After two years of extensive testing, Airbus has successfully flight tested the company’s Autonomous Taxi, Take-Off and Landing (ATTOL) project. After over 500 partial wet runs, Airbus has achieved full-cycle flight testing with a commercial airliner; meaning the aircraft successfully taxied, departed and landed of a commercial aircraft through fully automatic vision-based flight tests using
The first Airbus A220 jet assembled at the Mobile plant in Alabama carried its maiden flight on 2 June. The aircraft is destined for the U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines.
Airbus is developing a modification for A330 and A350 family aircraft which will enable airlines to install freight pallets directly onto the cabin floor seat tracks after removal of the economy-class seats.
Airbus and British engineering multinational Rolls Royce have scrapped plans to launch a hybrid-electric aircraft, the 'E-Fan X.'
Airbus' chief executive, Guillaume Faury, has warned of potential job cuts in a letter to the company's 135,000 employees.
Airbus has achieved the first-ever fully-automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R) operation incorporating a boom system.
