Airbus Switching To Conventional Nickel-Cadmium Batteries In The A350

02/14/2013, Airbus is making plans to drop lithium-ion batteries from its upcoming A350 planes. The Wall Street journal reports that Airbus is taking the decision so that deliveries of the A350 are not delayed due to regulations over the lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion [...]

Airbus pilots to use iPad apps in flight

07/11/2012, It looks like the iPad is making its way into a lot of different workplaces where tablets were never really used. Today Airbus announced that it has become the first aircraft manufacturer to provide its Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) performance-calculating [...]

Airbus’s Plane Of The Future Harvests Your Energy

06/14/2011, Admittedly perhaps the title was a little frightening but it’s not too far from what Airbus has in mind, although probably with much better sounding intentions. Building off our previous post about Airbus’s transparent plane concept, it looks like while [...]

Airbus transparent plane concept

06/13/2011, Want a plain plane? Airbus goes the extra nautical mile with thier latest concept that it hopes to build in four decades’ time – that is, a fully transparent plane so that passengers are able to have a panoramic view [...]