Rolls-Royce has conducted icing tests on a demonstrator engine equipped with a lean-burn combustor to be used in the manufacturer’s Advance and UltraFan future powerplant programmes. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading

Singapore Airlines took delivery of the first Boeing 787-10, with the group becoming the first operator of all three Dreamliner variants. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading

In 2001, Lockheed Martin s Skunk Works secretly flew a flying wing unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with a roughly 9m (30ft) wingspan with modular wings and a bulbous fuselage as a technology demonstrator for a family of aircraft. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading

The first-ever nonstop scheduled passenger flight between Australia and the UK touched down this morning at London Heathrow after completing the 17h sector from Perth. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading

President Donald Trump signed into law on 23 March a spending bill that adds 143 aircraft, worth $9.5 billion, to what was already requested by the Department of Defence, including 20 additional F-35 Lightning II fighters, 10 F/A-18 Super Hornets, and three KC-46A tanker aircraft. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading

The new terminal 1 at Newark Liberty International airport will begin rising this year, as the airport works to upgrade and expand its passenger facilities. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading

American Airlines has reportedly dropped the Airbus A330-900neo from an on-going widebody aircraft campaign, focusing on the Boeing 787-9 to replace its Airbus A350-900 commitment. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading

UK accident investigators have called on European safety regulators to mandate the real-time analysis of helicopter vibration monitoring data to allow pilots to be warned rapidly of any impending problems. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading

LOT’s first 787-9 landed at Warsaw Chopin airport at 08:53 local time today after a 9h 20min delivery flight from Paine Field, the airport serving Boeing’s Everett plant in Seattle. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading

Major fuselage sections of the first 777X aircraft have entered Boeing s Fuselage Assembly Centre in Everett, Washington, Boeing says. Powered by WPeMaticoContinue Reading