As a youngster with an aviator father and a passion for flying, Chris Mayr made scale models of German World War 2 aircraft and dreamed of one day owning and flying one in particular – a Focke-Wulf Fw 190. And now he has. A mainstay of the Luftwaffe throughout the war, the Fw 190, named
Singapore Airlines (SIA) Boeing 787-10 9V-SCA’s arrival at Changi Airport after its epic ferry flight from Charleston, via Osaka Kansai, was indeed a cause for celebration. Not only did it mark the first delivery of a 787-10 to an airline customer anywhere in the world, it also made SIA the first airline group to have
The stage has been set for a thrilling opening to tomorrow’s third round of the Red Bull Air Race in Chiba, Japan, with Australia’s Matt Hall queued to go head-to-head with reigning world champion and local Japanese hero Yoshihide Muroya in the first knockout stage, the Round of 14. In today’s qualifying session Hall finish
Embarking on a new helicopter service into the Timor Sea oil and gas fields at the height of the tropical wet season, with new aircraft operating from a new base, is not ideal. But, despite heavy rains, strong winds and the threat of cyclones, the initial performance of its five-year contract with petroleum giant ConocoPhillips
“Profound” is how Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny described the significance of A380 VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton’s return to the Qantas fleet. Qantas’s first Airbus A380 and hence the symbolic flagship of the airline’s fleet, VH-OQA returned safely to Singapore under Captain de Crespigny’s command after an uncontained explosive failure of its number two Rolls-Royce Trent
Randy Tinseth remembers the first time he visited Tokyo Narita Airport. It was 1989 and there were Boeing 747s lined up as far as the eye could see. Fast forward a few years and those 747s had given way to Boeing’s latest widebody workhorse, the 777. When Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ vice president of marketing visits
