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Boeing 737 MAX Gets New Orders

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Boeing easily beat rival Airbus in orders for new planes last month, but Chicago-based Boeing trailed its European rival in delivering planes to airline customers. Boeing said that it took orders for 31 planes in July while 17 others were canceled, resulting in a net gain of 14. That compared with two orders for Airbus. It was Boeing’s sixth straight month of positive net orders after seeing cancellations exceed orders for most of 2020. Boeing has reported 270 net orders so far in 2021. Brazil’s Gol ordered nine 737 Max jets last month and Dallas-based Southwest Airlines ordered six. Boeing delivered 28 planes in July, including nine 737 Max jets sent to Irish airline Ryanair. That fell short of Airbus, which delivered 47 planes last month. For the year, Boeing has delivered 184 planes, more than all of 2020. This despite the halt in shipping its 787 jet because of production flaws in the fuselage and nose. Last month, the company said it will cut production of 787s. Deliveries are cri...
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✈ New Airbus A380-800 Superjumbo ✈

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Brief Description: The Airbus A380 Superjumbo is a ultraefficient double-deck, wide-body, four-engine airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, an EADS subsidiary. Currently the largest passenger airliner in the world, superseding the Boeing 747 that was first introduced in 1969, and which was the largest and most expensive aircraft in the world until the introduction of the Airbus A380 in 2007. But it will still have a shorter fuselage than the Airbus A340-600 which is Airbus' next biggest passenger aeroplane. The A380 is the first commercial airliner to have a central wing box made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic. It is also the first to have a smoothly contoured wing cross section. The wings of other commercial airliners are partitioned span-wise into sections. This flowing, continuous cross section optimises aerodynamic efficiency. The cabin has features to reduce traveller fatigue such as a quieter interior and have a higher pressurisation than prev...
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[Caught On Video] Meteorite Hurtles Past Norwegian Skydiver

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One summer day in 2012, Anders Helstrup and several other members of the Oslo Parachute Club jumped from a small plane that had taken off from Østre Æra Airport in Hedmark. Anders was wearing his wingsuit with two GoPro HERO3 cameras fixed to his helmet. After he had released his parachute something never before caught on camera happened. On the way down he realised something strange was happening. Meteorite Hurtles Past Norwegian Skydiver GoPro Hero “I got the feeling that there was something, but I didn’t register what was happening,” After landing Anders looked at the film from the two GoPro HERO3 cameras from the jump, which then clearly showed that something did happen. Something that looks like a stone hurtles past Anders, missing him by only a few metres. “When we stopped the GoPro film, we could clearly see something that looked like a stone. At first it crossed my mind that it had been packed into a parachute, but it’s simply too big for that.” Search fo...
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Amazing EU Air Traffic Simulation

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Amazing European Air Traffic Simulation in 24 Hour Period This is an amazing data visualization that was created from real flight data taken from a day in July 2013. It highlights the intensity of the air traffic operation in Europe. An operation which runs 24x7 and 365 days a year. NATS and the UK are at the heart of the operation. The video simulation show Heathrow as the busiest international airport in Europe, and Gatwick as the busiest single runway airport in the word, we play a key role in ensuring air traffic under our control in European airspace is as safe and efficient as it can be.
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Location: London-Heathrow flygplats (LHR), Terminal 1, Greater London, Storlondon TW6 1AP, Storbritannien
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✈ New Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner ✈

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Brief Description: The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner is a superefficient airplane of the third millennium with new passenger-pleasing features. It will bring the economics of large jet transports to the middle of the market, using 20 percent less fuel than any other airplane of its size. The main innovation of the new 787 Dreamliner over the aircraft of previous generations is the use of composite material carbon fibre instead of aluminium, which significantly reduces the weight and improves performance. The conditions onboard the plane are continuously monitored by a system of sensors, which also report any maintenance needs to the ground computer systems. Even the air in the cabin has a greater level of humidity than at present and the altitude within the cabin has been reduced by around 1000 meters, this significantly improve the comfort conditions for travellers. The added light from the larger windows also makes the interior more comfortable. Advances in engine technology hav...
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✈ Year 2050 Planes Will Fly in Bird-like Formations ✈

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Reduced Aircraft Mass 1. Reduced structural and payload weight Some of the ideas dealt with in other sections may have relevance here: the use of ground power augmentation (section 2.2) may serve to reduce engine thrust or the use of detachable or ground located undercarriages (section 4.1.3). However, the most effective approach to a better relationship between power, weight and payload seems to rest with new concepts for the aircraft design. The concept that appears to receive most effort to bring it forward is the Blended Wing Body [BWB]. The savings of drag achieved by its tail-less nature are significant and the L/D function in designs being studied is about 15% higher than current design conventions. Reducing the structural weight of a given concept will bring about benefits dependent upon its operational use. Broadly based figures suggest that the percentage taken off the weight of the aircraft, engines and systems will produce a percentage saving in fuel burn per tonne-k...
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✈ Ideas About Aircraft Carriers - Battleship Destruction Capability ✈

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Came across a think tank about Aircraft Carriers that I think might be a good read. Some interesting facts came to light that say alot about the current situation and for anyone interested you might want to give this one a read. Floating ideas about aircraft carriers Original Story at www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/mar/23/aircraft-carrier-navy-think-tank/ Your article “New doubts about future of carriers” (utsandiego.com, March 20) by Gary Robbins left out one obvious solution: the battleship. The United States Marine Corps has not had any credible surface-fire capability since Desert Storm when two battleships were on station to provide this needed and massive level of close-in support. This was all documented by the CNO on Dec. 3, 1996, and GAO on Aug. 6, 1997. A single battleship can lay down more devastating firepower in one hour than can all the attack aircraft operating from two carrier battle groups.  A single battleship can provide more lethality in that per...
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✈ B-52 Stratofortress Rusting Away at Museum of Aviation ✈

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This is an interesting story about how downsizing and economic trouble causes museums to scrap Cold War icons and other military aircrafts that belong to future generations.  Yes there is no possibility to keep all our relics intact, however what strikes me with this story is how hard can it really be to build a roof for the planes? It's just so sad for me to hear what they are planing to do with all the planes..
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