieces. Read the introduction which talks about the "flawed icon".
Raytheon is to restart production of a nearly 30-year-old air-to-ground missile system that is scheduled for replacement. Continue reading...
Pictured is an F-16 taken by Master Sergeant Andy Dunaway, USAF
Boeing and Times Aerospace Korea to are to jointly develop a wing assembly for the 910kg (2,000lb) Joint Direct Attack Munition Extended Range (JDAM ER) bomb.
Here is this week's Pic of the Week on page 3 of Flight International out tomorrow. The photograph was taken by Manuel Negrerie at Taoyuan International Airport, Taiwan R.O.C.
Negrerie says this Air China A320-200 is painted in a "Purple Mudan Peony" and another A320-200 is painted in the same style but in blue.
The Austrian air force demonstrated the air policing capabilities of its new Eurofighter Typhoons on 27 March.
The service used the arrival of flag carrier Austrian's first winglet-equipped Boeing 767-300ER for the exercise.
On its return to Vienna from undergoing modification in the USA, OE-LAE was intercepted by a pair of Typhoons launched from Zeltweg air base.
Operating lessor Lease Corporation International has emerged as the second firm customer for the Bombardier CSeries twin-jet, with a firm purchase agreement for 20 of the type.
LCI's deal including three CS100s and 17 CS300s, making it the first customer for the larger 149-seat version. Continue reading....
Boeing X-51A programme officials acknowledge that they face long odds for completing a successful flight-test programme for the hypersonic vehicle with only four experiments funded. Continue reading...
A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 firefighting-configured aircraft is available for lease to European governments.
The US-registered aircraft - the second of only two DC-10s available in this configuration - is owned and operated by Victorville, California-based 10 Tanker Air Carrier and is being promoted through international air charter broker Air Partner.
Airbus is showcasing this new-andnever-before-seen-until-now model of its A350 XWB complete with cutaway to allow you to peek inside the cabin. Continue reading...
For more on the Aircraft Interiors show in Hamburg until Thursday...
Mary Kirby as Runway Girl blogs on the latest development on IFE and connectivity...
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