A380 Operators have taken a couple of planes out of storage. Qantas has taken an Airbus A380 out of storage in the USA and ferried it to Dresden in Germany. Paywall: https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospace/qantas-transfers-a380-from-la-to-dresden/145180.article (Dresden is the location of a company t...

The transcript of the cockpit voice recorder is included at the end of the report. Here is the last 35 seconds: FO Two hundred and fifty, we're about to pass over Page VOR FO You know where that is? CPT Yeah FO All right CPT About a hundred and eighty degrees to Texarkana FO About a hundred and fift...

Sabbath Mode. Rolls off the tongue much easier than Abnormal Alternate Law. We'll have to remember that.

Keep an eye on the train tracker - these types of movements are often late.

For a better Union Pacific livery, the largest operating steam locomotive in the world is currently touring flyover country in the Midwest. Note to 3WE, the 4014 will be in St Louis on August 29 and displayed from 0900 - 1500 at the St. Louis Gateway Transportation Center, 430 S. 15th St. There will...

I was hoping for an image of a passenger duct-taped to their seat. 13-year-old restrained with duct tape on flight after attempting to kick out window https://wgxa.tv/news/nation-world/13-year-old-restrained-with-duct-tape-on-flight-after-attempting-to-kick-out-window VIDEO: Airline employees duct-t...

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And a little history with additional photos.
https://www.airporthistory.org/kennedy- ... years.html

Let's refresh our memories. Excerpt of: The A350 XWB – Advanced Materials and Design Composites Over half (53%) of the aircraft’s fuselage is composed of composite materials to avoid the need for fatigue-related inspections which are required on conventional aluminum aircraft. This is in part due to...

Article (with many photos) discusses various tests including flight deck touch screens, lower profile anti-collision lights (one is mounted in a blanked out window opening) and interior panels manufactured from recycled plastic. Take a look at the new Alaska Airlines 737 MAX that Boeing is using as ...

When Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev made his famous shoe-pounding visit to the United Nations in New York in 1960, he was delighted that there were no air stairs available at (then) Idlewild Airport that could reach the cabin passenger door, so that he descended on a ladder to the top of the air stai...

Another article (with paywall) says the freighter will most likely be a modification of the -1000 series. PARIS, July 29 (Reuters) - Europe's Airbus (AIR.PA) took aim at one of Boeing's (BA.N) most profitable strongholds on Thursday with plans for a freighter version of its A350 passenger jet, gambl...

Video Showing The Repairs To The 787 Gap Defects

The gaps are reported to be 5 thousands of an inch - about the thickness of a piece of paper. The issue isn't safety but a deviation from the design spec.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65wHrKhYpOE

PICTURED! WE FIND EVERY QANTAS 747 STILL IN A BONEYARD July 27, 2021 While most boneyards heavily restrict access and most satellite images are too fuzzy, Google Earth and its Microsoft rival, Zoom Earth, regularly send aircraft with long lenses to snap most of the world, including off-limit plane s...

Here is some recent coverage from a few days ago.

Next-to-last cut begins on Golden Ray wreckage

https://www.news4jax.com/news/georgia/ ... -wreckage/

With lurid photos of the gear and damaged golf course. Part of plane's landing gear breaks off, falls onto Maine golf course GORHAM, Maine — Part of a plane's landing gear broke off and fell onto a Maine golf course this week. Gorham police said they received a call at about 6 p.m. from the Portland...

United Airlines Sends Engine Failure 777 To The Mojave Desert Excerpt with photos of N772UA Until yesterday, the aircraft had been stored in Colorado since the incident, which caused engine parts to rain down on the local suburbs. However, it has now taken to the skies once again, flying to Victorv...

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My Heavens, will it ever end??? Six Malaysia Airlines Airbus A380s Go Up For Sale Malaysia Airlines is putting all six of its Airbus A380 aircraft up for sale. The airline is inviting interesting parties to make an offer for the planes. Interestingly, as opposed to going through the usual channels t...

Here are a few other recent articles that may be accessible: Video: Fifth Section of Golden Ray Wreck Hoisted and Removed https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/video-fifth-section-of-golden-ray-wreck-hoisted-and-removed Video shows extent of oil spill as crews completed Golden Ray Section Three...

Only one mention of lobsters: Runway overshoot that destroyed 747 cargo jet in Halifax caused by many factors: TSB HALIFAX -- Confusing runway instructions, an unexpected tailwind and crew fatigue were factors that contributed to a 2018 runway overshoot that destroyed a Boeing 747 cargo jet at Halif...

They're still working on it....includes lurid photos of wrecked automobiles. Section 3 of Golden Ray removed from St. Simons Sound Salvors removed another huge chunk of the shipwrecked Golden Ray from the St. Simons Sound before sunrise Monday. The 3,640-metric-ton Section 3 was hauled away on a dry...

Rumor: Delta Acquiring Used Airbus A350-900s from LATAM There has been a thread on airliners.net for about a week about how Delta is allegedly considering acquiring some used Airbus A350s and Boeing 737s. There are plenty of 737s on the market, so there don’t seem to be many specific details there a...

Boeing 737 Max 10 completes first flight June 19 article includes photograph and data table comparing 737 Max Variants. Boeing's latest airliner completed its first flight when the company's 737 Max 10 landed at Boeing Field near Seattle on Friday afternoon. The 2.5-hour flight over Washington stat...

FedEx Has Retired The World’s Last Active Commercial MD-10-10F (FedEx still flies a few MD-10- 30 F's) Excerpt: Memphis-based logistics giant FedEx has closed the book on a chapter of airfreight history. Earlier this month, the company retired the last of its, and indeed the world’s, aging McDonnel...

LH that had been on display at Hamburg for many years is being scrapped. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Boeing_707-430_%28Lufthansa_D-ABOD%29_01.jpg June 9 Excerpt: A historic Boeing 707 that was being preserved at Hamburg Airport has been towed across the airfield. Tomorrow, w...