Reading Time: 2 minutes The first delivery of an A320 aircraft from the Airbus U.S. Manufacturing Facility has taken place in Mobile, Alabama, USA. The aircraft, delivered to Spirit Airlines, is the 37th overall delivery from the U.S. facility since production began in July 2015. The previous 36 aircraft were A321 aircraft, making this delivery another important milestone for […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute After Dubai Airports, Oman Airports Management Company (OAMC) has become the second airport operator in the Middle East to ban bags without flat surfaces this year. The new rule, to come into force on 1 September, is applicable to all passengers irrespective of airline, cabin class and point of origin or final destination. “If the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Aerospace & Defence MRO South Asia Summit, scheduled to take place in New Delhi from 18-19, January 2018, has generated a great deal of interest amongst the International publications serving the MRO industry. Orient Aviation, a leading commercial aviation news magazine in the Asia Pacific region has partnered with the event along with Aviation […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes «BAA Training», один из крупнейших авиационных учебных центров в Северной Европе, рад сообщить об обновленном разрешении Федерального Агентства Воздушного Транспорта (Росавиации) на осуществление первоначальной подготовки и переподготовки пилотов на тип ВС Boeing 737 CL, а также на обеспечение пилотов курсами, необходимыми для обновления свидетельства на тот же тип ВС. Более того, данное разрешение предоставляет возможность […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes BAA Training, one of the largest aviation training centres in Northern Europe, is pleased to announce that it has renewed the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rostaviatsia) approval for Boeing 737 CL Initial, Recurrent and Renewal training. The approval also grants use of BAA Training’s own Boeing 737 CL Full Flight Simulator for providing training […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Исследователи из Университета Мэриленда представили проект беспилотного вертолета, способного летать в режиме висения 33 часа. Как пишет N+1 со ссылкой на Aviation Week, разработка аппарата велась в рамках конкурса американской компании Sikorsky на создание долго летающих аппаратов вертолетного типа. Современные беспилотники вертолетного типа не могут долгое время находиться в воздухе в режиме висения, поскольку такой […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thousands of flights were canceled over the weekend as the storm resulting from Hurricane Harvey created “catastrophic” flooding and dangerous conditions in southeast Texas. More than 1,580 flights were canceled in the U.S. Sunday morning, according to Flight Aware, an aviation software company that tracks flight statuses. Those cancellations were in addition to the 1,100 […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Qatar Airways Boeing 787 was performing flight from Doha to Denpasar with 240 people, when the captain reported the first officer had lost consciousness after complaining about chest pain. The crew decided to divert to Hyderabad for a safe landing on runway 27L about 30 minutes later, already past midnight local time. The first officer […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Etihad Airways Group is getting to set to name its new CEO within the next few months, according to a statement by the company. “The successful candidate is expected to start no later than the beginning of 2018,” the statement read. Former Etihad CEO James Hogan departed from the company in May, with Ray Gammel […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Qantas reported an Underlying Profit Before Tax of $1,401 million and a Statutory Profit Before Tax of $1,181 million for the 12 months ended 30 June 2017. The underlying result represents the second highest performance in Qantas’ 97 year history, down 8.6 percent compared with last year’s record. The figure is is slightly above the […]