Category: Civil Aviation

The first Airbus A380 for Malaysia Airlines made its first flight on October 20, after completion of final assembly at Airbus’s Toulouse plant. The Trent 900 powered aircraft, the first of six on order for the airline, will undergo cabin fit out and painting in Hamburg before being delivered to MAS in the second quarter

Airbus has installed a Trent XWB test engine onto A380 development aircraft MSN001 in advance of the engine beginning flight test trials. The 118in diameter Trent XWB is the exclusive powerplant for the Airbus A350 XWB. Airbus says flight testing will commence “in coming weeks”. Want to see more stories from trusted news sources? Make

China Eastern has cancelled an order for 24 Boeing 787s, and will instead order 45 Boeing 737s. China’s second largest airline says it will also order 15 Airbus A330s and trade back to Airbus four A340-300s. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of

An Air France Airbus A321 has flown a scheduled flight between Toulouse and Paris/Orly which was able to cut CO2 emmissions in half due to a combination of “optimised” air traffic management (ATM) procedures including continuous descent approach, and the use of biofuels. Flight AF6129 used a 50:50 biofuel/jet fuel mix in both engines, which,