Both the FAA and European regulators have certified Boeing’s new 787 airplane for its first commercial flight
Boeing unveiled its 787 Dreamliner airplane on Saturday after years of delay.
Virgin Galactic’s suborbital shuttle: Sydney to London in 4 hours.
I’ve been told that there are engineering reasons why SpaceShipTwo could not make this flight. Nonetheless, the possibility is quite alluring.
Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) and pilot, sanctioned by the FAA for landing on a closed runway — the closure of which had not been publicly announced by the FAA — has introduced a bill to change how the agency polices pilots.
An evening pause: Note how long it takes for the 747 to get off the ground. The plane is big and heavy.
Video: Is it a blimp? Is it a plane? It’s both!
The solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse, made its maiden international flight on Friday.
Yow! Southwest cancels 300 flights to inspect its planes after the fuselage cracks open on a Sacramento-bound flight.
Dreamliner: a nightmare for Boeing.
Got $4.5 million? A new private commercial jet flew at 489 mph on a test flight March 11.
The first test flight of a German electric-powered airplane.
The single-seat Elektra One is claimed to have a three-hour endurance using rechargeable batteries and a range of more than 216 nm. The aircraft has a payload of 220 pounds and is claimed to cruise at 86 knots.
Boeing’s biggest-ever plane makes its maiden flight.
What does this tell us about Boeing’s manned spaceflight efforts? The problems continue to pile up with Boeing’s new airplane, the 787 Dreamliner.
The telescope in an airplane flew its first observation mission today.
An evening pause: August 2, 2010: The first flight of a human powered ornithopter, an aircraft propelled by flapping wings.
Zephr, a British-built solar-powered unmanned plane was ordered to return to Earth after flying continuously for two weeks without refueling. Key quote:
Zephyr is set to be credited with a new world endurance record (336 hours, 24 minutes) for an unmanned, un-refuelled aircraft – provided a representative of the world air sports federation, who was present at Yuma, is satisfied its rules have been followed properly.
