Category: Civil Aviation

The 747-8 flight test program has passed another milestone with the first flight of the third and final 747-8F flight test aircraft, RC521, on March 18. Crewed by pilots Captains Paul Stemer and Keith Otsuka, plus systems operator Ralph Chaffin, RC 521 took off from Paine Field in Everett at 3:27 pm for a two-and-a-half-hour

Emirates president Tim Clark has sounded a warning to Airbus, threatening to order other aircraft if it delays the entry into service date for the A350 as happened with the A380. “We have clearly told Airbus that we will not accept again what they did to us with the A380,” said Clark at the ITB

Airbus’s board is aiming for a late April decision on a possible re-engining of the A320, according to chief operating officer – customers John Leahy. “If we do it, it will be just an engine option,” Leahy told AviationWeek following a meeting of the International Society of Transport Aircraft Traders in Orlando, Florida. He is

The second of three 747-8F flight test aircraft, RC522, successfully completed its first flight on the evening on March 14, taking off from Paine Field in Everett for a two-and-a-half-hour flight that landed at Boeing Field in Seattle. RC522, with Captain Kirk Vining, copilot Rick Braun and systems operator Joel Conard on board, reached an