It’s been a fairly rough decade for the Airbus A380 jumbo jet. Introduced as a plane for the masses, Airbus has had a hard time convincing airlines they should buy this massive aircraft which, depending on how it’s configured, can…
That’s a whole lot of seats, there, in Emirates new configuration that makes room for 98 more coach passengers by eliminating first class altogether, and shrinking business class by 18 seats. The good news is that while the seats will not…
Airbus is in the process of opening it’s first manufacturing facility in the United States. The company claims the factory will be the most efficient in the world and will have it focus on building the largest versions of its…
Airbus A320neo’s first flight Photo: Wikimedia / don-vip India’s largest domestic airline, IndiGo, firmed up a 250 narrow-bodied A320 neo aircraft
Airbus, which recently filed design patents for a huge follow-on to the A380 also has its mind on smaller and faster. Last week, they filed for U.S. patents on technology and design for a plane that would fly at more than 4 times the speed of sound…
The plane that never was: Boeing’s Sonic Cruiser concept helped pave the way for 777/787 Photo: Boeing Will there be a 797 in our future? Is there a future for the A380 or the 747? And what’s happening with the rest of the ranges…
As you settle down into your seat, comfortably at the front of the plane (above) or squeezed into the last inches at the back (below), you must have sometimes wondered how the airline chose the plane you’re sitting in or why the schedule…
easyJet’s inspection drone in flight Photo: easyJet Drones are all the thing these days, and not just the military bomb-carrying ones.
For those airbugs among us, to whom a ride on a new model plane is like spotting a favorite old car on the road, here’s the word: Your first chance to sit on an A350 flight in the U.S. will come on New Years, when Qatar puts one of its new planes on a…
It’s been a fairly rough decade for the Airbus A380 jumbo jet. Introduced as a plane for the masses, Airbus has had a hard time convincing airlines they should buy this massive aircraft which, depending on how it’s configured, can…
That’s a whole lot of seats, there, in Emirates new configuration that makes room for 98 more coach passengers by eliminating first class altogether, and shrinking business class by 18 seats. The good news is that while the seats will not…
Airbus is in the process of opening it’s first manufacturing facility in the United States. The company claims the factory will be the most efficient in the world and will have it focus on building the largest versions of its…
Airbus A320neo’s first flight Photo: Wikimedia / don-vip India’s largest domestic airline, IndiGo, firmed up a
Airbus, which recently filed design patents for a huge follow-on to the A380 also has its mind on smaller and faster. Last week, they filed for U.S. patents on technology and design for a plane that would fly at more than 4 times the speed of sound…
The plane that never was: Boeing’s Sonic Cruiser concept helped pave the way for 777/787 Photo: Boeing Will there be a 797 in our future? Is there a future for the A380 or the 747? And what’s happening with the rest of the ranges…
As you settle down into your seat, comfortably at the front of the plane (above) or squeezed into the last inches at the back (below), you must have sometimes wondered how the airline chose the plane you’re sitting in or why the schedule…
easyJet’s inspection drone in flight Photo: easyJet Drones are all the thing these days, and not
For those airbugs among us, to whom a ride on a new model plane is like spotting a favorite old car on the road, here’s the word: Your first chance to sit on an A350 flight in the U.S. will come on New Years, when Qatar puts one of its new planes on a…
