Lessor CIT Aerospace has ordered 38 Boeing 737s, comprising 23 737-800s and 15 737-900ERs. The order is the largest placed for the 737NG from a lessor, and will see deliveries made up until 2017.
The F-35 JSF program met many of its flight test goals in 2010 but also missed a few key targets at the same time. The year was capped off with an eleventh hour first flight of the fourth CTOL F-35A development aircraft, AF-4, from Forth Worth on December 30, making a total of nine development
Reports and photographs from China indicate that country will soon test fly a large stealthy combat aircraft prototype from the Chengdu facility in the country’s north. Grainy images of the aircraft, variously dubbed J-XX or J-20, show a long and wide fuselage with low observable engine intakes and a forward chine, a high set delta
Air New Zealand’s first Boeing 777-300ER touched down at Auckland on December 24 at the end of its delivery flight from Seattle, bringing with it the airline’s much vaunted new interior, including its ‘cuddle couch’ economy ‘Skycouch’. “This is the best Christmas present we could possibly imagine,” Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe said. “Four long years
Boeing has resumed 787 flight testing after fitting test aircraft ZA004 with interim updated power distribution system software, but says an updated program schedule won’t be known until January. “Initially, we will resume a series of Boeing tests that remain to be completed in the flight test program,” said Scott Fancher, vice president and general
Qantas international passenger numbers fell by 0.6 per cent in November compared to same month in 2009, as the airline felt the affects of grounding its Airbus A380 fleet for much of the month following the QF32 inflight uncontained engine failure emergency. Qantas carried some 479,000 international passengers for the month, despite its six strong
