Airbus A380 F-WWDD, underwent crosswind performance trials at Keflavik on 10 November, completing six landings on runway 02, and taking-off from runway 20.
The video shows just how challenging that flying is. It will eventually result in the published advisory crosswind limits for the type.
Airbus also intends to demonstrate take-offs and landings with tailwinds of up to 15kt.
Source: FlightGlobal.com
Wisk Aero has shared new images of the first full-scale prototype of its autonomous Gen6 air taxi.
A trio of leading US air taxi companies moved forward this week on plans to certificate, manufacture and commercialise a new class of electric aircraft.
Flight-recorder information indicates no evidence of unauthorised interference with the operation of a Swiftair Boeing 737-400 freighter before it crashed on approach to Vilnius last month. The aircraft came down north of the airport on 25 November, while attempting to land on runway 19 after arriving from Leipzig. Lithuania’s transport ...
