Boeing Company’s effort to build the world’s largest twin-engined jet, the 777X, continues to be hampered by challenges with General Electric Co’s new GE9X turbine engine, a top Boeing executive said on Wednesday. Boeing is facing testing glitches on the GE9X after assembly delays on the engine and the plane’s carbon-composite wings. The Boeing 777X…
According to the FAA, “certain aircraft equipped with the Rockwell Collins GPS 4000-100 and select ADS-B out GPS receivers are indicating ‘ADS-B fail, unavailable, TCAS fail or transponder fail’ messages.” Aircraft without working transponders were directed to coordinate with the FAA before departure, a prior directive had instructed those planes not to fly above 28,000…
Moscow scrambled a Su-27 fighter jet to closely tail US and Swedish reconnaissance aircraft as they headed towards Russian airspace above the Baltic Sea. The MoD also shared the ‘pilot’s view’ of the escort. The Russian jet was scrambled on Monday in response to the aircraft approaching the nation’s airspace above the Baltic Sea. The…
Heathrow has announced it is the first UK airport to be rolling out the new technology, which could end the need for passengers to remove liquids and laptops from their bags when passing through security. The CT scan technology will be installed across Heathrow’s terminals by 2022, with the rollout valued at more than £50…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjfm_XOxLOs Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un who was killed in Malaysia in 2017, had been an informant for the CIA, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The newspaper cited an unnamed “person knowledgeable about the matter” for the report, and said many details of Kim Jong-nam’s relationship with the CIA remained unclear. It…