Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Mar 22, 2016
Investigators examining the cause of the flydubai flight FZ981 are able to read data from the damaged cockpit voice recorder (CVR), Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said on March 21.
Mar 22, 2016
Low-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian is leasing an additional two new Boeing 787-9s for its growing long-haul operations.
Mar 22, 2016
Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines has ordered five Boeing 737-800s, valued at approximately $505 million based on expected list prices at delivery.
Mar 21, 2016
US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Boeing investigators have joined a Russian and United Arab Emirates team at the Rostov-on-Don Airport to establish what caused Flydubai flight 981, a Boeing 737-800, to crash after a second attempt at landing on Runway 22 in the early morning hours of March 19 in low clouds and heavy winds.
Mar 21, 2016
Airbus has completed the first test flight of its first aircraft built in the US, an A321 to be delivered to JetBlue Airways this spring.
Jul 08, 2020
Munich-based MTU Aero Engines has announced plans to reduce its 10,000-strong workforce by 10-15% in response to the COVID-19 downturn, although the company plans to avoid any compulsory redundancies.
Jul 08, 2020
A Ruili Airlines Boeing 737-800 (reg B-7866) made an emergency landing on the night of July 6 after the heating element in the left cockpit windscreen failed, causing it to crack.
Jul 08, 2020
Aerion Supersonic is partnering with Canada-based clean energy company Carbon Engineering (CE) to evaluate the potential use of a sustainable synthetic jet fuel produced from carbon dioxide (CO2) for the AS2 supersonic business jet.
Jul 07, 2020
An anomaly in the fan-blade manufacturing process combined with insufficient inspection procedures set the stage for the June 2017 inflight failure of a Rolls-Royce Trent 700 powering an AirAsia X Airbus A330-300, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) found.
Jul 07, 2020
Dubai has issued legislation regulating the use of drones and supporting an initiative to build an ecosystem for cargo, passenger and other operations by unmanned aircraft in the emirate.
Jul 07, 2020
With plans to operate as well as produce its electric air taxis, German startup Lilium has unveiled its thinking on modular vertiports that could start small, but scale up quickly as the market takes off.
Jul 07, 2020
German aerospace center DLR is founding four new research institutes focused on synthetic fuels, low-emission propulsion and electric aviation.
Jul 07, 2020
Most airlines in the region want to defer deliveries due this year, and early widebody retirements are also planned.