The time-lapse video shows the X-59’s wing, tail and fuselage being merged together from March 2019 to June 2021, and was likely shot at Lockheed’s Skunk Works in California.
The deal will include Azul purchasing 220 of Lilium’s jets, the single largest eVTOL (air taxi) order in the start-up company’s history.
The increasing spread of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus has alarmed carriers to make the change as Frontier was the first airline to report “softening” bookings since the outbreak.
The European planemaker released its orders and deliveries brief on 6 July, counting 47 deliveries to 32 customers and two orders to one customer.
The airline said it will remove the wide-body jets from service until it has defined the “root cause” and can establish a solution for its safe return to the skies.
British Airways has signed a contract extension with its maintenance company for its 12 Airbus A380 jets to fly for another few years, while the aircraft continues to phase out elsewhere. Lufthansa Technik (LHT), a subsidiary to Lufthansa Group, provides maintenance, completion and repair for BA’s aircraft and tweeted that it will continue to support
