Boeing has agreed to pay US$2.5 billion to settle criminal charges that it hid information from the FAA and airline customers about the MCAS in its 737 Max. About US$500m of this will go to families of the 346 people killed in the tragedies. This US$500m is an indication of how much African life is worth. Notable is this it is half the estimate from Bloomberg thatRead More →

Pilatus Aircraft has delivered its 100th PC-24 jet. The Swiss plane maker delivered its first PC-24 in February 2018, and the now 100-strong fleet has logged more than 33,500 hours globally. Four PC-24s have now been delivered in Southern Africa from agents Pilatus PC-12 Centre based at Rand Airport. TheRead More →

Looking like ‘Zorro’ of childhood fame, the most distinctive aspects of the new Airbus aircraft is the black ‘mask’ around the windshield. The A350 and new models like the A330neo, A321LR and subsequent Airbus aircraft will have this feature. “The A350 XWB is the first ever Airbus aircraft with curvedRead More →

Des Barker Ask any SAAF fighter pilot that has flown high performance jets what his favourite aircraft was and the answer will in all likelihood be the Mirage F1, whether the interceptor version, the Mirage F1CZ, or the ground attack version, the F1AZ.  There is no doubt that Dassault’s swept-wing Mirage F1Read More →

On 19th January 2021, a Boeing 737-400 freighter suffered a hard landing into Exeter, United Kingdom. A West Atlantic Flight NPT105L, a Boeing 737-4Q8(SF), registration G-JMCY, operating a domestic cargo flight from East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX), to Exeter Airport (EXT/EGTE), suffered a very hard touchdown upon landing and sustained possibleRead More →