2005 A Great Year For Aviation

[Theis]

Looking back to what I consider to be one of the best years for Civil Aviation I decided to contribute a little in recognizing all the great achievements that both Boeing and Airbus have accomplished.


B777-200LR Maiden flight
B777-200LR World breaking record.
B777-200F Launch
B787 Extrodinary sales progress
B787 Fastest selling wide-body
B787 First Composite section completed
B747-8/8F The Launch
B737-900ER The Launch
A380-800 Maiden Flight
A380-800 Record for MTOW
A380-800F First metal cut
A318Elite Launch
A318 PW certification
A350 Launch + sales progress
A340-600HGW Maiden Flight

+ breaking order records for both Airbus and Boeing.

What a wonderful year. Lets just hope that 2006 keeps up with this trend.

Cheers Theis

[Jakemaster]

Also a bad year.  Although I cant remember all, heres a few of the incidents:

Helios 737 Crash
Chalk's Grumman Crash
Southwest 737 Overrun
Numerous air incidents in Iraq

Cant think of the others, but I know that there were alot of crashes this year as well as milestones

[beefhole]

Cant think of the others, but I know that there were alot of crashes this year as well as milestones

Same as every other year.  No better, no worse.

[Nexus]

I'd agree with that...just that this year some crashes came so close to eachother, only a matter of days sometimes

[Ijineda]

dont forget the air france A340-crash in toronto, a miracle noone died...then the 2 major chrashes in nigeria with over 200 dead.

2004 was the best year in aviation safety, well see what 2006 will bring (hopefully not much in that sense).

[C]

B777-200LR World breaking record.

I'm just glad I wasn't on it! As a well known journalist has written this month, why on earth would anyone want to celebrate however many hours it was stuffed up in economy class with 299 other smelly people (ok, I know, only about 35 were on the record flight). 13 hours in a 747 to Singapore is enough!