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Weston Air Festival (Image: P. Harrison)

Review: Weston Air Festival 2018

25/06/2018 7 minute read
Written by: Pete Harrison

Held annually, this free event takes place along the seafront with family attractions on the Beach Lawns. As always a mixture of flying displays from acrobatic aircraft, historic aircraft and modern fighter jets combined with a celebration of our armed forces with active ground demonstrations , exhibits and bands to [read more]

Ben Murphy cross between the pylons in Budapest (Image: Joerg Mitter / Red Bull Content Pool)

Ben Murphy qualifies 8th after smoke issue

23/06/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Britains Ben Murphy has qualified 8th for this weekends Red Bull Air Race in Budapest. Flying a time of 57.97s should have put Ben in 4th but he received a one second time penalty for an insufficient smoke violation. The penalty means Ben will face two-time Air Race champion Kirby Chambliss [read more]

Dowty Propellers’ propeller blade production site in Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire began operations in 2015 (Image: Dowty Propellors)

Dowty Propellers wants to return to Gloucestershire

23/06/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

Dowty Propellers has said it wants to return to Gloucestershire nearly 3 1/2 years after a fire destroyed its Staverton base. The GE Aviation owned company manufactures integrated propeller systems for modern turboprop aircraft such as the C130J and Antonov AN132-D but is most famous for building Propellers for both the [read more]

Hundreds of flights cancelled as french ATC strikes hit

22/06/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Hundreds of flights from the UK have been cancelled this weekend as the latest French ATC strike takes hold. Controllers in Marseilles are striking on Saturday Sunday affecting flights to the region, and also flights crossing the airspace of Southern France, causing weekend chaos for thousands of passengers. Irish budget airline Ryanair [read more]

Bristol Airport wins best small-medium airport award

22/06/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Roger Davis

Bristol Airport (BRS/EGGD) has won best European airport in the small-medium category (5-10m passengers) in the ACI Europe Awards. The Airports Council International (ACI) Europe independent panel of experts awarded Bristol Airport the gong jointly with Seville Airport in Spain. The panel said that Bristol Airport was selected for its [read more]

The Red Arrows (Image: The Aviation Media Agency.)

Whats On: Weston Air Festival 23rd & 24th June

22/06/2018 < 1 minute read
Written by: Roger Davis

We are now firmly into airshow season for 2018 and this weekend sees the return of the Weston Air Festival, a 2-day free event on the seafront at Weston-Super-Mare which features fast jets, classic aircraft and scintillating aerobatics. The event is other two days and features a 5-hour flying programme starting [read more]

Christian Scherer, Airbus Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Airbus International.

Airbus warns it could leave UK if no transition deal

22/06/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Airbus has said it could leave the UK if no transition deal is in place following Brexit in 2019. The warning came from Airbus’ Chief Operating Officer of Airbus Commercial Aircraft Tom Williams in an update from the company on the Brexit Deal/No Deal situation. Mr Williams said: “a No Deal [read more]

BA2276 on fire in Las Vegas (Image: Reggie Faer)

Report finds BA 777 engine fire caused by crack

21/06/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a news release yesterday about the 2015 engine fire at Las Vegas McCarran as it concludes that it was caused by a crack in the high-pressure compressor stage. British Airways flight 2276, which was due to fly from Las Vegas to London Gatwick, [read more]

Airbus & Boeing working on aircraft for Qantas project

21/06/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

Both Airbus and Boeing have said they are working on aircraft to meet the requirements of Qantas’ Project Sunrise. Project Sunrise is designed to meet Qantas’ requirement for ultra-long-range (ULR) aircraft capable of operating non-stop from Sydney or Melbourne to London. Boeing is said to be close to finalising the [read more]

IATA confirms Ryanair is Europe’s favourite airline

20/06/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

The latest World Airline Transport statistics from IATA show that Ryanair carried more passengers than any other European airline in 2017. The figures from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) show that the Irish budget airline carried 128m passengers between 1st Jan 2017 and 31st December 2017, almost 50% more than [read more]