A joint review by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing has concluded that the 787 Dreamliner meets required safety standards. The review, which was launched in January 2013, looked at design, certification and production processes relating to the 787-8. “The review’s findings validate the integrity of the airplane’s design, and confirm the strength
Brisbane Airport Corporation has welcomed the federal government’s decision not to place a curfew on the airport. Imposing a curfew would have damaged Queensland’s tourism industry and limited the state’s economic growth, chief executive officer and managing director Julieanne Alroe said on Wednesday. Alroe stated that the airport would not only meet aircraft noise mitigation
CASA has issued a proposed airworthiness directive covering the replacement of tie rods for Tiger Moth aircraft manufactured by Australian company JR Engineering. This follows the in-flight break-up of de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth VH-TSG off South Stradbroke Island during an aerobatic joy flight in December last year, which killed pilot Alex Rae and
A mockup of the newly-launched Bell 505 Jet Ranger X will be a star exhibit at the forthcoming Rotor Tech 2014 conference and trade show, organisers have announced. Bell launched the 505 at the Heli-Expo convention in Anaheim, California, in February, and a mockup of the new light single helicopter is due to go on
Final assembly of the first A320neo is underway at Airbus’s Toulouse facility with the joining of the forward and aft fuselage sections. The forward fuselage is built at Airbus’s Saint Nazaire, France plant, with the rear fuselage built in Hamburg, Germany. Final assembly will take approximately one month, Airbus says, with first flight planned for
CAE has begun training at its new Perth training centre, the Canadian-based simulation and training company announced last week. The new Perth facility features Fokker 50, Fokker 100 and Embraer Phenom 100 full flight simulators plusbriefing rooms, a multi-use classroom, offices and workshops facilities, and can train “approximately 2,000 crew members and cadets per year at
