Category: Civil Aviation

Canadian manufacturer Bombardier has delivered the 1000th example of its Dash 8/Q-series airliners and the 400th Global series business jet. The 1000th Dash 8 aircraft, a Q400 to Pinnacle Airlines, is the latest of a line started with the original Dash 8-100 series and which has since evolved into the stretched -200 and -300, the

Rolls-Royce has expressed “regret” at the disruption caused to its Trent 900 engine customers in the wake of the Qantas A380 QF32 uncontained engine failure on November 4, as further details continued to emerge as to the extent of the issue. “We regret the disruption we have caused,” Rolls-Royce chief executive Sir John Rose said in

Rolls-Royce has found a fix to its troubled Trent 900 engine in the wake of last week’s uncontained failure of one of the engines on a Qantas A380, Airbus chief operating officer – customers, John Leahy, previewed media in Sydney on November 12. “Rolls knows they’ve found the solution to what caused the problem,” Leahy,

Boeing says it is to early to tell the impact the onboard electrical fire on and subsequent emergency landing by 787 test aircraft ZA002 made on November 9 will have on the 787 flight test program. Boeing said in a December 10 statement that it “cannot determine the impact of this event on the overall