Libya Air Force One started engines after 6 years storage in France Yesterday, the Airbus A340-200 of Libyan authorities rolled out for engines test after 6 years of storage. The aircraft (reg. 5A-ONE) was stored at Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport in France. Vincent Vannier posted a tweet about this first engine start up. As the aircraft…
Qantas is planning to return to London Heathrow for repatriation flights. Qantas will return to London Heathrow for 4 repatriation flights on October 22, November 5, 9, 23. Inbound flights will be direct from Perth Airports while outbound flights will be to Darwin International Airport. The airline will use a Boeing 787-9, planning to have…
Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as prime contractor for the Mars Sample Return’s Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) – the first ever spacecraft to bring samples back to Earth from Mars. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is a joint ESA-NASA campaign and the next step in the exploration of Mars. ERO and…
Ryanair is to close its base at Shannon Airport for the winter – as well as its base at Cork. It will put enormous strain on the airport and have a devastating impact on the Midwest region. The airport has already suffered heavily from Covie-19 restrictions and since Since March, there have been 69 job…
The oxygen generation system (OGS) has failed in the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), according to the crew’s talks with the Earth, broadcast by NASA. Oxygen generation system failures happen on the ISS, but the station has oxygen reserves. A Russian cosmonaut told a specialist from the Mission Control Centre in the…
RAF Air Force jets scrambled to intercept Russian bombers that were heading towards the UK’s aircraft carrier yesterday, on exercise off the coast of Scotland. Typhoon jets shadowed two Tupulev 160 bombers as they flew out of the Arctic circle towards UK sovereign waters. An RAF source said the Blackjacks were “a hazard to other…
An Aer Caribe Antonov An-32 cargo plane has crashed during landing at Iquitos Airport, Peru. Footage from the scene shows that the An-32 suffered a runway excursion at Iquitos Airport with the right wing separated from the fuselage. The aircraft was performing a cargo flight from Lima. The Antonov An-32 stopped on the left of…
Having left Earth in 2018, Starman and the Tesla Roadster are now in the vicinity of Mars. In 2018, SpaceX was launching for the very first time its new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, which is actually a Falcon 9 launcher supported by two other Falcon 9 converted into side boosters. The flight was successful and…
Aside for over a year, the Falcon Heavy will soon be back in service. A flight is scheduled for the end of February 2021 for the benefit of the U.S. Space Force. This will be the very first classified mission for a Falcon Heavy. While SpaceX is increasing the number of missions with its Falcon…
NASA is now targeting no earlier than early-to-mid November for launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station. The extra time will allow SpaceX to resolve an unexpected observation during a recent non-NASA launch attempt. Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station is now targeted for no sooner…
For the duration of the winter timetable (until the end of March 2021) Lufthansa will be deploying four of the currently parked Airbus A350-900s to its hub in Frankfurt. Over the next few months the A350-900 will be serving Chicago and Los Angeles from Frankfurt, by temporarily replacing the Boeing 747-8 for this period of…
Icelandair has reached an agreement regarding sale of three Boeing 757-200 aircraft. The final documentation is expected to be completed in the upcoming weeks. Subsequently, the aircraft will be converted into cargo aircraft. The net sale price of the three aircraft is approximately USD 21 million which is USD 2-3 million above book value. Two…