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Boeing Dreamliner Turns Into Nightmareliner After New Delay

We have been following the Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner for a long time. It’s a beautiful aircraft, which allegedly provides with a much-better flying experience—less noise, bigger windows, more space, and better fuel efficiency—thanks to its new construction processes and technologies. However, a new delay in its LEGO-like manufacturing process shows that Boeing is having very…

Airplane Cabin for Sale Will Make You Apartment Commander

If you are looking for a complete apartment makeover and a cheap private plane, head to eBay now because someone is selling the interior of a passenger airplane. The 19-square-foot “real Boeing aircraft model Airbus aircraft seats” includes everything but the trolley dollies: first class double seats, two fully-equipped airplane toilets, kitchenette, storage lockers, and…

Emirates Air In-Flight Showers Cost $18,000 (Plus Enviro Guilt?)

Starting October 1, if you’re flying first class from Dubai to New York on an Emirates Air A380, you’ll have the option of grabbing a hot shower midflight. It’ll cost you $18,000, but some showers are worth it, am I right? “No!” say those party poopers in the environmental lobby. You see, in order to…

Airbus Planning 900-Passenger Super A380?

According to Kansas.com, Airbus SAS plans to build a 900-seat version of its famously enormous A380 superjumbo. Currently, the A380 is intended to carry between 500-800 passengers depending on the configuration—although it has held up to 873 on at least one occasion. https://gizmodo.com/video-873-people-ditch-a-downed-airbus-in-77-seconds-257841 That could mean a “stretch” Airbus A380 could be adjusted to hold…

Sex Not Allowed in Airbus A380 Double Bed Suites

Even though Singapore Airlines has equipped its new A380 jets with private double bed suites, company officials are saying you’d better not do the bouncy bouncy in there or you’ll meet with their stern disapproval. What are they going to do? Throw you off the plane? The first couple to book one of the double…

World’s Largest Commercial Jet, Airbus A380, Makes Maiden Voyage (Video)

The Airbus A380, the biggest commercial jetliner ever put into production, at long last took its first trip—and it didn’t hit any icebergs. Out of a possible 850 travelers, 450 were on board in this seven-hour Singapore Airlines trip from, well, Singapore all the way to Sydney. This means that, today Airbus officially steals the…

Airforce One, Supersized

For the next Airforce One, rumor has it that the US is considering the world’s biggest jet airliner, the famous Airbus A380. The upgrade seems a little late, considering Hummers have lost their mystique and McD’s has ditched the supersizing pitch, but when the President needs a new plane, he can’t be outdone by some…

If you’re in San Francisco right now, look outside for an aeronautical show that’s bidding the Airbus A380 farewell.

Airbus A310 Extremely-Low Pass Scares the Bejeezus Out of Me

Here’s a Portuguese Airbus A310 doing an extremely low flyby at the Evora 2007 Air Show last week. Not only does it show there are commercial pilots as daring as Typhoon and Russian fighter pilots, but confirms they are as crazy too, if not more. https://gizmodo.com/typhoon-strike-fighter-closing-dangerously-on-hercules-283575 One thing is for sure, I would rather fly…

Airbus 380 Has Bathroom Window, Insert Joke Here

Forget about its cockpit. At last, the most important detail of the giganormous Airbus A380 has been revealed: it has a window in its bathroom. Expect a surge of helium balloon sales for peeping toms. Full gallery of the cabin after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/korean-air-shows-off-its-a380-cockpit-and-interiors-aft-297370 What is it with this fever for lavender all of a…

Korean Air Shows off its A380 Cockpit and Interiors After its Maiden Voyage

Korean Air is also the proud owner of a A380 and has released these pictures, following its inaugural flight. [Aving USA]

Should Cellphones Be Allowed On Airplanes?

Airbus just got permission from the EASA (the Eurotrash FAA) to allow cellphones on European flights. Right now, crew can set the devices to silent mode, which amounts to a data-only mode for EV-DO. But the notion of a plane full of yapping business dudes is terrifying, and this doesn’t restrict people from using VoIP.…

Billionaire Orders Private Airbus A380, Declares ‘Mine is Bigger than Yours’

While the ink on Joseph Lau’s order of a $153 million Dreamliner VIP is still wet, an anonymous billionaire has just reserved a gigantastic Airbus A380 for his private use. The eight-story-tall airplane will be converted into a luxurious flying mansion that will include everything you can imagine, even the obligatory whirlpool bathtub for romantic…

VIP Edition 787 Dreamliner Still Kicks Airbus’ Butt With Style

Click to viewFollowing yesterday’s 787 news, Hong Kong real estate tycoon Joseph Lau has just ordered a Dreamliner VIP. It’s the same airplane you and I are going to use, but instead of being crammed in seat 36D between Biff, the overweight shoe salesman, and Chantal, the aerobic teacher from Fort Lauderdale, he’ll have a…

Boeing 787 LEGO-like Building Begins, Kicks Airbus Nuts

Click to viewBoeing has started building their new flagship: the 787 Dreamliner. The cool thing about the 787 is that it only requires them to put together six big composite parts to build the final airframe, and operators don’t have to use huge tools and overhead cranes: All the parts can be slid along on…

World’s Largest Gadget, Airbus A380, Completes U.S. Maiden Voyage, 747 Pwned

The monstrous double-decker Airbus A380 made its maiden voyage to the United States yesterday, landing at New York’s JFK airport, and a few minutes later, another one landed at Los Angeles’s LAX. While these were not the first flights of the world’s largest passenger airplane—that happened in April of 2005—it is the first time the…

Pics Surface of Luxo-Sport $400 Million Airbus 380 Private Plane

You may recall our post about the $400 million Airbus A380 commissioned by an Arab oil magnate, where $100 million of that was spent just on the giant jet’s interior. Now we have three a picture of the inside of that flying palace created by jet interior expert Edése Doret, who put together the spectacular…

I’ll Take the Airbus for $300 Million if You Throw Rustproofing In For Free

Rich guys buy sports cars. Really rich guys buy private jets. Guys that want to live even more extravagantly? They buy entire airliners for personal use. An Arab oil magnate is spending $300 million on an Airbus A380, with another $100 million earmarked for the interior. What does that kind of scratch buy you? Peep…

Standing Tomb Only, by Airbus

Airbus hotly denies its alleged bright idea of creating coffin-sized “standing tomb only” padded backboards created especially to cram more sardines into their flying tin cans, contradicting a New York Times article by Christopher Elliott that described the strap-on standing seats in an article last week. But Elliott cries foul in his blog, refusing to…

Airbus Industries Standing-Room Concept

Accelerating the indignities of airplane flight way beyond what any of us could have imagined, now Airbus Industries has proposed a standing room concept, apparently the next step toward sliding passengers into drawers resembling a morgue, or packing them onto layered plank-bunks reminiscent of 17th-century slave ships. It’s not enough that the average space between…