One of the Airbus’ engineering pioneers who was instrumental in the introduction of the world’s first digital Fly-By-Wire (FBW) and side stick controls in a commercial passenger aircraft has died aged 88. Bernard Ziegler was born in 1933 in Boulogne sur Seine and graduated from the French “Ecole Polytechnique” in [read more]
Malaysia Airlines (MH/MAS) has become the latest airline to remove the Airbus A380 super jumbo from its fleet after CEO Izham Ismail said it was working on the “ways and means to dispose the aircraft” as it will not return to service. Whilst some airlines, such as Emirates, thrived pre-pandemic [read more]
Airbus’ military airlift aircraft the A400M has successfully conducted a campaign to certify it for air-to-air refuelling of helicopters. The flight tests were conducted in association with the French Armament General Directorate (DGA) and were carried out using two French Air Force H225M helicopters. The campaign included day and night [read more]
Airbus has started to use Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) at its Broughton, North Wales site in a bid to reduce the companies carbon footprint for logistics. The site at Broughton produces wings for Airbus airliners which are flown by the Beluga fleet to the finally assembly lines at Toulouse, Hamburg [read more]
Airbus has slightly increased the tempo of deliveries in March 2021 with 72 aircraft being delivered to 34 customers in the month. The month accounts for almost 60% of the deliveries so far in 2021. Deliveries in March include 4 Airbus A220, 50 A320 family aircraft (57 of which were [read more]
The last Airbus A380 to be built has carried out a test flight ahead of its painting and delivery to Emirates Airlines. Airbus posted a video of the flight saying: “A first flight is always special. The one in this video is even more so as it was the first [read more]
The UK’s 2nd Generation Search and Rescue (UKSAR2G) requirement is set to be addressed by a UK based partnership between Airbus and Draken Europe. Draken is already a supplier of mission critical aviation services to the UK government and by partnering with Airbus will allow a total system solution to [read more]
Airbus has reported a negative net order book for the first part of 2021 after it received a cancellation for 92 Airbus aircraft from struggling low-cost carrier Norwegian. The order was cancelled by a court order under the Irish examinership which the airline had entered into in a bid to [read more]
Wizz Air UK, which launches flights from Cardiff in May, has sent four Airbus A321 aircraft to Cardiff Airport for storage ahead of the base launch. Summer 2021 will see the low-cost airline operate to Alicante, Palma De Mallorca & Tenerife in Spain; Faro, Portugal; Larnaca, Cyprus and Corfu & [read more]
US Airframer Boeing has lodged safety concerns with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) claiming that the extra fuel tank in Airbus’ Extra Long-range (XLR) variant of its A321 single aisle airline. In the submission Boeing claims the design and placement of the rear fuel tank “presents many potential [read more]
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