“As we take to the skies in the Singapore Airlines livery, and embark on our transition journey, we are also elevating our promise—so you can enjoy a world– class experience, no matter how short your journey.” -Singapore Airlines Previously operated by Singapore Airlines (SIA) decades ago, the 737 as an aircraft type will once againRead More →
The final Everett-built Boeing 787 Dreamliner has come out of the factory. Bound for ANA, this specific 787 is the last one that will be built, for at least the foreseeable future, in the Seattle-area. Boeing will continue to have an assembly line in Washington, but it is moving DreamlinerRead More →
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 →
Taking between 400 and 500 passengers is normal on a Boeing 747, but there is one case where it has been as high as 1,122. This happened in 1991 as part of Operation Solomon, with Israeli airline El Al evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel. It set a record for theRead More →
Details have come to light on the four ex-Israeli Air Force F-16s headed to North America. Top Aces is the first private contractor offering red air adversary support by getting its hands on fourth-generation fighters. During their previous combat careers in Israel, three of these jets brought down Syrian MiGs duringRead More →
(Des Barker – In an extract from his book, Recollections From a Test Pilot’s Logbooks, Des Barker describes the flight test clearance of the V3C on the Mirage F1). Under the international arms embargo the South African defence industry was forced to design and develop its own weapons for the SAAF’s fighter force. Read 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 →
