NEWS Solar-powered plane attempts first round-the-world flight
(CNN)The Solar Impulse 2 took off from Abu Dhabi on Monday on the first leg of its quest to be the first plane to fly around the world fueled only by the sun’s rays. Link
NEWS Emitter underwater location MH370 there was no battery over a year (Article in Portuguese)
A report released on the day that passed the first anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines device shows a significant anomaly in the black boxes of the Boeing 777. Link
NEWS Opinion: Overcapacity Is A Viable Threat To Today’s Market
One would be hard-pressed to find an industry segment that sells twice as many products as it produces, yet Boeing and Airbus are doing just that. The archrivals have enjoyed unprecedented success in the commercial transport market in the past several years and have repeatedly increased their production rates to a combined 100 single-aisle twinjets.…
NEWS First of Planned LAX Runway Closures
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has closed Runway 7R-25L, the first of four runways currently scheduled for maintenance and federally-mandated Runway Safety Area (RSA) improvements. Link
NEWS Most Advanced Airbus A330 Rolls Out of Paintshop in Delta Air Lines Livery
Just four months after entering the Final Assembly Line, and less than two months after its maiden flight, the first 242 tonne Maximum Take-Off Weight (MTOW) variant of the A330 rolled out of the paintshop in Toulouse, France in Delta Air Lines livery. Link
NEWS GoPro video: retirement flight of Qantas Boeing 747-400 'VH-OJA'
Get a captain’s-eye view of the take-off and landing of the last flight of Qantas Boeing 747-400, courtesy of this GoPro camera, as VH-OJA flies from Sydney Airport to Wollongong’s Illawarra Regional Airport to enter retirement as centrepiece of the the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society museum.
NEWS Air travel 'safer' in 2014 despite Malaysian disasters: IATA
Last year was by some measures the safest in the history of commercial aviation, despite two high-profile crashes involving Malaysia Airlines aircraft in which hundreds of people were killed, a leading industry body said on Monday. While more people died in air accidents in 2014 than the average in recent years, the number of fatal…
NEWS Swiss to offer new Dublin-Geneva service
Swiss International Air Lines will be offering a new service connection between Dublin and Geneva from the June 26th 2015 onwards. Swiss will operate four weekly flights to Geneva, with the flights marking a further step in the airline’s steady development of its services to western Switzerland.
NEWS Virgin Atlantic takes Dreamliner to San Francisco with new daily service
Virgin Atlantic is doubling its flights between London Heathrow and San Francisco, by adding a second daily service from October 24th – and will be putting its newest aircraft on the route. Last year Virgin Atlantic announced it would add a second service to San Francisco five times a week for the summer season, starting…
NEWS Pilot identified in fatal copter crash near SLU Hospital
The pilot of a medical helicopter was killed late Friday in a crash near St. Louis University Hospital, a spokesman for the St. Louis Fire Department said. Link