Aviation Thread

Thread dedicated for any kind of aviation discussion.
 
Posting images is allowed too as long as they aren’t NSFW.
 
Have fun!
 

Whaaaat?? I’m kinda suprised that there’s not more than one avgeek bronies like us posting plane stuff in this thread.  
Nix that, let me follow up to this thread for you will ye? But I’d speculate this still ain’t gonna grab much attention.
 
Here, have some cute big whale.
 

 
Airbus’ fresh new bird out of nest, Beluga XL.  
First maiden flight expected sometime in summer 2018.  
Will be introduced to public in 2019.

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
Finally!!! Someone who actually cares about planes! Thank You!
 
If I’m not wrong I just did some research and I think the first flight is scheduled to be in July 17th or 19th.
 

Airbus rebrands Bombardier’s CSeries planes to A220 making it the new Airbus A220 Family.  

An Aeromexico Embraer 190 crashes nearby the Guadalupe-Victoria Airport. The good news is that there’s no victims.
 
The news
 
The plane XA-GAL before the accident
 
The plane after the accident

@100SGX  
Oh glad they all lived to tell the tale; I’m very relieved they all made it out alive.  
Should they haven’t fled out of the aircraft within a critical matter of time, the lot of them would have been toasted.
 
You see these wind gusts can just be as treacherous as it can get.

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
Yep, and for the even good news. The pilot survived too. (Apparently he was seriously injured but now he’s stable)
 
I’m surprised over the fact that the ATC allowed the plane to flight through those critical weather conditions. You can almost easily tell that the plane crashed because of the weather conditions.
 
And I also found this video of the moment of the impact, you can see that the plane was trying to take-off but it was brought down
 
I must say that the Flight Attendants and the Crew did an amazing job in that situation.

Broken hijacker steals Alaska Airlines plane to perform barrel rolls, caught on video moments before crashing near Seattle Airport
 
No one except him were on board the stolen aircraft and an F-15 were deployed to hunt down the plane.

The Legendary Douglas DC-3
 
 
 
 

I admire the V-22 Osprey for its versatility.
 

 
This is its successor, the V-280:
 

Sky Titans.
 

Boeing’s 787th 787 released out of paintshop for China Southern.
 
 
 

Dark aviation humor ;)
 

Boeing 757-200 N757A aka “The Catfish”  

One of aviation’s greatest feats is to able to land a damaged F-15 Eagle in one wing.
 

 
The lifting body properties of the plane, together with its overabundant engine thrust, allowed the pilot to achieve this unique feat.

@Count Adramélekh Sear ov the Far East  
The F-15 collided with an A-4 Skyhawk, while the F-15 could land safely the A-4 unfortunately disintegrated in mid-air almost instantly after the pilot could barely eject from it. Is so amazing that the F-15 could hold up that much damage.

@Count Adramélekh Sear ov the Far East  
I heard about the news too, and even thought the production will end in 2021 I was really hoping to see a Fed-Ex A380 or the infamous A380 Plus or even a military version.

‘Stratolaunch’, the world’s largest aircraft’s maiden flight
 

 

Boeing’s 777-9X
 
First maiden flight: October-November 2019  
Introduction: May 2020 (planned)
 

Su-47 (S-37) Berkut has made a surprise appearance to the public for the first time in over 12 years on MAKS 2019.
 
 
 

 
This was my favorite plane in the Ace Combat Series.