Ryiadh Air’s🇸🇦✈️ CEO, Tony Douglas, revealed officially the airline’s second livery (which will be on some B787s and narrow body fleet) and also partnership with Lucid Motors, a brand of electric cars
#DubaiAirshow
The first
@LockheedMartin
KC-130J Super Hercules of the French
@Armee_de_lair
landed at Orléans-Bricy Air Base on September 19, 2019. The aircraft was highly anticipated in
#France
, as it will allow refueling the country’s helicopters in-flight.
If you think Dubai’s current air hub is huge, wait to see what ambitious development plans are in motion for Al Maktoum Internationsl Airport (DWc) and the surrounding district
#DubaiAirShow2023
Ryiadh Air has a priment presence at the
#DubaiAirshow
- in a few minutes, its CEO, Tony Douglas, will share some updates about the project, including the official presentation of the second livery (on pic, the first one)
#Delta
Air Lines has entered negotiations with
#Airbus
to expand its existing order for 95
#A220
narrow-body aircraft, according to Reuters. If officially confirmed, additional planes could increase the carrier’s A220 fleet to 107 aircraft.
Good morning from Toulouse - today we are Chez Airbus for a very special occasion -
@JAL_Official_jp
🇯🇵is about to get its first
@Airbus
A350-1000 with a totally new cabin product - stay tuned for updates!
@FMM_Airport
We have shown you the Elektra Trainer, the 100% electric aircraft that will take part in the
#EFlightChallenge2023
, but there is also a land component, the
@LucidMotors
car that will try to beat the plane at getting first to the North Sea from Bavaria
Hello from Memmingen, Germany🇩🇪, start point of the
#EFlightChallenge2023
, a 100% electric Elektra Solar aircraft and a
@LucidMotors
electric car will try to be the first to reach the North Sea island of Norderney from Bavaria!
@ewrflight
Amidst all the hassle of traveling, Indian low-cost carrier
#IndiGo
thinks it has a way to smooth one part of the process. Add a third exit ramp to help speed up disembarkation.
#paxex
#travel
#airlines
This morning in Toulouse 🇫🇷Japan Airlines (
@JAL_Official_jp
) 🇯🇵✈️has just received officially its first
@airbus
A350-1000, fitted with the brand new new cabin interiors
A glimpse of
@airbus
brand new Safety Promotion Centre, which aims to promote the super important safety culture in the aviation community
#aviationsafety
The ElektraTrainer and the
@LucidMotors
car departed at the same time from Gelnhausen airfield near Frankfurt in their
#EFlightChallenge2023
quest to be first to the North Sea. Next charging stop is Oerlinghausen, near Bielefeld…
Air-to-air photography requires exceptional skill and a high level of experience in order to capture breath-taking images in flight. We caught up with
#Captain
Pat Cafferky who has just led such an operation.
#exclusive
#aviation
#avphotography
In an interview for AeroTime, aviation journalist Andreas Spaeth (
@SpaethFlies
) talks to
#Emirates
’ President Sir Tim Clark about the future of flying the
#Airbus
#A380
.
British
#RAF
Red Arrows aerobatic team, led by
#USAF
Thunderbirds, performed “historic” 19-jet demonstration over
#NYC
on Thursday, painting the skyline in red, white & blue as they flew in formation down the Hudson River and around the Statue of Liberty.
Last week 2 fully electric vehicles: a
@LucidMotors
car and an ElektraTrainer battery-powered aircraft left an airfield near Frankfurt, Germany, in a quest to be 1st to reach the North Sea island of Norderney. Who was first?
Presented at the
#ParisAirShow
, the
#ATR
42-600S has been officially launched by the Franco-Italian regional aircraft manufacturer.
@ATRaircraft
says it has already received 20 commitments for its new Short Take-Off and Landing (
#STOL
) plane.
In a ground-breaking development,
#Ryanair
has partnered with
#Antonov
to complete the development of the second An-225 Mriya. The
#airline
argued that this was done due to unprecedented demand for summer travel:
In the final report of the fatal
#EthiopianAirlines
ET302 accident, investigators blamed production quality defects of the
#Boeing737MAX
crash.
Read more:
Right now at
#ParisAirShow2023
#PAS23
@embraer
🇧🇷announced orders from:
American Airlines x7 E195-E2
Avolon x10 E195-E2
Azorra x15 E-195-E2 (announced as undisclosed in ‘22)
Binter x6 E195-E2
The MC-21 is the 2nd large-scale Russian project after the
#Sukhoi
#Superjet
100 and it hopes to compete with
#Boeing
and
#Airbus
in the single-aisle market.
@JAL_Official_jp
Last but not least: Economy Class, 33 inches of seat pitch, although I am told by a member of
@JAL_Official_jp
that there are *some* seats that have 34”!
#A350
-1000 🇯🇵✈️
It would take
#Concorde
seven more years for its first commercial flight to take place. But on March 2, 1969, one of the greatest feats of aviation engineering took to the skies for the first time
Today
#NASA
will make its anticipated announcement about the new discovery. There is high chance we know what it is going to be. Oh, and Boeing
#747
is more important than you would think.
Lockheed Martin made its partnership with Tata official by announcing the wings of its F-16 should be built in India from now on. The US manufacturer is still in the tender for the Indian Air Force next fighter procurement.
"Black box" recorder from the crashed
#lionair
#Boeing
737 has been found by divers off the coast of Jakarta,
#Indonesia
. Though it’s not clear whether it is the flight data recorder, the device’s damaged state indicates "extraordinary impact" of crash.
The Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) received the last of its 63 second-hand
#Mirage
F1 from the French Armée de l’air on March 2, 2019. They should be used for training of the
#USAF
, and the rest of the US military.
Hybrid Air Vehicles received EASA’s go-ahead for airship test program of its Airlander 10 (no, it's not a Zeppelin). Only 8 other organisations have the approval for type certifying large aircraft.
June 2 will mark the date that the last
#MadDogs
barked in
#Delta
fleet, as the airline will retire the
#MD88
and the
#MD90
. The jets served in the airline's fleet for more than 25 years. Delta's story with McDonnell Douglas' aircraft is not over yet:
After
#Garuda
,
#LionAir
, which has already suspended deliveries of four planes that were expected in 2019, is reportedly considering the cancellation of its $22 billion order for about 250
#Boeing
737 MAX to replace them with
#Airbus
aircraft
With the help of tailwinds from the
#StormCiara
, several airliners crossed the Atlantic Ocean in record time. The ultimate winner was a
#Boeing
747 operated by
#BritishAirways
that made the trip in four hours and fifty-six minutes.
#airBaltic
has received its 20
#AirbusA220
, as it marks a special relationship with the jet. The
#airline
expects to receive two more
#A220
this year as it moves further and further towards the goal of completing the plan
#Destination2025
:
#Eviation
’s all-electric passenger plane Alice took off for its maiden test flight on September 27, 2022, a major step towards bringing electric aviation closer to commercial service.
The debut of
#boeing
’s latest aircraft, the
#777x
, is coming up next month, and with it, the first public glimpse at the massive GE9X engine, built by
#generalelectric
to power the plane. The engine is roughly the size of a 737's fuselage.