Solar Impulse
In what must rank as one aviation’s most fascinating projects, the Solar Impulse was on its way to Hawaii from China but it stopped in Japan after weather problems. In typical fashion these days, you can watch the whole thing…
Month June 2015
Airbus ships first parts for Mobile assembly
A320 aircraft production in the U.S. is on schedule to begin this summer as large aircraft components for the first U.S.-produced aircraft departed from Hamburg, Germany, bound for Mobile, Alabama. The parts on a ship named BBC Atlantic. The major…
CSeries Flight Test Update
We just got updated data. Bombardier’s flight tests have started to move more aggressively. Last month appears to have delivered about 220 hours which is over the planned number and likely is a sign of growing confidence in its test…