But in April the airline announced it was buying 15 of Boeing’s new fuel-efficient carbon-composite 787 Dreamliner jets with 2 engines. The Dreamliners will burn around 27 percent less fuel per passenger than the Airbus A340-300s they will replace, Virgin says.
Virgin Group boss Richard Branson said on Friday he would aim to avoid buying fuel-thirsty four-engined airplanes in future for both economic and environmental reasons. Virgin Atlantic’s fleet of 38 planes all have four engines, and it has six four-engined Airbus A380 superjumbos on order. But in April the airline announced it was buying 15 […]
The Boeing Co.’s Dreamliner will take flight in September, so says the majority of participants in my “Guess the date of the 787’s first flight” contest.
Boeing Co. said Wednesday that it will provide an update on its new 787 Dreamline passenger jet Sept. 5.
Once reluctant to believe that alternative energy made any sense in jet airplanes, Boeing now ponders how to take the biofuels revolution…
Boeing Wichita is seeking 60 to 80 mechanics to volunteer for temporary work at Boeing’s plant in Everett, Wash. There is a temporary decline in the work schedule in Wichita this year before work picks up again in 2008, Boeing Wichita spokesman Jarrod Bartlett said Monday. In fact, the Wichita site is […]
Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner is clearly a marvel of modern engineering.
Boeing will webcast its 787 Dreamliner quarterly media briefing on Wednesday, Sept. 5, at 10 a.m. Eastern Time.
The Boeing Company , the world’s largest aerospace company, will present an exhibit, briefings and other activities at Asian Aerospace 2007 beginning Sept. 3 in Hong Kong.
Just 12 years after Boeing’s large 777 jet entered service, the twin-engined, long-range aircraft has become the third widebody to surpass…