NEWS Rolls Royce to fly Trent XWB engine with largest 3D printed part
Rolls Royce will flight test later this year is new Trent XWB-97 engine with what it claims to be the largest component ever built using Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) Link
NEWS This New Beechcraft AT-6C Is The Splendor Of Light Air Support
With the fighter market stale of any new blood, this highlight reel from famed aerial photographer, Paul Bowen and cinematographer Roger Tonry, is a fresh perspective for a marketing campaign featuring the AT-6C turboprop light attack fighter. Strap some guns on the T-6 Texan II and you’ve got a sexy little fighter. Link
NEWS NTSB Open Docket of Bagram Cargo Crash Documents
I had always assumed that the Bagram crash was caused by shifting cargo. I’d just assumed that the plane’s balance shifted out of the envelope. It had never occured to me that the load actually went through the back of the plane, taking out the stabilizer. Interesting read in advance of the final report. Link
NEWS Report: Where Are the Sales for Bombardier’s CSeries Jet?
The analysts at AirInsight.com have asked the question the commercial aviation industry has been asking: why aren’t more Bombardier CSeries jets being sold? The question was answered during a series of interviews with industry players conducted at the recent Airline Economics Conference in Dublin that culminated in a new AirInsight report, broken down by pricing,…
NEWS Pilot makes history by having his daughter as his co-pilot on Thomas Cook flight from Birmingham – @DailyMirror
Caters Senior First Officer Laura Elliot and her dad Captain Peter Elliot had took to the skies for the first time last week on a Thomas Cook flight from Birmingham to Tenerife. Full Mirror story
ALERT Three UK schoolgirls ‘travelling to Syria’ – @BBCNews
Three missing east London schoolgirls are feared to be travelling to Syria via Turkey, police say. Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and an unnamed 15-year-old, who are all pupils at Bethnal Green Academy, flew from Gatwick to Istanbul on Tuesday, during their half-term break. Commander Richard Walton said he hoped a police appeal, via…
NEWS British Airways launches a campaign to attract female pilot – @newscomauhq
As part of a push to attract more female pilots, British Airways has released the results of a survey which explores why so few women pursue careers as professional pilots. Reported in Flyer Talk, the findings revealed common misconceptions when it came to female roles in the aviation industry including a lack of visible role models and…
