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Jan 22, 2021

Airbus updated its production rate for its A320 fa

Airbus updated its production rate planning for its A320 Family aircraft in response to the current market environment. The new average production rates for the A320 Family will increase will from the current rate of 40 per month to 43 in Q3 and 45 in Q4 2021. This latest production plan represents More

Jan 18, 2021

Virgin Orbit launched a rocket from Boeing 747-400

Virgin Orbit, the California-based satellite launch company, confirmed that its LauncherOne rocket reached space during the company’s second launch demonstration on 17 Jan 2021, successfully deploying 10 payloads for NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP). Virgin Orbit’s novel launch system uses More

Jan 08, 2021

Airbus delivered 566 aircraft in 2020, fell 34% &#

Airbus delivered 566 aircraft in 2020, fell 34% from a record 863 in 2019. European planemaker, still maintained as the world’s largest planemaker for a second year as U.S. rival Boeing remained mired for most of that period in the grounding of its 737 MAX. Airbus delivered 566 commercial aircraft More

Jan 06, 2021

Boeing Super Hornet Demonstrates Ski-jump Launch C

Boeing and the U.S. Navy proved recently that the F/A-18 Super Hornet can operate from a “ski jump” ramp, demonstrating the aircraft’s suitability for India’s aircraft carriers. The demonstrations, held at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, showed that the Super Hornet would do well More

Dec 22, 2020

Uganda Airlines has taken delivery of its first Ai

Uganda Airlines, the country’s flag-carrier, has taken delivery of its first A330neo, the latest version of the most popular widebody airliner. It is the first Airbus aircraft delivered to Uganda Airlines, which was established in 2019. The A330-800 is the latest addition to Airbus’ commercial a More

Dec 22, 2020

Boeing Australia and the Royal Australian Air Forc

Boeing Australia and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) have completed the first high-speed taxi test of the Loyal Wingman in preparation for first flight. Boeing test personnel monitored the aircraft’s performance and instrumentation from a ground control station to verify the functionality wh More

Dec 17, 2020

Mitsubishi Aircraft will be slashing 95% of its wo

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation, will be slashing about 95% of its workforce as Spacejet production grinds to halt. The company will cut its workforce by about 95 percent year-on-year from next April, to a bare minimum of roughly 150 from nearly 2000 staff. MAC will halt operations at a U.S flight t More

Dec 15, 2020

Boeing for the first time flown the MQ-25 T1, unma

Boeing and the U.S. Navy have for the first time flown the MQ-25 T1 test asset with an aerial refueling store (ARS), a significant milestone informing development of the unmanned aerial refueler. The successful 2.5-hour flight with the Cobham ARS – the same ARS currently used by F/A-18s for air-to More

Dec 13, 2020

“EcoPulse” Hybrid has completed its Pr

The EcoPulse™ distributed propulsion hybrid aircraft demonstrator – which is being developed by Daher, Safran and Airbus with the support of France’s CORAC civil aviation research council – has successfully passed its Preliminary Design Review as a first key step toward validating the projec More

Dec 13, 2020

Rolls Royce Trent XWB engine powering Airbus A350-

Flights connecting some of the farthest cities in the world are referred to as ultra-long-range flights. These flights are defined as being 16 hours or more. The Airbus A350 XWB, powered by the most efficient large aero engine in service, the Trent XWB. The Trent XWB, which is the sixth generation o More

Dec 07, 2020

Mali has placed a firm order for Airbus C295Airlif

The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Mali has placed a firm order for an additional Airbus C295 airlifter in the transport configuration. This second aircraft, to be delivered in 2021, will supplement the first C295 already in operation since December 2016 which has already accumulated 1,770 f More

Dec 06, 2020

Boeing has further trimmed its 787 Production targ

Boeing has trimmed the production target for 787 Dreamliner to five a month in mid-2021 from six. As the International Air Passenger traffic is around 90% lower compared with last year, overall near-term demand for wide-body aircraft have declined. Earlier in October, Boeing reduced 787 output from More

Dec 04, 2020

Airbus Solar High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)

Airbus Defence and Space has successfully completed a new test flight campaign for its Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) in Arizona, U.S.A. The 2020 flight campaign focused on aircraft agility, control and operations to build upon previous campaigns, which have already proven the day and More

Dec 02, 2020

Virgin Galactic’s new flight window will ope

Virgin Galactic today announced its new flight window will open from the New Mexico on December 11, pending good weather conditions and technical readiness. This flight expects to fulfill a number of objectives, including testing elements of the customer cabin as well as assessing the upgraded horiz More

Dec 01, 2020

FAA issued its first Airworthiness Certificate for

The U.S Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued its first Airworthiness certificate for a Boeing 737 MAX since the grounding of MAX in March 2019. The FAA issued the certificate on 30 Nov for a newly built 737MAX after March 2019. Unlike type certificate which apply to all particular aircra More

Nov 23, 2020

Airbus has opened a $38 million new integrated cam

Airbus has officially opened its a $38 million new integrated campus in Singapore on Friday (Nov 20) The inauguration was hosted by Christian Scherer, Airbus Chief Commercial Officer, Head of International and Member of the Airbus Executive Committee, in the presence of Chan Chun Sing, Minister for More

Nov 21, 2020

Boeing 737 MAX – Timeline

“I can tell you my family and your family will be safe on this aircraft,” FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said on the approval to 737MAX to return to skies again after being grounded for 20 months. FAA cleared 737MAX to return to service after reviewing, testing, and analysing documentation proc More

Nov 18, 2020

Boeing 737MAX can fly again! – FAA cleared t

Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday cleared Boeing 737MAX to return to service after being grounded for 20 months. The FAA Administrator Steve Dickson today signed an order that paves the way for the Boeing 737 MAX to return to commercial service. Administrator Dickson’s action followed a More

Nov 18, 2020

Boeing 737 Max is set to return to service with th

The Boeing 737 Max is set to return to skies as regulators said they were near the “finish line” of their review of the planes. The MAX is nearing clearance to fly again after being grounded for 20 months prompted by two fatal crashes that killed 346 people on board. The Joint Operations Evaluat More

Nov 13, 2020

Boeing forecast China’s Airlines to acquire

Boeing expects China’s airlines to acquire 8,600 new airplanes valued at $1.4 trillion and commercial aviation services valued at $1.7 trillion over the next 20 years. Boeing shared its annual China market forecast on 11 November, as part of the 2020 Commercial Market Outlook (CMO), which shows an More

Nov 12, 2020

Airbus to deliver 38 new Eurofighter aircraft to t

Airbus has signed a contract to deliver 38 new Eurofighter aircraft to the German Air Force. This makes Germany the largest ordering nation in Europe’s biggest defence programme. Airbus will delivering 30 single-seater and 8 twin-seater Eurofighters. Three of the aircraft will be equipped with More

Nov 06, 2020

GULFSTREAM G500 AND G600 demonstrated increased ra

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced the next-generation Gulfstream G500™ and Gulfstream G600™ have once again demonstrated additional range capabilities through real-time operations. The newly increased range for the G500 and G600 apply to both the high-speed cruise of Mach 0.90 and the long-ra More

Nov 03, 2020

Boeing sold its corporate yacht for $13 million..

Boeing has reportedly sold its corporate yacht for $13 million as part of cost cutting measures. Boeing’s Daedalus, a 151-foot yacht once used to entertain corporate customers, was sold to a California developer for $13 million. The luxury yacht built by Delta Marine in 1999, usually moored on More

Nov 01, 2020

Boeing expects to incur $5 billion in abnormal pro

Boeing expects regulatory approval of the 737 MAX to return to service before the end of this year, according to David Calhoun, the president and CEO of Boeing. “we made important progress working closely with global regulators on 737 certification efforts. We also introduced a comprehensive S More

Nov 01, 2020

Airbus delivered the A330 Family’s 1,500th aircr

Airbus delivered the A330 Family’s 1,500th aircraft on 21st September to Delta Air Lines. The application of ‘incremental innovations’, since its service entry, has resulted in the A330’s ongoing versatility, functionality, increased payload-range, class-leading economy with state-of-the-art More

Oct 30, 2020

The Ecuadorian Air Force takes delivery of their f

Airbus Helicopters has delivered two H145s to the Ecuadorian Air Force. A total of six H145s will be delivered over the next year. The H145 helicopters, known as “Cobra” in the Ecuadorian Air Force, will be assigned to the 22nd Combat Wing in Guayaquil. The contract includes training for 12 pilo More

Oct 29, 2020

Airbus incurred € -1.2 billion restructuring cha

Airbus reported consolidated financial results for the nine months ended 30 September 2020. According to the report, the revenues decreased to € 30.2 billion (9m 2019: € 46.2 billion), mainly impacted by around 40% fewer deliveries year-on-year. Consolidated EBIT (reported) was € -2,185 millio More

Oct 28, 2020

Boeing plans to slash 7000 jobs as it reported a l

Boeing plans to slash 7000 jobs as it reported a loss of $3.502 billion in the first nine months of the year. Boeing aims to have a staff of 130,000 by the end of 2021, after attrition, retirements and buyouts. Earlier this year, Boeing targeted a 10% cut to its staff, which stood at 160,000 [&helli More

Oct 27, 2020

Airbus delivered the first A321 passenger-to-freig

Airbus and Singapore ST Engineering jointly achieved a key milestone in the A321 passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion programme with the delivery of the first converted aircraft to Qantas. This new P2F version is being leased by aircraft asset manager Vallair to Qantas, to operate services on beh More

Oct 23, 2020

Airbus has delivered its first U.S.-assembled A220

Airbus has delivered its first U.S.-assembled A220 aircraft from Mobile, Alabama, U.S.A. The U.S.-built A220-300 aircraft was delivered to Delta Air Lines. Several milestones led up to this historic moment. From the groundbreaking of the Mobile A220 Final Assembly Line in January 2019, through the o More

Oct 23, 2020

Mitsubishi plans to freeze development of its firs

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., “plans to freeze development of its Spacejet regional jet as the coronavirus pandemic..” reported Reuters. and Kyodo News reports “MHI is considering sharply scaling back the staff and budget for developing the first domestically manufactured regional More

Oct 22, 2020

Droop Nose Device (DND) on Airbus A350XWB….

Ref: International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences In spring of 2006, Airbus decided to stop the development of the initial A350, which was based on the A330 in order to offer the customers an all-new aircraft with even better performance, e.g. higher cruise Mach number and aerodynamic efficien More

Oct 22, 2020

Boeing’s Australian Unmanned Aircraft Completes

The Boeing Loyal Wingman aircraft being developed with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) recently moved under its own power for the first time, a key milestone for the aircraft that’s expected to make its first flight this year. The prototype was reaching a maximum speed of 14 knots (approxima More

Oct 19, 2020

Boeing announced its deliveries for the third quar

The Boeing Company announced the major program deliveries across its commercial and defense operations for the third quarter of 2020. “We continue to work closely with our customers around the globe, understanding their near-term and longer term fleet needs, aligning supply and demand while na More

Oct 19, 2020

Hydrogen fuel cells for Aircraft: how do they work

Info: Airbus Hydrogen fuel cells are emerging as a high-potential technology that offers significant energy efficiency and decarbonisation benefits, and Airbus is investing to mature fuel cell propulsion systems for the aviation market. In 1838, the first “gas voltaic battery” consists of two se More

Oct 16, 2020

Top execute of EASA says, the “737MAX is saf

Top execute of EASA is satisfied with the changes made to Boeing 737MAX and says the plane is safe to fly… Mr.Patrick Ky, executive director of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency said “Our analysis is showing that this is safe, and the level of safety reached is high enough for us,”More

Oct 04, 2020

The first Airbus C295 aircraft for Canadian Air Fo

The first Airbus C295 aircraft, purchased by the Government of Canada for the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) Fixed Wing Search and Rescue Aircraft Replacement (FWSAR) project, has arrived at 19 Wing, Canadian Forces Base Comox, in British Columbia, Canada. The aircraft, designated CC-295 for th More

Oct 01, 2020

Boeing’s 2020 ecoDemonstrator takes flight…

“An innovative new technology from Safran Landing Systems aims to reduce the noise created from an airplane’s extended landing gear by more than 20% ” says Safran Safran Landing Systems, designed as part of the The Boeing Company 2020 ecoDemonstrator program,it uses devices that modify More

Sep 30, 2020

GE9X engine powering Boeing 777x has been certifi

GE Aviation announced today its GE9X engine has been certified by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) authorities, a key milestone in its journey to power the new twin-engine Boeing 777X family. The FAR (Federal Aviation Regulation) Part 33 certification involved nine test engines. The GE More

Sep 17, 2020

Top 10 Aerospace companies in the world

The year 2019, proven to be highly profitable for most of the aerospace companies. Both Boeing and Airbus, continue to dominate the global aerospace industry in 2020. However, Airbus has taken the first spot in the 2019-2020FY list, pushing its rival Boeing for the first time in decades. Boeing̵More

Sep 14, 2020

Boeing delivered the first MH-47G Block II Chinook

Boeing delivered new technologies and performance improvements to U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) with the Block II Chinook helicopter. Boeing’s Philadelphia team recently delivered the first MH-47G Block II Chinook to SOCOM on time. The company is on contract for 23 more MH-47G Block II C More

Sep 13, 2020

Airbus military airplanes training facility…

Airbus military airplanes training facility located in Seville, Spain., this modern facility provides training for the Airbus-built military airplanes customer nations that fly such aircraft as the A400M airlifter, the A330 MRTT (Multi Role Tanker Transport) and the C295/CN235 tactical transporters.More

Sep 12, 2020

Airbus has delivered the first of 16 new H125 heli

Airbus has delivered the first of 16 new H125 helicopters uniquely configured for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO). The first helicopter for the new configuration was tested and delivered from Airbus Helicopters, Inc.’s facility in Grand Prairie, Texas. The More

Sep 12, 2020

Airbus joined by European partners to demonstrate

Airbus has signed agreements with two airline customers; Frenchbee and SAS Scandinavian Airlines, as well as three Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP); France’s DSNA (Direction des Services de la Navigation Aérienne), the UK’s NATS and EUROCONTROL to demonstrate the operational feasibility More

Sep 11, 2020

Transport Canada Extends Approvals for De Havillan

De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited (“De Havilland Canada”) announced that Transport Canada has confirmed the extension of approvals that permit the conversion of Dash 8 Series aircraft into Simplified Package Freighters (SPF) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The approvals which now ext More

Aug 30, 2020

Rolls-Royce reported a massive £5.4bn loss and pl

Rolls-Royce reported a massive £5.4bn loss for the first half of the year, 2020. The Aircraft engine maker does not expect orders to recover to pre-Covid levels until 2025., as it plans to deliver only 250 engines this year instead of originally expected 450 engines. The slump in demand resulted Ro More

Jul 20, 2020

Airbus begin deliveries of aircraft powered by sus

Airbus delivered aircraft powered by sustainable aviation fuel from its Hamburg facility in Germany. Air Transat took delivery of two brand new A321LR on lease from AerCap. Both used a 10 per cent sustainable aviation fuel blend to fly the aircraft from Hamburg to Montreal, Canada, non-stop. Airbus More

Jul 02, 2020

Embraer delivered its 1,600th E-Jet…

Embraer delivered its 1,600th E-Jet, an E190-E2 to Helvetic Airways of Switzerland. Airlines and leasing companies from some 50 countries have added Embraer E-Jets to their fleets since the first-generation jets entered revenue service in 2004. The new, highly fuel-efficient second-generation E-Jets More

Europe Jun 30, 2020

Airbus said to cut 15,000 jobs…

Airbus said Tuesday, it will be laying off around 15,000 employees, mostly in Europe, and warned of more thin years ahead. “With air traffic not expected to recover to pre-COVID levels before 2023 and potentially as late as 2025, Airbus now needs to take additional measures,” the company said in More

Germany Jun 29, 2020

Airbus has successfully concluded Autonomous Taxi,

Following an extensive two-year flight test programme, Airbus has successfully concluded its Autonomous Taxi, Take-Off and Landing (ATTOL) project. In completing this project, Airbus has achieved autonomous taxiing, take-off and landing of a commercial aircraft through fully automatic vision-based f More

America Jun 29, 2020

Boeing delivered the first two F/A-18 Block III Su

Boeing delivered the first two F/A-18 Block III Super Hornets to the U.S. Navy for flight testing. One jet is a single-seat E model and the other is a two-seat F model. “The aircraft will be used for carrier suitability and integration testing of all Block III mission system components,” said St More

U.S.A Jun 29, 2020

FAA said to begin a three-day certification test c

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing are preparing to begin a three-day certification test campaign for the 737 MAX starting today (29 June) The FAA test pilots and technical test crew members will carryout three-day test campaign on a 737 MAX 7 outfitted with test equipment at Boeing Fie More

China Jun 28, 2020

COMAC, has delivered 3 ARJ21 to the big 3 airlines

The Assembly Manufacturing Center of Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC) has delivered three ARJ21 aircraft to Chengdu Airlines, Genghis Khan Airlines and Jiangxi Air. ARJ21 aircraft is a new turbofan regional jet independently developed by China and having independent intellectua More

America Jun 15, 2020

AirShield – A concept design to stop spread

A leading Seattle based design company, Teague, has unveiled a design concept of redirecting overhead passenger air flow to help stop spread Coronavirus. The company claims that the device will create an invisible barrier around each passenger. Currently the passenger unit supply air stream from abo More

Japan Jun 15, 2020

Mitsubishi Aircraft announced a new operational pl

Mitsubishi Aircraft announced a new operational plan amid the current COVID-19 crisis. The company’s priority will be on obtaining type certification for the SpaceJet M90. In order to maximize the efficiency of type certification flight tests in the future, this fiscal year, Mitsubishi Aircraf More

Jun 13, 2020

Third Airbus BelugaXL has rolled out of the paint-

Third Airbus BelugaXL has rolled out of the Airbus paint-shop in Toulouse. Three more to come for the BelugaXL team to be complete. Airbus is building six of the A330-200 based transporters which will eventually replace the now 20-year-old Beluga ST fleet. The new larger BelugaXL has been designed t More

America Jun 12, 2020

Boeing directed Spirit to pause production on 737M

Boeing directed Spirit AeroSystems to pause production on Boeing 737MAX fuselages, resulting 900 workers were on unpaid leave for three weeks. Spirit said, it received a letter from Boeing directing it to pause additional work on four 737 MAX shipsets and avoid starting production on sixteen 737 MAX More

Norway Jun 08, 2020

Helitrans of Norway has taken delivery of new Airb

Helitrans of Norway has become the first customer to take delivery of new Airbus helicopters using the e-Delivery process devised to enable deliveries while ensuring compliance with COVID-19 health and safety restrictions. Trondheim-based Helitrans formally accepted the latest two H125s into its fle More

Germany Jun 06, 2020

Airbus threatens to sue airlines….

Airbus threatens to sue airlines if they don’t honour the contract and take deliveries of aircraft on time. Due to COVID issue, many airlines deferred the deliveries from platemakers and aircraft lessors. As the stand off over undelivered passenger jets is intensifying Airbus Chief Executive G More

May 29, 2020

The world’s “largest all electric commercial a

The world’s “largest all electric commercial aircraft” has completed its maiden flight at Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, Washington, on Thursday. The Cessna 208B Grand Caravan powered by a 750-horsepower all-electric magni500 propulsion system took off from AeroTEC Flight Te More

Germany May 29, 2020

Airbus A400M achieves Automatic Low Level Flight c

The Airbus A400M new generation airlifter has achieved a new decisive milestone after the certification of its Automatic Low Level Flight capability, offering a unique in its class capability for a military transport aircraft. The certification campaign, performed in April above the Pyrenees and cen More

American May 29, 2020

Boeing slashes 13000 jobs….

Boeing began involuntary layoffs by notifying the first 6,770 of Boeing staff at U.S. facilities that this week they will be affected. Nearly 13,000 employees of Boeing will be losing their jobs in coming weeks. The reductions had been expected since Boeing revealed plans last month to slash its glo More

America May 28, 2020

Boeing has resumed 737MAX production…

Boeing has resumed production of the troubled 737 MAX at the company’s Renton, Washington factory. The 737 program began building airplanes at a low rate. “We’ve been on a continuous journey to evolve our production system and make it even stronger,” said Walt Odisho, vice president and gene More

U.K May 27, 2020

Rolls Royce announced to cut 9000 jobs…

Rolls Royce announced to cut at least 9,000 jobs from its global workforce of 52,000 as part of restructuring program. The Aircraft engine maker said “the proposed reorganisation is expected to generate annualised savings of more than £1.3bn, of which we expect headcount to contribute around More

AMERICA May 13, 2020

Boeing customers cancelled 108 more 737MAX aircraf

Boeing said Tuesday that customers cancelled 108 more B737MAX aircraft in April. Orders of 10 aircraft were cancelled by unidentified customers while 29 jets were cancelled by China Development Bank Financial Leasing and 69 aircraft were canceled by General Electric’s aircraft leasing arm, known a More

america May 13, 2020

Boeing burnt almost $20 billion due to multiple cr

Boeing reported $1.7 billion loss from its core operations in the first quarter, 2020,and announced plans to cut 16,000 jobs, about 10% of its staff. According to business analysts, the company has burnt more than $20 billion due to issues such as 737MAX crisis, delay in deliveries, production cut o More

america May 12, 2020

Boeing presented the first unmanned Loyal Wingman

A Boeing led Australian industry team has presented the first unmanned Loyal Wingman aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force. The aircraft, which uses artificial intelligence to extend the capabilities of manned and unmanned platforms, is the first to be designed, engineered and manufactured in A More

america May 07, 2020

Airbus to modify A330 and A350 family aircraft to

Airbus is developing a modification for A330 and A350 family aircraft which will enable airlines to install freight pallets directly onto the cabin floor seat tracks, after removal of the economy-class seats. This solution will help with the airlines’ own business continuity, and also alleviate th More

australia Mar 13, 2020

Norwegian Air

Norwegian Air said Thursday it will suspend around 4,000 flights and temporarily layoff of up to 50 percent of employees as Coronavirus disrupts daily lives of millions. “Due to the extraordinary market situation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and thus a dramatic drop in customers and subse More

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