Category: Civil Aviation

The stage has been set for a thrilling opening to tomorrow’s third round of the Red Bull Air Race in Chiba, Japan, with Australia’s Matt Hall queued to go head-to-head with reigning world champion and local Japanese hero Yoshihide Muroya in the first knockout stage, the Round of 14. In today’s qualifying session Hall finish

Windy conditions met the pilots of the Red Bull Air Race for their first practice session in the track at this year’s race in Chiba, Japan on Friday, with Australia’s Matt Hall putting together a time good enough for fourth. Importantly for the team, Hall was one of two pilots to have a completely penalty

The first Airbus A330neo planned to be delivered to a customer has completed its first flight. The A330-900neo wears the colours of launch customer TAP Air Portugal, and departed Airbus’s home airport of Toulouse for its 4hr 32min maiden flight on Tuesday. Airbus says MSN1819 is the first aircraft fitted with the Airspace cabin, and is

Standing in the expansive Dassault Falcon hangar at an unusually quiet Paris Le Bourget Airport in late February, the sense of national pride among the assembled French aeronautical world was palpable as the airframer unveiled its latest jet, the Falcon 6X. That pride comes not just from the fact that 6X meets a large-cabin, long-range need