Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has boosted its sales presence in Oceania with the appointment of a former Airbus executive as its vice president for sales in South-East Asia and Australasia. François Cognard will have responsibility for Australia and New Zealand in his new role and be based in Singapore. He will report to Bombardier Commercial Aircraft
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation’s first flight test aircraft of its Regional Jet (MRJ) program will stay on the ground at its Nagoya facility while engineers investigate the aircraft’s air conditioning systems. Late last week, the company twice aborted the ferry flight of the MRJ’s first flight test aircraft from Nagoya to its Moses Lake Flight Test
Melbourne is counting down the days until it receives a second Airbus A350-900 flight, after Thai Airways took delivery of its first of the type on Wednesday. The Star Alliance member accepted the aircraft, HS-THB, at a ceremony at Airbus’s Toulouse facility before it was ferried to Bangkok. It is the eighth airline to receive
LATAM Airlines has become the fifth operator and first in the Americas to receive the A320neo narrowbody. The South American airline group has taken delivery of the first of 67 A320neo family of aircraft on order, with the milestone celebrated at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, France on Tuesday before the aircraft, PT-TMN, was ferried to
Joe Sutter, the chief engineer of the legendary Boeing 747, died on Tuesday, August 30, aged 95. The Seattle native spent four decades at Boeing where his work in bringing what is unarguably the most distinctive sight in all of aviation – the four-engine jet with its hump – led to him being known around the world
Honeywell has completed an around-the-world trip conducting inflight wifi tests on its Boeing 757 flying tech lab. The 757 N757HW, which stands out because of a third pylon behind the cockpit, was testing the Honeywell JetWave inflight wireless internet hardware and was in Sydney and Auckland in the middle of August as part of its four-continent itinerary.