Aerospace Aircraft & Propulsion
Mar 13, 2014
Saint Petersburg-based Rossiya Airlines has become the first carrier in Russia to distribute Apple iPads equipped as electronic flight bags (EFB) for pilots, who are able to use them during all phases of flight—including takeoff and landings, the carrier said in a statement.
Mar 07, 2014
Lufthansa presented its new premium-economy class at the ITB tourism fair in Berlin.
Feb 19, 2014
Airbus has announced plans to increase its stake in China’s Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre (HMC) to 25% from its current 20% shareholding.
Feb 07, 2014
Honeywell and Inmarsat announced they have finalized the critical design review of GX Aviation, a key milestone in the journey to bring high-speed inflight Wi-Fi to flights around the world.
Jan 27, 2014
The dispatch reliability of Norwegian Air Shuttle’s three Boeing 787s is improving, but still some way short of where the airline and the manufacturer want it to be.
Sep 24, 2013
Chairman and CEO of Air France and KLM Alexandre de Juniac believes strongly that there is enough time remaining for Air France to restructure and transfer the company back into profitability.
Sep 20, 2013
Drukair Royal Bhutan Airlines has signed a contract with Airbus ProSky to implement performance-based navigation (PBN).
Sep 18, 2013
As a follow-up to the July 12 fire in a parked and unoccupied Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787-8 at London Heathrow Airport, FAA on Wednesday issued a final rule and airworthiness directive (AD) for US airlines to inspect 3,832 Honeywell emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) installed on US aircraft.
Sep 17, 2013
Switzerland-based leisure carrier Edelweiss Air will begin to reconfigure its long-haul fleet from May 2014.
Sep 16, 2013
Harbin Hafei Composite Manufacturing Centre (HMC), a joint venture between Airbus and its Chinese partners, has begun delivering elevators for the A350 XWB program.
Sep 06, 2013
Norwegian Air Shuttle has delayed the commercial debut of its second Boeing 787 by four days due to problems with warnings from its brake system. A Norwegian spokesman told ATW that the aircraft was due to enter service Sept. 2, operating flights from Stockholm to New York and Bangkok.
Sep 01, 2013
When the Boeing 737-100 first flew in 1967, the single-aisle, short-haul twinjet was equipped with only basic avionics. No so-called “glass cockpits” were available at the time. And 737 customers would likely not have bought them if they were. Times have changed.
Aug 21, 2013
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has adopted Transport Canada’s airworthiness directive (AD), mandating all airlines with aircraft that carry particular types of Honeywell Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT) to check the units’ wiring.