This is the first picture of the broken wing box on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner which has been tested to destruction in Everett near Seattle.
It isn’t yet clear if this is good news or bad news. The wing box was meant to break at not less than 150% of the maximum stress load anticipated in [...]
Plane Talking is starting a blog roll that includes ‘out of control’ commentaries that can be found in sites that will lead you to the sometimes gritty candid videos of YouTube or at others to unhappy punters describing in detail how which airline failed to deliver.
Airlines and airports and aerospace companies deploy enormous resources [...]
It is getting harder to like airports. Leaping out of a logistics blog in the UAE was an item about that problem from Tom Ronell, who manages an investment portfolio that also includes a luxury private jet arm that ensures that royalty, celebrities, and camera shy government and business figures can do business in Africa, [...]
Boeing has announced ‘adjustments’ to the delivery dates for the 748 freighter and 748i passenger jet, both of them the final models of their type in the long history of the 747.
The slippery wording of the announcement really means the freighter version is running one year late into the last quarter of 2010 and the [...]
Air France KLM is bringing social networking to its flights. Via a site called www.bluenity.com (gasp)!
The concept is daring to say the least. Members of its frequent flyer program can interact Facebook-style with others booked on the same flight for example, and, well, chat each other up, organise a date, share a taxi, or exchange [...]
The roll back of fuel surcharges on airfares continues apace as oil drops even faster and further than the Australian dollar.
Virgin Blue is the latest example. It has cut its surcharges by 20%, to $19 per domestic sector and $35 per international flight across the Tasman or within the nearer South Pacific and PNG.
But there [...]
If the news about the Dreamliner screw up this morning (in today’s Crikey) isn’t bad enough to warrant being sneaked out on US election day, there is also a further problem with its single aisle 737 assembly process in Seattle.
One of assembly lines was kept partially open during the recent 57 day machinists strike [...]
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