Several thousand have gathered outside Buckingham Palace and City of London to watch the flypast of aircraft to mark the centenary of the Royal Air Force. About 100 planes representing the RAF over the years flew over the Mall following a parade by personnel watched by the Queen and other members of the Royal family.…
India’s plans to privatise large parts of the industry have been derailed by the botched attempts to sell Air India according to experts. Jayant Sinha, aviation minister, said: “ Whatever happens now to Air India depends on market conditions and will take years before we can contemplate selling Air India again.” Socialist policies have left…
A chartered plane (VT-UPZ)Beechcraft King Air C90 twin-turboprop belonging to Mumbai-based company U Y Aviation Pvt Ltd, crashed next to a building called Jagruti under construction, near Sarvodaya Nagar in Ghatkopar, Mumbai, India on 27th June 2018 Thursday afternoon around 8.00 am BST 1.30pm IST. According to images on Twitter, flames and thick black plumes…
Emirates Airline’s newest Boeing 777-300ER, has unveiled a new first class suite on board with virtual windows., using fibre-optic cameras and paves way for window less future planes making them lighter, faster and more efficient. Emirates President Sir Tim Clark said the images were “so good, it’s better than with the natural eye”.
A Boeing 737 airliner, Cubana de Aviacion crashed and exploded in a field soon after take off near Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba killing 110 people with only three survival. The airliner had been leased from a Mexican company Damojh, Cuban news agency Presnca Latina said. It was an internal flight from the…
As the oil price rises above $75 per barrel with fuel cost going up by one-third during the quarter, India’s listed aviation companies lost altitude this month as the quarterly profits had slumped 73 per cent at IndiGo, India’s largest private airline. Until recently Indian aviation companies have been some of the fastest-growing in the…
Uber has unveiled its first four-passenger electric “flying car” concept aircraft with rotors which can reposition to help it fly after a vertical take-off and can travel 2,00o feet above the traffic at 150-200mph (241-321kmph). The Flying taxi will be initially flown by pilots but the company has plans to make them autonomous in the near…
A Flybe Embraer 195 aircraft heading to London Gatwick from Cornwall Airport Newquay at 07:35 BST on Tuesday 24th April 2018, was forced to turn back after a crack covering the windscreen in the cockpit appeared. The plane was carrying 92 passengers and was at 12, 000 ft (3, 750m) at the time. Passenger Ray…
Jennifer Riordan, a mother-of-two and Well Fargo bank vice-president at Albuquerque, New Mexico, was partially sucked out of a window of a US passenger plane South West Airline Flight 1380 after a CFM56 engine exploded in mid-air had died. The Boeing 737-700 airline has been en route to New York’s La Guardia airport to Dallas,…
GE Aviation’s GE9X, world’s largest jet engine has completed its first test flight in the Victorville, California, US. The GE9X features a front fan spanning 11.2 feet diameter and 16 fourth-generation carbon fibre composite fan blades. The engine can push 100, 000 pounds of thrust and is 10 per cent more efficient than the GE90…