A Horizon Air worker took off Friday night in one of the airline’s Q400 turboprops at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and crashed on an island in south Puget Sound after being coaxed by air-traffic control to try to land and trailed by two fighter jets, officials said. (www.seattletimes.com) 更多...
Montreal - New supersonic passenger planes designed by Boeing and other manufacturers offer the chance to connect continents faster than ever. However, these future aircraft at supersonic and hypersonic speeds could also affect the environment at a much higher rate compared to today's air transport vehicles. (airlinerwatch.com) 更多...
To prepare for community overflights under its silent supersonic aircraft test program with the X-59 starting in 2023, NASA will fly an F/A-18 as it breaks through the speed of sound over Galveston, Texas, beginning in November. NASA’s F/A-18 testbed will be flown using a “quiet supersonic dive maneuver” to “aim quiet sonic thumps at a specific area,” a procedure that the agency first tested in 2011 over Edwards Air Force Base. (www.ainonline.com) 更多...
On this day in 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare. It flew three strike planes over Hiroshima, Japan. The Enola Gay carried the bomb. Two other planes, the Great Artiste and the Necessary Evil, escorted it. Most of the 34 crew members didn't know they were carrying what was then the most powerful weapon in the world. I recommend that you listen to his story, rather than read it. (www.npr.org) 更多...
Investigators believe the twin-engine Cessna 525 belonged to Youd’s employer and that he intentionally flew into his own house; Sandoval said he was an experienced pilot. It wasn’t immediately clear who employed Youd or whether he was authorized to take the plane. (heavy.com) 更多...
Mumbai: On Friday, a Jet Airways flight was not even on the runway when it tried to take off from the Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia. Its two pilots are close to losing their flying licence after they allegedly attempted take-off from a taxiway instead of the runway, endangering nearly 150 on board. Aviation sources have told NDTV that the taxiway, which runs parallel to the designated runway, had not been properly mapped into the plans of Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport. The… (www.ndtv.com) 更多...
Airbus’s latest edition of Zephyr, a solar-powered aircraft-come-satellite that operates in the stratosphere, has completed a maiden flight just short of 26 days. (www.theengineer.co.uk) 更多...
On August 4, 2016 at 9:02pm eastern daylight time, Southwest Airlines flight 149, a Boeing 737, N368SW, experienced a failure of its nose landing gear during pushback from the gate at the Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport (BWI), Baltimore, Maryland. The aircraft was substantially damaged and there were no injuries to the 6 crewmembers or 129 passengers aboard. The flight was being operated under 14 Code of Federal Regulation Part 121 as a regularly scheduled passenger… (www.youtube.com) 更多...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China’s Hainan Airlines (600221.SS) said on Friday it had sold its remaining stake in Brazilian airline Azul SA (AZUL.N) in a deal that netted it $306.25 million after deducting underwriting fees. (www.reuters.com) 更多...
(CNN)A vintage plane crashed in the Swiss Alps on Saturday, killing all 20 people on board, police said. The mid-century plane, a Junkers JU-52, crashed in the Piz Segnas mountain range, near the Austrian border. All 17 passengers and three crew members died in the crash, which happened around 5 p.m. local time. They were aged between 42 and 84. (www.cnn.com) 更多...
Renton - After Airbus, Boeing now has difficulties in increasing production rates. It is especially noticeable in Renton, Seattle's only 737 final assembly plant. Over 40 unfinished 737 were parked around Boeing’s Renton final assembly plant and along the edges of the Renton Municipal Airport. Some of these aircraft are missing their engines and others waiting for the installation of different parts. (airlinerwatch.com) 更多...
United Arab Emirates investigators have embarked on reviewing a draft final report into the Emirates Boeing 777-300 landing accident at Dubai two years ago. (www.flightglobal.com) 更多...
Stratolaunch, the launch venture created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, took the world’s biggest airplane out of its hangar this weekend (www.geekwire.com) 更多...
Pilot John Sessions was giving rides in the museums DeHavilland DH-89A Mk IV Dominie/Dragon Rapide at Abbotsford, BC. (Reg #N683DH). (www.heraldnet.com) 更多...
Singapore Airlines (SQ) will launch several nonstop flights from Los Angeles (LAX) to Singapore (SIN) with its new Airbus A350-900ULR (Ultra-Long-Range) in November this year. The airline will also increase its current daily nonstop San Francisco (SFO) service to 10 times per week, providing 53 weekly operations that connect the U.S. with Singapore by the end of 2018, including Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and its newest and world’s longest commercial route by air to New York… (airwaysmag.com) 更多...
Drones aren't usually allowed to go near airports unless they serve a purpose, like herding flocks of birds away from the airspace where they could put planes full of people in jeopardy. Manually controlled drones can be unreliable, though: If the operator gets too aggressive and spooks the birds, the flock could scatter and become even more unmanageable. That's why a team of researchers from Caltech have developed an algorithm that teaches unmanned aerial vehicles how to autonomously (and… (www.engadget.com) 更多...
Pilots of a Boeing 737-400 lost situational awareness and failed to realise how much runway had passed beneath the aircraft before a late touchdown which resulted in a high-speed overrun at Milan Bergamo. (www.flightglobal.com) 更多...
On July 25, 2018 while taxiing for departure at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), California, prop wash from a preceding Bombardier Dash 8 blew a baggage dolly into the right engine of a United Airlines Boeing 737, tail number N62892, at 16:04 hours local time. As can be seen in this video, the Dash 8 is just beginning to move at the time its prop wash blows the baggage dolly free. Generally, the amount of thrust needed to initiate movement from a standstill ("breakaway thrust")… (www.youtube.com) 更多...
Un juge de Washington a ordonné jeudi qu'un avion renvoyant chez elles une mère et sa fille ayant demandé l'asile aux États-Unis rebrousse chemin, et a menacé le département de la Justice de le poursuivre pour outrage à magistrat, a indiqué une ONG. Les deux migrantes avaient porté plainte pour contester leur expulsion vers un pays d'Amérique centrale, et une audience consacrée à leur requête s'est tenue jeudi, a expliqué l'ACLU, la puissante organisation de défense des droits civiques, qui a… (www.lapresse.ca) 更多...
Un mécanicien de 29 ans a volé un bimoteur vide vendredi soir à l'aéroport de Seattle et effectué quelques figures acrobatiques sous l'oeil vigilant de deux F-15 militaires avant de s'écraser dans la baie de Seattle. La police locale a rapidement écarté tout caractère « terroriste » de l'incident et assuré que ce mécanicien de la compagnie Alaska Airlines avait des tendances suicidaires et avait agi seul. L'homme, identifié comme « Rich » ou « Richard », est mort quand l'avion s'est écrasé au… (www.lapresse.ca) 更多...
Southwest Airlines abruptly grounded 66 Boeing 737 aircraft in its fleet last Wednesday after issues with the carrier’s aircraft weight records were discovered. In an internal memo to employees on the matter that was obtained by the Chicago Business Journal, Southwest said: “Today (Wednesday) we discovered the weights being sent to our Dispatch Operation did not match our other weight records for a number of aircraft in the fleet. As a result, and out of an abundance of caution, we have stopped… (www.bizjournals.com) 更多...
About 20 million passengers select the best airlines in the world every year. The Lufthansa Group was honored with four Skytrax World Airline Awards... (cmsherbert.blogspot.com) 更多...
Boeing Co. delivered only 29 single-aisle jetliners last month, the lowest tally since January 2012, as the planemaker dealt with supplier constraints that left dozens of unfinished 737 aircraft parked around a Seattle-area factory. The manufacturer recorded just 39 total commercial-jet deliveries last month, down from 82 in June, according to data posted on the company’s website Tuesday. While it’s not unusual for jet shipments to vary from month to month, Boeing’s slow July raises concern… (www.yahoo.com) 更多...
A Royal Air Maroc Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner has impacted its right wingtip against the tail of a Turkish Airlines 777-300(ER) at Istanbul-Ataturk International Airport. The Triple-Seven aircraft suffered significant damage on the lower portion of the APU’s casing, as shown by pictures taken by Airporthaber in Istanbul. A video shows how the speeding Dreamliner clips its right wing against the 777’s tail, sending debris along the tarmac. This is the second wing-clipping incident that Turkish… (airwaysmag.com) 更多...
Manufacturer confirms presence with two aircraft including the newest launch that will be in virtual tour in the brand new Falcon 6X in the 15th edition of LABACE, in São Paulo, Brazil... (cmsherbert.blogspot.com) 更多...
Research and development initiatives have shown that TC is the best technology available for airports around the world... (cmsherbert.blogspot.com) 更多...
New Delhi: An IndiGo Airbus A-320 Neo winging its way from Kolkata to Delhi on Monday saw one of its Pratt & Whitney (PW) engines develop a snag. Flight 6E 474 landed safely at IGI Airport but the A-320 new engine option (Neo) suffered extensive damage, joining the already long list of planes grounded for engine replacement by PW. “The engine was new and had done very few hours. The damage is substantial,” said a source. An IndiGo spokesperson said, “An IndiGo A-320 Neo has been grounded… (epaper.timesgroup.com) 更多...
Montréal, Québec, August 8, 2018 – CAE today announced that it will be investing C$1 billion over the next five years in innovation to stay at the forefront of the training industry. (canadianaviationnews.wordpress.com) 更多...
One of the famous Tuskegee Airmen, Robert L. Martin, has died at the age of 99. Martin, who said he flew "63 and a half missions" was shot down over German-occupied territory on the 64th and spent five weeks trying to return to Allied lines. (patch.com) 更多...
