Author: Crew Daily
Few of the following are the projects from the secretive Lockheed “Skunk Works”. Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star the F-104 Starfighter the U-2 spy plane the SR-71 Blackbird the D-21 supersonic drone the F-117 Stealth Jet No one really knows as to how many projects Skunk Works have completed behind their secretive wall as or how many have they failed. However, one thing is sure for Skunk Works that everyone knows in Aerospace industry that they have broken the barriers in innovation and defense that have toppled many superpowers over the years. Lockheed “Skunk Works” was established back in the 1940s…
In recent news from Boeing Company, they have brought together the major fuselage sections for the first 777X Aircraft. They also announced that the very first Boeing 777X plane will soar into skies in 2019. To this date, Boeing has received a total of 334 orders from several renowned airlines like Emirates, Etihad Airways, Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines. In this final body join of the aircraft, the company announced that they have connected the airplane’s nose, mid and aft sections together. The body joining has been carried out at the company’s factory located in Everett, Washington. Josh Binder, vice president,…
On 20th November 2018, an Aeroflot Boeing 737-800 which was scheduled for takeoff from Moscow Sheremetyevo airport and land at the Athens Airport for the flight number SU2112 was taxing on the Sheremetyevo runway. However, unfortunately, a man ran down in front of the plane and was instantly killed on the spot. The news was relayed to the Russian Press Agency TASS by a spokesperson of the Sheremetyevo airport named Anna Zakharenkova. Zakharenkova added to her statement, “The aircraft which was bound for Athens was taxiing on the runway when the crew reported a collision with an unidentified object. The…
On November 14th, 2-18 according to the Facebook page of the Hill Air Force Base the pilots of the F-35A under command of 388th and 419th Fighter Wing prepared for a takeoff. This exercise is actually to portray the combat owner of the airbase in Utah. In the picture released by the Airbase, viewers can easily see up to 35 F-35 Lightning II aircraft in an exercise which is dubbed as the “Elephant Walk”. During these Elephant Walk exercises, aircraft usually taxi in a close formation or a sequenced line right before the minimum interval takeoff. Whether the aircraft taxi…
Two Lightning II aircraft are operated by Royal Netherlands Air Force’s first F-35 squadron. Their names are AN-1 (F-001) and AN-2 (F-002), which are currently stationed at the Edwards AFB, California. This Squadron is based at the Airbase as a part of the Joint Operational Test Team for the OT&E (Operational Test & Evaluation Phase). The squadron which was established back in 1948; on November 15th, 2018 celebrated its 70th anniversary which they commemorated by applying special markings over the tail of one of their Dutch F-35s: aircraft F-002. The markings were of “Dianna; Goddess of Hunt” which is also…
A privately owned P-51D Mustang aircraft; a vintage fighter plane that was used in the action of World War 2 and also used in the Korean War crashed during a re-enactment show in Texas. The crash happened in a parking lot of an apartment complex in Fredericksburg, Texas which is located about 70 miles north of San Antonio. According to the initial reports, two crewmen aboard this aircraft have died. This aircraft was organized for the reenactment show on Saturday morning of November 18th, 2018 under the title of WWII Pacific Combat Programme. The main organizer for this show was…
On 27th June 2018, the first MQ-4C “Triton” UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) which belonged to the VUP-19 DET Point Mugu launched the UAVs first flight from the Naval Base in Ventura County Point Mugu. The photographs as per released by the US Navy shows one of the two drones; MQ-4C #168461 which was assigned to the unit. The U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C “Triton” Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) is an Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance system that will be able to provide support for the Navy’s Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force of the P-8A Poseidon. This initial flight testing has already provided the…
On 15th November 2018, Curtis Miner, the attorney, and partner at the Colson Hicks Edison law firm based in Coral-Gabes, Florida; lead counsel for the plaintiff announced the news of filing a lawsuit on behalf of one of the passengers on the Lion Air Flight 610. The suit was filed against The Boeing Company who manufactured the Being 737 Max 8 Aircraft that crashed on 29th October 2018 13 minutes after it departed from the airport. Miner released a statement saying, “We have filed this report against the Boeing Company in the Circuit Court of Cook County in Illinois. This…
The passengers aboard the Beijing-Warsaw flight on an aircraft of the LOT Polish Airlines are not going to forget their journey on 15th November 2018. According to the reports of passengers, they had to wait for 10 hours before the flight LO92 departed and that was not all. They were asked money from the LOT employ to repair a pump of the plane. The aircraft was Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. The airlines were initially in the complete refusal of any such thing happening. However, a member of the LOT management has already paid the passengers their money back in Warsaw. After…
JetBlue which is in partnership with the US Customs and Borer Protection announced on 15th November, 2018 that they are going to introduce their first fully integrated Biometric Self Boarding gate. This new technology is going to be installed at the JetBlue’s boarding gate located at the New York’s JFK (John F. Kennedy) International Airport. With the incorporation of this new technology, the passengers who are looking to board from the airport’s Terminal 5 for their international destinations will experience faster boarding process. The gate will have a dual lane with a self boarding biometric gate. The verification for the…