New York: Boeing Co said it plans to make a test flight later on Friday with its 787 Dreamliner jet, aimed at returning the grounded plane to service after more than two months on the ground. Boeing said the flight is scheduled to depart around 11 am PDT (11:30 pm IST) and last about two hours. The time is subject to change, it said. The flight would gather data for...
11:34 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Priyanka Chopra has given her voice to the character Ishani in animated movie 'Planes'. ...
01:19 PM, Apr 03, 2013
A first of its kind ultra-lightweight plane powered completely by the sun is set to fly coast-to-coast this spring. The Solar Impulse plane will stop in Dallas city in Texas during its historic cross-country journey that begins on May 1, 2013 its creators announced on Tuesday. The plane, which requires zero fuel and relies solely on solar panels and battery power, would be the world's first plane powered purely by...
07:34 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Boeing CEO Jim McNerney is sure his company is "very close" to getting its troubled 787 Dreamliner jet back flying again. "We have a high degree of confidence in the technical solution we are testing right now with the FAA," McNerney said on Thursday. "I think it will be sooner than later." ...
07:50 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Airport Authority of India (AAI) is considering developing 20 airports in the next five years, according to a senior official. "Subject to cooperation from the respective state governments and access to suitable sites free of cost, AAI is hopeful of developing 20 airports in the next five years," GK Chaukiyal, member (operations), AAI told reporters here on Wednesday. ...
12:24 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Actress Priyanka Chopra, who has lent her voice for a character called Ishani in action-packed 3D animated film 'Planes', got the opportunity because of her film 'Dostana'. ...
03:41 PM, Mar 26, 2013
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, says it has agreed to sell its travel guide business, Lonely Planet, for 51.5 million pounds ($77.8 million) to US-based NC2 Media. The BBC said Tuesday the decision follows a review that laid out a strategy to focus on BBC brands. ...
07:20 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked Airbus along with seven officials of erstwhile Indian Airlines for alleged irregularities in over Rs 8,000-crore deal for supplying 43 aircraft to the erstwhile carrier in 2005. CBI sources said the agency has booked French company Airbus Industries and seven officials which held senior positions in the Indian Airlines, which was later merged with the Air India. ...
08:45 PM, Mar 17, 2013
A small plane crashed into a parking lot near a South Florida airport on Friday afternoon, killing all three people onboard and burning about a dozen vehicles. No one on the ground was hurt. ...
11:04 AM, Mar 16, 2013
A tyre of the Thai Airways International aircraft from India exploded while landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok early on Saturday morning. All 287 passengers and crew members were evacuated from the twin-engine Airbus 330-300 aircraft that had left Kolkata at 2.48 am, the Bangkok Post online reported. ...
09:59 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Airports of Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad are among the top five airports in the world providing international standard services. Airports Council International (ACI), a global body of airports, has adjudged Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport as second best after Seoul's Incheon airport in the category of airports handling 25-40 million passengers per annum (MPPA) for their service quality for the year 2012. ...
10:42 PM, Mar 12, 2013
An Indian private plane on Tuesday made an emergency landing at Quaid-e-Azam International airport in Karachi following a technical fault, a Pakistani media report said. ...
07:34 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Actor Rajkumar Yadav, who will share screen space with internationally acclaimed Indian actress Freida Pinto in 'NH10', is quite impressed with his co-star's down-to-earth attitude and describes her as a wonderful person. ...
10:20 AM, Mar 11, 2013
An Air India flight was cancelled after a "minor" mishap at the John F Kennedy Airport in New York when the plane's wing touched another aircraft which was being pulled back for takeoff. ...
12:59 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Airline passengers in the US will be allowed to carry small pocket knives and an array of sports equipment, banned in aircraft cabins after the 9/11 terror attacks, from April 25, authorities have announced. While razor blades and box cutters will still not permitted, passengers will be able to carry knives with folding blades 2.36 inches (6 centimetres) or shorter, as well as sporting goods such as golf clubs, hockey...
07:28 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning next month under a policy change announced by the head of the US Transportation Security Administration. ...
06:06 AM, Mar 06, 2013
Airbus is sticking to upbeat forecasts for aircraft demand in India in the face of financial woes creeping across its airline sector, the European planemaker's sales chief said on Monday. ...
01:20 AM, Feb 26, 2013
Boeing Co on Friday gave US aviation regulators its plan to fix the volatile battery aboard its new 787 Dreamliner, even though investigators have not yet determined what caused the batteries to overheat on two planes last month. ...
09:11 AM, Feb 23, 2013
NASA has discovered the smallest known planet outside our solar system which is slightly larger than the Moon and orbits its Sun like host star every 13 days. NASA's Kepler space telescope detected the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to the Sun in a new planetary system. The planets are located in a system called Kepler-37, about 210 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. ...
11:44 AM, Feb 22, 2013
