• Heard of the airplane hotel?

    Updated: 2011-02-26 18:55:47
    I’m sure you’ve heard of this. I hadn’t. There’s a pretty neat hotel in Costa Rica built in the shape of an airplane, or maybe it was a real airplane converted to a hotel. Sort of looks like that.

  • Boeing Wins USAF Tanker Deal

    Updated: 2011-02-25 20:13:56
    The Pentagon recently announced, that Boeing has won the $35 billion USAF tanker contract. The contract means Boeing will initially build 179 of its 767-based KC-46A tankers to replace the Air Force KC-135 tankers. Boeing must design, develop, manufacture and deliver the first 18 combat-ready airplanes by 2017. The first tanker is scheduled to fly in [...]

  • Photo - First Korean Air A380 Leaves Paint Shop

    Updated: 2011-02-24 21:02:52
    Today the first Airbus A380 for Korean Air (MSN035) has been rolled out of the Airbus paint shop in Hamburg. The aircraft is the first of 10 A380s ordered by the Asian airline. Korean Air will become the sixth operator of the A380 when it takes delivery in the second quarter of this year. Korean Air will [...]

  • Khadafi Ordered Lockerbie Bombing?

    Updated: 2011-02-23 23:51:39
    This New York Post article quotes an interview by Sweden’s Expressen with Libya’s Justice Minister Mustafa Abdel-Jalil. In the interview, Abdel-Jalil says that Libyan leader, Moammar Khadafi personally ordered bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi to destroy the Boeing 747 Pan Am Flight 103 and kill all on board, and that he had written proof of [...]

  • Remembering pioneers

    Updated: 2011-02-15 17:42:15
    You may recognize these pioneers. Margaret Kerr Boyland was a WASP (Women’s Airforce Service Pilots) during World War II and never questioned why she and her fellow WASPs got no federal benefits for their service, until the 1970s. She helped lead a successful lobbying effort for veteran benefits. She died in Nov. 2010. Charles H. [...]

  • Photos - 747-8 Intercontinental Unveiled

    Updated: 2011-02-14 21:00:51
    Boeing today unveiled its brand new Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental - and man, she’s a beauty! “The new 747-8 Intercontinental features the latest in innovative technologies — applying many of the breakthroughs also found on the 787 Dreamliner,” said Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Albaugh. “We think our customers will value the low [...]

  • Navy pilot completes 1st F-35C flight

    Updated: 2011-02-13 21:36:50
    This test took place Feb. 11, 2011. A naval aviator has completed the first flight of the F-35C aircraft. It was done at Patuxent Naval Air Station (proper name alert: Naval Air Station Patuxent River) on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland in preparation for testing the airplane on an aircraft carrier. You can see the [...]

  • Naval aviation 100th birthday

    Updated: 2011-02-12 17:46:08
    The Washington Post ran a sponsored special section on the 100th anniversary of U.S. Navy aviation. You can download it here from an organization formed to honor the anniversary. Want to weird out for a couple of minutes? Watch this C-130 land repeatedly on an aircraft carrier while former Vulcan Leonard Nemoy sings in the [...]

  • Airbus Strikes Back With WTO Ad

    Updated: 2011-02-09 20:56:10
    As we all know, the guys at Boeing are a bunch of whiners when it comes to topics regarding its rival Airbus. At least since the tanker-fight and the latest WTO dispute they don’t pass up the chance to release statements with nothing but hot air and made-up “facts”. But now Airbus has jumped on [...]

  • Rollout of 1000th Boeing 767

    Updated: 2011-02-03 18:27:21
    On Feb. 2, 2011 Boeing marked an important milestone in the company’s history. Boeing celebrated the rollout of the 1000th 767 airplane. The 1,000th airplane is a 767-300ER (extended range) passenger model for ANA (All Nippon Airways) and was the final 767 to complete assembly on the current production line. Final production work already is underway [...]

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