Concorde, which made its first flight 50 years ago on March 2, 1969, was a magnificent creature of the skies, a supersonic transport with roots in the 1950s and 1960s “boom” of aviation innovation. But what gave the Mach 2 marvel the ability to fly faster and farther than many military fighter jets?
The mega-jet is dead. In a move that surprised no one in the industry, Airbus announced that its A380 line in Toulouse will close in 2021, once the final aircraft on order has been delivered.
What does a professional, highly experienced pilot think of the planes? "I love both aircraft for different reasons. Where one comes up short, the other one excels,” said Captain Rory Kay.
In the days before cheap, electronic headsets, AVID Products designers took inspiration from a medical stethoscope and created the pneumatic headset.
Can the IFE content delivery supply chain be made more efficient by breaking it free of its assembly-line routine and moving it entirely to a cloud computing platform?
Airbus is planning to submit a proposal to fulfill the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Helicopter Training System (AHTS) with a platform based on its H135 twin.
It's more than half a year since Airbus took control of the Bombardier C Series and renamed it the A220. How has Europe’s mega-airframer handled the transition?
At any point during an approach to an airport, the flight crew can decide to climb away and not complete the landing. That's a "balked" landing, one of the many skills that pilots practice and are ready to use on every touchdown.
It’s been 10 years since a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 flew from London to Amsterdam on the first test flight of an airliner powered by a mix of jet fuel and biofuels. Passenger flights in biofueled planes began three years later, and by June of this year, more than 130,000 flights had operated with what’s known more precisely as SAF, for “sustainable aviation fuel”. That isn’t to say that your next flight will be fueled by leftover oil from a deep fryer. Far from it.
Here's what happened at the 5th Airbus International Powerline Symposium, held in Vancouver, BC.
