civil aviation

Both of these airliners were shrunk at the request of their initial customer, the Trident from 111(130?) seat Medway sized to 97 seat Spey sized and the Super 200 from a 212 seat 28' fuselage stretch to a 174 seat 13' stretch for the Super VC10. The Super VC10 was then embroiled in a public...

A 737-800 flying from Thailand to Korea has run off the runway and hit a wall during a belly landing at Muan International Airport. Reported to be 173 Korean, 2 Thai passengers and 6 crew. 47 confirmed dead so far with 2 confirmed survivors (a passenger and a flight attendant). Early reports...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqcc2ActCCU

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/11/boeing-layoffs-factory-strike.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/latest-talks-boeing-striking-machinists-break-off-progress-114320115

PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) has sold five N219 Nurtanio twin-engine aircraft to the Indonesian Setdco Group, which will be used by the Democratic Republic of Congo's government. The sale was announced before the Bali International Airshow 2024. While many Letters of Intent have been signed...

I'm also looking for pics of this proposal for the dart Harold?

I have come across some information on the proposed VC.4 three-engined transatlantic airliner project of 1949. Information on the VC.4 was used to demonstrate aerodynamic drag issues in a Royal Aeronautical Society lecture by E. J. Edwards on 24 November 1949 entitled A Review of Aerodynamic...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQZgi1O1Vb4 Some background on decoy airfields: https://www.aviationmuseum.net/AirfieldDecoys.htm

This story fascinates me... It shows what can be done when you have little resource but a lot of creativity... Unfortunately, the page which I took this article from had been saved onto my computer, and doesn't seem to be only any longer. Only one forum topic (in Russian) deals with this...

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240327/k10014404261000.html https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense-Industries/Japan-to-take-another-shot-at-a-homegrown-airliner-eyeing-hydrogen Just one year after the official end to the failure that was MRJ, Japan is trying to start another...

https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/15817/westland-aircraft-rotorcraft-secret-projects-cutting-edge-technology

Good day my friends. I am creating this thread in order to fill a little gap I am facing recently. There is a very nice thread on little-known American helicopters, where people share their findings on various designs. For roughly 10 to 15 years, maybe 20, the situation in China regarding...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/27/boeing-to-hire-10000-workers-in-2023-as-it-ramps-up-production.html

some GA weirdo projects from early 80s

Created this thread to bring together news reports on the impact of the COVID crisis on different specific civil aircraft (likely many early retirements and exits for a number of types).

Back in the 1960s Boeing was telling everyone that its Supersonic 2707 transport would be the must-have airliner for the 1970s. Some 26 airlines took out options on the plane. There is a comprehensive thread about the US designs on this site, but no illustrations of the artwork Boeing must have...

The Air-Metal Flugzeug und Entwicklungs GmbH has worked in Erding since 1964 as an aircraft repair yard for touring aircraft and service work. In addition to this main activity, several projects were created. Bankruptcy proceedings in 1977 meant the end of the small business. The projects...

One UK aircraft has been around me more than any other, and no, its not my beloved TSR2, AVS or Boeing SST. It is the VC 10 My Dad made me the Airfix kit. Until recently and from the age of 9 I could watch these elegant planes in their smart RAF colours doing circuits in and out of Brize...

From L+K 1/1969, here is a single seat low-wing light aircraft Project,designed by Mr. Vlada Verner from Czech (as I think) and it was called W-1,it was mentioned in JAWA 1972/1973,but I am not sure if it was a Project or not.