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Airbus BelugaXL (Image: Aviation Media Agency)

Welsh Wings help BelugaXL enter service

20/01/2020 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Airbus’ latest super-sized transport aircraft, BelugaXL has officially entered service adding the extra capacity to Airbus’ transport network that it needs to meet its planned increases in production of commercial aircraft. Based on the A330-300 Freighter, the BelugaXL is 63 metres long and 8 metres wide which allows the aircraft [read more]

Airbus Demonstrates First Fully Automatic Vision Based Take Off

Airbus carries out first fully automatic vision-based take-off

16/01/2020 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

European Airframer Airbus has today successfully carried the first fully automatic vision-based take-off using an Airbus A350 test aircraft. The flight took off at around 10:15 local time and was operated by two pilots, two flight test engineers and a test flight engineer who carried out 8 successful take-offs. The flight forms [read more]

G-ZZZC's sister ship, ZZZB gets airbourne from London Heathrow (File Image/Aviation Media Agency)

British Airways retires first Boeing 777-200

13/01/2020 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

British Airways (BA/BAW) has today retired its first Boeing 777-200 from the fleet as it continues its fleet renewal program. Boeing 777-200 G-ZZZC left London’s Heathrow airport at 10:07 as BA9171 to make its short hop to South Wales where it will be parted out and broken up at St [read more]

Airbus plans to expand in Britain after Brexit

12/01/2020 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

In the run-up the UK’s EU referendum Airbus was vocal about its future in a Non-EU Britain and was often headlined by Pro-EU factions as a company that the UK would lose were we to leave the EU but now it seems, Airbus is thinking differently about Post-Brexit Britain and [read more]

Caerdav takes it Easyjet

08/01/2020 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Vale of Glamorgan based Maintenance company Caerdav has announced a contract with leading low-cost carrier Easyjet. The contract will see Caerdav carry out essential aircraft end-of-lease checks and repairs on a number of Airbus aircraft over the Winter. Easyjet has initially sent two A319 aircraft through Caerdav ahead of their [read more]

Rolls-Royce targets speed record with electric aircraft

21/12/2019 2 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

Rolls-Royce has unveiled the aircraft it plans to use to attempt to set a speed record in excess of 300mph in 2020. The aircraft is part of a Rolls-Royce project dubbed ACCEL (Accelerating the Electrification of Flight) was unveiled at Gloucestershire Airport and will now be fitted with its electrical [read more]

Boeing 737 Max (Image: Max Thrust Digital)

Boeing to suspend 737 Max production

16/12/2019 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

US Airframer Boeing has said it will suspend production of its 737 Max aircraft next month. Boeing had continued with the production of the model which has been grounded for the last 9 months following two fatal crashes of the type linked to a flaw in the flight control software. [read more]

What the Qantas Airbus A350-1000 will look like

Welsh Wings for Project Sunrise as Qantas selects Airbus

14/12/2019 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Australian airline Qantas (QF/QFA) has announced that it has selected Airbus aircraft to form the backbone of its Project Sunrise project to operate regular non-stop flights from Australia to London and New York. The airline has selected Airbus A350-1000XWB aircraft which is great news for the United Kingdom as not [read more]

British Airways to trial 3D printing of aircraft parts

09/12/2019 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

British Airways (BA/BAW) has said that it is undertaking a trial to explore the possibility of using 3D Printers to create aircraft parts. The airline says that it could routinely print parts such as tray tables or aircraft windows in a bid to reduce it having to fly spare parts [read more]

British Airways brings AI to the Apron

18/11/2019 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

British Airways (BA/BAW) has introduced Artificial Intelligence to help speed up getaways from Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL). The Advance Neural Networks will use a network of cameras set up around the aircraft stand which will compare live footage of the complex turnaround process with the proposed schedule. [read more]