Regulator the Civil Aviation Authority has approved the Boeing 787 flight from Heathrow to New York on November 28. Transport Secretary Mark Harper said: “The world’s journey to decarbonising flights starts here with today’s announcement, helped by Government funding, so people can
Virgin Atlantic will operate the first transatlantic flight powered fully by sustainable aviation fuel, the Civil Aviation Authority has announced. The regulator approved the flight, which is set to take place from London Heathrow to New York JFK, on November 28. Transport
Puerto Rico’s National Guard was deployed to help fight a large fire at a landfill in the U.S Virgin Islands that has been burning for more than a week and which has forced schools and businesses to close, officials said Friday. Helicopters
In the Roman Catholic religion, Aug. 15 marks the celebration of the assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, into heaven. The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is also referred to as the Assumption. It’s also called
Space tourist Jon Goodwin reached for the stars and jumped for joy yesterday after racking up a string of out-of-this world achievements. The 80-year-old Parkinson’s sufferer with the motto “anything is possible” defied the disease to become Virgin Galactic’s first paying passenger,
Virgin Galactic has taken its first tourists on a sub-orbital spaceflight after years of delays, including one passenger who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean. The flight window opened on this (Thursday) morning at Spaceport
The Virgin Galactic spaceflight is due to take off from New Mexico carrying an 80-year-old British former Olympian, an Aberdeen student and her mother. It marks a special moment in history as the first flight for a paying “space tourist”, with hundreds
Mobile operator Virgin Media O2 reportedly plans to lay off 2,000 employees by the end of the year. The technology giant reportedly start to hand staff redundancy notices on Monday night. The job cuts will amount to more than a tenth of
Virgin Galactic is set to launch its first commercial flight today. It would take passengers to the edge of space. A three-man crew from Italy will be on board the rocket plane operated by British billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s company, along with
Virgin Orbit has filed for bankruptcy protection in the States after failing to get the funding needed to recover from a January rocket failure. Its bid for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection comes less than a week after the California-based satellite launch company