Five Years After Fatal Crash, Ethiopian Airlines Orders More 737 Maxes Ethiopian Airlines placed an order yesterday (Nov. 14), including 20 Boeing 737-9 and 737-11 Max single-aisle airliners. The deal comes five years after the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max that killed all 157 on board. Fallout from that[…] Read this article
Piper Announces 90-Ship Deal With AeroGuard Flight Training Center Piper announced yesterday (Nov. 14) it has received an order for 90 Archer TX training aircraft from AeroGuard Flight Training. AeroGuard has four locations, three in the U.S. and one in Saudi Arabia. The company specializes in airline training, partnering[…] Read this article
Rocky Landing Some flying moments are memorable for the wrong reasons, and it’s fair to say everyone aboard an Air Canada flight landing at Toronto’s Pearson Airport from Tokyo on Monday was left with a lasting impression of their arrival. The Boeing[…] Read this article
Tecnam Inks Deal For 10 Trainers With New Zealand Flight School Tecnam recently announced that New Zealand Airline Academy Ltd. (NZAAL) has ordered 10 training aircraft. The order includes eight single-engine Tecnam P2008 JC Night VFR models, one single-engine P-Mentor IFR trainer and one twin-engine piston P2006T Premium Edition advanced multi-engine[…] Read this article
Britten-Norman To Support UK-based Airborne 5G Platform Test Program A U.K.-based research project, announced today, will explore the concept of establishing a High-Altitude Platform (HAP) with airborne antennas to provide high-performance 5G service from the stratosphere. The project is led by Stratospheric Platforms Ltd. (SPL), described as a non-terrestrial[…] Read this article
Short Final: Cub Comedy While doing some pattern work recently at our small rural airport in Pella, Iowa (KPEA), I was practicing wheel landings and three‐point landings with my 1946 Piper Cub when on the CTAF I heard a local business’ Lear‐45 announce their[…] Read this article
