Boeing announced yesterday that they have started fuselage assembly of the first 747-8 Intercontinental at their factory in Everett, WA. Even though this is not the first Boeing 747-8 built, it is the first Intercontinental that will carry passengers. The panels are part of section 41, which houses the flight deck and top portion of […]
Today, I got word from Jon Ostrower (aka FlightBlogger) that a Boeing 747-8 Freighter with a Korean Air Cargo livery should be outside at Paine Field. So I headed up to Paine Field to take a look and sure enough, it was there! I was just up there on Saturday taking a look at the […]
Over the past few months, the readership on AirlineReporter.com has been growing…a lot. Thank you all so much for your support, comments and putting up with my sense of humor. Since some of you are new to reading, I wanted to point out the other ways you can also connect to me and my blog: […]
Last month I told you about two flight crews who forgot to start the second engine on their regional jet before take off. Yes, people can make mistakes, but this is a pretty big mistake. Since then I have found more information on one of the incidents. It turns out that the Trans States pilot […]
Crosswind landings can be quite tricky. I have watched this video over and over again and trying to figure out what aircraft types I am seeing. The page hosting the video says this is an Airbus A340 trying to land twice. Ha. It is easy to tell this isn’t not an Airbus A340 (they have […]