About third of Norwegian Air Dreamliner feet is currently out of service. Six of Norwegian Dreamliners are currently parked at Prestwick Airport due to Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine issues: LN-LNA (B788) LN-LNB (B788) LN-LND (B788) LN-LNG (B788) LN-LNH (B788) SE-RXY (B789) Rolls-Royce will take longer than expected to fix problems with its Trent 1000 engine,…
The U.S. Air Force’s unpiloted X-37B space plane landed back on Earth Sunday (Oct. 27) after a record 780 days in orbit , racking up the fifth ultra-long mission for the military’s mini-shuttle fleet. The X-37B’s Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5) mission ended with a smooth autonomous touchdown at the Shuttle Landing Facility of NASA’s…
This is the moment a bird strikes the cockpit windscreen of a Boeing 737 mid-flight and causes the shocked pilot to drop his phone. The pilot had been filming the landscape through the cockpit window with his smartphone at the time. Local media said the incident involved a Russian Boeing 737.
Indian budget airline IndiGo is close to placing a near-record order for over 300 Airbus A320neo-family jets worth at least $33 billion at notional catalogue prices to cement its position as India’s largest carrier by market share. People familiar with the matter told Reuters that IndiGo, part of InterGlobe Aviation, was putting the finishing touches…
A U.S.-led investigation into a series of engine failures on Airbus’s smallest jet, the A220, is studying whether a software change allowed unexpected vibrations that tore parts and forced three emergency landings. The airline Swiss halted its fleet of A220 jets for more than a day on Oct. 15 after a third flight in…