Qantas gears up for the second "Project Sunrise" research flight

Sydney, Australia - The Australian flag carrier Qantas will fly a nearly empty a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner from London Heathrow to Sydney as part of “Project Sunrise”. The 787-9 registered VH-ZNJ will take off from Heathrow and fly directly to Sydney with no paying passengers onboard. (airlinerwatch.com) 기타...

Mooney Ceasing Production. Closes Kerrville Plant, furloughs hundreds of employees

The Kerrville Daily Times is reporting that Mooney International has ceased manufacturing operations at its Kerrville Airport factory at Kerrville Municipal Airport (KERV), Texas. In the move, a company spokesman said, the company laid off 229 employees, bringing Mooney employment down to around 90 workers. None will be producing aircraft parts, however, which is certain to concern Mooney owners. (www.planeandpilotmag.com) 기타...

Navy UFO Witnesses Speak Out

What, exactly, did the Navy encounter 15 years ago off the Southern California coast, when fighter pilots spotted a UFO? These men were there, too⁠—and it's time they tell their side of the story. (www.popularmechanics.com) 기타...

Air Canada Flight Diverts To The US With Marijuana Onboard

While this might be OK in Canada, it’s not so popular with law enforcement in the United States and has quite severe consequences for anyone caught bringing a controlled substance into the country. (simpleflying.com) 기타...

Overweight Cat Causes Aeroflot To Strip Member Of Air Miles

Aeroflot has stripped a passenger of no less than 400,000 miles because his cat was too fat to fly. Passenger Mikhail Galin was unwilling to place voluptuous Viktor in the hold, and instead devised a fur-midable plan to get the fat feline past security. But bragging on Facebook turned out to be a cat-astrophe. Here’s how it went down. (simpleflying.com) 기타...

Boeing 737 MAX Orders Fall as Air Lease Swaps for 787 Dreamliner

Sales for Boeing Co.’s grounded 737 Max slipped in October after a prominent customer converted some of its orders for the narrow-body jet to twin-aisle 787 Dreamliners. Boeing’s unfilled 737 order backlog, adjusted for accounting considerations, shrank by 19 aircraft during the month to 4,387 jets, the Chicago-based planemaker revealed on its website Tuesday. The planemaker garnered negative 93 orders for the Max, net of cancellations and conversions, through the first 10 months of the year. (www.bloomberg.com) 기타...

JetBlue Launches Basic Economy To Compete With LCCs

This is the first revamp of the airline’s fare since they were introduced in 2015. (simpleflying.com) 기타...

FAA threatened to ground 38 Southwest Airlines jets over maintenance concerns, report says

U.S. aviation regulators "threatened" to ground 38 Boeing 737 jets operated by Southwest Airlines last month because the carrier isn't able to verify that the aircraft meet all mandatory safety standards, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing government documents. Congressional investigators and the U.S. Department of Transportation's inspector general's office are looking at Southwest's operation of used foreign aircraft it bought over the years, the WSJ… (www.msn.com) 기타...

de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Focuses on Four Markets to Build Dash 8-400 Orderbook

Six months into its emergence as a separate company resurrecting the storied de Havilland Aircraft of Canada name, DHC is focusing much of its overall sales effort on the North American, African, and Asia/Middle East regional-aviation markets. The goal is to build the orderbook for the Dash 8-400, its only aircraft-manufacturing program. DHC is also pursuing potential sales of new Dash 8-400s to governmental customers who would then customize the aircraft for special-missions work. (www.ainonline.com) 기타...

Stowaway Rat Delays Air India Flight By 12 Hours

An Air India flight from Hyderabad to Visakhapatnam on Sunday 10th November was delayed by some 12 hours due to having an unwelcome guest on board. A rat was spotted on the aircraft, leading to an elaborate game of cat and mouse until the critter could be caught. Airlines do not like stowaways. Whether they are deliberately trying to hitch a free ride or just didn’t disembark in time, it’s not good practice to take passengers anywhere if they aren’t on the manifest. As such, an Air India flight… (simpleflying.com) 기타...

Embraer closes $ 1.4 billion deal with Flexjet, Praetor's first fleet client

The deal with one of the global leaders in the private jet transport market includes a fleet of Embraer executive jets, such as the recently approved Praetor jets and the Phenom 300... (cmsherbert.blogspot.com) 기타...

British Airways reviews 'fuel-tankering' over climate concerns

British Airways reviews 'fuel-tankering' over climate concerns (www.bbc.com) 기타...

The Silent Anniversary. 18 Years and Counting Since the Last Legacy Disaster.

It's been 18 years since the crash of American flight 587 outside Kennedy Airport. A look into one of the most impressive stories in the history of U.S. commercial aviation. (www.askthepilot.com) 기타...

How Retracting Landing Lights Saved Aer Lingus 570t Of CO2

IAG, the parent company of British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus, has revealed a surprising CO2 reduction by its use of retractable landing lights. Throughout 2018, Aer Lingus reduced its CO2 output by 570 tonnes through this measure alone. International Airlines Group (IAG) revealed this month a reduction in CO2 emissions of Aer Lingus, one of its eight subsidiaries. The company cited the Irish carrier’s 570 tonne “saving” as evidence of the success of IAG’s four-pronged approach to reducing… (simpleflying.com) 기타...