Singapore and Qantas Airways Find Cracks in Planes – Singapore Airlines and Qantas Airways said on Friday they discovered cracks on the wing ribs of their Airbus A380s, but said the cracks pose no threat to safety and repairs have been carried out. The remarks came after Airbus said on Thursday that engineers discovered minor [...]
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Rolls Royce Trent 900 Engine At Fault – Rolls-Royce Group Plc said the cause of the Trent 900 blowout that grounded Qantas Airways Ltd.’s fleet of A380s superjumbos is specific to that engine model, as it seeks to dispel concern about its flagship turbine family. The A380 engine failure on a Nov. 4 Qantas flight [...]
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Qantas Plane Cracked Windshield – Qantas passengers have boarded a flight at Melbourne Airport more than eight hours behind schedule after their plane was grounded with a cracked windshield. The flight, QF93, took off in the early hours of this morning.
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Virgin Blue Boeing Deal – Virgin Blue will spend $8.4 billion on 105 new Boeing jets in a deal sealed on the strength of a simple handshake in the small hours of last Sunday. Outgoing Virgin chief Brett Godfrey and Boeing salesman Roland Ramirez were on the back verandah of Mr Godfrey’s house in Brisbane [...]
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The clouds lifted, the sun shone through and Boeing’s newest, largest plane took off at 12:39 p.m. Monday. It remains to be seen whether enough 747-8 aircraft sell for the program to make a profit. The 747-8 has new wings and engines. It also is more than 18 feet longer than the 747-400, and can [...]
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