Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
By Robert Mark (www.jetwhine.com): AOPA ran a Town Hall meeting in Chicago the other night and Phil Boyer asked the group a penetrating question. How do we convince more people to learn to fly? Despite being a flight instructor and a communicator all my life, I didn’t have a good ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Representative of Strabag (Austria-based construction group) marketing & PR department Nicole Ziegler has reported that the company will rebuild International Airport Adler in Sochi, the capital of the Winter Olympic Games 2014... Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
TUNIS (Thomson Financial): EADS unit Airbus has signed a firm order for the sale of 13 aircraft and an option for two others to Tunisian carrier Tunisair, the French presidency said in a statement... Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Nearly three years ago, Sikorsky Aircraft announced it would develop technologies, collectively called "X2 Technology," that would significantly change helicopter flight. Every day thousands of people in the United States travel in helicopters, among them politicians, executives, tourists and patients... Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Wichita, KS.: Employees at Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, celebrated the roll out of the first production Citation XLS+ on Friday at the company’s primary design and manufacturing facilities in Wichita. The XLS+ is the latest version of the world’s best-selling business jet model... Link to ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Scientists are once again turning to the ocean to find solutions for aerospace. This time they’re irritating oysters and not feeling the slightest bit bad about it. The University of Dayton Research Institute is conducting experiments where they prompt oysters to produce pearl-like metal coatings... Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
With United and US Airways reportedly in urgent talks and possibly less than two weeks from announcing a merger, how will the Justice Department respond? Will it be any more inclined to support this merger than it was in 2001? Not likely... Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
KIEV (AFP): A helicopter crashed into a Black Sea offshore natural gas platform and blew up on Monday, killing all 20 people aboard, Ukraine’s government said. "Twenty people died," Igor Krol, spokesman for the emergency situations ministry, told AFP after the 20th victim died of his injuries... Link to the ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
NEW DELHI: US civil and defence aerospace major Boeing has decided to outsource two critical components of the F-18 Super Hornet combat aircraft to India and the order for one of them could go to the Tatas... Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
ST. LOUIS: The Boeing Company today delivered a detailed, 7,000-page proposal offering its advanced F/A-18E/F Super Hornet to the Indian Air Force as part of India’s Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) competition... Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
WASHINGTON: The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Canada of CH-47D CHINOOK Helicopters as well as associated equipment and services... Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti): The next launch of a U.S. space shuttle to the International Space Station (ISS) has been scheduled for May 31, Russia’s Federal Space Agency said on Monday, citing NASA officials... Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to integrate the former country’s United Aircraft Building Corporation (UABC) and Ukrainian aircraft makers, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko said following today’s meeting of the two countries’ economic cooperation committee. Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
In Oslo today the Swedish Defence Material Administration FMV, on behalf of the Swedish government, handed-over its compliant response to the Norwegian Ministry of Defence Request for Binding Information for up to 48 Gripen for the Royal Norwegian Air Force... Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Fort Worth, Texas: The British pilot who will be the first person to fly the short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35B Lightning II started and ran the aircraft’s engine for the first time on April 18, initiating the final series of ground tests before the jet’s first ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The no-frills airline Flybe that were previously known as British European have placed a large order for new aircraft at a total cost of £520 million... Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
For the first time ever in Russian history a specialized helicopter
exhibition HeliRussia 2008 is to take place at Crocus Expo Exhibition Centre in Moscow on May-15-17, 2008. 128 companies have applied to participate in the exhibition, including 18 foreign companies from the UK, Italy, Germany, France, the USA, Switzerland, Belarus, ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
On April 29 and May 5, during the trainings for the annual May 9 Victory Parade in Red Square in Moscow, strategic bomber jets of the Air Force of Russia will twice fly above the city, as head of the long-haul aviation headquarters Anatoly Zhikharev reports... Link to the original ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
A private airplane has crashed into a crowd of people at a German air show, killing one person and injuring at least ten others. The crash took place at the Kindel air field, near Eisenach, south of Berlin. German television has claimed that the plane struck a children carousel during ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
EVERETT, Wash.: Boeing [NYSE:BA] moved the 787 Dreamliner static test airframe from its Final Assembly facility in Everett to its structural test rig this evening. The test rig is located only 1,000 feet away from Final Assembly at the Everett factory. Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
"Lakshya fitted with an advanced digitally controlled engine was test flown at about 12 noon successfully and it was carried out to check the validity of its engine and duration enhancement" India - Pilotless Aircraft - Test Flown 'Lakshya', India's indigenously developed micro-light and pilotless target aircraft , was ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Representative of Strabag (Austria-based construction group) marketing
& PR department Nicole Ziegler has reported that the company will
rebuild International Airport Adler in Sochi, the capital of the Winter
Olympic Games 2014. Full Story Link to the original post
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The days of flying in quiet, emissions-free aircraft are closer now, following EAA's announcement that it has filed a request to the FAA for regulatory exemptions that would allow the use of electric motors in ultralight and light-sport aircraft. "This is only a first step," said engineer and EAA member ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Management at the Dallas-Fort Worth Tracon investigated operational errors and deviations, but routinely and intentionally misclassified them as pilot errors or non-events, the FAA said late last week. That conclusion was reached after an investigation by the Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General. The OIG report, prompted by whistleblower ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
But across the western 13 states, patients aren't alone. A volunteer organization called Angel Flight West offers a helping hand in healthcare. via KCBA Link to the original post
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
TUNIS (Thomson Financial): EADS unit Airbus has signed a firm order for the sale of 13 aircraft and an option for two others to Tunisian carrier Tunisair, the French presidency said in a statement... Link to the original post
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Nearly three years ago, Sikorsky Aircraft announced it would develop technologies, collectively called "X2 Technology," that would significantly change helicopter flight. Every day thousands of people in the United States travel in helicopters, among them politicians, executives, tourists and patients... Link to the original post
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
TUNIS (Thomson Financial): EADS unit Airbus has signed a firm order for the sale of 13 aircraft and an option for two others to Tunisian carrier Tunisair, the French presidency said in a statement... Link to the original post
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Nearly three years ago, Sikorsky Aircraft announced it would develop technologies, collectively called "X2 Technology," that would significantly change helicopter flight. Every day thousands of people in the United States travel in helicopters, among them politicians, executives, tourists and patients... Link to the original post
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Wichita, KS.: Employees at Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, celebrated the roll out of the first production Citation XLS+ on Friday at the company’s primary design and manufacturing facilities in Wichita. The XLS+ is the latest version of the world’s best-selling business jet model... Link to ...
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