Reading Time: < 1 minute Virgin Galactic plans to conduct its next crewed spaceflight test on 22 October, according to documents the company filed with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, announces CNBC. The flight will be the first of two that the space tourism company has planned to complete testing of its SpaceShipTwo spacecraft system and should have just […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The existing and future impacts of the current crisis are still difficult to determine, however, many aviation companies are already fighting their (last) battle for survival. Another among the endangered airlines appeared to be a British airline Virgin Atlantic. In an open letter to the employees, the founder of the Virgin Group, Richard Branson, said […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Virgin Atlantic said it would buy Airbus Group SE A350 long-range planes while retaining the option to eventually take the aircraft maker’s A380 superjumbo. Virgin Atlantic said it would introduce 12 A350-1000 planes at a list price value of $4.3 billion. The airline would receive the first one in 2019, Chief Executive Craig Kreeger said […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Alaska Air has agreed to buy Virgin America for USD$2.6 billion in cash to its boost its operation on the US West Coast and compete more effectively with larger airlines. At USD$57 a share, the deal represents a premium of about 86 percent from Virgin America’s stock price before reports in March that the company […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes A company called Boom Technology Inc. has unveiled plans for a supersonic airplane of the same name, which is being developed as a replacement for Concorde. Boom airplanes are predicted to fly 2.6 times faster than any other aircraft (and faster than Concorde Mach 2.0), and hit speeds of Mach 2.2 or 1,451 miles per […]