THOUGH IT MAY have lacked the drama that accompanied takeoff at Kitty Hawk a century ago, a recent flight in the skies above Shanghai still marked a historic moment in aviation. On May 5 a plane called the C919 circled the city for an hour, with just five crew members aboard. The 168-seat jet is the first large commercial aircraft manufactured in China—its challenge to popular models from giants Boeing and Airbus. That first public test flight heralded the rise of Asia, and China in particular, in a radically evolving aviation…
Day: September 19, 2018
We are only 2 days away from the test fire of our first GEM63 motor!
B737 MAX, with full flat beds in business and seatback IFE in extra legroom economy,
Whoa. @CopaAirlines is going three-class on its @BoeingAirplanes 737 MAX, with full flat beds in business and seatback IFE in extra legroom economy, but only streaming IFE in regular economy. Super interesting #PaxEx move here.
SpaceX will send Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to the Moon
This evening, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire and founder of Zozotown, Japan’s largest online clothing retailer, will be the first private customer to ride around the Moon on the company’s future massive rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR). Maezawa plans to fly on the trip as early as 2023, and he wants to take artists with him to turn the entire ride into an art project called #dearMoon. A website for the mission went live after the announcement. “Finally, I can tell you that I choose…