Airliners

Aircraft wheels, part of an aircraft’s landing gear assembly, are an incredible feat of engineering. An aircraft’s landing gear has to be strong enough to support the aircraft’s maximum weight. They also need to be able to withstand high take-off and landing speeds, with sudden acceleration at take-off, and rapid deceleration when the aircraft touches […]

If you’re flying short-haul these days, or in the near future, there’s a good chance you’ll be on an Airbus A320 or A220 aircraft. The more established A320 has proved to be extremely popular with airlines, but the younger A220 – originally the Bombardier CSeries – is also showing great commercial potential. Airlines are attracted

The Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 are both twin-aisle widebodies, but differ in one significant respect – the A380 has two passenger decks, whereas the 777 has a more traditional single-deck design. Both aircraft tend to serve long-haul markets. The 777 has been around for more than 25 years and has continually evolved through a

If you’re flying long-haul these days, there’s a good chance you’ll be flying on a Boeing 777 or 787. The 777 was first launched in 1995 and so far has received around 2,350 orders, whilst the 787 was first launched in 2011 and so far has received over 1,900 orders. In this article, I’ll compare

The A350 and 777 widebodies are, to an extent, similar aircraft, both in terms of their physical sizes and hence their seating capacities, and in terms of the main markets that they serve. What is very different about these aircraft is that the A350 is relatively new on the scene, first entering commercial service in

The Boeing 757 and the newer Airbus A321 are both narrowbody twinjet aircraft that have benefited immensely from ETOPS (Extended Range Twin Operations) approvals which allowed them to operate on long-distance over-water routes traditionally operated by 4-engined widebody aircraft. Commercially, the A321 is a more successful aircraft than the 757, with 6 times the orders

The E175 and CRJ-900 are arch-rivals – both aimed to dominate the sub-100 seats short- to medium-haul market. Each of these narrowbodies has its distinct advantages over the other, and we will explore these later in this article. The history of the E175 is relatively straightforward, although there’s a twist in the tale for the

The narrowbody Boeing 757 and widebody Boeing 777 are quite different aircraft, both physically, and in terms of the main markets that they serve. These two aircraft embarked on their first commercial flights in 1983 and 1995 respectively. The 757 production run ended in 2005, having been succeeded by new aircraft such as the Boeing

The manufacture of an Airbus aircraft involves millions of individual parts which are sourced from across the globe. Airbus operates a multitude of manufacturing plants around the world and twelve final assembly lines across five global locations. Unlike Boeing which carries out final assembly only in the USA, Airbus has multiple final assembly plants outside