first flight

  • Embraer – First Flight KC-390

    Embraer – First Flight KC-390

    Gavião Peixoto – SP, February 3, 2015 Embraer today successfully performed the first flight of the new military transport and aerial refueling jet, the KC-390. Test pilots Mozart Louzada and Marcos Salgado de Oliveira Lima and flight test engineers Raphael Lima and Roberto Becker flew the aircraft for 1 hour and 25 minutes, conducting an…

  • Boeing KC-46 Tanker Test Aircraft Completes First Flight

    Boeing KC-46 Tanker Test Aircraft Completes First Flight

    Boeing and the U.S. Air Force celebrated an important and much anticipated milestone Dec. 28, 2014 when the KC-46 Tanker program’s first test aircraft took to the skies at Paine Field in Everett, Wash.  

  • Qatar Airways – Airbus A350-900 World Inaugural Flight Doha to Frankfurt

    Qatar Airways – Airbus A350-900 World Inaugural Flight Doha to Frankfurt

    Onboard the inaugural commercial service of Airbus A350-900 with Qatar Airways from Doha to Frankfurt on 15 Jan 2015. Sam Chui  

  • Virgin America Lands at Love Field

    Virgin America Lands at Love Field

    To celebrate our new service from Dallas Love Field, we kicked-off the day with an Uber “Downtown Express” Inaugural Flight and a mile-high In-Flight Performance by the Grammy Award-Winning Country Star, Kacey Musgraves. The festivities kept rolling at a star-studded red carpet evening party at House of Blues Dallas with Virgin Group Founder, Sir Richard…

  • Gearing up for the A320neo first flight

    Gearing up for the A320neo first flight

    Fernando Alonso, Head of Airbus Flight & Integration Test Centre, provides details on the upcoming A320neo maiden flight in this interview from the Farnborough International Airshow.  

  • First Flight of Austrian Airlines

    First Flight of Austrian Airlines

    Im Jahr 1958 wurde der Flugbetrieb von Austrian Airlines mit 4 gecharterten Vickers Viscounts 779 auf der Strecke Wien-London aufgenommen. In the year 1958, Austrian Airlines started its flight operations using 4 chartered Vickers Viscounts 779 on the Vienna-London route.