After test flights conducted in September, EASA is performing final document reviews ahead of a draft airworthiness directive it expects to issue next month. Europe’s top aviation regulator said he’s satisfied that changes to Boeing 737 MAX have made the plane safe enough to return to the region’s skies before 2020 is out, even as…
A plane overran a runway at Cape Yakataga on Saturday, Oct. 10, said Federal Aviation Administration airway transportation systems specialist Rick Sudano. Images of the scene show damage to the Douglas DC-4 (reg. N96358) cargo plane’s nose, with the front landing-gear wheel detached and lying on the grass nearby. Although the plane was carrying fuel,…
Boeing didn’t book a single new jet order in September. A total of 11 deliveries were logged last month — less than half the number from the same period last year — and seven of them were the 787 jet built in South Carolina and Washington state. Though below pre-pandemic levels, that’s the highest 787…
For the second time in two months, a person flying in a jet pack was reportedly spotted Wednesday above Los Angeles International Airport. Around 1:45 p.m., a China Airlines crew reported seeing “what appeared to be someone in a jet pack” at an altitude of roughly 6,000 feet about seven miles northwest of the airport,…
Libya Air Force One started engines after 6 years storage in France Yesterday, the Airbus A340-200 of Libyan authorities rolled out for engines test after 6 years of storage. The aircraft (reg. 5A-ONE) was stored at Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport in France. Vincent Vannier posted a tweet about this first engine start up. As the aircraft…
Qantas is planning to return to London Heathrow for repatriation flights. Qantas will return to London Heathrow for 4 repatriation flights on October 22, November 5, 9, 23. Inbound flights will be direct from Perth Airports while outbound flights will be to Darwin International Airport. The airline will use a Boeing 787-9, planning to have…
Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as prime contractor for the Mars Sample Return’s Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) – the first ever spacecraft to bring samples back to Earth from Mars. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is a joint ESA-NASA campaign and the next step in the exploration of Mars. ERO and…
Ryanair is to close its base at Shannon Airport for the winter – as well as its base at Cork. It will put enormous strain on the airport and have a devastating impact on the Midwest region. The airport has already suffered heavily from Covie-19 restrictions and since Since March, there have been 69 job…
The oxygen generation system (OGS) has failed in the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), according to the crew’s talks with the Earth, broadcast by NASA. Oxygen generation system failures happen on the ISS, but the station has oxygen reserves. A Russian cosmonaut told a specialist from the Mission Control Centre in the…
RAF Air Force jets scrambled to intercept Russian bombers that were heading towards the UK’s aircraft carrier yesterday, on exercise off the coast of Scotland. Typhoon jets shadowed two Tupulev 160 bombers as they flew out of the Arctic circle towards UK sovereign waters. An RAF source said the Blackjacks were “a hazard to other…
An Aer Caribe Antonov An-32 cargo plane has crashed during landing at Iquitos Airport, Peru. Footage from the scene shows that the An-32 suffered a runway excursion at Iquitos Airport with the right wing separated from the fuselage. The aircraft was performing a cargo flight from Lima. The Antonov An-32 stopped on the left of…
Having left Earth in 2018, Starman and the Tesla Roadster are now in the vicinity of Mars. In 2018, SpaceX was launching for the very first time its new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, which is actually a Falcon 9 launcher supported by two other Falcon 9 converted into side boosters. The flight was successful and…
