June 29, 2020

INCIDENT A Ryanair flight descended below 850 ft still being 8 NM from runway threshold – report

EmergencyBy AIRLIVE June 29, 2020

A Ryanair flight, 166 passengers and six crew, approaching Bergerac airport in poor weather conditions flew too low for more than two minutes and was ordered to ‘pull up’ by an automated safety system. The jet, which was travelling between London Stansted and Bergerac, France triggered several altitude warnings on its approach to the airport…

VIDEO Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Unity completes second flight from Spaceport America

SpaceBy AIRLIVE June 29, 2020

Airbus concludes autonomous flight tests

NewsBy AIRLIVE June 29, 2020

Following an extensive two-year flight test programme, Airbus has successfully concluded its Autonomous Taxi, Take-Off and Landing (ATTOL) project. In completing this project, Airbus has achieved autonomous taxiing, take-off and landing of a commercial aircraft through fully automatic vision-based flight tests using on-board image recognition technology – a world-first in aviation. In total, over 500…