Icelandair has introduced into service its first Boeing 757-200 retrofitted with Aviation Partners Boeing blended winglets.
The Icelandic carrier and Continental Airlines were the launch customers for the modification, which involves fitting 2.5m (8ft) winglets to deliver up to a 5% block fuel improvement or 370km (200nm) of additional range.
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Source: Flight International
Investigators are probing an in-flight oscillation at cruise altitude which affected a South African Airways Airbus A330-300 operating a domestic service. The aircraft – flying from Cape Town to Johannesburg on 27 October – had been cruising at 41,000ft when it started to oscillate in pitch, between nose-up and nose-down. ...
Pilots of a Boeing 737-800 did not notice that the aircraft’s bleed-air system was not active before the jet took off from Manchester, triggering a cabin-altitude warning that remained active for over 40min. UK investigators found that the bleed-air switches had incorrectly been left off during air-conditioning pack maintenance, and ...
GE Aerospace is partnering with NASA to carry out a series of flight tests designed to improve the industry’s understanding of contrails.
