December 18, 2019: The cargo operations of Air India with its Dreamliner 787 carried 40 tons of solar televisions and speakers in four consignments from Mumbai to Nairobi between December 6 and 18.
“Air India is privileged to carry of solar panel shipment on Mumbai to Nairobi Dreamliner 787 partnering in carrying environment saver products to reduce carbon emissions.
Kenya has a huge demand for off-grid electricity to power household equipments and Air India has recently restarted the Mumbai-Nairobi with our Dreamliner 787 after many years,” says the AI Cargo official.
The solar equipments were of Sun King brand of Greenlight Planet, a Chicago based company that provides off-grid electricity to more than 60 countries including India and Kenya.
On November 27, 2019, Air India started flying back to Nairobi from Mumbai with thrice-a-week (Wednesday, Friday Sunday) frequency after ten years.
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November 19, 2019: The Republic of Ghana declared at the Dubai Air Show that the country intends to re-launch an airline starting with the B787-9 Dreamliner.
Boeing and Ghana signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for three airplanes with a current list price of $877.5 million.
"There is a growing demand for air travel to and from Ghana and we believe the advanced 787-9 Dreamliner gives us an efficient and flexible machine to launch a regional network and eventually serve international destinations in the future," said Joseph Kofi Adda, minister of aviation and member of parliament, Republic of Ghana.
Honored that the Republic of Ghana has selected the fuel-efficient 787-9 #Dreamliner to help re-launch their airline.
Adda noted that the carrier, to be based in Accra, would establish the capital city as a strategic hub that serves cities across West Africa.
"Africa boasts a growing, young workforce and vast natural resources.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a key enabler of all three,” said Tony Douglas, group chief executive, Etihad Aviation Group, at the 2019 Dubai Airshow.
In partnership with Boeing, this one-of-a-kind aircraft will be used to test technology, products, and initiatives designed to help reduce carbon emissions and build a future of sustainable air travel.
The specially-themed 787 will come into service early next year and operate regular flights in Etihad Airways' network, while occasionally serving as a testbed for examining ecological sustainability initiatives.
"The 787 Dreamliner and its track record of environmental performance make it the perfect platform to advance our industry's commitment to sustainable growth," said Stan Deal, president and chief executive officer, Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
"We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Etihad Airways to identify more opportunities to improve efficiency across commercial aviation."
Beyond the environmental testing on the airplane, the two companies will build on the technical capabilities that Etihad Airways has developed while maintaining its own Dreamliner fleet and that of other operators.
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Black Hat A Black Hat presentation on how to potentially hijack a 787 – by exploiting bugs found in internal code left lying around on a public-facing server – was last night slammed as "irresponsible and misleading" by Boeing.
Boeing, however, insists the software on the second network cannot be exploited as IOActive described, nor can a miscreant direct the avionics from other networks, due to restrictions in place, such as hardware filters that only allow data to flow between networks rather than instructions or commands.
“We have got very limited data, so it’s impossible to say if the mitigation factors Boeing say they have work.
They told us work-in-progress software destined for the 787 was stored on a server belonging to the aircraft manufacturer's research and development labs.
This box had been, like so many databases and other systems recently, accidentally left open to the internet, which isn't particularly wise.
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