London’s Heathrow Airport, the U.K.’s busiest, unveiled a new coronavirus testing facility Wednesday that it says could halve the length of time people have to stay at home after arriving from countries on the British government’s quarantine list. The government said it wasn’t ready to give its backing to the facility but insisted that it…
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is unconscious in hospital with suspected poisoning, his spokeswoman has said. The anti-corruption campaigner fell ill during a flight and the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, Kira Yarmysh said, adding that they suspected something had been mixed into his tea. A hospital source confirmed treatment for poisoning to…
The US had dispatched three B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers to its facility in Diego Garcia, in the British Indian Ocean Territory, to respond to rising regional tensions. Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Conant, BTF commander, said, “We are excited to return to this important location. (NSF) Diego Garcia puts the ‘INDO’ in US Indo-Pacific Command.” “This Bomber…
Video captured a FedEx plane making an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday morning after a mechanical issue. L.A. City firefighters responded to the airport around 3:50 a.m., according to Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Officials said the plane’s left-wing landing gear did not deploy. The Boeing 767-300F (reg. N146FE)…
A contractor who was working at a Florida airport opened up a container to find a live missile. A live, unarmed French missile, essentially like a firearm with a safety on, was found at the Lakeland Linder International Airport Friday afternoon and safely transported to a munition storage facility at MacDill Air Force Base, where…
Two passengers were seen hurling punches at each other in the shocking video taken inside a China Eastern Airlines plane after it landed at Pudong Airport in Shanghai, China. In a clip, a shocked mum covers her daughter’s eyes to try and block her view of the violent brawl happening in a row of seats…
IranAir launches two new services to Europe. IranAir’s two new destinations are Manchester, UK and Madrid, Spain. Aviation Iran reported in November 2019 about the airline’s intention to add Madrid to its network but Manchester was unprecedented up until a few weeks before the launch on 4 July 2020. The Madrid service is planned to be launched…
Yesterday afternoon two RAF Typhoons from Lossiemouth have been flying as part of Exercise Typhoon Warrior over the North Sea. This involves units from around the RAF, and is a large-scale exercise that is testing for those in the air and those on the ground. As the Typhoons returned to Kinloss Barracks, weather conditions deteriorated…
Wizz Air has confirmed a new base at Gatwick Airport, a third for the low-cost carrier in the UK. The airline will allocate one Airbus A321 aircraft to the south London hub and launch four new routes to leisure destinations in Greece, Italy, Spain and Malta from October. Wizz already operates from Luton and Doncaster…
Developed by French studio Asobo using accurate geographic data culled from Bing Maps, a global cloud computing network, and real-time weather information, this is as much a visual spectacle as it is a simulator. And you will want to see as much as you can, because at 10,000 feet, the world looks spectacular (especially on…
Ryanair is reducing flight capacity by 20% in September and October due to a notable weakening of bookings over the last ten days. The airline claimed the reduction in demand is due to uncertainty over the levels of coronavirus cases in some EU countries. “Over the past two weeks as a number of EU countries…
The footage of Ariane 5 launch from French Guyana was captured by Eric Boichut, Captain of Air France Boeing 777 on #AF853 flight to Paris CDG.
