It’s been a long time coming, but the first really large part of the Dreamliner 787-9 variant, a forward fuselage section, has arrived at the final assembly plant in Everett north of Seattle.

Although the Boeing 737 MAX series has been on sale for some time, giant US low fare carrier Southwest has become the first airline to place on order for the MAX 7, the smallest of the family.

  After four months deliveries have resumed today at the congested Boeing 787 Dreamliner centre at Everett.

  Airbus has posted a set of photos of the A350-900 prototype in its full colours after emerging from the Toulouse paint shop.

  The first Airbus A350 has not only broken cover in Toulouse, but the Wall Street Journal has broken its paywall in a grand gesture to aviation watchers worldwide by placing a story and collection of sharp clear photos on the internet for free here.

CSeries airliner ‘escapes’ from its hangar on way to first flight.

Update This post was based on what has now been admitted by the NTSB to have been a misleading docket. A new post dealing with the NTSB’s dishonest abuse of language and process has been posted here.

  When Emirates president Tim Clark offers an opinion on Airbus or Boeing airliners it carries the weight of the Dubai carrier’s habit of ordering what it likes in the 100s. Which makes his views on the Boeing 777-X, which Boeing can now offer for sale more than interesting in this report, and especially the [...]

  The A350 first flight guessing game has been given another kick along, this time courtesy of the Airbus supplied photo above of MSN3 at its lightning test station on an unspecified day in April.

NASA studies possible study into potential low boom Concorde successor. Keep the champagne on ice.

Social media has been reporting for hours now that the Boeing board has approved the X series of the 777 line of twin engined larger capacity jets being offered to customers as real aircraft that will be ready for delivery from the end of this decade.

Qatar Airways, another of the new giants of world aviation, is stalking the Australia market, currently with 777s, shortly with 787s, and before much longer, perhaps with its A350s and A380s.

Three weeks after it was mooted, British Airways has signed an MoU for a fleet of 18 Airbus A350-1000 medium sized airliners that could replace its 777-300ER services to Sydney before the end of this decade. The deal is also a very big win for Airbus, which has designed the A350 line-up to compete with [...]