The destructive results of a mighty supernova explosion reveal themselves in a delicate blend of infrared and X-ray light, as seen in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton. The bubbly cloud is an irregular shock wave, generated by a supernova that would have been…
Ryanair has hired John Hurley as chief technology officer as the Irish budget carrier continues with its senior management revamp and push to step up its digital game. read more View article
Bombardier has replaced its head of marketing for commercial aircraft, including the slow-selling and still-grounded CSeries airliner, as it continues a corporate restructuring and downsizing. read more View article
Nichols knew that landing would be risky because a car was driving down the road below them. Luckily it slowed to avoid the falling plane. http://ift.tt/1mpoThy
New Delhi: Emergency alert was sounded at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi … with 154 people on board caught fire during landing at the airport’s Terminal 1. http://ift.tt/1wcEef3
US Airways flew its last Boeing 737-400 on 19 August, ending a more than a quarter century run for the type at the airline. from Airlines news
Operators of Airbus A320s with sharklet wing-tips are being instructed to modify the aircraft to prevent the possibility that flight computers could forget the sharklets are fitted. from Airlines news
A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft was forced to delay its landing at Wuhan, China after two air traffic controllers nodded of, according to an official report. Read more on aviation-safety.net
Bombardier has replaced another top commercial aircraft executive amidst a broader corporate reshuffling in the wake of CSeries development delays . from Airlines news
Brazil’s Azul plans to target the corporate traveller with its inaugural international flights to the USA, and will offer a full-service product with lie-flat business class seats and Skycouches in economy plus, it tells Flightglobal. from Airlines news
On Aug. 19, National Aviation Day, a lot of people are reflecting on how far aviation has come in the last century. Could this be the future – a plane with many electric motors that can hover like a helicopter and fly like a plane, and that could revolutionize air travel? Engineers at NASA’s Langley…
