The gigantic composite wings for the all-new Boeing [NYSE: BA] 787 Dreamliner were delivered to Everett. Manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at its facility in Nagoya, Japan, each wing is 98 feet long. Standing on edge in custom-made tooling, the wings were delivered together to Boeing via the Dreamlifter, a specially modified 747-400 used to [...]
AerCap has signed a firm contract with Airbus for the purchase of an additional ten A330-200 passenger aircraft, following their order for 20 A330-200s in December 2006. With its proven benefits in terms of economics and a wide customer base, the A330-200 will assist AerCap in the growth of their portfolio. Headquartered in The Netherlands, [...]
With the distinctive blue and gold logo and the name “Singapore Airlines” across 33 metres of the aircraft fuselage, the world’s first customer A380 aircraft rolled out of the paint hangar in Hamburg, Germany, on 2nd May 2007. With extraordinary precision, the entire surface area of the aircraft fuselage was “polished” by hand by some [...]
