The Farnborough Airshow was the hottest ever, a heat wave ravaged Great Britain with temparatures above 40 degrees celcius. American aircraft maker Boeing managed to secure more orders for new aircraft than its European rival […]
It has been a while since I last visited Schiphol to spend some time and take some pictures of daily landings. Friday October 29th we had the opportunity to go out for the day with […]
Our Biannual visit to the UK for Farnborough, RIAT and some Museums brought us to an hotel next to Heathrow’s landing strip. A great spot for luxury aircraft spotting with picnic tables, a nice pint […]
The Airbus A350 (Airbus response to the Boeing 787) is based on the A330, but with substantial improvements to boost range. It offers a maximum of operational commonality with the current A330/A340 line – including […]
The Eurocopter EC120 Colibri is a 5-seat, single-engine, single main rotor, light helicopter. Developing nation: France/China. Manufacturer/designer: Eurocopter, China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (CATIC), Harbin Aviation Industries (Group) Ltd (HAI) and Singapore Technologies […]
One of the greatest attributes of the Airbus A330 as a tanker aircraft is its massive internal fuel capacity, the 111.000 kg / 122 tons of fuel is held in the wings which leaves the […]
The A400M program is a direct result of a commonly expressed need by 8 European air forces for a new generation military airlifter. Airbus A400M timeline: The Airbus A400M development started in the seventies as […]
The commercial launch for the A340-500/600 was at the 1997 Paris Airshow, the program’s industrial launch was in December that year when Virgin Atlantic ordered eight A340-600s and optioned eight. Compared with the A340-300, the […]
The A340-500 is stretched by only 3.19 m compared with the A340-300, the A340-500 offers the longest range capability of any airliner. With the entry into service at Emirates and Singapore Airlines, the A340-500 now […]
The A340 shares the same flight deck including side stick controllers and EFIS, plus fly-by-wire, basic airframe, systems, fuselage and wing with the A330 (the flight deck is also common to the A320 series). Benefiting […]
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