Dreamliner Five Deliveries
The Dreamlifter showed up in Everett Sunday night carrying the aft fuselage for Dreamliner Five. Just two more fuselage pieces (center and fwd) await delivery for final assembly kickoff, which may come as early as the end of this month. Section 47/48, according to sources, was 95% complete with the fastener issue fully addressed. Speaking of Section 47/48, it looks as though window gap where the center fuselage barrel meets the aft, is here to stay on the 787-9.
Embraer 2008 Delivery Report
The Brazillian manufacturer delivered 162 commericial aircraft in 2008, up from 130 in 2007. Of the 162 aircraft, 92 were E-190/195s, 64 E-170/175s, and six ERJ-145s.
Reopen the A380 RVSM debate?
From Aviation Herald:
Starting on Friday, QANTAS will kick off Kangaroo service to London from Sydney by way of Singapore. The thrice weekly A380 service will be flown on QF31 and 32 between the three cities. This makes London the only place in the world you can see A380s flown by all three of its operators.
Boeing Flight Test Reorganization
Scott Hamilton has an interesting item on his blog this morning that details substantial changes to Boeing's flight test programs. The company plans to consolidate BCA and IDS flight testing into a single unit to harmonize operations into a single organization. Boeing says any impact on 787 flight testing is currently unclear because the consolidation would be happening in phases.
The Dreamlifter showed up in Everett Sunday night carrying the aft fuselage for Dreamliner Five. Just two more fuselage pieces (center and fwd) await delivery for final assembly kickoff, which may come as early as the end of this month. Section 47/48, according to sources, was 95% complete with the fastener issue fully addressed. Speaking of Section 47/48, it looks as though window gap where the center fuselage barrel meets the aft, is here to stay on the 787-9.
Embraer 2008 Delivery Report
The Brazillian manufacturer delivered 162 commericial aircraft in 2008, up from 130 in 2007. Of the 162 aircraft, 92 were E-190/195s, 64 E-170/175s, and six ERJ-145s.
Reopen the A380 RVSM debate?
From Aviation Herald:
An Armavia Airbus A320-200, flight U8-968 from Sochi (Russia) to Yerevan (Armenia), was enroute about 30nm north of Tiblisi (Georgia), when the airplane encountered severe clear air turbulence, which caused the autopilot to disconnect and threw the airplane into steep banks three times. The crew managed to regain control of the airplane and completed the flight without further incident. No injuries have been reported.A380 Goes Kangaroo
Armavia reported, that their aircraft was cruising 1000 feet below an Emirates Airbus A380-800 registration A6-EDB flight EK-201 enroute from Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to New York,NY (USA) and suspects, that the turbulence was caused by wake vortices created by the A380.
Starting on Friday, QANTAS will kick off Kangaroo service to London from Sydney by way of Singapore. The thrice weekly A380 service will be flown on QF31 and 32 between the three cities. This makes London the only place in the world you can see A380s flown by all three of its operators.
Boeing Flight Test Reorganization
Scott Hamilton has an interesting item on his blog this morning that details substantial changes to Boeing's flight test programs. The company plans to consolidate BCA and IDS flight testing into a single unit to harmonize operations into a single organization. Boeing says any impact on 787 flight testing is currently unclear because the consolidation would be happening in phases.
on January 12, 2009 8:06 PM | Reply
My souces say that the experienced people in the Flight Test org. have left or are leaving. I wonder what this means?
on January 18, 2009 4:58 PM | Reply
Would you like to be involved in the flight testing of a large plastic airplane built by many folks that haven't built an airplane before?
PRAGMATIC JIM