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Why you don't stand near the jet engine on the tarmac
May 12th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Ever look out the side of your airplane while on the ground and see those red semicircles painted around the jet engine? Those are there for a reason. If the engine powers up quickly and someone is nearby, someone (or something) could easily get sucked in. Those red regions are the "no walk" zone. But that's what happened at Los Angeles International Airport yesterday when a Japan Airlines 747 was ...
Panic after fighter jets escort 747 around Manhattan
Apr 27th, 2009 at 12:30PM: Several buildings in Manhattan and New Jersey were evacuated earlier today, after officials spotted a Boeing 747 jumbo jet flying over the city escorted by fighter jets. As it turns out, the jet was one of President Barack Obama's backup aircraft that was circling for a photo op. The whole operation was supposed to have been coordinated among the FAA and local officials, but apparently the ...
American Airlines updates fleets with new Boeing 737s
Apr 21st, 2009 at 2:00PM: With the oldest fleet in the American workforce, it was about time that American Airlines got aggressive with updating their aircraft. This year they're starting the revamp with delivery of new Boeing 737-800s. While the 737-800 airframe has been around for ten years now, American is making sure to include all of the modcons to keep passengers happy. Among those tidbits will be new, numerous ...How to destroy V Australia's $23M flight simulator
Apr 7th, 2009 at 9:30AM: I thought that I was the luckiest person in the world when Ken Pascoe and Marty Khoury, two pilots from V Australia invited me, a lowly blogger, out to visit them and their flight simulator out in Australia last week. Sure, I edit a travel blog and I do run Linux, but that usually can only get me so far. So I was thrilled to accept the invitation and join the crew out in Silverwater, just outside ...Inside V Australia's Boeing 777 flight simulator
Mar 31st, 2009 at 11:00AM: When I was invited out to visit V Australia's 777 on it's maiden voyage from Seattle - Los Angeles - Sydney earlier this year, poor Amanda Bolger from public relations had no idea what she was signing up for. Sitting in the cockpit with Ken Pascoe, the pater familias of VA pilots, we took a couple of photos and he casually mentioned "Hey, if you come out to Sydney we should take out the ...Behind the Scenes of the V Australia 777 tour
Feb 11th, 2009 at 1:00PM: When any Virgin company throws a party, it's usually in your best interest to show up. Whether this is a Virgin American inaugural flight with Victoria's Secret models, a Virgin Galactic tour in the Mojave Desert or plain old marketing schlep, you're almost always guaranteed to meet a few friendly faces, have a few drinks and learn something interesting about the Virgin brand. Last week's ...Onboard V Australia's Boeing 777
Feb 10th, 2009 at 9:00AM:
This past Friday, Gadling got a special invitation to tour V Australia's new Boeing 777 jumbo jet, the aircraft that will soon fly routes between California and Australia on the world's newest airline.
We'll get to into all of the hobknobbery of the event in a forthcoming post, but for now, lets take a look through the aircraft.
Each Boeing 777-300 has three classes of service: Business, ...Richard Branson christens the new V Australia 777 in LAX
Feb 7th, 2009 at 5:00PM: V Australia's new Boeing 777 aircraft arrived in Los Angeles on its way down to Sydney yesterday. Onboard were Richard Branson, the mayor of Los Angeles and a few other dignitaries, and when the aircraft rolled onto the Imperial Highway tarmac they naturally had to pop a bottle of Champagne. So after the creature came to a halt in front of the eager crowd, a red carpet was unrolled on the wing and ...
Tune in for the V Australia 777 Launch
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Feb 5th, 2009 at 4:00PM: The world's newest Transpacific carrier takes delivery of their first Boeing 777 aircraft this week, as executives from V Australia and Virgin converge in Los Angeles for the ceremony. Tomorrow afternoon, Richard Branson and top brass will pick up the aircraft in Washington and shuttle it down to LAX, where a fanfare of media pawns, cocktails and schmoozing will welcome the group. On arrival, ...First flight delivery of 787 adjusted (again)
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Dec 15th, 2008 at 1:30PM: Now that the whole strike and fastener ruckus has been sorted out at Boeing, manufacturing is back in full swing on the 787 Dreamliner. The Chicago based company is so confident in their progress that they've actually announced another first flight and delivery date for their long heralded aircraft. As of last week, the two respective events are slated for second quarter of '09 and for the first ...Boeing and Air New Zealand to Test 2nd Generation Biofuel
Nov 13th, 2008 at 12:30PM: Boeing has announced that it will carry out tests of a new "2nd generation" biofuel using one of its 747s. The plane,owned by Air New Zealand will take off on December 13th. Because it is the first live test, only one of the plane's 4 engines will use the fuel, made from the nuts of jatropha plants (pictured). Jatropha is an inedible plant that is indigenous to Central America and the Caribbean, ...Boeing to push back 787 first flight, deliveries
Nov 5th, 2008 at 10:15AM: It was hard to imagine that Boeing could keep on schedule for 787 deliveries with the strike at large among machinists, but yesterday they made the news official: first flight and deliveries are definitely pushed back. Originally scheduled for 2008, the first flight of Boeing's Dreamliner has been repeatedly delayed, most recently to Q4 of 2008 and now into 2009. During that time, several PR ...Boeing, the unions and your commercial jets
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Oct 29th, 2008 at 8:00AM: Like many of you waiting for your 777 or 787 to arrive, I've been closely watching the progress of Boeing against their rival unions for the last two months. As the manufacturing woes go, the International Association of Machinists (IAM) has been striking against the airframe manufacturer since early September, primarily citing worries about their jobs going overseas. For, Boeing, who has a long ...How does your presidential candidate get around?
Oct 17th, 2008 at 9:00AM:
With all of the cavorting around the country on the campaign trail, John McCain and Barack Obama need some pretty quick, reliable transportation -- after all, you can't get from Nevada to Ohio to Florida in two days on the bus version of the Straight Talk Express. To that end, each candidate has chosen and retrofitted an aircraft of their own for campaign purposes, Obama with a larger, 757-28A ...Video of 747 struck by lightning
Aug 25th, 2008 at 2:00PM: It's nice to know that if your 747 gets struck with 40 kiloamperes of electricity that it can keep on trucking. Aircraft are designed to withstand lightning strikes (if not multiple lightning strikes), although various small amounts of damage can occur. As one 747-400 pilot at the Professional Pilots Rumor Network (pprune) commented, "the auto-pilot dropped out and a few minor systems were ...
WestJet Offers a Blast from the Past
Aug 11th, 2008 at 1:00PM: Passengers on Canada's low cost carrier WestJet might be in for a bit of a surprise if they are traveling to Prince George in northern British Columbia. During September, the airline will not be relying on their fleet of Boeing 737s to make the trip. Instead, passengers will find themselves boarding one of two Bombardier Dash-8 turboprop planes that have been leased by the airline. WestJet's fleet ...Emirates A380 arrives in New York!
Aug 3rd, 2008 at 12:00PM:
Dubai's Emirates Airlines made its inaugural Airbus A380 flight into New York's John F Kennedy airport this past Friday, on what will now become America's first regularly scheduled service with the the new two story jumbo jet.
Gadling was on hand to capture some sweet photos in and around the aircraft, as well as through a press conference detailing the coming Emirates events.
The airline ...Rich heiress builds California house out of scrap 747
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Jun 29th, 2008 at 4:00PM: Your house is definitely not the coolest on the block unless its made out of jumbo jet pieces. Francie Rehwald, daughter to a family owning multiple Mercedes Benz dealerships across California, just started construction on her new house made completely out of fragments of a scrapped Boeing 747. For forty thousand dollars, Rehwald purchased the pieces from an airplane junk yard in the Mojave Desert ...That tanker order might not be going to Northrop and EADS after all
Jun 19th, 2008 at 9:30AM: Remember that huge ruckus earlier this year when Northrop and EADS won a contract to supply the US Air Force with a multi-billion dollar tanker order? Americans went livid when they found out that a partially European (not French) company was going to be supplying equipment for the US Armed forces and the entire affair turned into a political whining point. People claimed that the French (not ...Now where did my jumbo jet go? There it is!
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Jun 11th, 2008 at 4:00PM: Anyone lose a Boeing 727 lately? I just checked my hangar and all of mine are in stock. Girlfriend check one out? Nope, she's on the yacht. Well someone is missing one. Vietnamese officials at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport can't seem to figure out who left the aircraft at their airport late last year; it's currently sitting collecting dust at on the tarmac with an outdated order for "essential ...
