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Year 2012

Delta drops the other shoe

Last year Delta was looking at replacing its older, smaller airplanes with either something from Embraer or Bombardier.  Then in an interesting turn of events the airline decided to put that on hold and ordered 737-900NGs.  This was followed by…

Airbus A350XWB MSN-001 greets daylight

Airbus proudly showed off its first flyable A350 today.  The aircraft is on its wheels for the first time being  moved out of station 40 of the main assembly hall at the recently inaugurated “Roger Béteille” A350 XWB Final Assembly…

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

As the old song states, “Liar, Liar, pants on fire, your nose is longer than a telephone wire.”  The advertising war between Airbus and Boeing has kicked up a notch, with Airbus showing an Boeing aircraft with a Pinocchio nose…