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Boeing Launches the 787-10 Dreamliner — Where Will it be Built?
The Boeing 787-10 seen in Dreamliner livery. Composite image from Boeing. At the Paris Air Show today, Boeing officially launched the longer version of the Boeing Dreamliner: the 787-10. According to Boeing, “Customer launch commitments for the 787-10 include Air Lease Corporation, with 30 airplanes; GE Capital Aviation Services, with 10; International Airlines Group [...]
Photos: Airbus A350-900 XWB Has Successful First Flight
The first Airbus A350 lifts off. Photo from Airbus. At almost exactly 10:00am local time in Toulouse, France, the first Airbus A350 successfully took off with many on lookers locally and over 20,000 viewers on Airbus’ live feed. Six crew on board took the A350-900 XWB for a four hour test flight which [...]
Airbus A350 First Flight on social media – an analysis of #A350FirstFlight
New plane launches do not happen very often. And when they do happen, the first flight is one of the most important. Today was one such important day in history, as Airbus launched the first A350 flight, ahead of the Paris Airshow. Like RedBull’s stratosphere jump by Felix Baumgartner, today’s first flight of the Airbus.... Show More Summary
Video: The Boeing 747 Family – From the 747SP to the 747-8
From the video description from SpeedBirdHD: “The Boeing 747 is a wide-body commercial airliner and cargo transport aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname, Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. It is among the world’s most recognizable aircraft and was the first wide-body ever produced. Manufactured by Boeing’s Commercial Airplane unit in the [...]
Flying on a Special Fiji Airways A330 Media Flight
Flying only 900 feet above Fiji was not too shabby. A media flight is always a special event, but there are a few things that can make it even more special. So how special is a media flight that also happens to be a delivery flight flown by two Airbus “expert pilots” who preformed [...]
Airbus proposes, sends up, the ultimate baggage app
Caution: THIS IS NOT A REAL PRODUCT … YET Could Airbus have devised the dream app, and baggage handling process, that might make it more money than it earns from making airliners. Watch this video and see what you think. The idea was rolled out by Yann Barbaux, the Airbus Chief Innovation Officer at a [...]
Video: Drone Nearly Hits Airbus Aircraft
The video above has been on the internet for years and is nothing new. What is new, is that recent unclassified documents confirm that it is real and give additional details of the incident. According to Spiegel Online, the clip was taken from an 88lb LUNA Drone that shows the UAV about to strike an Ariana [...]
Photos & Video: First Airbus A350 XWB Starts Its Engines
A350 XWB (MSN1) First Engine Run, Toulouse, France. Photo by Airbus. On Sunday, The first Airbus A350-900 (MSN1) successfully completed starting up its engines, making it one step close to flight. Although Airbus is not stating when the A350 will have its first flight, many are hoping it will be in time for the [...]
Flying Business Class on Fiji Airways New Airbus A330
The tiny Pacific island of Fiji has a national airline just as tiny. Air Pacific, however, dreams big and their dream just came true. In just a few short days, the Air Pacific name will be retired, ushering in the era of Fiji Airways, and more importantly, a new fleet. After a time of [...]
SimpliFlying in The News – May 2013. TTG Asia, The Aviation Writer, Qatar Today
“The social era may be frightening for an industry that has traditionally held firm control over marketing and operations, but it has also given airlines the unique opportunity to understand what drives customer actions better than ever before,” as Qatar Today Magazine picked out from one of SimpliFlying’s earlier articles. Show More Summary
VIDEO: Airbus A380?s Landing at LAX
This video, by SpeedbirdHD, highlights multiple Airbus A380?s landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The video shows Qantas, Air France, Singapore Airlines, Korean Air and China Southern all touching down. So which one landed the best? Tweet [...]
Growing up in the Shadow of John F Kennedy Airport
A Korean Air Airbus A380 visits me at home For nearly my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of one of the busiest airports in the country. Draw a straight line from my house and you end up on JFKs runway 22L in almost 2 miles. Arrivals glide across the sky mere [...]
Flying on an Air Koryo Ilyushin IL-62 to North Korea
An Air Koryo Ilyushin IL-62 in Beijing, ready for boarding. Photo by Bernie Leighton. This story was written by Bernie Leighton for AirlineReporter.com: To fly on an Ilyushin IL-62 in 2012 is not something many people would think of doing, let alone going to the lengths I did to enjoy the privilege. On October [...]
Photos + Video: First Airbus A350 Comes Out of Paint
The completed A350 XWB MSN001 is welcomed by Airbus employees in Toulouse. Photo from Airbus. The painting of the first Airbus A350 XWB was completed today in Toulouse, France. The aircraft is sporting the typcial Airbus livery that took about seven days to complete. The aircraft, MSN001, has also completed flight-test-instrumentation (FTI) verification, engine [...]
The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Starts Coming Together & 787-8 Updates
Boeing employees work on the first 787-9 horizontal stabilizer. Photos by Matthew Thompson / Boeing. The first horizontal stabilizer for the first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has arrived to Paine Field — early. The new version of the Dreamliner will seat 40 additional passengers and be able to fly 8000-8500 nautical miles. Boeing expects that the first 787-9 will [...]
Must Watch: Airport 24/7 Miami Season Two Starts Tomorrow
Airport 24/7 Ad in Baggage Claim at MIA. Photo by Brandon Farris / AirlineReporter.com. Last Friday, AirlineReporter.com was in Miami to cover the season two premiere of Airport 24/7: Miami, which will air on the Travel Channel Tuesday at 9pm. Much like the first season, the second starts off with a bang as two [...]
Uber Classic Video: Pilot Changes Tire Mid-Flight
There are classic videos and then there are CLASSIC videos. Obviously cameras were not quite a popular as they are today and I would imagine that this whole video was staged, but who the heck cares? You still have a pilot going out and changing a tire mid-air and that is quite impressive. Gladys [...]
Amazing Video: Airbus A340 Lands in the Fog
Here we have a Swiss Airbus A340 landing in Zurich in the fog at night. A fun combo for catching some vortexes. Enjoy. Thanks to Louie for pointing this one out and to Andy Ruesch for making this beauty. Tweet [...]
When Omni Was Futuristic
I'm VFR inbound to a controlled airport on a day with a high thin overcast. Beautiful day for flying: no glare, little turbulence, old snow still sparkling on the ground below, but the runways and taxiways perfectly clear. The controller tells me to call ten miles out and asks another aircraft to report "over the OMNI." How retro. Show More Summary
Video: Antonov AN-124 vs Southwest Boeing 737
During a recent trip to Paine Field, an Antonov AN-124 with Volga Dnepr Airlines was blocking the taxi way. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 (there for maintenance) had to taxi down the runway and turn around before take off. It it is intereting seeing the size difference between the two aircraft. OTHER GOOD AN-124 [...]
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