Photo by © Red Wings press service Red Wings Airline organised a non-stop flight on the route Moscow-Murmansk-Arkhangelsk-Moscow in business class on SSJ100 aircraft (RA-89007) to observe the northern lights. […]
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Category: Civil aviation
UAC approved the concept of an in-line assembly line for MC-21 pylons
Photo by © UAC At the meeting of the Technical Committee of the United Aircraft Corporation the concept of an in-line assembly line for MC-21 aircraft pylons was considered and […]
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A320 aircraft that went down in a wheat field will become a donor of spare parts
Photo by © Ural Airlines Press Service The Ural Airlines A320 RA-73805 aircraft, which made an emergency landing on 12 September in a wheat field due to lack of fuel, […]
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The plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur for the production of Baikal aircraft is planned to be launched in the summer of 2025
© Boris Yarkov, Agenda / Construction of the UZGA plant at the Uktus site. Archival photo Within the framework of aviation industry development in the Far Eastern Federal District, construction […]
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What’s wrong with resuming serial production of the Tu-214
© UAC Press Service / Tu-214 RA-64518 For many years Russian civil aviation has relied on imported Boeings and Airbuses. Through the efforts of high officials and some airline executives, […]
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MC-21 – digest for November-2023
Photo by © UAC At the X International Week of Aerospace Technologies, which took place at the Moscow Aviation Institute, Oleg Nesterov, Deputy General Director for Logistics, Procurement and Logistics, […]
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SSJ100 from the 2022 backlog transferred to Azimut Airlines for operation
RA-89191 (temporary 97027) “Belaya” / Photo: © TG-channel “Aviation Mezzanine” Azimut Airlines has put into commercial operation a new SSJ100 passenger aircraft with registration number RA-89191. The aircraft was named […]
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Tu-144D – history and development of supersonic aviation
Photo by Creative Commons license On 30 November 1974, the modernised supersonic passenger aircraft Tu-144D made its maiden flight. The machine was lifted into the sky by the crew of […]
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To the anniversary of the first flight of the Tu-144 flying laboratory
Photo by Creative Commons license On November 29, 1996, the Tu-144LL flying laboratory, which was created within the framework of the Russian Second Generation Supersonic Passenger Aircraft (SPA-2) programme and […]
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Virgin Atlantic has completed a transatlantic flight using 100 per cent biofuel
Photo by © Brendon Farris / Airways Virgin Atlantic has operated its first transatlantic flight using fully sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The flight from London Heathrow Airport to John F […]
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