Category: Civil Aviation

Boeing’s first 787-9 has completed its first flight, taking off from Everett at 1102 local time on September 17, before landing over five hours later at Boeing Field, Seattle. The flight was crewed by 787-9 senior project pilot Mike Bryan and 787 chief pilot Randy Neville. They departed north from Everett, and tested the RR

Airbus has received its first shipment of carbon fibre elevators for the A350 from the Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre (HMC), a joint venture between Airbus and Chinese partners. Under an agreement signed in 2007 between Airbus and the Chinese government, Airbus agreed to allocate five per cent of the A350 airframe to be

Nineteen-year-old Ryan Campbell has set a new record as the youngest person to fly solo around the world. Landing on September 7 back in Wollongong, from where he had taken off 70 days before, Campbell flew the specially-modified Cirrus SR22 24,000nm via 34 enroute destinations in 15 countries, clocking up 200 flying hours. This content

Airbus has reported seasonally slower orders for August, with nine narrowbody and one widebody bookings for the month. At the same time, Airbus began ramping ramping up production to meet its backlog of orders. The month’s orders were led by the CIT leasing company’s contract for five A321s, and four A319s by Texas Aviation Group.