The US Aerospace group Boeing is in discussions with Brazil’s Embraer SA, about a £2.7 billion ( $3.7billion) takeover, in the wake of the technological revolution which can see a lot more initiatives of hybrid electric propulsion for commercial aircraft. This blockbuster deal would expand Boeing’s reach into the highly competitive market for small jets.…
The World’s biggest aircraft manufacturers, Boeing, is ready to unveil a new plane that will be a game changer for future air power. The Batmobile-style aircraft is Boeing’s advanced division’s Batmobile-style highly classified projects. The new plane is similar to Boeing’s X-37B plane, first built for the Pentagon primarily for classified missions for the testing…
Rolls-Royce, Airbus and Siemens are to develop hybrid electric plane technology, with the E-Fan X programme, which will put first an electric engine with three jet engines on a BAe 146 aircraft. The firms have ambition to develop the electric plane by 2020 with commercial application by 2025. The weight of the batteries and aircon…
Qatar Airways has been named “ Best Airline” at the 2017 Business Traveller Awards ceremony at London’s Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington hosted by publishers of Business Traveller magazine Panacea Media and presented by special guest John Sergeant. Qatar Airways also won a raft of other major awards at the ceremony including “Best Airline in…
Airbus, European Aerospace firm, is to take a majority stake in Bombardier’s C-Series jet project by buying a 50.01 per cent stake. As part of the deal, Bombardier and Investissement Quebec will own approximately 31 per cent and 10 per cent respectively. Airbus will not make any upfront investment in Bombardier’s jet as part of…
2, 100 airline staff lost their jobs and 860,000 people have lost their bookings, as Monarch ceases trading. The Civil Aviation authority is sending over 30 planes to return 110, 000 holidaymakers who are stranded overseas because of the airline collapse. Monarch – the UK’s fifth biggest and country’s largest ever to collapse, was placed…
Air France jet engine fails mid-flight with 496 passengers and 24 crew makes an emergency landing at a small Canadian airport. The Airbus A380 flight AF66 from Paris to Los Angeles lost part of an engine over the Atlantic. Surprisingly no one was injured in the incident, but passengers remained on board hours after landing…
A Japan Airlines ( JAL) Boeing 777 carrying 233 passengers and 15 crewmembers bound for New York was forced to make an emergency landing at Tokyo Haneda International airport after a jet engine burst into flames following a suspected bird strike on Tuesday 12th September 2017. Television footage showed red flame flickering from the left…
Atlasglobal, a Turkish Airbus A320, flown by Ukranian captain Alexander Akopov was en route from Istanbul to Erkan, Cyprus, with 127 tourists on board, when it encountered severe violent storms and giant hailstones which smashed the windscreen, but the pilot kept his nerve and landed safely last week. Soon after take-off at 1,300 metres above…
Air Canada Airbus 320, flight AC759 carrying 135 passengers and five crew members, from Toronto was preparing to land at San Francisco airport cleared to land on a runway last Friday, 7th July , 2017, but the pilot inadvertently lined up for a taxiway where four aircraft was waiting to take off. The agile…