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Showing posts with label Airbus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Airbus. Show all posts
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Delta Air Lines planning to purchase hundreds of new aircraft

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by B. N. Sullivan Big news today: Delta Air Lines plans to acquire hundreds of new aircraft.  According to a Bloomberg article about the ...
Monday, December 06, 2010

Qantas Flight 32: Crew response to the emergency

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by B. N. Sullivan This is the third in a series of posts about Qantas Flight 32 , an Airbus A380 (registration VH-OQA) that experienced an...
Sunday, December 05, 2010

Qantas Flight 32: Uncontained engine failure and damage to the aircraft

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by B. N. Sullivan This is the second in a series of posts about the events on board Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380 (registration VH-OQA)...
Friday, December 03, 2010

Qantas Airbus A380 uncontained engine failure: ATSB preliminary report

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by B. N. Sullivan The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released its preliminary report regarding its investigation of the Nov...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Airbus A320 demo ride for Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson

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The YouTube blurb for this video says: Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden vocalist), is taken for a demo ride of the A320 for a Discovery Channel...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Yikes! Airbus A380 hard landing at Oshkosh

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The folks at AVweb.com produced this video of the arrival of the Airbus A380 at Oshkosh for the 2009 AirVenture event. The video was shot...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

NTSB investigating two recent Airbus A330 'speed and altitude indication anomalies'

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by B. N. Sullivan The afternoon, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued an advisory announcing the investigation of ...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

United Airlines wants up to 150 new aircraft, asks Boeing and Airbus for bids

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UAL Corp., the parent of United Airlines, is seeking to acquire up to 150 new aircraft, an order that could be worth up to $10 billion. The...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Air Austral orders two single-class Airbus A380 aircraft

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Air Austral, an airline most people in the world have never heard of, is set to offer something most other airlines would not consider. The...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Emirates A380 pilots complain about 'too quiet' crew rest area

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Pilots at Emirates Airline who fly the Dubai-based carrier's Airbus A380 are complaining that the aircraft's crew-rest area is too q...
Friday, November 28, 2008

Air New Zealand identifies those lost in the A320 crash off the coast of France

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Air New Zealand has officially identified the five New Zealanders who are presumed to have lost their lives in the crash of an Airbus A320 o...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Airbus A320 ferry flight ends in the Mediterranean Sea, off France

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An Airbus A320 owned by Air New Zealand has been lost in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of France. The accident happened on November ...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

ATSB Preliminary Report on the In-Flight Upset of Qantas Flight QF72 in October

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A Preliminary Report has just been released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) in regard to the in-flight upset of Qantas Flig...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Qantas Airbus A380 inaugural commercial flight arrives at Los Angeles

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Aviation history was made today as Qantas became the first airline to operate a commercial passenger flight on the Airbus A380 between Aust...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Systems fault identified in Qantas Flight QF72 in-flight upset accident

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The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) held another media conference earlier today to provide new details in the progress of its inv...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Qantas takes delivery of its first Airbus A380

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In a ceremony at the Airbus facility in Toulouse, France, on September 19, 2008, Australian airline Qantas took delivery of its first Airbus...
Monday, September 08, 2008

Emirates A380 grounded in Dubai

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In late July, Emirates Airline took delivery of its first Airbus A-380 'superjumbo' aircraft , and immediately put it into service o...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 completes 1,000th commercial flight

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Last October, Singapore Airlines made history by operating the first-ever Airbus A380 commercial flight . Now, just shy of 10 months later, ...
Saturday, August 02, 2008

Airbus A380 requires new 'super' wake separation category

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Now that the new Airbus A380 'superjumbo' aircraft has begun to fly in U.S. airspace, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has iss...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Emirates Airbus A380 Cabin Interior and Special Luxury Features

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Yesterday Emirates took delivery of its first Airbus A380 aircraft. The double-decker 'superjumbo' aircraft is the first of 58 tha...