Category: Civil Aviation

Daily Lufthansa flights by an Airbus A321 between Hamburg and Frankfurt from April next year will be the world’s first scheduled commercial passenger flights by an aircraft using biofuel. The flights will operate for an initial six month period under the ‘burnFAIR’ research project and will be powered by a 50:50 biofuel blend mixing conventional

Hawaiian Airlines has ordered an additional six Airbus A330-200s to join three already in service and six on order. The aircraft will be configured to seat 294 in two classes and be powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 700s. Hawaiian currently has three A330s in service leased from AWAS, with the first of those delivered in May.

Boeing says it is developing “minor” design changes to the 787’s power distribution panels and updates to the aircraft’s power distribution software in the wake of the electrical fire on 787 development aircraft ZA002 earlier this month which has led to the suspension of the flight test program. “We have successfully simulated key aspects of

Brazil’s TAM Airlines and Airbus have conducted a Jatropha based biofuel test flight using one of the airline’s CFM56 powered Airbus A320s. The 45 minute flight from Rio de Janiero’s Galeao Antonio Carlos Jobim airport used a 50:50 Jatropha based biofuel and regular jet fuel blend processed by Honeywell subsidiary UOP. Twenty TAM staff and