There are currently 50 wide body Dreamliners in service globally, with several hundred on order.
Currently, there are 50 wide body Dreamliners in service globally, and several hundred on order.
Although there are only 50 wide body Dreamliners in service, there are several hundred on order.
Air traffic control recordings from LiveATC.net captured Tuesday's incident as the the wide body was on the taxiway.
On Tuesday, a senior aviation analyst told Forbes.com that the Airbus A350, an XWB (extra-wide body) aircraft, could be delayed until 2014.
In fact, he said many clients have shifted their travel plans specifically so they can experience flying on the Dreamliner wide body.
It has a fleet of 49Airbus and Boeing wide body aircraft and is only now getting into the sleek Embraer 190 class of so-called E-Jets.
As of December 31, 2011, it had a fleet of 102 aircraft comprising 81 single- aisle jet aircraft, 19 twin-aisle wide body aircraft, and 2 turboprop aircraft.
McVitie said that Branson would be "making the same mistake twice" if he went on to commit to one of Airbus' newest models, the A350 extra wide body plane.
Later versions of the tool filled small tubes with ethanol alcohol (earning them the name "spirit level") and encased several tubes inside a long, wide body, which could rest on different surfaces.
Thus, since the military would no longer require any new C-17s, the one active American manufacturing line that is capable of building wide body military transport plane would be allowed to go dormant - possibly forever.
According to Dr Sybille Klenzendorf, director of World Wildlife Fund's species program, there is already a wide body of evidence that suggests people are most interested in vulnerable animals that most closely resemble human beings -- usually large mammals with forward-facing eyes.
Meanwhile, as Boeing scrambles to find a quick fix and keep its customers happy, one of its biggest competitors is working to make sure its own planes are kept in the air: A spokesman for Airbus, which uses similar lithium-ion batteries in its A350 wide body jet, told the Reuters news service that the company is considering dropping Lithium-ion batteries and switching back to traditional nickel-cadmium power units.
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China is one of Airbus' most important customers, particularly for narrow-body planes, while the Middle East flies the flag for Airbus' wide-body jets like the double-decker A380.
To start, the new cabins are being introduced on the airline's Boeing 777 wide-body jets.
The previous FAA grounding in 1979 followed the terrible crash of the now-defunct DC-10 wide-body airliner.
Emirates also ordered 20 wide-body A340 planes -- two A340-500 and 18 A340-600 planes.
With 866 aircraft on order, the 787 Dreamliner became the fastest-selling wide-body jet in history.
Groh deems BE Aerospace a winner, given his bullish view on demand for wide-body aircraft.
Boeing also said on Monday it had won an order for 26 of its wide-body 777-300ER jets.
Emirates Airlines says it plans to test satellite based internet service on its A380 double-deck, wide-body jets.
The wide-body, twin-engine jet relies on a complex network of electrical systems rather than traditional pneumatic systems.
The wide-body freighter would be much more likely to make a trip from, say Los Angeles to Louisville, Ky.
Bad weather forced the wide-body Boeing 767-400 to sit several hours in a JFK conga-line of jets waiting to takeoff.
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"Our plan is to continue production of the 787 and to continue the development of the wide-body airplanes, " he added.
Joseph Burns, managing director for flight standards and technology at United Airlines, which has texting capabilities on most of its wide-body fleet.
The A380 is a four-engined, twin-decked, wide-body jet aircraft built at Airbus's factories throughout Europe and assembled at its facility in Toulouse, France.
In part, that is because it is impractical to distribute a full plane's worth of tablets on wide-body jets with hundreds of passengers, they say.
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China Eastern will also return five Airbus A340-300s to in exchange for 15 smaller wide-body A330s, which could be operated on domestic routes, Bloomberg reported.
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Hence the decision to buy smaller wide-body jets for long-haul routes.
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