A judge has denied Comair's request to have its case against theFederal Aviation Administration considered before a trial over the 2006 plane crash that killed 49 people. U.S. District Judge Karl Forester overruled the request in a one-page ruling released
SEATTLE: Mechanics at The Boeing Company began final assembly work on the first 777 Freighter at the company's Everett, Wash., facility this week. The new cargo airplane will roll out of the factory later this month, and work will begin
Fort Worth, Texas: A newly released report from the U.S. Department of Defense shows that estimated acquisition costs dropped by nearly $1 billion from 2006 to 2007 for the Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35 Lightning II program...
COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE: The T-37 Tweet formally retired April 3 from Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training here after 39 years of service as the gateway to the sky for more than 10,000 Air Force aviators...
At the beginning on 2009 East Line Group, company managing DomodedovoMoscow International Airport, starts constructing the 2nd passengerterminal (Terminal-2) in Domodedovo, as the company's press-servicereports. Full Story
In the hypercompetitive world of commercial spaceflight, you need deep pockets just to stay in the game. That's why some customers and investors are losing confidence in Rocketplane, which spent 2007 getting outflanked by better-funded competitors and being buffeted by
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.: U.S. Air Force Space Command and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) have joined together to create a new program to advise the military and intelligence community on how to protect space assets...
Those disembodied voices you hear over the radio take on a new life during emergencies. Suddenly they become comforting, if not your immediate best friends...
When Patrick McCall got an urgent collision avoidance warning from the TCAS in his Pilatus PC-12, he took evasive action, turning, diving, and then climbing to avoid the traffic that seemed to be chasing him across the sky...
U.S. flight cancellations may become more frequent this spring as the Federal Aviation Administration revamps inspection programs, industry observers said. Thousands of flights have been canceled recently on inspection concerns.
MILWAUKEE: Midwest Airlines grounded 13 of its airplanes Thursday to re-inspect a wiring harness that caused American Airlines to cancel more than 2,400 flights since Tuesday. Midwest Airlines voluntarily canceled all of its flights involving the Boeing MD-80 aircraft to
TEL AVIV (Reuters): El Al Israel Airlines (ELAL.TA) said on Thursday it had signed an agreement to buy three new short-haul Boeing (BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) 737-800 planes from an unnamed Spanish airline for delivery in 2009...
MANILA (AFP): Philippine Airlines (PAL) is acquiring nine turbo-prop aircraft from Canada's Bombardier Aerospace at a cost of 150 million dollars, the airline said on Thursday. The move is aimed at reviving PAL's operations on secondary routes not served by
JAKARTA, April 10 (RIA Novosti) - Indonesia is expecting the deliveryof three Su-family fighters from Russia by October this year, the AirForce chief said. In 2007, Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi signed a $350-millioncontract with Indonesia at the MAKS-2007 air show
The Boeing Co. has announced another delay involving its 787 jetliner, pushing back its expected debut in commercial service to the third quarter of 2009...
Sao Jose dos Campos: Embraer formally introduced, today, its new Embraer MSJ and Embraer MLJ executive jet programs, which were recently approved by the Company's Board of Directors. The midsize Embraer MSJ, with a 3,000 nautical miles (5,560 km) range,
We had a great time today at the Sun 'n Fun air-show in Lakeland Florida and took a few pictures of amazing WWII warbirds. We are also taking short video clips of interesting products and aircrafts, to be displayed on
More photos of designs that caught our attention at the Sun 'n Fun Air Show in Lakeland Florida today. Some are new, others well known. The Thunderbirds gave us a great performance today as usual, thank you guys!
Washington, D.C.: Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that it has been chosen to supply the latest generation of its HTF7000 turbofan propulsion system family for Embraer's new MSJ and MLJ business aircraft. The contract is valued at more than $23
On Wednesday thefirst Russian air taxi Dexter obtained official permit for internationaltransportation and since June 2008 it starts to carry out flights to Finland,the Baltic countries, and to a number of the CIS states, as the company'spress-service reports. Full Story
