Aerospace Aircraft & Propulsion
Mar 13, 2014
Saint Petersburg-based Rossiya Airlines has become the first carrier in Russia to distribute Apple iPads equipped as electronic flight bags (EFB) for pilots, who are able to use them during all phases of flight—including takeoff and landings, the carrier said in a statement.
Mar 07, 2014
Lufthansa presented its new premium-economy class at the ITB tourism fair in Berlin.
Feb 19, 2014
Airbus has announced plans to increase its stake in China’s Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre (HMC) to 25% from its current 20% shareholding.
Feb 07, 2014
Honeywell and Inmarsat announced they have finalized the critical design review of GX Aviation, a key milestone in the journey to bring high-speed inflight Wi-Fi to flights around the world.
Jan 27, 2014
The dispatch reliability of Norwegian Air Shuttle’s three Boeing 787s is improving, but still some way short of where the airline and the manufacturer want it to be.
Sep 19, 2012
Southwest Airlines (SWA) has purchased up to 268 additional sets of Blended Winglets for its Boeing 737-700 and 737-800 NextGen aircraft from Aviation Partners Boeing (APB), its largest single order.
Sep 04, 2012
Airbus has delivered the first wing for the A350 XWB to the final assembly line in Toulouse, France, from its Broughton, UK, site.
Aug 17, 2012
Rockwell Collins, which announced a retrofit update to the Boeing 757/767 flight deck at the Farnborough Airshow in July, has revealed that it is planning to add synthetic vision capability by around 2016.
Aug 13, 2012
China Southern Airlines (CZ) will equip 40 Boeing 737-700 and -800 aircraft with blended winglets, with retrofit performed by Aviation Partners Boeing (APB).
Jul 23, 2012
Rolls-Royce confirmed that a component on Trent 1000-powered Boeing 787s “is being replaced in a number of engines,” affecting some All Nippon Airways (ANA) Dreamliners in service.
Jul 10, 2012
Rockwell Collins’ (RC) dispatch program has been selected by Air India (AI), Hainan Airlines (HU) and China Southern Airlines (CZ) to service and support their Boeing 787 fleets.
Jul 02, 2012
Silver Airways took delivery of its seventh Saab 340Bplus aircraft, part of a fleet upgrade under which it intends to integrate 12 of the aircraft type by September 2012. The aircraft will begin operating schedule passenger service in July on routes throughout Florida and the Bahamas.
Jun 21, 2012
Skyworld Aviation has been appointed to sell or lease an Embraer E-190-100LR currently operated by Air Caraibes.