Premium #342 – Aircraft transactions through July
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Qantas and Project Sunrise
Qantas, a pioneer in really long flights, announced Project Sunrise. It is, essentially, a challenge to Airbus and Boeing – offer us an aircraft that can fly from Australia’s east coast to London, New York, and Rio nonstop. Flights of…
In conversation with Cobalt Air
We had a conversation with Andrew Madar, CEO at Cobalt Air, which is based in Cyprus. Cyprus is not an easy market, but Cobalt has a strategy in place to avoid the pitfalls Cyprus Airways faced. Besides this, Mr Madar…
GE retires P&W powered testbed
Probably the oldest 747 aircraft in service may be retiring. GE Aviation’s original 747 Flying Test Bed is headed to storage – it flew its last flight on January 25 at GE Aviation’s Flight Test Operation in Victorville, California. Here…
Premium #339 – Boeing Reversing Course – Re-Establishes Avionics Unit
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Boeing 787 Grounded for a Week after Lightning Strike
A British Airways Boeing 787-8 (G-ZBJG) was struck by lightning shortly after departure from London Heathrow on July 22nd en route to Chennai in India. The flight, BA35, continued on the 9 hour flight to India, but upon landing it…