This week's Image of the Week is, according to AirSpace user Jameister, a Bucker Jungman, performing a flyby at Old Warden.
In a Flight article in 1940 we wrote: "the standard R.A.F. machines for primary instruction (D.H. Tiger Moth and Miles Magister) [has] no more than 130 h.p. Germany, [while] a Bucker Jungman utilises even less power (80 h.p.) and apparently obtains good results.
Next year will see the US manned space programme pass an interesting milestone, when a cargo-delivery capsule called Dragon makes a series of test flights, culminating, it is hoped, in a docking with the International Space Station and a series of cargo supply missions scheduled through to 2015.
What makes Dragon different from previous NASA missions is the... Find out more in our Spaceflight channel this week.
The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) is about to begin the co-production of Selex Galileo's Falco unmanned air vehicle at its facilities in Kamra. Continue reading...
Eclipse Aerospace, which plans to begin offering in September upgrades and maintenance for the Eclipse 500, plans to decide in the first quarter of next year on whether to resume production of the very light jet.
Russia has moved to revive Antonov's dormant An-70 tactical transport project, with a new accord having been agreed at the MAKS Moscow air show in mid-August. Continue reading...
Boeing has flown a Boeing 737-900ER equipped with a revised version of the CFM International CFM56 nacelle in the number one (left-hand) position.
The engine nacelle is elongated compared with the current CFM56-7B, which is the standard engine equipping Boeing's Next Generation 737 family. Continue reading....
Here is this week's Flight International front cover image.Read more of Flightglobal's in focus feature about aerial firefighting....
Read more aerial firefighting features including profiles of the types of aircraft used:
Under fire - ageing waterbombers
Beriev be-200 - Chariot of Fire
Firing up for sales - Bombardier CL-415
This image of a North American BT-9/BT-14/Yale I was takem by AirSpace user Binky_Airways on 4th July 2009. He was situated opposite
Picture credit Vladimir Karnozov
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin opened MAKS 2009, International Aviation & Space Salon in Moscow last week. Second from right is Sukhoi boss Mikhail Pogosyan.
More images from the show on AirSpace. Images courtesy Vovick.
This image was given to Flightglobal by the UK's Ministry of Defence which show an RAF Eurofighter Typhoon intercepting a Russian Bear Bomber.
This image was uploaded by AirSpace user FlyPHANUK and shows a Hawker Sea Hurricane in an aerial display that took place one evening recently at Old Warden and the Shuttleworth Collection, an aerodrome in Bedfordshire, UK.
See more images in FlyPHANUK's gallery on AirSpace...
More on the Hawker Hurricane discovered in Flight International's 100 year pdf archive:
Airship development joint venture Sanswire-TAO has completed testing of its STS-111's propulsion system at 9,000ft (2,750m) with a goal of operating at 15,000ft. The next step will be testing of the propulsion system at increasing altitudes. Continue reading...
This week's cover story is about aircraft storage. The growth of the world airliner fleet has almost ground to a halt while the number parked is at an all-time high. Flight International's annual census counts up the aircraft and examines the effect that the downturn has had over the last year.
Libyan carrier Afriqiyah Airways has taken delivery of its first Airbus A330-200, one of three ordered by the operator in 2006.
Afriqiyah's aircraft is configured with 230 seat in two classes. Last year the carrier opted for General Electric CF6 engines on the type.
Ukraine's Antonov An-225 has emerged from an overhaul in
Antonov Airlines' An-225 is the sole example of the heavy-lift freighter, the world's largest operational aircraft. Continue reading and watch a video of the aircraft taxiing at Hahn Airport...
From the archive -
Antonov's Dream realised: Flight International's account of the aircraft's first flight plus general arrangement diagram ...
Building big: The Soviet Union has sound economic reasons for building the world's largest transport aircraft, as senior aircraft constructor AS Vovnyenko reveals in this detailed description* of the genesis, design and construction of the Antonov An-225 Mriya. Continue reading...
Antonov's 'Dream' is world's largest: Bulges above the fuselage of the Antonov An-225 Mriya are faired-in hardpoints for piggyback payloads, possibly including the Soviet space shuttle Buran. Continue reading...
On 21 August NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle's (CEV) preliminary design review starts and four-days later the first test firing of a solid rocket booster for its launcher, the Ares I, occurs but this week US president Barack Obama's administration will be presented with a set of choices that could see both cancelled. Continue reading...
This picture was taken at this year's EAA Airventure in Oshkosh. The image was taken by AirSpace user Rob Edgcumbe Photography. See more from his gallery...
Linhas Aereas Mocambique has taken delivery of the first of up to four Embraer 190s. The Mozambique flag carrier, whose fleet is based on Boeing 737-200s, has two E-190s on firm order and purchase rights for two others.
Maputo-based LAM's aircraft is configured in two classes, featuring nine business-class and 84 economy-class seats. Embraer says the airline intends to operate the aircraft on domestic services to Nampula and Pemba, as well as regional flights to Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania.
Delta Air Lines has quietly issued a request for information to bring 350-plus non-embedded handheld in-flight entertainment devices on each of the 16 Boeing 747-400s it inherited from Northwest Airlines.
Russia rebuilds - Will Russia's aerospace shake-up make it more competitive? Flightgloba;'s special report considers the progress of new colossus United Aircraft as it strives to make an international impact, looks at how Russian Helicopters is restructuring the rotorcraft industry and examines re-energised space ambitions.
AirSpace user runlikehell uploaded this image of an RAF Tornado departing RIAT this year.
The US Air Force has decided against funding a readily available technology that is supposed to prevent crashes like the one that recently killed a Lockheed Martin test pilot flying an F-22 Raptor.
Carter Aviation Technologies expects a year-end first flight of its slowed rotor/compound personal air vehicle (PAV) and is planning for five pre-production demonstrators to be built before 2011.
Belite Aircraft has begun selling the Belite 254 single-seat ultralight as a kit and fully assembled aircraft.
The Belite 254 completed its first flight at the manufacturer's Wichita facility in early July and made its public debut in late July at the AirVenture 2009 show in Oshkosh. Belite president James Wiebe says it has started producing the aircraft, which technically is a "fat ultralight", but is designed to feel like a real aircraft, at a rate of two a month. Belite plans to increase production to four aircraft a month from 2010.
According to Avjet spokesman Andrew Bradley, Stephen Bing, CEO of Shangri La Entertainment, notified the company that he had donated the aircraft, which Avjet manages, to former US President Bill Clinton for the humanitarian mission to seek the release of the journalists from North Korea, where they had been sentenced to 12 years in a labour camp.
Avjet had to receive a US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) exemption and letter of authorization to conduct the flight to North Korea, which it did on Saturday morning August 1, with the help of the FAA's Office of Rulemaking in Washington.
Next the company came up with a route, which had to be plotted in coordination with the US Department of State, FAA and the US Air Force. The plan called for departure from Burbank, California, Avjet's home base, to Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, to Misawa Air Force Base in Japan and on to Sunan Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea. Total flight time for the outbound trip turned out to be more than 14h, says Bradley.
Airbus has completed structural assembly of the first Airbus A330-200 freighter in Toulouse ahead of its first flight in November.
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