Three Points: Airbus & Boeing freighters, swappable aircraft batteries, Cockpit Casual

Issue No. 44

Airbus has launched its A350 freighter and the move is kicking off an arms race with Boeing, which has enjoyed a near-monopoly in the segment for decades. The aircraft also may have a big impact on Qantas, still plotting its own pursuit of eventual nonstop flights connecting Sydney with New York and London.
What if you could swap a battery between flights on an electric airplane? Tecnam thinks they may have the solution to speed up turn times for its P-VOLT commuter. Ground infrastructure is one of the main hurdles to making electric aircraft commercially useful.
Globetrotting ferry pilots document life in the air and what it’s like flying through a pandemic when business is booming but the sky is empty. Cockpit Casual is finally here and its worth every moment of your time.

Jon Ostrower

Jon Ostrower is Editor-in-chief of The Air Current. Prior to launching TAC in June 2018, Ostrower served as Aviation Editor for CNN Worldwide, guiding the network's global coverage of the business and operations of flying. Ostrower joined CNN in 2016 following four and half years at the Wall Street Journal. Based first in Chicago and then in Washington, D.C. he covered Boeing, aviation safety and the business of global aerospace. Before that, Ostrower was editor of the award-winning FlightBlogger for Flightglobal and Flight International Magazine covering the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and other new aircraft programs from 2007 to 2012. Ostrower, a Boston native, graduated from The George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs with a bachelor's degree in Political Communication. He is based in Seattle.

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