Boeing Commercial Airplanes provided a program update on the 737 MAX today. “The 737 is a more efficient, lighter design and requires less thrust than other airplanes in this class, which is important because weight and thrust have a significant…
The Dubai Air Show the week of November 13 will have a fair number of orders to announce by the Middle Eastern carriers and a small number of non-Gulf customers. Some of these orders have been widely leaked already: Emirates…
Just when you thought the new law, with a fine of up to $27,500 per passenger for delays that keep passengers on the tarmac for more than three hours would solve the problem, a JetBlue flight was diverted to BDL…
While Ryanair’s reputation for being cheap is well known, recent reports in the British press indicate that passengers on a recent flight from London Stanstead to Riga, Latvia that had to turn back because of unusual noises, believed the aircraft…
Bombardier Aerospace confirmed that the final results of a three-phase wind tunnel test confirmed the aerodynamics of the CSeries as well enabled the optimal integration of the PW1500G engines onto the CSeries airframe. This wasn’t a simple wind tunnel test,…
This morning SuperJet proudly announced that “Aeroflot signed the Acceptance Act for the third deliverable Sukhoi Superjet 100 SN 95011. The aircraft received the name after the famous Aeroflot’s pilot Ivan Orlovtsev and the tail number RA-89003. The document, signed…