Posts Tagged ‘aircraft’

China will need more than 1 300 mainline aircraft within 20 years

March 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
As air traffic in China will increase sharply in the next 20 years, airlines will need at least 1 316 mainline aircraft, totaling about 140 billion dollars, Airbus predicts. Among the large passenger aircraft over 100 seats in the world, one in twelve will be made for a Chinese airline.
The passenger traffic of the Chinese [...]

A quarter of an Airbus aircraft in the world have used component parts made in China

March 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Chengdu Aircraft Industry (Group) Corporation Ltd.. China Aviation Industry Corporation I delivered June 30 for the first time Airbus Industrie component parts for the cockpit of the Airbus A320.
Luo Ronghua, Director General of the League, has revealed that currently, Chengdu Aircraft Industry (Group) Corporation Ltd.. is one of two major suppliers of the gate back [...]

The bodies of two crew training aircraft crashed were found

March 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Rescuers found the bodies of two crew training aircraft crashed Tuesday morning in Mianyang City in Sichuan Province (China, south-west).
The bodies of two victims, one was the coach and the other a student of China Civil Aviation College, were discovered Tuesday at 15:55.
Witnesses said the plane crashed without causing an explosion or fire Tuesday at [...]

The new aircraft for civil use Chinese ARJ-21 will make its first flight in 2006

January 11th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The new
ARJ-21 aircraft for civil jet engine manufacturing to China that China holds full intellectual property, conduct its first flight in 2006.
to official sources, it was reported that all large passenger aircraft in service on both internal and external lines have been imported abroad, which are major suppliers Boeing and Airbus.
Zhang Ju’en, Director [...]

Crash in Cotonou: airplane loaded “haphazardly”

November 22nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
The Boeing 727, which crashed December 25, 2003 at takeoff from the airport in Cotonou (Benin) with 161 people aboard was “loaded haphazardly,” which was “a factor more important than overload “of the aircraft, said Wednesday the Office of Investigations and Analysis (BEA), quoted by AFP.
“The plane, loaded haphazardly, crashed on take-off after hitting a [...]

Bomb threats lead to searches of planes and trains U.S.

November 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Four passenger aircraft belonging to U.S. company “Northwest Airlines” were searched Tuesday due to bomb threats, officials said.
The four aircraft have been transferred to safe areas and excavations were made at airports respectively in Detroit Michigan, Los Angeles, California Miami, Florida, and Memphis Tennessee.
Security officials have taken hours to search the aircraft without finding explosives.
“Any [...]

May 2004: Start of Final Assembly of First Airbus A380, the largest airline in the world

November 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Final assembly of the first Airbus A380, a giant passenger aircraft over 100 seats, will start in May 2004.
Olivier Andries, Director General of the marketing and pricing of Airbus, said March 24 during a press conference in Beijing with a presentation on the progress of the manufacture of the A380 : the manufacture of fuselages [...]

France: crash of a training aircraft, two dead

November 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
The French Minister of Defense Michèle Alliot-Marie praised the two officers killed Tuesday in the crash of a training aircraft of the Air Force on the territory of the town of Asnieres-sur-Nouère (Charente).
“armies just been bereaved by the deaths of two officers occurred during a plane crash during a training mission. I pay tribute to [...]

China is building a boat transportation for Airbus Industrie

October 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
Airbus Industrie, one of the two largest commercial aircraft manufacturers in the world, will be delivered in April a ship made in China for transporting large pieces of the Airbus A380, a jumbo jet.
built by Jinling Shipyard in Nanjing, the latter will be the first ship that Airbus intended to transport parts of its factories [...]