Japan Airlines (JAL) announced today that they plan to take official delivery of their first 787 Dreamliner this Sunday, March 25th, with a delivery ceremony to follow on the 26th. The aircraft is then scheduled to take off from Paine Field at about 4pm local time on Monday to head to Narita in Tokyo with […]
At any given time there are tons (literally) of Boeing aircraft that are flying around the world. Recently, Boeing placed a flight tracker program on their newairplane.com website that let’s you get an idea just how many planes there really are. The site does not show live flights, but instead uses data from the Official […]
Air Tahiti Nui is a small airline based out of Faa’a International Airport in Papeete, Tahiti. They operated a fleet of only five Airbus A340-300 aircraft that are set up in a three class configuration. Each one of the aircraft has a unique name of one of the local islands: Bora Bora (F-OJTN), Mangereva (F-OJGF), […]
The General Electric GE90 engine is one amazing piece of machinery used on Boeing 777s around the world. According to GE Reports, the engine holds the Guinness Book of World Records for generating the most thrust at 127,900 pounds. Not too shabby, considering that the Redstone rocket that took the first American, Alan Shepard, to space had […]
If you are not familiar with Frontier Airlines, each one of their aircraft have a different animal on the tail. It makes it fun for kids (heck, who are we fooling — everyone) to know which animal plane you are flying on. Frontier recently release two audition reels in hopes of motivating people to vote […]