Aerospace Aircraft & Propulsion
Feb 12, 2015
British Airways has become the first airline to get the go-ahead to use Boeing’s Electronic Logbook (ELB) to eliminate paper technical logs on its 787 Dreamliner fleet.
Feb 12, 2015
American Airlines will begin domestic service in May and international service in June using its newly delivered Boeing 787.
Feb 09, 2015
A selection of photos from ATW's Aviation Editor Kurt Hofmann aboard the Lufthansa Boeing 747-8I aircraft.
Feb 06, 2015
Flydubai took delivery of its 44th Boeing 737-800 of an order for 50 placed at the Farnborough Airshow in 2008. The remaining 737s from the order will arrive at the airline this year. The average age of the flydubai fleet is 3.1 years. Flydubai also has on order 75 Boeing 737 MAX 8s and 11 more Boeing 737-800s, placed at the Dubai Airshow 2013.
Feb 03, 2015
ICAO is proposing that airlines begin taking responsibility for knowing the whereabouts of their aircraft in oceanic areas by late 2016.
May 14, 2013
Air India’s first of six grounded aircraft will resume commercial flights Wednesday on domestic routes and May 22 on international routes, India’s minister for civil aviation Ajit Singh said Tuesday.
May 13, 2013
United Airlines, the US launch customer for the Boeing 787 with six in its fleet, said it will restart Dreamliner service May 20 with domestic flights.
May 09, 2013
Air India began test flights of the first of the Boeing 787s fitted with the new battery package on Thursday.
May 09, 2013
All Nippon Airways (ANA), launch customer for the Boeing 787, said it will resume Dreamliner services from June 1, following the completion of a series of battery system modifications, safety checks and test flights.
May 09, 2013
EasyJet last week flew back a tonne of volcanic ash from Iceland as part of its contribution to an experiment planned in conjunction Airbus and Nicarnica, a spin-off company of the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, to test Airborne Volcanic Object Identifier and Detector (AVOID) volcanic ash detection technology this summer.
May 09, 2013
Airbus and Dell have struck a deal to use Dell Latitude laptops as electronic flight bags (EFB) on A320 family aircraft.
May 07, 2013
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has contracted Chesapeake Defense Services to conduct a new round of computed tomography (CT) scans of “aircraft batteries, aircraft battery cells, and other aircraft battery-related components used on Boeing 787 aircraft.”