A double-deck 72.2m (237ft)-span swept wing passenger jet with two aft mounted Rolls-Royce Trent-like engines and an altitude ceiling of 55,000ft (16,700m) has been proposed as a more environmentally friendly airliner by a group of former UK aerospace engineers, calling their project Stratos.
Read more about Stratos... and if you want more images of future aviation concepts check out our gallery on AirSpace.
Concorde made it's last commercial flight five years ago today. Here Concorde G-BOAF is seen taking off from London Heathrow on a ferry flight back to retire at Filton, the aircraft's place of birth.
Flight published a Concorde timeline and I found it in the archives...
Image courtesy Paul Dopson/APG Photography
An Itek Air Boeing 737-200 which crashed yesterday near Bishkek had sought to return to the capital's Manas International Airport because of a technical problem.
Sixty-five of the 90 people on board the aircraft were killed after it attempted an emergency landing near the town of Dzhangi-Dzher in the country's northern Sokuluk district.
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Qantas A380's cabin first flight at Hamburg yesterday. Qantas Airways will take delivery of its first Airbus A380 on 19 September. It is the third airline to have the new aircraft type in its fleet.
The airline has set 20 October as the date for its first Airbus A380 service, between Melbourne and Los Angeles.
Courtesy of http://www.pbase.com/orio/qantasa380
Inmarsat has confirmed the successful launch and acquisition of the third Inmarsat-4 satellite.
The satellite was launched on a Proton Breeze M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 18 August. (more from Mary Kirby's Runway Girl blog)
Picture credit: Yannick Delamarre
The second Boeing 777F has joined the flight-test programme for the new all-cargo twinjet. The aircraft, one of the five ordered by launch customer Air France, is the first to appear in the carrier's colours.
AirSpace member erwan_ei uploaded an artistic image of an Air Mauritius A340 taking off from Tananarive, Madagascar's capital.
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