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Boeing subsidiary Insitu, Inc., has won a $43.7 million contract to develop its Integrator unmanned aircraft as the Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System for the Navy and Marine Corps.
The pilot of a small plane was killed and a passenger was injured Thursday afternoon when the aircraft crashed at Kapowsin Field in rural Pierce County, Wa.
Witnesses at the scene said the small experimental plane was trying a takeoff when it cartwheeled down the runway, then crashed in a grassy field about 300 feet away, according to a KOMO News report.
Boeing has completed its acquisition of cyber-security company Narus, the company announced Thursday.
Narus, headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., provides real-time network traffic and analytics software used to protect against cyber attacks and persistent threats aimed at large Internet Protocol networks. It will operate within Boeing's Network & Space Systems business as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Boeing announced the deal July 7, but did not disclose terms. The acquisition is part of Boeing's strategy to move into adjacent markets, including cyber-security, intelligence, surveillance and unmanned systems.
Finnair will lease two Airbus A340 airliners from International Lease Finance Corp. for long-haul service, while it waits for new A350 XWB jets, the carrier announced Thursday.
One detail of Boeing's quarterly earnings report that didn't get much attention Wednesday was a new $46 million charge on the company's Airborne Early Warning & Control program in Turkey.
The increase in the forward-loss position of the Turkish program comes after charges totaling $133 million in the AEW&C programs in Australia and Turkey during the second half of 2009.
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines will start service three times a week between San Jose, Calif., and Los Cabos, Mexico, Nov. 20, subject to government approval, the carrier announced Thursday.
"With its pristine beaches, great restaurants and world-class hotels, Los Cabos will be a welcome getaway this winter for our Bay Area customers," Joe Sprague, Alaska's vice president of marketing, said in a news release. "We are pleased to offer more service to Mexico, along with the new Hawaii service we've recently added from San Jose and Oakland."
The flight, using a Boeing 737-700, will leave San Jose at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, arriving in Los Cabos at 2:30 p.m., and set off on its return trip at 3:20 p.m., arriving at 5:35 p.m., Alaska said. (All times local.)
A Boeing C-17 transport crashed, killing four airmen, during a training run Wednesday at Elmendorf Air Force Base, in Anchorage, Alaska.
The C-17, from the 3rd Wing, based at Elmendorf, crashed at about 6:14 p.m. Wednesday during a training demonstration for an upcoming weekend air show, according to an Associated Press report, which has more details.
In a statement responding to the crash, Boeing said:
Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the four crewmembers who were lost aboard the Pacific Air Forces C-17 that crashed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, last night. Boeing stands ready to provide technical assistance to the U.S. Air Force with the investigation into this tragedy.
Southwest Airlines has ordered 25 737-700 jets, Boeing and Southwest reported Thursday.
Boeing listed the deal on its orders website, saying it was previously attributed to an unidentified customer.
Southwest flies an all-737 fleet. In its quarterly financial filing Thursday, Southwest said it exercised 25 737−700 options for firm delivery in 2011 through 2016, converted six purchase rights to 2014 options and accelerated three options (two from 2015 to 2013 and one from 2016 to 2014) and has 98 purchase rights through 2021.
"The Company has updated its schedule to replace its 737 Classic fleet to improve its operational and economic efficiency," Southwest said.
Boeing now has 235 orders for the 737 this year and seven cancellations, for a net of 228. The company has 317 total orders and 38 cancellations, for a net of 279.
With airlines seeing more demand while still restraining capacity, airfares are moving back toward pre-slump levels, the Department of Transportation reported Wednesday.
Meanwhile, international passenger and freight demand continued their recent surge in June, according to the International Air Transport Association.
Brazil's TAM Airlines has signed a firm order for 20 A320 Family jets and five A350-900s, firming up a memorandum of understanding it signed in June, Airbus announced Wednesday.
The A320s will replace existing jets from that family as part of TAM's commitment to keep an average fleet age of six years, Airbus said in a news release.
"We have the commitment to offer our customers one of the youngest fleets in the world of aviation," airline Chief Executive Libano Barroso said in the release.
While Boeing marked the 75th anniversary of the B-17 Flying Fortress prototype Model 299's first flight Sunday, the flight actually occurred 75 years ago Wednesday, on July 28, 1935, from Seattle's Boeing Field.
"For an hour and a half, Leslie R. Tower, chief test pilot for the Boeing Aircraft Company, flew her back and forth between Tacoma and Fort Lewis, and her performance lived up to the rosiest expectations of engineers who have been working for more than a year to produced the fastest and longest-range bomber that ever took to the air," Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter R. B. Bermann wrote after the flight.
While customers show resurgent interest in Boeing's 737, they also are more interested in a replacement for the single-aisle mainstay than a 737 outfitted with new engines, Boeing Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney said Wednesday.
"The customer feedback ... is sort of pushing us toward a new airplane, on balance," McNerney said in a conference call to discuss second-quarter earnings. "But there are those who also make the case for re-engining."
An airblue Airbus A321 crashed into the hills overlooking Islamabad, Pakistan, in rainy weather Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board, according to an Associated Press report.
See here for initial story on earnings release.
Boeing Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney
We're seeing "strong signs of recovery," forecast to return to pre-recession peaks earlier than anticipated in passenger and cargo.
"As we have seen in recent market cycles, the single-aisle market is leading the recovery."
As expected, Boeing Wednesday reported a second-quarter profit that was down from a year earlier due largely to a issues with airliner seats and a decline in wide-body aircraft deliveries.
The company's quarterly profit was $787 million, $1.06 per share, down from $998 million, $1.41 per share, a year earlier.
Continental Airlines should pay a $230,000 fine for operating an improperly repaired Boeing 767 on 22 passenger flights, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday.
According to the FAA, Continental replaced the jet's nose landing gear wheel and tire assembly on Aug. 12, 2008, but failed to install the required axle washer despite warnings in the maintenance manual and on the tire assembly itself that not installing the washer could lead to failure of the wheel bearing.
The FAA said agency inspectors discovered the violation during a records check and noted three identical earlier violations. Continental has 30 days to respond to the proposed fine.
Responding to the announcement, Continental spokeswoman Julie King said: "We are currently reviewing the FAA's allegations. These are isolated incidents from over two years ago that have since been resolved."
Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet will order 30 Boeing 737-800 airliners to meet its growing demand, the airline said Tuesday.
"We are currently seeing a strong resurgence in domestic air traffic on the back of robust macroeconomic growth," Spicejet director Kishore Gupta said in a filing (pdf) with the Bombay Stock Exchange.
"We expect domestic demand to grow at 16 percent during the current year and to sustain a 12 to 14 percent annual growth going forward in the medium-term," he said. "(T)he fresh order announced by us today will ensure that SpiceJet will remain at the forefront of the growth story in the Indian skies."
The jets will have the 737 Boeing Sky Interior, which is based on the interior of the new 787 Dreamliner.
Responding in a statement, Boeing said it "is delighted" with the news.
"We look forward to working with SpiceJet to finalize the order, at which time it will be posted to the Boeing Orders and Deliveries website," the company said.
A day after saying its dark-horse bid for the U.S. Air Force's aerial refueling tanker contract was just the beginning of a new strategy, U.S. Aerospace Inc. announced Tuesday that it plans to bid on New Zealand's maritime surveillance and military transport aircraft contract.
"U.S. Aerospace Inc. is pleased to present New Zealand with a cost efficient aircraft solution to support its surveillance and transport programs," U.S. Aerospace Inc. director Michael L. Goldberg said in a news release. "We believe that our aircraft would be the most practical solution to performing transport and maritime surveillance work in the South Pacific, including assistance with disaster relief and humanitarian aid."
The company gave no details on the plane it plans to propose.
The European Commission has cleared the proposed United Airlines-Continental Airlines merger, which still needs U.S. approval.
"The commission concluded that the transaction would not significantly impede effective competition in the European Economic Area or any substantial part of it," the commission said in a news release Tuesday.
Boeing is looking at all options to compete against Airbus' A350-1000 while also pooh-poohing the largest version of its competitor's composite airliner family, according to a Tuesday report from Leeham News and Comment.
The A350-1000 will directly compete against Boeing's moneymaking 777-300ER. Potential responses include a putting a new wing and/or engines on the 777-300ER, putting a composite fuselage on the airplane or developing an entirely new airplane, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Albaugh told Leeham's Scott Hamilton at the Farnborough International Airshow.
But what really got my attention was Albaugh's take on the A350-1000 and the response from Airbus sales chief John Leahy. I don't want to steal Hamilton's thunder on the former and can't print the latter, so just go read his post.
A Lufthansa MD-11 cargo plane caught fire and split in half while landing Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, injuring the German pilot and co-pilot, according to an Associated Press report. See more details in the story.
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines and sister carrier Horizon Air announced Tuesday that they have entered into a codeshare agreement with Icelandair and will launch a reciprocal frequent flier partnership.
I had to chuckle at this takeaway from analyst Joseph Campbell and his team at Barclays Capital about the unexpectedly high number of orders at this year's Farnorough International Airshow.
"We believe the unanticipated order activity is a sign of increasing demand for airplanes, and of increased attractiveness of aerospace shares," the wrote in a report released Monday.
Putting aside the obvious, Campbell and his team had a couple of interesting points. One was that the total air show commitments this year far exceed those from 2003 and 2004, the last time the market was at a similar point in the cycle (just picking itself up from bottom).
"This is additionally surprising given that backlogs now are considerably higher than in that period, making near-term delivery positions scarcer – which, all else being equal, would be expected to depress demand," they wrote.
Also, the 376 Farnborough commitments "would usually point to full-year 2010 combined firm orders in the 1,000 to 1,500 range," although Airbus and Boeing executives still say they expect a little over 700 combined orders this year, the analysts wrote. "We do not forecast orders, but we would not expect the relationship of the airshow orders to full-year orders to hold true."
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.'s X2 Technology demonstrator broke the rotorcraft speed record Monday.
Back in May, I wrote about what Boeing was doing to prepare airlines to fly and maintain the composite 787 Dreamliner. Boeing provided more details in a tour last month and let me take my own pictures (I had to use provided ones last time).
Boeing cabin safety training instructor Megan Smith sits in a flight attendant seat in a 787 Dreamliner interior mock up used for training in operating the main cabin door on June 22. The windows show simulated flames. (Aubrey Cohen/seattlepi.com) Photo gallery
Boeing delivered the first F/A-18 Super Hornet with a gun bay door made by India-based Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to the U.S. Navy on July 20, the company announced Monday.
The milestone is notable because such work with HAL is part of Boeing's F/A-18IN Super Hornet bid in India's Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft Competition to replace its Soviet-era MiG-21 fighters.
Boeing also noted that it is working with HAL on the P-8I multi-mission maritime aircraft and 777 airliner.
India is expected to replace many aging aircraft in coming years, including its MiG-21s and MiG-27s, such as the one that crashed Saturday, killing at least two.
A Soviet-era MiG-27 Indian jet crashed into a village in eastern India on Saturday, killing at least two and injuring 11 others.
The pilot ejected before the crash in Moinagudi village, 370 miles north of Kolkata, Indian Air Force spokesman Rajib Sahoo told Agence France Press. Sahoo blamed the crash on an unspecified technical fault.
A farmer died at the scene. A 14-year-old girl later succumbed to her burns, the Times of India reported Monday.
India grounded its fleet of MiG-27s after another crash earlier this year, but brought them back into operation in June after the aircraft were deemed airworthy, AFP reported. It noted that the country is planning to replace the fleet.
A bid with Ukraine's Antonov Co. for the U.S. Air Force's aerial refueling tanker contract is just the first attempt by U.S. Aerospace, Inc. to win business using foreign suppliers, U.S. Aerospace Chairman Jerrold Pressman wrote in an open letter to shareholders Monday.
"(T)his first bid is only one step in effectuating our ongoing long-term business strategy," Pressman wrote. "Our strategic vision is centered around the principles of globalization and the efficiencies that can be offered to U.S. aerospace consumers -- both military and commercial -- by taking advantage of the engineering capability, manufacturing capacity, and lower cost of production overseas."
Andy Jones, 9, and his sister Catie, 6, of Rock Falls, Ill., hang out of the window of a DC-3 aircraft on Sunday, July 25, 2010, at the Whiteside County Airport in Rock Falls, Ill. Nearly 40 historic aircraft are scheduled to fly together from there to Oshkosh, Wisc., on Monday. (AP Photo/Sauk Valley Newspapers, Alex T. Paschal) Photo gallery
Hot on the heels of England's Farnborough International Airshow, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2010 started Monday in Oshkosh, Wisc. Here's a photo gallery that I'll update daily through the show.
Air Berlin reached an agreement Monday to join the oneworld alliance.
"Membership in oneworld would strengthen Air Berlin's competitive position and enable it to participate in the alliance's revenue enhancement and cost reduction activities," the airline said in a regulatory filing ahead of a news conference scheduled for Tuesday.
Boeing completed the final design review for the P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft for India on July 16, clearing the way to start final assembly, the company announced Monday.
Eldon Larson, who piloted a B-17 Flying Fortress during World War II, speaks in front of the Museum of Flight's B-17 on Sunday, July 25, 2010, during a ceremony at Boeing's Plant 2 to mark the 75th anniversary of the B-17's first flight. (Aubrey Cohen/seattlepi.com) Photo gallery
Former B-17 Flying Fortress assembly workers and pilots gathered in front of restored bombers at Boeing's doomed Plant 2 building in Sunday's sun to mark the 75th anniversary of the B-17's first flight.
"I'd like to say one thing to the Boeing people," World War II B-17 pilot Eldon Larson said Sunday. "Aside from the few minutes of being terrorized, it was a wonderful ride."
In case you missed it, Boeing's fourth and final flight-test 747-8 Freighter, RC503, took off on its first flight Thursday night from Everett's Paine Field.
It was a standard first flight, returning to Paine Field, and the plane now is in layup for required post-first-flight inspections, program spokesman Tim Bader said Friday.
RC503 is painted in the new livery of launch customer Cargolux. I'll post a flight photo when I get one.
NASA is soliciting ideas from undergraduates for tests to be conducted in a microgravity aircraft.
Several commentators have noted that, while Airbus, Boeing and Embraer won big commitments at the Farnborough International Airshow, Bombardier announced no orders for its flagship CSeries airliner.
Success for the CSeries may ultimately depend on the overall size of the market for jets of its size.
UPDATE: A reader let me know Air New Zealand parted out ZK-NBS last year and sent a photo link.
The first Boeing 747-400 to be retired from service and broken up for parts arrived at Cotswold Airport, in England, this week, the BBC reported Thursday.
Two more 747-400s are due to arrive at Cotswold in the next month, the BBC reported.
The 747-400 is the direct predecessor of Boeing's 747-8, which is scheduled to enter service in freighter version later this year or in early January and in passenger variant late next year.
Hat tip to Airliners Gallery World Airline News.
My favorite astronomer (doesn't everyone have one?) is stepping it up a notch.
Not satisfied with expounding on how the universe could kill us and why anti-science kooks are wrong in print (book and blog), Phil Plait is taking to the airwaves (OK, cable-waves) on the Discovery Chanel, with "Phil Plait's Bad Universe."
"It's a three-part program where I dissect issues in astronomy and science, putting claims to the test," Plait wrote on his blog. "I get right into the mix, blowing things up, flying in a jet, going where the action is so that I can participate in experiments with scientists and try to find out what works and what doesn't."
Plait said he hopes the show will air this fall. So when will it be on Netflix?
In a test flight over Puget Sound this week, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-700 cut fuel use and reduced emissions by 35 percent compared with a conventional landing, the carrier announced Friday.
A team from Penn Manor High School, in Millersville, Pa., beat out student rocketeers from France and the United Kingdom to win the Third Annual Transatlantic Rocketry Challenge Friday in Farnborough, England.
In a final message to employees from the Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, England, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Albaugh wondered at how quickly the airliner market has recovered.
"I don't think we ever would have envisioned announcing 206 orders here just a few months ago," he said from a business class seat in a Qatar Airways Boeing 777.
Albaugh noted big orders from several leasing companies, including Ireland-based Avolon, GE Capital Aviation Services and, in particular, Steven Udvar-Hazy's Air Lease Corp., which ordered 31 A320s and 20 A321s from Airbus and 54 Boeing 737-800s (with options for six more) and signed a letter of intent to order 15 Embraer 190 jets.
"I think they set the record for the most orders here this week," Albaugh said of ALC.
As for Albaugh's math, I, and Boeing's orders website, count 103 new orders, plus ALC's to-be-finalized agreement for 54 more, although the company also put names to previously unidentified orders for 92 jets and granted ALC options for six planes.
Airbus touted its Farnborough haul of commitments for 255 aircraft: 133 on firm order and memorandum of understanding agreements for 122 more.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday issued airworthiness engine certifications for GE's GEnx-2B and CF34-10A engines.
In case you missed it, FlightBlogger Thursday provided more details on why first delivery of Boeing's 747-8 Freighter might slip into 2011.
The quick version: After fixing a landing gear door flap vibration issue, the program is working to fix an issue on the aircraft's inboard ailerons and the power control unit that drives them and another issue with structural flutter at mid-weight near cruise speed.
See more in the story.
NASA just posted this photo of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin marking the 35th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project with U.S. crew members Gen. Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand.
The mission, from July 15 to 24, 1975, had a U.S. Apollo and Russian Soyuz capsule link up in space as a test of engineering and a show of cooperation. The spacecraft linked on July 17, and Stafford shook hands with Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in the docking ring.
U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts did not fly together again until 1994, and U.S. and Russian spacecraft did not dock with each other again until 1995.
Here's the updated photo gallery from the Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, England, starting with the most-recent pictures from Thursday.
Technicians clean a QinetiQ Aerostar Tactical UAV unmanned aircraft on Thursday, July 22, 2010, at the Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, England. (BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images) Photo gallery
Here's the final orders update from this year's Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, England.
Virgin America signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Airbus on Thursday to buy 40 A320 airliners. The airline now operates 28 Airbus jets and plans to put 22 more into service by the end of 2012.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijan Airlines has signed an agreement with Boeing to order a 767-300ER airliner and two 767 Freighters in place of previous orders for two Next-Generation 737s. Also, Alaska Airlines and Boeing announced that the airline was the previously unnamed customer for two Next-Generation 737-800 orders that Boeing posted in June.
Seattle-based Alaska Air Group -- parent company of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air -- notched a record quarterly profit in the three months ending in June, the company reported Thursday.
Boeing pushed back first delivery of American Airlines' first 787 Dreamliner by two years, under an agreement American disclosed Wednesday.
Alabama's display at the Farnborough International Air Show is pretty paltry, but still manages to be more impressive than Washington's, Dominic Gates reported in The Seattle Times Wednesday.
One not-so-small consolation, of course, is that Boeing is, still, essentially a Washington display.
Airlines made $13.5 billion in ancillary revenue last year, up from $10.25 billion a year earlier, according to a new report.
Federal investigators are investigating how a United Airlines Boeing 777 hit severe turbulence during a cross-country flight Tuesday.
The turbulence over Missouri injured at least 22 and jolted one woman out of her seat so forcefully that she left a crack when she hit the side of the cabin, authorities and a witness told the Associated Press. The flight was the airline's third this year with turbulence severe enough to injure passengers, the AP said.
Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are looking into the incident, the AP reported.
See much more in the story.
Boeing Wednesday announced a new "ecoDemonstrator Program," intended to speed up implementation of environmental technologies.
Allegiant Air and Air China have ordered Blended Winglets for Boeing airliners, Aviation Partners Boeing announced Wednesday.
U.S. airlines saw their passenger traffic and revenue continue to rise in June, the Air Transport Association of America reported Wednesday.
Passenger revenue rose 25 percent from a year earlier, marking the sixth consecutive month of revenue growth, while passenger totals were up about 1.4 percent and the average price to fly one mile rose 20 percent, the association reported, based on a sample group of carriers that includes Seattle-based Alaska Airlines. International passenger revenue rose 38 percent, led by a 58 percent gain in trans-Pacific markets.
U.S. airlines saw cargo revenue ton miles rise 22 percent from a year earlier in May, the most recent month with available data.
"It is clear from these positive results that the recovering U.S. economy is enabling airlines to dig out from the very deep hole of a year ago," association President and Chief Executive Officer James May said in a news release.
Airbus will award up to 30,000 euros to university students who come up with new ideas for greener aviation in a contest the plane maker launched Wednesday at the Farnborough International Airshow.
The Airbus Fly Your Ideas competition involves three progressively challenging rounds judged by a panel of Airbus and industry experts and is set to conclude with a final at next summer's International Paris Air Show. The winners will share the top prize of 30,000 euros, with runners-up sharing 15,000 euros.
"The competition is designed to stimulate ideas for both a more connected and sustainable world," Charles Champion, Airbus executive vice president, engineering, said in a news release. "It also enables Airbus to engage with students and research teams to identify R&T opportunities to balance the increased demand for air travel with a better environment."
Project proposals are due by Dec. 10. Details here.
U.S. operators of 138 Boeing 767 airliners must inspect engine pylons more frequently, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday.
The airworthiness directive, which the FAA plans to publish Thursday, comes after American Airlines and the FAA found structural cracks on at least two 767s.
"Undetected cracking could lead to fracture of the structural components, damage to the pylon, and separation of the engine from the wing," the FAA said.
Specifically, the FAA is ordering initial pylon inspections after 8,000 flights, down from 10,000, and subsequent inspections within 400 flights of the most-recent inspection, down from 1,500. Alternatively, airlines can replace the problematic midspar structural fitting on the pylons.
The directive mirrors a service bulletin that Boeing issued on June 29.
Here's the updated photo gallery from the Farnborough International Airshow, starting with the most-recent pictures, from Wednesday.
An Avro Vulcan jet bomber prepares to land during an air display on Wednesday at the Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, England. (BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images) Photo gallery
Airbus, Boeing and Embraer announced more deals Wednesday at the Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, England.
In case you missed it, Boeing released artist renderings of its planned Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft on Monday at the Farnborough International Airshow.
Boeing is designing CST-100 under an $18 million Commercial Crew Development Space Act Agreement with NASA. The CST-100 would carry a crew of seven and is designed to support the International Space Station and the Bigelow Aerospace Orbital Space Complex.
The CST-100 will be bigger than Apollo but smaller than Orion, and be able to launch on a variety of different rockets, including Atlas, Delta and Falcon, Boeing said. The "100" in CST-100 refers to the 100 kilometers from the ground to low Earth orbit.
The airplane of 2030 to 2050 will be quieter, more comfortable and more fuel efficient, with engines that "have no risk of failure," according to Airbus.
The European Union plans to file its expected appeal of a World Trade Organization ruling on subsidies to Airbus on Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday.
A WTO panel ruled last month that European Union governments illegally subsidized numerous Airbus programs, costing U.S. plane makers significant sales. The initial ruling on a European counter claim about U.S. aid to Boeing is due out in September.
The WTO will not adopt a ruling until after all appeals have run their course. Both sides are expected to negotiate on a potential compromise during that long process.
See more details on the planned appeal in the Tribune report, which quotes unnamed E.U. officials.
UPDATE: Pilot reaction added below.
The U.S. Department of Transportation Tuesday granted American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia airline final approval to create a joint business governing flights between North America and Europe.
China's Hainan Airlines and Japan's All Nippon Airways will equip new Boeing airliners with Blended Winglets, Aviation Partners Boeing announced Tuesday.
Boeing launched a missile from the F-15 Silent Eagle demonstrator's newly designed internal Conformal Weapons Bay on a July 14 flight at Point Mugu Naval Air Weapon Station, Calif., the company announced Tuesday.
Barclays Capital analysts Tuesday yawned at news that first delivery of Boeing's two new commercial airliners could slip into 2011.
European and North American aerospace executives Tuesday supported continued research into the effects of volcanic ash on aircraft and coordination of future air traffic management systems.
Boeing's third 787 Dreamliner left the Farnborough International Airshow, in Farnborough, England, on Tuesday, accompanied by two Supermarine Spitfires. Here's a photo gallery from the show, starting with the most-recent pictures. Here's a video of the 787 departure.
Boeing's third 787 Dreamliner is accompanied by two Supermarine Spitfires as it leaves the Farnborough International Airshow, on Tuesday in Farnborough, England. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Photo gallery
Boeing, Airbus and Brazil's Embraer announced more big orders on Tuesday, the second day of the Farnborough International Air Show.
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