Boeing provides $700k to wildfire affected communities
World | September 19, 2020 10:55 ISTAmerican airplane giant Boeing has announced $700,000 in grants to help communities affected by the raging wildfires along the US West Coast.
American airplane giant Boeing has announced $700,000 in grants to help communities affected by the raging wildfires along the US West Coast.
NASA said that before that happens, it has scheduled a second uncrewed test flight, known as Orbital Flight Test (OFT) 2, for no earlier than December this year.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation will be contacting Boeing to get to the bottom of any defects in the aircraft which crashed at the Kozhikode airport day before yesterday. Anil Kumar, DG, DGCA, has said that aeronautics major Boeing will be contacted to examine the aircraft's original equipment and to check for any defects.
Amid border with China, India has begun the acquisition process for US-made 6 Poseidon-8I naval jets and has also put the process of procuring 6 Predator-B armed drones on full throttle.
Boeing has announced that they were going to be notifying employees that they're making their first layoff since the covid virus hit and lay off over 67-hundred people. They also said that 55- hundred have taken buyouts. So they're eliminating more than 12,000 jobs.
Boeing is initiating a voluntary layoff (VLO) plan to try to stem the financial strain from the COVID-19 pandemic, Dave Calhoun, the company's president and CEO, said in a letter to employees.
Indian-American Nikki Haley has resigned from the Boeing's board of directors over the major airline manufacturer's pursuit of federal assistance to mitigate its financial crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to Bloomberg reports, the B777 will be Boeing’s most expensive aircraft, priced at $442.2 million before discounts. The plane features stunning composite wings, the longest Boeing has ever built, with a span of 235 feet 5 inches (71.75 meters) when fully extended.
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft was being readied for its first orbital flight test, an uncrewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The reusable Starliner will be launched atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket at 6.36 a.m. (local time) on Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, reports Efe news.
According to the ratings agency, while the aviation turbine fuel prices have been benign in the current fiscal, yields continue to be under pressure.
The selloff-bound airline had on October 30 floated bids from banks/ financial institutions to refinance its existing bridge-loan facility worth USD 819 million or worth over Rs 5,800 crore by November 14
Amid concerns over alleged technical defects in 737 Max planes, a senior Boeing official said on Wednesday that it was in discussion with various customer airlines and their pilots and cabin crew members to figure out how to communicate to passengers that the aircraft was "ultimately safe".
As per the CMO, many of the new airplanes will replace aging aircraft and help operators grow their network as India's airplane fleet is projected to quadruple in size to approximately 2,500 aircraft by 2038.
The US Federal Aviation Administration issued a directive early last month requiring continuous inspections on its Boeing 737-600, 700, 700C, 800, 900 and 900 ER aircraft to prevent pickle forks from cracking.
Air India is looking to raise USD 819 million (over Rs 5,800 crore) to refinance existing bridge loans availed for six Boeing 787 and one Boeing 777 aircraft.
The pilot, Mark Forkner, told another Boeing employee in 2016 that the flight system, called MCAS, was “egregious” and “running rampant” while he tested it in a flight simulator.
The officials said that for the first time, an Air India plane would be wrapped with images of themes of Indian tourism and environment.
Boeing's 737 MAX became an infamous name after 346 people died in crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia in a span of five months. Fresh software glitch may further delay 737 MAX's return to service after being grounded globally.
An Indian aviation firm has achieved dual milestone with Boeing by delivering the 2000th harness for the Osprey and the 1000th electrical panel for the Apache of the global aerospace major, the company said Monday.
The Indian Air Force on Monday inducted four Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters. The American twin-engined helicopters are known for lifting heavy loads and can also operate in the night. It is manufactured by Boeing Vertol.
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