After suffering a complete electrical failure The pilot of the single engine Piper PA-24 Comanche diverted to Rapid City, SD. Due to the loss of all electrics, he lost the use of his aircraft’s GPS, radio, and landing gear control. The pilot used his Ipad to direct him, in the night, the 80 miles to…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants want to travel in more comfort as they chase another championship. Link
A Biman Bangladesh Boeing 777-200, registration S2-AHL performing flight BG-47 (sched. dep. Feb 5th, act. dep. Feb 6th) from Chittagong (Bangladesh) to Dubai (United Arab Emirates) with 241 passengers, was climbing out of Chittagong’s runway 05 when the left hand engine (PW4090) surged prompting the crew to level off at about FL120, shut the engine…
Thordur Aegir Oskarsson (Ambassador for Iceland), Paul Kehoe (CEO Birmingham Airport), the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Birkir Hólm Guðnason (CEO of Icelandair) and Lady Mayoress of Birmingham Icelandair has begun its scheduled service from Birmingham airport to Reykjavik and passengers were treated to an experience on board the new “Aurora plane”. The “Aurora plane” is…
Atlanta based Delta Air Lines and Seattle based coffee company Starbucks, have announced that Delta will extend its existing service of Starbucks coffee onboard every Delta and Delta connection flight around the globe. Delta began service Starbucks Pike Place Roast and Starbucks VIA Ready Bew Italian Roast decaf on its fleet of 1,270 aircraft beginning…
EuroLOT, based in Warsaw, is giving up in its financial struggle. According to Radio Poland, the airline is not taking any reservations after the 31st March, According to a latest report, the airline has been exploring many options for the last few months and has concluded it could not make the company profitable. The state…
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Dassault Aviation today announced that the company’s new flagship, the ultra-long range Falcon 8X, successfully completed its first flight a little more than one month after rollout. Link
WICHITA, Kan., February 2, 2015 – Cessna Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, today announced an order from the U.S. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) for 21 new Cessna Skyhawk 172 aircraft, the latest in a relationship spanning 40 years. CAP, a federally chartered non-profit organization and designated by…
WICHITA, Kan., Jan. 29, 2015 – Cessna Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, today celebrated the roll out of the first production Citation Latitude at the company’s Wichita, Kansas manufacturing facility, just three years since being announced to the market. The assembly of the Latitude features a variety…
A £220 million project to expand London City Airport has been given the go-ahead, that will enable the airport to operate up to a permitted 111,000 annual flights, from the 70,000 currently flying.