Puddy's Homepage

Airbus & Boeing News111

Homepage Wonders of Nature Photo Album

Boeing 787 Dreamliner Fly's For The First Time

The newest member of the Boeing family of commercial jetliners took off from Paine Field in Everett, Wash. at 10:27 a.m. local time.

After approximately three hours, it landed at 1:33 p.m. at Seattle's Boeing Field.787 Chief Pilot Mike Carriker and Capt. Randy Neville tested some of the airplane's systems and structures, as on-board equipment recorded and transmitted real-time data to a flight-test team at Boeing Field.

After takeoff from Everett, the airplane followed a route over the east end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Capts. Carriker and Neville took the airplane to an altitude of 15,000 feet (4,572 meters) and an air speed of 180 knots, or about 207 miles (333 kilometres) per hour, customary on a first flight."Today is truly a proud and historic day for the global team who has worked tirelessly to design and build the 787 Dreamliner - the first all-new jet airplane of the 21st century," said Scott Fancher, vice president and general manager of the 787 program.

"We look forward to the upcoming flight test program and soon bringing groundbreaking levels of efficiency, technology and passenger comfort to airlines and the flying public."

Powered by two Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines, the first Boeing 787 will be joined in the flight test program in the coming weeks and months by five other 787s

Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Boeing 747 v Airbus a380 Airbus a380 v Boeing 787

British Airways Buy 12 Airbus a 380 And 24 787s

The airline is buying 12 Airbus A380 super jumbos and 24 Boeing 787s. It also has options for a further seven A380s and 18 of the 787 planes.. They will be delivered between 2010 and 2014 The new aircraft will replace 34 of BA's existing long-haul fleet. The new planes would be "greener, quieter and more fuel efficient" with much lower CO2 emissions, BA said, All will be fitted with Rolls Royce engines. The A380 will be used to provide more passenger spaces in key markets, particularly in flights from Heathrow These new aircraft will continue our commitment to deliver the best travel experience to our customers," said BA chief executive Willie Walsh.

"This order builds upon our recent investment in improving the customer experience through (Heathrow) Terminal 5",

The new Club World cabin, in-flight entertainment system and ba.com." BA added that it had arranged a $1.5bn debt financing facility with a group of banks to cover the order

The growing numbers of pilots already qualified on Airbus fly-by-wire aircraft will feel right at home in the A380 flight deck.as the new 555-seat Airbus airliner uses the same cockpit philosophy and operating procedures as the A320 and A330/A340 Families, while also benefiting from advances in technology for displays, flight management systems and navigation.

The A380 cockpit will have eight identical large interactive displays on the main instrument panel, with cursor control provided through a track-ball. The displays provide a much larger screen area with clearer presentations, and they are augmented by a HUD (head-up display) that increases pilot situational awareness, particularly during the approach and landing phases.

Airbus New Brake To Vacate System

...braking: The Brake-to-Vacate system, designed by a multinational Airbus team, will help ease airport congestion and reduce the amount of time an aircraft remains on the runway. Enabling pilots to select a runway exit while the aircraft is making its landing approach, Brake-to-Vacate uses the auto-flight, flight controls, and auto-brake systems to regulate deceleration after touchdown. This allows the aircraft to reach a specified exit at the correct speed under optimum conditions. The system will be offered as an option on all A380s by 2007, and will be followed by retrofits available on all of other Airbus aircraft Families.

Airbus A380

Airbus A380 Arrives In Canada

Airbus A380 Undergoing Cold Weather Testing In Canada

Airbus A380 Arrives At Heathrow For Airport Proving Tests

Bad Day At The Office?

Airbus A340 Belonging to Etihad's Damaged

An A340-600, which was set for delivery to Etihad, ploughed into a wall at Airbus HQ during ground testing, injuring 10 people. The plane was under going final ground testing before being delivered to Etihad based in the UAE. Etihad had considered cancelling all future orders with Airbus because off the accident. The plane future is unknown

BA Boeing 777 Shock Report

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued an urgent safety recommendation calling for a redesign of a Rolls-Royce engine component in the plane, following two engine rollbacks - sudden power losses - last year. It came as a UK accident report showed how a build-up of ice on the fuel/oil heat exchanger (FOHE) could have caused the incident at Heathrow in January last year that left one person seriously injured among the 150 people on board.

The BA flight from Beijing just cleared a perimeter fence at Heathrow before crash landing short of the runway. The plane's captain Peter Burkill and co-pilot John Coward were hailed as heroes for their skilful handling of the aircraft. A second incident involving a Boeing 777 occurred 10 months later when a Delta Air Lines plane experienced a single engine rollback while cruising over Montana en route to Atlanta.

In both cases, a build-up of ice on the FOHE restricted the flow of fuel to the engine, resulting in the engine rollback. As a result, the NTSB has called for a redesign of the FOHE that would eliminate the potential of ice build-up. Rolls-Royce has said that a new version of the component is already under way and it is estimated that it will be ready to be fitted within 12 months. But until then, all Boeing 777s will have to operate with the suspected fault. There are currently 220 Boeing 777s in operation, 15 owned by British Airways.

Mark Rosenker, acting chairman of the NTSB said: "With two of these rollback events occurring within a year, we believe that there is a high probability of something happening again." Air accident investigators in the US have warned there is a "high probability" that a fault leading to the crash landing of a BA jet at Heathrow will strike other Boeing 777s.

What might have been a catastrophe in New York — one that evoked the feel if not the scale of the Sept. 11 attack — was averted by a pilot’s quick thinking and deft manoeuvres, and by the nearness of rescue boats, a combination that witnesses and officials called miraculous. As stunned witnesses watched from high-rise buildings on both banks, the Airbus A320, which had risen to 3,200 feet over the Bronx and banked left, came downriver, its fuselage lower than many apartment terraces and windows, in a carefully executed touchdown shortly after 3:30 p.m. that sent up huge plumes of water at midstream, between West 48th Street in Manhattan and Weehawken, N.J. On board, the pilot, Chesley B. Sullenberger III, 57, unable to get back to La GuardiaHe had made a command decision to avoid densely populated areas and try for the Hudson, and had warned the 150 passengers to brace for a hard landing. Most had their heads down as the jetliner slammed into the water, nose slightly up, just three minutes after takeoff on what was to be a flight to Charlotte, N.C. Many on board and watching from the shores were shocked that the aircraft did not sink immediately instead, it floated, twisting and drifting south in strong currents, as three New York Waterway commuter ferries moved in.

Moments later, terrified passengers began swarming out the emergency exits into brutally cold air and onto the submerged wings of the bobbing jetliner, which began taking in water. As the first ferry nudged up alongside, witnesses said, some passengers were able to leap onto the decks. Others were helped aboard by ferry crews..

Soon, a small armada of police boats, fireboats, tugboats and Coast Guard craft converged on the scene, and some of them snubbed up to keep the jetliner afloat. Helicopters brought wet-suited police divers, who dropped into the water to help with the rescues. Over the next hour, as a captivated city watched continuous television reports and the Hudson turned from gold to silver in the gathering winter twilight, all of the passengers, including at least one baby, and both pilots and all three flight attendants, were transferred to the resuce boats a feat that unfolded as the white and blue jetliner continued to drift south. When all were out the pilot walked up and down the aisle twice to make sure the plane was empty, officials said.

Boeing 747 Eats Baggage Cart On Runway In LA

Click Here To Search For A Flight Or Track It

Track Aircraft In-flight And Get Airport Information Trial Software Only
Please e-mail me at

m@puddy.co.uk

Page 2

A Boeing 757 belonging to Thomas Cook the holiday company had to make an emergency landing at Turin Caselle airport on 21 February 2010 because of a major fuel leak. The plane had just taken off from the airport en route to Birmingham, UK when it was forced to return to Turin. If it had continued, the plane would not have had enough fuel to complete the journey. Passengers and crew stayed at a nearby hotel overnight and completed their journey safely, following repairs to the plane, on 22 February 2010. The runway had to be closed for two hours while the fuel was cleaned up and several flights were diverted.

Thomas Cook Boeing 757 Fuel Leak Alert

A large metal baggage container was sucked into the engine of a Japan Airlines Boeing 747 on Monday as the giant jetliner prepared to depart with 245 passengers from Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.

The accident occurred about 1:30 p.m. when Flight 61 to Narita, Japan, pulled back from Gate 101 at the Tom Bradley International Terminal. Airport officials said the vacuum created by the air intake of the left outboard engine was so strong it pulled the empty container off a baggage cart that was either parked or driven too close to the aircraft.

US Airways Airbus A320 Ditched in to the River Hudson In New York