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Airbus: 45 years of commercial airliners

28/10/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

On the 28th October 1972 Airbus flew its first commercial airliner, the Airbus A300. As well as being Airbus first aircraft, it was also the worlds first twin-engine wide-body aircraft. Developed in the 1960’s the A300 was the first aircraft to be designed and built by the newly created Airbus [read more]

Aircraft materials firm creates 50 jobs in North Wales

24/09/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Belgian aircraft materials manufacturer Solvay has said it plans to create up to 50 jobs in North Wales as it expands its adhesives, surfacing films and lightning strike protection operations. The state-of-the-art facility in Wrexham will manufacture aerospace structural adhesives and surfacing films at the new site which was inaugurated on the [read more]

Welsh wings help A350 fly ultra-long range

24/09/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

Welsh wings made by Airbus in Broughton are helping the newly delivered Airbus A350-900ULR fly routes up to 9,700nm. The Ultra Long Range (ULR) variant of the ground breaking A350XWB range of aircraft has just entered service with Singapore Airlines, who have ordered 7 of the type. Aside from the [read more]

Christine Ourmières-Widener, the CEO of Flybe (centre), launches the new FlyShe programme with just some of her many female colleagues

FlyShe – The Flybe initiative to address gender diversity

19/09/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Regional airline Flybe (BE/BEE) has become the latest airline to launch an initiative aimed at attracting women into aviation but FlyShe goes beyond the flight deck. FlyShe is being spearheaded by Flybe’s CEO Christine Ourmières-Widener, the UK’s only female airline CEO, and is aimed at inspiring the next generation of [read more]

Airbus looks to add flying technology to its ships

09/09/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

European aerospace company Airbus has said it is planning to add its aeronautical expertise to an innovation that could revolutionize maritime transport. The SeaWing is a fully automated para-foil kite which is deployed from the front of the ship in order to “tow” the vessel through the water providing an [read more]

Openskies 767 F-HILU turns off the runway at MOD St Athan (Image: Ian Grinter/SWAG)

Openskies 767 has last flight to South Wales

08/09/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Transatlantic specialist Openskies (LV/BOS) ceased operations at the beginning of September 2018 and just days later, its last Boeing 767 took its final flight, to St Athan in South Wales. Openskies, sometimes called BA Openskies was set up in 2008 by International Airlines Group in an effort to reduce British [read more]

A Wamos A330 (Image: Russell Lee/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Norwegian extends Wamos A330 lease for Gatwick flights

27/08/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Low-Cost carrier Norwegian.com is extending the lease of a Wamos Air A330-200 until the the end of October. The Wamos aircraft will operated the London Gatwick to New York JFK service from 2nd September to 27th October, a route normally operated by a state of the art Boeing 787-9. The [read more]

GKN Aerospace awarded STC for 737 ADS-B Out

15/08/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

GKN Fokker Services, part of GKN Aerospace, has been granted a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) by EASA for its ADS-B Out modification for Boeing Next-Generation 737 aircraft. The certificate allows GKN Fokker Services to carry out the modification to ADS-B Out on Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft ahead of the deadline [read more]

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First Ultra-Long Range A350 XWB rolls out of paintshop

30/07/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

The first Ultra-Long Range (ULR) Airbus A350 XWB has emerged out of the paint shop in full Singapore Airliners livery today. MSN220 is the first of Seven A350-900 ULR for the Singapore Airlines who plan to use it on routes including Singapore to New York with which it will reclaim its [read more]

Airbus BelugaXL (Image: S. Ramadier/Airbus)

Successful first flight for the Airbus BelugaXL OST

20/07/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Airbus has successfully completed the first flight of its latest Out-Sized Transport (OST) aircraft, the Beluga XL. The Aircraft landed at Toulouse at 14:41 hrs local time after successfully completing its first test flight lasting four hours and 11 minutes just south of Airbus headquarters. The test flight was carried out [read more]