Airbus’s 787 counter “progressing along” Airbus officials recently updated aerospace media representatives on the company’s new A350 twin jet during its ‘Innovation Days’ series of briefings in Hamburg in May. The manufacturer predicts 5900 aircraft will be sold in the medium twin-aisle market over the next 20 years, half of which it says will be

The government’s 2009-10 budget released on May 9 sees Defence spending leap some 14 per cent for the 2009-10 financial year to $26. 6 billion. Defence’s budget then falls slightly – in real terms – over subsequent years to be at $26. 3 billion for 2012-13 – allowing the government to meet its Defence White

…stretch in the forward fuselage, while there is an additional 1.5m stretch aft of the wing. (Boeing) Commercial Boeing 787 Near First Flight Boeing Was Expected to Make the 787’s First Flight by Its July 1 Deadline, With the First Aircraft Completing Engine Start and a Number of Gauntlet Tests During May and June. This

The casualty toll is starting to mount: MacAir, SkyAirWorld, and now OzJet. The precariousness of the aviation business has once more been underlined by the collapse of these three middle ranking airline/charter operators. The three certainly had diverse aircraft types – MacAir used its second-hand Metro and Saab turboprops for regional Queensland RPT and mine