Category: Commercial Aircraft

  Airbus’ BelugaXL over-size transport aircraft has completed its maiden flight as part of its type certification program. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep me signed in on this device. If

Airbus and Boeing have presented their final order numbers after a busy few days at Farnborough, as John Walton reports. As exhausted journalists trooped between the Airbus and Boeing chalets on the final day of the Farnborough Airshow prior to the public flight displays on the weekend, the spectre of the “undisclosed customer” loomed large,

Boeing has revised upwards its market forecast for aircraft deliveries over the next 20 years amid growing passenger demand and a looming retirement wave of older aircraft. The Boeing Commercial Market Outlook (CMO) for 2018-2037 said 42,730 aircraft would be delivered over the next two decades, with 56 per cent (24,140) to be used for

Rolls-Royce has introduced prototypes of how robotics may be the future of engine maintenance as part of its IntelligentEngine concept. Engineers from the University of Nottingham in the UK and Harvard University in the US outlined a variety of future possibilities, including swarming engine-scanning robots conceived to move like cockroaches through an engine, to a