Joe Sutter Decal Applied to Final 747F (With several photos) December 2022 was a particularly tough month for commercial aviation geeks. Indeed, Boeing dismissed the production of one of the most loved commercial aircraft of all time, the Boeing 747. This aircraft, also known as "jumbo" f...

No airline mentioned but Delta does serve Tampa..... Article does have image of the snake in the baggage. 4-foot boa constrictor found in luggage at Tampa airport The snake was discovered after the bag passed through an X-ray machine. Workers at Tampa International Airport discovered a 4-foot boa co...

I recall recently reading that Boeing is down to the last 2 or 3 747-800 deliveries. Hopefully Verbal can send us a photo of the last one leaving the plant in the coming months. In the meantime, here is an article about another engine with those chevrons being tested on a 747-200. Rolls-Royce Is Tes...

One Final Flight? Malaysia Airlines Airbus A380 Ferried To French Aircraft Storage (with video of takeoff) Also in the article is a link to this: China Southern Will Operate Its Last Airbus A380 Flight On Sunday A Malaysia Airlines Airbus A380 took off from Kuala Lumpur Airport on Monday, operating...

North Korea's Air Koryo -all about the world’s worst airline Article has a series of photographs with captions. Here is an excerpt: Air Koryo is the best airline in North Korea, thanks to no small measure that it’s the country’s only air carrier. This state-owned company has been dubbed the lowest-...

2 Weeks On: Korean Air Airbus A330 Remains At The End Of Runway Article includes additional photographs. Excerpt: Two weeks after an Airbus A330-300 overshot the runway during a landing attempt, the remains of the severely damaged aircraft still remain at Cebu International Airport in the Philippin...

Delivery vehicle struck by train. The video attached to this link is not for the squeamish. Please think twice before viewing. A woman's heartbreaking comments can be heard on the video. https://boingboing.net/2022/10/27/cute-little-food-delivery-robot-crushed-under-the-wheels-of-a-locomotive-video....

With Photos Excerpt MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A damaged Korean Air plane remained stuck in the grass at a central Philippine airport Monday after it overshot a runway in rainy weather the night before. No injuries were reported among the 162 passengers and 11 crewmembers who escaped from the aircra...

Finnair Has a Plan to Find a New Niche Other than, say, Ukraine International Airlines, almost no non-Russian airline has been hit harder than Finnair with the increasing isolation of Russia. It’s not that Finnair cares much about Russia itself but rather, the airline needs to use its airspace. Wit...

Verbal Vindicated Regarding the now discontinued Rolls Royce 747-400 Test Aircraft A 22-year-old plane According to ch-aviation.com, the aircraft due to be scrapped is 22.65 years old, having first flown on January 18th, 2000. It was delivered to Qantas just six days later and has only ever flown fo...

Rolls-Royce axes testbed conversion plan for ex-Qantas 747-400 Excerpt: Rolls-Royce has ditched plans to turn a former Qantas Boeing 747-400 into a flying testbed and will now dispose of the aircraft which has sat idle at Moses Lake airport in Washington state for over two years. Announcing the acq...

Lufthansa's 1st Boeing 787 Is Due To Be Delivered Today According to a post on the airline's Instagram story and confirmed to Simple Flying by the airline, D-ABPA is scheduled to depart Seattle at around 16:00 local time before arriving at the airline's Frankfurt stronghold tomorrow morning. Follow...

I guess it is time to post this old British safety sign.


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Qantas to pick planemaker via contest to replace ageing A330 fleet SYDNEY (Reuters) - Qantas Airways Ltd plans to run a competition between aircraft manufacturers to replace its ageing fleet of 28 Airbus SE A330 planes in the next 12 to 18 months, its chief financial officer said on Thursday. * * *...

Boeing Is Currently Assembling The Last Ever 747 Jumbo Jet According to the article it will be delivered in October. The last Boeing 747 will soon roll off the manufacturer's production line as it is nearing completion on assembly as the freighter variant. Once the finishing touches are tidied up, ...

So let's get back to the A380.... The following article says that Malaysia hasn't used these six planes in revenue service since 2020 but continues to conduct periodic short flights and more often ground operations to keep them current. Being owned, not leased, the airline continues to hope for a bu...

Along with some biologically-related questions, I'd like to know how they "refueled" the pilots? We have already heard about tossing a roll of toilet paper out of an aircraft. It doesn't take too much imagination to think of the obvious next step - throwing "used" toilet paper o...

Emirates wants an updated A380. Tim Clark's argument is the current offerings from Airbus and Boeing won't be able to handle traffic growth and limits in capacity at places such as LHR or Amsterdam / Schiphol. Oh, and he notes passengers like the showers. Excerpt: Clark's answer is a new plane as bi...

Aeroflot Is Reportedly Using Its Young Airbus A350s For Spare Parts Excerpt: With sanctions forbidding any export of aircraft or their spare parts from the EU or the US to Russia, it was only a matter of time before airlines needed to cannibalize their own fleets to maintain operations. Reportedly,...

Air New Zealand brings first aircraft back from the American desert Excerpt: Air New Zealand is bringing its first jet back from storage in an American desert, nearly 700 days since it was sent there due to Covid-19 decimating international travel. In 2020, the airline shipped four of its largest p...

Boeing to Deliver 787-8 to AA on August 10 Excerpt: The 787-8 bound for American Airlines will be the first 787 delivered since Boeing suspended them in May 2021. Reports say that Boeing has around 120 completed 787s waiting for delivery, although how many have already been inspected per the approve...

Here is a bunch of information from Airlilners.net. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page to see links to taxi maps, images of the damage and a recording of the Ground Control audio One of the forum commenters stated: Controller instructs them to do exactly what they did. They are on CC short o...

FAA clears Boeing to resume delivery of 787 Dreamliners Excerpt: The Federal Aviation Administration notified Boeing on Friday that it would approve the company’s process for validating fixes to each plane before they are delivered to airline customers, said the person, who spoke on condition of an...

Airbus reshapes A350 cabin to accommodate up to 30 more seats Sounds fairly reasonable, right? Airbus is nearing introduction of a new interior configuration standard for the A350 which will permit 10-abreast economy seating and potentially add 30 seats to the aircraft’s accommodation. The densific...

Airbus & CFM Team Up To Launch Open-Fan Engine Architecture Testbed To be tested on an A380 based on several images. Article has images and video. Excerpt: Both Airbus and CFM have extensive plans for this collaboration. Some of the objectives this program aims to achieve include enhanced under...