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Airbus Strikes $34 Billion Deal With China Amid Boeing Scandal

Airbus Strikes $34 Billion Deal With China Amid Boeing Scandal

In a major blow to rival Boeing, Airbus announced a new $34 billion (30 billion euro) deal with China to deliver 300 new planes to the nation’s commercial aviation industry, per BBC News. The agreement was completed during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Paris (part of a wider series of visits across Europe for […]

5y ago

NASA’s Orion Capsule, Designed To Fly Astronauts To The Moon, Gets Major Component From Europe

NASA’s Orion Capsule, Designed To Fly Astronauts To The Moon, Gets Major Component From Europe

The Orion spaceship, NASA’s next-generation vehicle developed to ferry astronauts to the moon and beyond, just hit a key milestone. According to Reuters, the Orion will soon be fitted with its first service module — a European “powerhouse” which has just been delivered earlier today by NASA’s transatlantic partners. Dubbed the European Service Module (ESM), […]

5y ago

Boeing Delivers More Jets Than Airbus In 2017, But Airbus Flying Toward Lead

Boeing Delivers More Jets Than Airbus In 2017, But Airbus Flying Toward Lead

Data released this week shows that in 2017, the American plane manufacturing giant Boeing Co. once again out-delivered its chief rival, Airbus SE. The two companies are engaged in a duel of the skies, each vying to be the largest manufacturer of jet airplanes on the planet, with both having a claim to the title. […]

6y ago

Airbus Makes A Final Push To Close The Gap With Boeing For Annual Order Lead

Airbus Makes A Final Push To Close The Gap With Boeing For Annual Order Lead

As the year comes to a close, Airbus is trying to close the gap with Boeing for annual orders. The European multinational corporation announced several multi-billion-dollar deals at the end of 2017 in spite of a tumultuous year. This last push by the European plane maker comes after a shakeout by management and corruption investigations […]

6y ago

Adorable Princess Charlotte Throws A Royal Tantrum In Germany [Video]

Adorable Princess Charlotte Throws A Royal Tantrum In Germany [Video]

It has been an exhausting week for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton, and their young children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. They finished a five-day tour of Poland and Germany on Friday and returned home just in time for Prince George’s fourth birthday. While the two royal children, Prince […]

6y ago

China’s First Jumbo Jet Disrupts Aerospace Hegemony: The Comac C919 A Symbol Of Nationalism

China’s First Jumbo Jet Disrupts Aerospace Hegemony: The Comac C919 A Symbol Of Nationalism

After many years of research and design, China has finally unveiled its flagship jumbo jet with which the country hopes to compete in the aerospace industry. At 11 p.m. PST on Thursday, May 4, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) sent its C919 passenger jet into the skies for a maiden test flight. The […]

7y ago

Iran Air Receives Airbus A330 Jet: Why Is It Important For The Islamic Republic?

Iran Air Receives Airbus A330 Jet: Why Is It Important For The Islamic Republic?

Airbus has delivered an A330 to Iran Air, which landed at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport on Saturday. The delivery has come following a sanctions deal signed between the European group and the Iranian flag carrier in December 2016. As part of the agreement, Iran Air purchased 100 planes from the European consortium, which the latter promised […]

7y ago

CERN LHC Accidentally Opened Time Portal, Caused Iberworld Airbus A330-300 To Time Travel 5,500 Miles Across The World [Conspiracy Theory]

CERN LHC Accidentally Opened Time Portal, Caused Iberworld Airbus A330-300 To Time Travel 5,500 Miles Across The World [Conspiracy Theory]

According to conspiracy theorists, a series of experiments conducted at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility in Switzerland, as part of preparations for restarting the machine in November, 2009, triggered an “anomalous event” that generated a “time warp.” And as the “time warp” or “time wave” reverberated across the planet through ancient pyramid complexes in […]

7y ago

Video Shows Anxious Moment That 200-Ton Crane Moving Old Air India A320 Hull Collapses Causing Bystander Panic [Video]

Video Shows Anxious Moment That 200-Ton Crane Moving Old Air India A320 Hull Collapses Causing Bystander Panic [Video]

Footage uploaded recently to YouTube shows the shocking moment of a nearly disastrous incident at the Begumpet Airport at Hyderabad in India. The footage shows the moment that a giant 200-ton crane moving the hull of an old out-of-service Air India airliner gives way under the weight of the hull, sending the hull crashing to […]

8y ago

Boeing Cutting Jobs In Effort To Save Money, Nearly 10 Percent Of Workforce Could Be Eliminated By Year’s End

Boeing Cutting Jobs In Effort To Save Money, Nearly 10 Percent Of Workforce Could Be Eliminated By Year’s End

Boeing is cutting jobs by at least 4,000 before the beginning of summer. While CEO Ray Conner initially announced several weeks ago that jobs would be eliminated, he was not specific about the number. As reported by the Seattle Times, Boeing issued a statement on Tuesday that indicated 4,000 jobs will be cut by June. […]

8y ago

Boeing 737 MAX Successfully Completes Maiden Flight – Watch As $110 Mn. Commercial Jetliner Takes To The Skies [Video]

Boeing 737 MAX Successfully Completes Maiden Flight – Watch As $110 Mn. Commercial Jetliner Takes To The Skies [Video]

Boeing 737 MAX, the newest airliner from the company, successfully completed its maiden flight. The commercial jetliner, costing $110 million, belongs to the profitable and dependable product line which will compete against Airbus A320neo and A321neo. A new fleet of planes will soon be rolling out of Boeing’s assembly lines. In preparation, Boeing 737 MAX, […]

8y ago

Iran To Purchase Boeing, Airbus Airplanes — Country Eager To Make Deals After Lifting Of Sanctions, But Americans Companies Can’t Rush Just Yet

Iran To Purchase Boeing, Airbus Airplanes — Country Eager To Make Deals After Lifting Of Sanctions, But Americans Companies Can’t Rush Just Yet

Iran is keenly interested in purchasing airplanes from Boeing and Airbus. After the lifting of the decades-long sanctions, the country appears quite eager to sign large procurement deals. After the sanctions, imposed by United Nations, were officially lifted last week, Iran hasn’t wasted time in showing interest in procuring large commercial jetliners to upgrade its […]

8y ago

Watch Airbus A320 Buffeted By Strong Winds Abort Landing At Manchester Airport

Watch Airbus A320 Buffeted By Strong Winds Abort Landing At Manchester Airport

Footage shows the nerve-racking moment that an Airbus A320 passenger plane was forced to abort landing on Sunday, just a few meters above the runway at Manchester Airport due to high winds. The jetliner aborted its landing after it was buffeted by powerful gales of Storm Clodagh battering Britain. The remarkable two-minute footage, filmed by […]

8y ago

C919 Jet Is First Made-In-China Passenger Jetliner, Will Compete With Airbus A320 And Boeing 737 Series

C919 Jet Is First Made-In-China Passenger Jetliner, Will Compete With Airbus A320 And Boeing 737 Series

China unveiled C919, the country’s first indigenously-built passenger jet. A state-owned manufacturer recently rolled the passenger jet off the assembly line, and the plane is expected to enter commercial service within the next three years. The Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) unveiled the first unit of C919, a made-in-China commercial jetliner. The twin-engine plane’s […]

8y ago

Watch Pilot Land Airbus A380 In Heavy Crosswind At Dusseldorf Airport

Watch Pilot Land Airbus A380 In Heavy Crosswind At Dusseldorf Airport

A YouTube enthusiast recently recorded dramatic video that shows the moment a pilot lands an Emirates Airbus A380 — the world’s largest passenger plane — in heavy crosswind at the Dusseldorf International Airport in Germany. Landing in high crosswind conditions is challenging. But it gets even more complicated when you are flying the A380, the […]

8y ago

Virgin America Wins ‘Top Domestic Airline’ Award And Rolls Out Upgrades

Virgin America Wins ‘Top Domestic Airline’ Award And Rolls Out Upgrades

Virgin America has just won Travel + Leisure’s“Top Domestic Airline” award for the eighth year in a row. To celebrate, Virgin has dedicated itself to pleasing travelers even more. Partnering with ViaSat, Virgin America is bringing updated WiFi networks to their new Airbus A320 aircrafts. Time laid out the specs. “The use of ViaSat-1, a […]

8y ago

Airbus Delivers Cutting Edge 3D Printed Plane To Qatar Airways

Airbus Delivers Cutting Edge 3D Printed Plane To Qatar Airways

The aviation industry takes a giant leap as Airbus launches their most cutting-edge passenger plane to date. Officially launching in December, the aircraft manufacturing company will be delivering its first 3D-printed Airbus A350 XWB to reputed airline company Qatar Airways. For this project, Airbus collaborated with U.S.-Israeli firm Stratasys to build the Airbus A350 XWB, […]

9y ago

Virgin’s Inaugural Manchester To Atlanta Flight Grounded After Firefighters Spray Foam Instead Of Water For The ‘Salute’

Virgin’s Inaugural Manchester To Atlanta Flight Grounded After Firefighters Spray Foam Instead Of Water For The ‘Salute’

Virgin Atlantic had to severely delay its inaugural flight from Manchester to Atlanta because the water-cannon salute that the flight was bestowed with had foam. The inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic’s bigger Airbus A330-300 was scheduled to take off at 10.35 a.m. However, due to the gaffe, it has been delayed by about a day. […]

9y ago

Airbus A320 Crashes in France and Canada: Is This a Safe Plane?

Airbus A320 Crashes in France and Canada: Is This a Safe Plane?

The safety of the Airbus A320 has been called into question after two crashed in one week. The causes of both crashes are not known yet, and theories are multiplying. Just yesterday an Air Canada Airbus A320 carrying passengers and crew skidded off the runway in Halifax, Canada, fortunately injuries were minor. Investigations are ongoing […]

9y ago

Germanwings Plane Crash: Pilot Forum Reports Claim Windshield Cracked

Germanwings Plane Crash: Pilot Forum Reports Claim Windshield Cracked

Unconfirmed reports are circulating on professional pilot forums that the Germanwings plane, which crashed in the French Alps yesterday, may have suffered a catastrophic failure of its windshield, incapacitating the pilots. The report was anonymously posted, initially appearing on the Aviation Herald forum, according to the Daily Mail, and is now circulating amongst pilots online. […]

9y ago

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