Reading Time: < 1 minute The Lufthansa Group is driving forward the standardization of its Airbus A320 fleet: Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa and SWISS are developing a standard specification for the Airbus A320 fleet. At the same time, the airline brands will be preserved by a different brand look. The standardization process applies to aircraft that will be […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute ВВС Индии объявили международный конкурс на закупку шести самолетов-топливозаправщиков, которые должны заменить российские Ил-78; новые российские заправщики также среди претендентов на победу в конкурсе, сообщает Взгляд. Это уже третья попытка индийских ВВС по приобретению новых топливозаправщиков. Сейчас на вооружении ВВС Индии находятся шесть российских Ил-78, которые пытаются заменить, пишет Livefist Defence. Предполагается, что конкурс пройдет […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Президент Российской Федерации Владимир Путин в четверг выступил с предложением создать на базе Ту-160 гражданскую версию сверхзвукового самолета. Об этом пишет Прайм. Это предложение глава государства высказал после того, как понаблюдал за полетом нового сверхзвукового стратегического ракетоносца российского производства Ту-160 “Петр Дейнекин”. “Надо сделать гражданскую версию”, – отметил глава государства. “Ту-144 почему сошел с производства […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Norwegian Long Haul Boeing 787-800, registration LN-LNE performing flight DY-7042 (Dep Jan 23rd) from Fort Lauderdale, FL (USA) to Copenhagen (Denmark) with 266 people on board, was enroute over the Atlantic Ocean about 3 hours before reaching the Irish west coast, when the first officer declared PAN reporting a crew member had become incapacitated. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Regional turboprop manufacturer ATR is hopeful that worsening relations between the US administration and Iran will not hinder its business relationship with Tehran. ATR delivered eight aircraft to Iran Air in 2017 and plans to deliver a further 12 by the end of this year, as part of Iran’s effort to replace its antiquated civil […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Qatar Airways will transfer its first Airbus A350-1000 in February after a delay of several weeks. The delay was caused by the “complex seat configuration,” Qatar CEO Akbar Al Baker said. The Doha-based airline is installing a new business-class seat, Qsuite onto its A350-1000s. The airline was scheduled to take delivery of the first A350-1000 […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa Technik AG has concluded an exclusive contract with its long-standing customer EVA Air to supply components for the Taiwan-based airline’s new Boeing 777F fleet. The integrated supply of components for the freighter aircraft within the scope of Total Component Support (TCS®) includes the repair, overhaul and supply of line replaceable units. The availability of […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Boeing announced the 787-10 Dreamliner received an amended type certificate (ATC) from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), clearing the airplane for commercial service. The awarding of ATC caps a successful flight test program that began in March 2017 and involved three flight test airplanes that accumulated about 900 test hours. Boeing’s flight test program […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Finnair Airbus A321-200, registration OH-LZP performing flight AY-617 from Helsinki to Ivalo (Finland) with 186 passengers, was enroute at FL370 about 130nm north of Helsinki when the first officer became ill prompting the captain to take control and return the aircraft to Helsinki, where the aircraft landed safely about one hour after departure and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The United States is facing increasing power outages, surges, and spikes problem, which costs around $150 billion annually. There is an effort to make the power grid more reliable, but the numbers reveal that the problem keeps rising. Over 3,800 outages were reported in 2016 alone, which marked a 9% upsurge in comparison to the […]