Category: Civil Aviation

Mitsubishi investigating air conditioning issues after aborting MRJ ferry flight
Civil Aviation

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

Thai Airways joins A350 club
Airlines

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 first carrier from the Americas to receive A320neo
Airlines

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

Father of the Boeing 747, Joe Sutter, dies aged 95
Civil Aviation

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

Brisbane Valley Air Show welcomes record-breaking teenager
General Aviation

Record-breaking teenager Lachlan Smart was among the crowds that gathered at Watts Bridge Memorial Airfield over the weekend for the inaugural Brisbane Valley Air Show. Smart is the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo in a single-engine aircraft, having completed his 24,000nm journey in a Cirrus SR-22 on Friday August 26, when he landed

Honeywell Boeing 757 flying tech lab completes around-the-world test flights
Civil Aviation

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.

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