Tag Archives: aviation

Boeing vCabin Smart Interior Concept

Boeing’s Commercial Airplanes’ Product Development has been working on a new concept, the vCabin. The idea is that cabin interior systems like lighting can be controlled from handled devices. Passengers with a smart device could control their lighting, order a meal from the flight attendants, and

Farnborough Airshow 2016 Days 1-7

The Farnborough 2016 airshow is here. The airshow revolves mainly on being a trade show where companies to do with aviation come to see what is new and place orders. There are over a 1,000 exhibitors present at the event. The trade show part runs thru

Hail Damaged Airplanes

(Original story about damaged Delta 747, Delta a320, and American 787 below update) August 24th 5:27 CDT Update: N805AN, the American 787 mentioned in this post, is back flying fully fixed after it was damaged by hail over Beijing 4 weeks ago. The Dreamliner was

Debris Found Confirmed to be Part of MH370.

August 5 15:16CDT Update: The piece of debris that was found on Reunion Island has been identified as part of the missing MH370. This is the first piece of the Boeing 777 that disappeared over one year ago with 239 people on board. Investigators examined

American Airlines 787 Routes and Interior

April 30 Update: Today American Airlines announced another route that their new Dreamliners will fly. Staring August 18, 2015 they will fly on the ORD-NRT route (Chicago to Tokyo). This is also the first international route from Chicago that AA 787s will fly on. Booking

Qantas To Offer Virtual Reality Headsets

Statring this March, Qantas will start a three month trial to introduce Samsung Gear VR headsets into their aircraft and lounges. Both the first class lounges in Sydney and Melbourne will have these headsets for testing. Select a380 first class passengers will also get to

X-Plane: AutoGate Plugin Demo

A nice feature that flight simulators, including X-plane, lack out of the box is having the jetways at airports connect to the aircraft at the gate. AutoGate is a plugin for X-plane which solves that problem. The following is a FandaGear tutorial on how to install

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