The past year 2021 has seen record sales of Boeing freighters. After getting to eighty on December 21 thanks to an order for nineteen 767-300Fs from UPS, Boeing announced on January 6 that it had received another order before the…
With the delivery of the final Airbus A380 to Emirates on December 16, the book on the production of the world’s biggest passenger aircraft can be closed. The aircraft registered as A6-EVS is the 251st A380 that has been delivered new…
Boeing and Airbus have (re)started their battle on the next segment of the aircraft market: that of the new generation of big full-freighters. Airbus confirmed last week it is in discussions with numerous potential customers on the A350 Freighter and so…
UPS has a fleet of 53 A300s and the first has just been handed back to the airline with a new flight deck. The new flight deck sports the Honeywell Primus as seen below. The picture below that shows what…
What happens when you decide to treat people as payload? The DoT allows for an average weight of 209 pounds per passenger. So, doing some math, we can get the weight of people, their bags and the mail. Then divide…
Bala Ganesh, VP Advanced Technology Group, UPS provided a look back at where UPS came from in the early days, then discussed the process for being certificated as a Part 135 airlines, with a look to the future of UPS Forward…