16 October 2026
Walkaround
Aviation news and fleet brief
What is going on with the aircraft you work on. Every page is a five minute read, and every claim carries at least two independent sources.
Today in aviation
The one or two things worth knowing right now. Each opens in full, with its own sources.
Technical and maintenance
FAA orders A380 engine seal replacement after uncontained failure
One high pressure turbine seal broke apart and forced an Airbus A380 to abort its takeoff roll, and the FAA now wants every high cycle seal of its kind off the wing within weeks.
Technical and maintenance
GE and Pratt put AI in front of the borescope
GE Aerospace is extending its AI blade inspection tool from the GEnx to the CFM LEAP and GE9X, reporting a borescope inspection cut from three hours to ninety minutes. Pratt and Whitney bought an AI borescope company this year.
Technical and maintenance
FAA proposes replacing A320 family evacuation slides after inflation failures
Slides on A318, A319, A320 and A321 aircraft failed to inflate in emergency evacuations because a connector on the inflation hose assembly fractured and separated. The FAA wants affected slides replaced.
By the numbers
Every figure below is the one published on the page it links to, so you can check it rather than take it.
Fleet brief
One page per type, kept current. All 15 types, with photographs and a size comparison.
Boeing
Airbus
Bombardier
Engines
Most of what goes wrong on a modern airliner goes wrong at the engine. All fourteen families.
CFM International
GE Aerospace
Pratt and Whitney
Rolls-Royce
Technology
The fleet and engine pages track what is happening to the aircraft. These track what is happening to the job. All 9 topics.