Flight tests of the first Boeing 757-200 with the Aviation Partners Boeing blended winglet have begun on one of launch customer Continental Airlines' aircraft. The modification is expected to lower fuel consumption by up to 5%, depending on route length, or to extend range by up to 370km (200nm), says the company.
Source: Flight International
VoltAero has signed up Tennessee-based AltiSky to assemble its Cassio hybrid-electric aircraft for the North American market.
German turboprop manufacturer Deutsche Aircraft is justifying an ambitious outlook for its D328eco, arguing that there are fewer rival manufacturers pursuing the primary markets. Deutsche Aircraft, in its latest full-year financial statement, says its planning for the D328eco “assumes” sales of 1,000 aircraft, based on various market studies – a ...
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. ...
