Business & Military

The long-awaited first flight of Boeing’s 777X will be delayed further thanks to problems with the aircraft’s GE9X engines. A pair of the engines were installed on the airframe and started on May 29, but during the test, “an engine gave us a signal about its health. We had an anomaly in the compressor and […]

Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force. You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade toward which we have striven for these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, June 2, 1944 That Normandy as a hallowed place and D-Day as a seminal event live […]

As the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy continues, the AFP News Agency filed this short video of jumps from a pair of the C-47 aircraft flown in for the event. Later commemorative jumps included some 200 paratroopers.

As the weeklong commemoration of the Normandy D-Day landings continues, take a look at this great footage posted by Airshow U.K. It shows some of the D-Day C-47s preparing for their flight across the English Channel to Normandy.

The troubled Boeing 737 MAX’s return-to-service date remains unknown but two polls suggest the flying public has a mixed view of booking flights on the airplane. A UBS survey found as few as 3% of passengers say they’d pass on a MAX trip while a Barclay’s Bank survey said 44% of flyers would wait a […]

As part of AVweb’s coverage of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, we’re sweeping the web for informative videos about the event and the participating aircraft. This video by the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force tells the story of D-Day Doll.

It’s unpronounceable so don’t even try. Palimpsest means something reused or altered but still bears traces of an earlier form.  Commonly applied to ancient manuscripts when Roman publishers were too stingy to buy new parchment and forced authors to write over Cicero’s remainders. Et mortuus est, et nos non petendam (he’s dead and won’t sue […]

The combat glider was an integral part of Operation Neptune, the airborne component of Operation Overlord, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this week in Normandy. In this video shot in 2017, AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli explains the critical role gliders played in the Normandy operation.

As Boeing tweaked final development of the 737 MAX, it made the MCAS autotrim system more aggressive and ultimately riskier, according to a new report in The New York Times. Boeing failed to inform even its own test pilots and the FAA about the revisions. MCAS—Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System—was added to the 737 MAX to […]

Airbus launched a global campaign to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary on Wednesday. The date marked five decades since French Minister of Transport, Jean Chamant, and German Minister of Economic Affairs, Karl Schiller, signed an agreement for the joint development of the A300 at the 1969 Paris Air Show. The celebration campaign will run from […]