The World of Aviation

This week’s Throwback Thursday feature is from the August 2008 edition of Australian Aviation, which looks at the Embraer E-Jet experience in Australia.

A Virgin Australia Boeing 737 suffered a tailstrike on takeoff from Auckland after a reduction in headwind resulted in a drop in airspeed, an Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation has found.

As a result of continuing investigations into last week’s crash of Lion Air flight 610, the US Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) to operators of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft calling on them to address procedures in the event of pilots receiving erroneous angle of attack sensor information.

We were joined on the Australian Aviation podcast by Ted Ingling, the program general manager for the GE9X, the engine that will power the Boeing 777-X.

A mockup of the C929, China and Russia’s candidate to challenge the Airbus and Boeing duopoly in the widebody passenger market, has been shown off to attendees at the Zhuhai Airshow.

Airbus has begun a demonstration tour of its A220 regional jet across Asia, with an airBaltic A220-300 to visit China, Thailand, Nepal and Turkey.