The nose section has been loaded on to aircraft MSN001, the first A350 XWB, by Aerolia at its Méaulte, France facility onto a heavily modified A300-600ST Beluga.
The structure is the "face" of the new long-range jetliner from Airbus, which will enter final assembly before the end of the year.
The construction of the nose section, which is a metal-composite hybrid structure, is made up of 40% composites, 55% aluminium/aluminium-lithium and 5% titanium.
South Africa's Aerosud and Paramount Group have unveiled a new aircraft intended to satisfy a variety of civilian and military requirements, up to flying light-attack and counter-insurgency missions.
Revealed at an Aerosud site on the Centurion Aerospace Village near Pretoria on 27 September, the advanced high-performance reconnaissance light aircraft (AHRLAC) is a short take-off and landing (STOL) platform with a two-person crew, 7-10h endurance and a maximum payload of 800kg (1,760lb).
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The Eurofighter programme's annual production rate is to be slashed dramatically as partner nations Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK battle economic difficulties.
Details of the reduction emerged as BAE Systems announced plans to axe about 3,000 jobs at several of its sites around the UK, including its Eurofighter Typhoon final assembly site at Warton in Lancashire.
"The four partner nations in the Typhoon programme have agreed to slow production rates to help ease their budget pressures," said BAE chief executive Ian King. Continue reading...
All Nippon Airways, launch customer for the Boeing 787, has taken contractual delivery of its first of 55 aircraft three and a half years late. Boeing completed the transaction ...
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Although debate rages between the US and UK parts of the office as to whether it's pronounced 'shinook' or 'chinook', what is certain is that Boeing's venerable Chinook turns 50 today. To celebrate this, Boeing has also opened its recently renovated, for a cost of $130 million, production site in Ridley Township, PA. Pictured is a CH-47A belonging to the US Army in about 1961.
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Pictured is a Sikorsky S-70A from Australia's School of Army Aviation over the Brisbane River, Brisbane practising for the city's Riverfire festival.
Credit: Australian Department of Defence
Today was meant to be the day that Boeing sailed over one of the many delivery hurdles littering its path with the handover of the first 747-8F to Cargolux. Except that now seems to be on a back-burner as Cargolux - under pressure from 35% shareholder Qatar Airways - has refused to accept the aircraft. So, now we wait to see who blinks first... meanwhile, in happier times, here's a shot of the 747 in question on what is described as its final acceptence flight on 12 September.
Credit: AirTeamImages
Boeing celebrated the 20th aniversary of the first flight of its venerable C-17 airlifter on 15 September with this recreation of the event over Long Beach, California using aircraft T1.
Credit: Boeing
Today's news that the Franco-Dutch carrier is to order 25 A350-900s (and 25 Boeing 787s) was probably one of the worst kept secrets of the year. However, it has provided us with a couple of nicely rendered images of the aircraft in their respective liveries. Nice to see that both background images are virtually identical, just cropped slightly differently.
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...here's a pic from the excellent MoD flickr stream of an RAF groundcrew conducting an engine test on a Tornado GR4 aircraft from 617 Squadron under at night at Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan.
Credit: Sgt Ross Tilly, RAF
What with it being DSEI in London this week, here's a Royal Air Force 230 Squadron Puma HC1 pictured flying past The Shard skyscraper during a training flight over the capital. The sortie included low and medium level transit flights, landing at un-prepared sites and navigation exercises involving a refueling stop at RAF Marham, an over-flight of RAF Wyton and flying through the London heli-lanes.
Credit: SAC Phil Major, RAF
Pictured is a Boeing C-17 (well, several, but you have to really look) shrouded in mist on the runway at McGuire AFB, New Jersey, last week. The US east coast was deluged by the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee with heavy rainfall and flooding. For those wondering why there's a P-38 Lightning on the tail, according to google, McGuire AFB is named after a World War II ace who flew P-38s, hence the tail flash on McGuire-based C-17s.
Credit: US Air Force
Eurofighter has just released details of the winner of its first annual Eurofighter Typhoon amateur photo contest.Top of the heap was Ian Ramsbottom, with his stunning shot of a 17 Sqn Typhoon in the Mach Loop in Wales, UK.
Picture credit: Airbus
Airbus is preparing to transport the first A350 upper wing-cover from Germany to the airframer's main wing facility in the UK.
It has loaded the upper cover, manufactured at its Stade plant, onto one of its A300-600ST freighters for transit to Broughton over the next few days. Continue reading...
Lufthansa has released a bunch of pictures of it's first 747-8I as it rolls out of the paint shop at Boeing's Everett site near Seattle. Lufthansa describes it as "resplendent" in it's new livery, although, pretty as it looks, you can't help wonder what it would look like in a colour scheme that was slightly less white. Anyway, here's the pics, the second one I converted to black and white for the sheer hell of it.
Credit: Boeing
Picture credit: Cobham Aviation Services
This A330 airtanker arrived into Bournemouth on 26 August. For more read this picture story below.
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