Boeing has claimed it is “on the right trajectory” to catch up with Airbus’ dominant position in the short-haul aircraft market, guardian.co.uk reports. The ambitious statement – made by Boeing’s vice president of commercial unit marketing, Randy Tinseth – comes as the company strikes new deals with American Airlines and Dallas-based carrier Southwest for its [...]

The first Boeing 787 Dreamliner built at Boeing’s new South Carolina manufacturing plant is now up in the skies for the very first time. You can track the flight live on planefinder.net - http://planefinder.net/flight/BOE237 The flight number is BOE237 and the aircraft is using registration N6067B The link below shows our flight tracker earlier before the [...]

We have recently seen US Airways Flight 787, Callsign AWE787, depart Bangor, Maine after a diversion to offload a passenger reported to have been acting suspiciously. The female passenger was met by law enforcement officers at the airport and is reported to have said that she had explosives implanted in her body! The North American [...]

Touchdown!! Delighted to track the Olympic Flame all the way down to British soil! You can see a replay of the final approach and landing here – http://planefinder.net/flight/BAW2012/time/2012-05-18T18:00:00%20UTC We’ve also created a Google Earth flight that can be replayed too! http://my.pinkfroot.com/profiles/blogs/google-earth-fly-me-for-olympic-flame-flight-london-2012 Share

We’re excited to see that the aircraft carrying the Olympic Flame has taken off and is on it’s way to England for the 2012 London Olympics. You can track the flight live on planefinder.net flight tracker website here – http://planefinder.net/flight/BAW2012 and in the Plane Finder apps. The flight number is BA2012 with callsign BAW2012. The [...]

An announcement has been made confirming the partnership between British satellite operator, Inmarsat and US-based Honeywell Aerospace. This will see the two united in the effort to bring Wi-Fi access to airline passengers – under the guise of Project Global Xpress. If it proves successful, plane enthusiasts might soon be able to use aviation apps [...]

Live flight tracking enthusiasts could catch a glimpse of a rather unusual fuselage design this fall – the world’s largest king salmon. Alaska Airlines debuted the 129-foot long fish, destined to be sprawled across a Boeing 737-800, at a launch event in Anchorage yesterday (May 14th). It is the company’s second-ever ‘flying fish’ to grace [...]

A helicopter carrying 14 people has performed a controlled “ditch” into the sea after an oil pressure warning forced the aircraft down. The Super Puma helicopter operated by Bond Helicopters is one of many that operates from the base in Aberdeen, UK out to the many oil rigs in the North Sea. Whilst not confirmed [...]

Airbus has announced that a solution has been found to repair cracked wings on its A380 aircraft, itv.com reports. There may have been a few less A380s on the flight radar of late, owing to the fault, which was discovered in January. An internal inspection found two types of cracks in the wing brackets, which ‘connect the internal structure [...]

US plane manufacturer Boeing is planning to buy half of China Eastern’s Airbus A340 fleet in a move that would see the airline purchase its 777s instead. The rather unusual trade-in deal would also involve the tidy sum of $6 billion (£3.7 billion) to go through, writes guardian.co.uk, leaving Boeing with five rival A340 jets in return for [...]