The Museum of Flight is in the final countdown of finishing a 25-year effort restoring the historic, first Boeing 727 and flying it to the Museum for permanent exhibition. This unique jet has not been airborne since it was donated to the Museum by United Air Lines in 1991, and has been under restoration ever…
The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA’s award of a contract for the preliminary design of a “low boom” flight demonstration aircraft. This is the first in a series of ‘X-planes’ in NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in the agency’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget. NASA Administrator…
Suzy Cortez, former Brazilian supermodel and Miss Bum Bum 2005 caused a minor scandal when she posted on social networks a picture of her taken in the toilets of Emirates Boeing 777 flight EK262 from São Paulo to Dubaï. “Breaking a record: the first nude at 11000 meters” Posted on Instagram, the photo quickly went around the web…
Wizz Air will launch a new service from Budapest to Sofia, beginning November 1st. The service between the Hungarian and Bulgarian capitals will run three days a week. With the new routes, Wizz Air now offers low fare flights from Budapest to 48 destinations in 23 countries and flights from Sofia to 29 destinations in…
Low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair will close two bases in Italy and stop services to another Italian destination completely over an increase in the country’s municipal tax. The Ireland-based LCC intends to close its bases at Alghero at Pescara from September, as well as cease services to Crotone, over a Jan. 1 rise in the tax…
British Airways is to begin flying from Stansted for the first time this summer. The airline announced today that it will begin flights from the Essex airport to Faro, Malaga, Palma and Ibiza from May 28. These flights will be operated by the airline’s subsidiary BA City Flyer using 98-seat Embraer 190 jets.
The first Solar Impulse 2 maintenance flight took place on Friday 26 of February. The plane took off from Kalaeloa airport at 4:32PM UTC with test pilot Markus Scherdel in the cockpit, and landed at 6:05PM UTC. During the hour and a half that it lasted, the team based at the Mission Control Center performed…
British Airways has flown generations of solo children around the world, with “flying nannies” looking after under-12s travelling alone. But in BA’s latest move to cut costs, the airline is ending its “Unaccompanied Minor” (UM) service – angering parents who face flying thousands of miles to pick up or deliver their offspring. The airline has…
According to a safety incident report published by the United Kingdom’s Airprox air safety board, an Airbus A319 landing at Heathrow International Airport last September narrowly avoided a collision with a drone flying at an altitude of 500 feet as the jet was on its final approach. The pilots reported the small hovering helicopter-style drone…
A woman claiming to have suffered whiplash due to a ‘heavy’ landing has been awarded over €19,000 in damages. Rose Collins, 27, explained that the plane bounced on the runway a few times and then came to a sharp halt. She says she was thrown forward and hit her head on the seat on front…
The British Airways Boeing 777 damaged by fire 5 months ago at Las Vegas is heading to Victorville Southern California Airport (VCV) for repaint. Then the plane will do some flight test before entering back in service. UPDATE British Airways B777 damaged by fire at Las Vegas is airborne to VCV for repaint https://t.co/RhTvQApnls pic.twitter.com/g3TSADsXB4…
More people than ever chose London Heathrow Airport in 2105, with the location welcoming 75 million passengers in 2015. The figure is a two per cent increase on 2014. The airport also recorded strong financial performance in 2015, with revenue of £2,765 million, up 2.7 per cent, and EBITDA of £1,605 million, up three per…