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Harbour Air Selects magniX to Transition to All-Electric Seaplane Fleet
March 26, 2019  | Written by Ari Magnusson
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British Columbia-based Harbour Air’s partnership with magniX means it could become the world’s first airline to offer all-electric flights across its fleet in 2022. Harbour Air Seaplanes and magniX today announced a partnership to convert the airline’s seaplanes into an all-electric commercial fleet. The first aircraft to be converted will be a DHC-2 de Havilland […]

An Inside Job: Photo Essay by AvGeek Alister Thorpe
 | Written by Stephanie Taylor
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Photographing powerful machines doesn’t always mean catching them at their fastest and most furious. Alister Thorpe has yet to experience air-to-air photography, but he’s no stranger to car-to-car jobs. He once spent 28 days in the Australian outback on a shoot for Land Rover, taking pictures of the company’s vehicles in motion while strapped to a […]

Making Waves: Diehl’s Quest to Automate the Aircraft Cabin
 | Written by Stephanie Taylor
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Travelers already wave their hands to activate the dryer in the airport washroom. Why not do the same to lower the window shade in the cabin? Sensors have enabled the automation of numerous everyday actions on the ground, but in the air, passengers and crew still do a lot of things manually, whether it’s opening and closing window shades and switching off […]

[PHOTOS] ANA Takes Delivery of Its First Airbus A380
March 21, 2019  | Written by Piotr Bozyk
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All Nippon Airways’ A380 features 60 economy-class couch seats, making it the first airline in Japan to introduce this concept. All Nippon Airways took delivery of its first of three Airbus A380 aircraft yesterday in Toulouse. The Japanese airline is the first A380 operator in Japan and the 15th in the world. ANA will operate […]

Deal Me In: The History of Airline Card Decks
 | Written by Howard Slutsken
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Before movies, Wi-Fi or live bands, playing cards were offered as in-flight entertainment. The earliest playing cards were used over 1,200 years ago during China’s Tang dynasty. It took about another 500 years for card games to find their way to Europe, and ultimately around the world. And it’s likely that airline passengers who braved […]

Born to Be Wild: Stories From Aircraft Interior Enthusiast Vern Alg
 | Written by Marisa Garcia
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Motorbikes, long drives and free flights are just part of what keep aircraft interior enthusiast Vern Alg going. As told by Vern Alg to Marisa Garcia As the Steppenwolf song says, I was “born to be wild,” but I’m not a Harley-Davidson guy. I ride scooters and off-road bikes. Anything under 500 cc is just […]

Skycast Solutions Unveils PowerStreamer IFE Tablet Ahead of AIX
March 20, 2019  | Written by Ari Magnusson
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Skycast Solutions thinks its tablets will appeal to airlines that want to offer a low-cost, flexible IFE solution. Skycast Solutions has unveiled its latest in-flight entertainment (IFE) product, which will be on display at the Aircraft Interiors Expo next month in Hamburg. The Seattle-based company developed a family of low-cost Android-based portable devices called PowerStreamer. […]