iscoverAirbus has announced that the global fleet of A320 Family narrowbody aircraft has exceeded 50 million flight cycles since the first aircraft entered service in 1988. “One of our A320 Family aircraft takes off every six seconds somewhere around the world and they have carried more than five billion people, which is a huge achievement,”
Malaysia Airways (MAS) could become the first passenger airline to cancel an order for Airbus A380s, with Bloomberg reporting that the airline has grown frustrated over the delays to its order for six of the type. According to the report, the airline’s CEO Tengku Azmil Zahruddin told reporters that MAS “cannot tolerate” an additional holdup
ATR’s board has appointed Filippo Bagnato as its CEO, succeeding Stéphane Mayer who has come to the end of his three year term. Filippo Bagnato previously served successfully as CEO of ATR between 2004 and 2007. During the last three years, while he was Finmeccanica executive vice president technical, industrial and commercial development, and was
Rolls-Royce has started testing of its Trent XWB engine, with the first example running for the first time in a ground testbed on June 17. The sixth member of the Trent series of engines, the XWB has been designed as the sole powerplant for the Airbus A350 XWB. RR says that it expects that the
Boeing has announced that its fleet of five Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight test aircraft has amassed more than 1000 flying hours. The airframer said that the 787 is now about 40 per cent through the test conditions required for certification. “More work remains but we are seeing excellent progress in flight test,” said Scott Fancher,
The first Boeing 787 powered by General Electric GEnx-1B engines made its first flight from Everett’s Paine Field on June 16. Aircraft ZA005 took off at approximately 1440 local time and flew for three hours and 48 minutes. “The airplane handled just like I expected,” said Boeing’s Captain Mike Bryan, who captained the flight. “It
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