Aesthetics often don't factor into airlines' plane-buying decisions — safety, efficiency, and cost take priority. However, some of the most iconic aircraft feature distinctive exterior designs that ...
A cockpit video shared by Qatar Airways showing an Airbus A380 landing through dense clouds at London Heathrow has gone viral ...
Yokes or sidesticks? Moving throttles or fixed detents? The choices pilots face reveal a deeper divide in cockpit design ...
Airbus has long been known for its forward-thinking approach to avionics, and nowhere is that more evident than in the A320neo family. Introduced in 2016, the “neo” — for “new engine option” — wasn’t ...
Ever wondered what all those switches, dials and levers do in the cockpit of an airplane? We did too, so we asked a pilot. Gerhard Ramcke, of Latvian airline airBaltic, gave CNN Travel a tour of the ...
Airbus has developed a cockpit-training platform for the A320 family which is designed to support initial and recurrent training for pilots through mobile devices and cloud technology. It is planning ...
Airbus is showing off an unusual vehicle—a truck fitted with basic A350 airliner controls—that it hopes can demonstrate how automated taxiing will make airports safer as concern grows over a spate of ...
Vistara, the Gurgaon, India-based airline, is upgrading its fleet of Airbus A321LR aircraft with a satellite-based cockpit connectivity system from Cobham Aerospace. In emailed statements to Avionics ...
French planemaker Airbus is auctioning 500 pieces of a decommissioned A380 superjumbo aircraft. The jet is the 13th A380 Airbus made and flew for Emirates for 13 years from 2008 to 2021. Parts for ...