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CuriositiesNew York City will rebuild the Twin Towers
New York, Usa - The meetings to examine the proposed projects begun
To answer to the terrible terrorist attacks of September 11 2001, that caused the falling of the Twin Towers and the erasure of 2800 persons, the city of New York has decided to pass from words to facts,... more
HelicoptersIt's almost ready the first BA-609 flight
Washington, Usa - It's thought it can furrow the skies already this spring
The BA-609 is going to enter the History, for the first flight of the civilian aircraft that can lift as an helicopter but that is able to fly as a plane. The presentation has been delayed a lot, also... more
AirlinesHumour is the "Southwest Airlines" arm against the crisis
Washington, USA - The American air company idea is running
Competitive tickets cost and laughters on board, seem the winning form of the Southwest Airlines. A business strategy that has allowed to the American air company to obtain an annual increase of 8%.... more
IndustryAirbus has sold more aircraft than Boeing in 2002
Paris, France - The European constructor has delivered more than 300 aircraft
Airbus has delivered in 2002 an higher number of aircraft if confronted with the aircraft to the concurring American firm Boeing. The official figures say that Airbus has sold 303 aircraft respect to... more
Latest newsHearing for the two American pilots charged for the dead of 4 Canadian soldier
Lousiana, USA - The tragedy happened in Afghanistan last April
The process against Harry Schmidt and William Umbach, the two American pilots guilty to have murdered erroneously some soldiers of the Canadian contingent in Afghanistan the slid one you open them, marks... more
DefenseRocket on Us base in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan -The launch has provoked no damages or injured
Us military sources refer that a rocket has passed near to an Us operative military base. Fortunately this event has caused no damages or injured. The same sources refer that the base is situated in the... more
AirlinesRyanair lodges a complaint about the rising of the fees
Dublin, Ireland - The rising has been decided by the office of fair trading
The Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has lodged a complaint regarding the decision of OFT (Office of Fair Trading) of rising the fees regarding the air traffic control, decided, trusting official sources... more
Science and technologyGrowth of the travelling passengers in the English airports
London, Great Britain - Grown in all the bigger English airports the travellers
BAA (British Aviation Administration) communicates that in the bigger English airports, during the whole year 2002 it has been registered a big growth of the traveling passengers. The best figures have... more
HelicoptersIsraeli helicopters kill two Palestinian boys
Jerusalem, Israel - The fact has happened yesterday
Israeli helicopters during yesterday's morning have attacked a group of Palestinians in Gaza's Strip. The result of the attack has been the killing of two boys and several injured. The boys have been... more
AirlinesLow-cost carriers refuse the contract among three big Us carriers
New York, Usa - Trusting their opinion should block the air traffic market
Even if low-cost carriers did not have beared the consequences of the air traffic market's crisis that has nearly blocked the whole trading area in the United States, low-cost carriers remain equally contrary... more
AirlinesBA increase its profits, but the revenues decrease
London, Great Britain - BA closes the trimester with an improvement of +244%
After September, the drastic demand reduction had put British Airways in strong crisis, but after approximately a year and half of distance the profits for the greatest European company return. Strong... more
Science and technologyPossible terroristic attack in the airport of New York
New York, United States - It asserts the police of the city
According to a note of allert that it has diffused from the police of New York and published from the New York Post, a group of Algerian terrorists that, in the next days, would have to enter in the United... more
IndustryTen Brasilian planes for Lot air company (2): the technical sheet of the aircraft
Rome, Italy - Model Embraer 170
Dimensions: Lenght overall: 98 ft 1 in (29,90 m) Wingspan: 85 ft 4 in (26 m) Height overall: 31 ft 9 in (9,67) Performance: Maximum cruise speed (Mach.80): 470 Kts (870 Km/h) Range full pax 220... more
AerospaceRussia is getting ready for a demanding space challenge year
Moscow, Russia - No intention to drop its commitment in the space program
Although the Russian financial situation is not serene at all, as AVIONEWS yesterday has emphasized reporting the news of the grounding of the greater part of its fighter fleet for lack of money, it continues... more
Science and technologyScottish airports rise the number of travelling passengers
Edimburgh, Great Britain - The highest has been registered in Glasgow
High rising in Scottish airports in the field of the number of travelling passengers. The managing director of BAA (British Aviation Administration) Scottish airports, Donal Dowds, has declared: "The... more
AirlinesAir Lib is closer to the failure
Paris, France - The French Transportation Minister has refused the new industrial rescue plan
The future of Air Lib, the French low-cost carrier, is every day more worrying, also because the French Transportation Minister has refused the new industrial rescue plan presented from the low-cost carrier... more
AirlinesLufthansa in BMI British Midland capital with 30%
Frankfurt, Germany - The operation has been authorized in summer by the German government
Yesterday, Lufthansa has announced to have increased its participation from 20% to 30% in the BMI (British Midland) capital. The British air company has 25 destinations in 10 countries and has transported... more
Latest newsSix aircraft carriers in the gulf for the USA
Washington, USA – The ships would assure more military options
According to anonymous sources near the Pentagon, U.S Navy is planing in Persian Gulf area to ship six aircraft carriers, with approximately 80 airplane on board. If Iraq will be attacked, this six ships... more
DefenseNorth Korea to develop a new ballistic missile more powerful
Pyongyang, North Korea - Usa tries a pacific solution of the crisis
North Korea is the most prolific nation in the world in the missile technology construction (USD 560m for the export of missiles in 2001), a supremacy that now puts fear, having the regimen of Pyongyang... more
DefenseAccording to UN inspectors, Iraq would have import illegally war material
Iraq, Baghdad - But it isn't cleared if it is connected at building of crews of mass destruction
"The UN inspectors have found a large quantity of material that would have been introduced illegally in Iraq, but isn't clearly if it is connected to the programs of development of crews of mass destruction".... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Raytheon model Hawker 800XP airplanes
Washington, USA - To prevent loss of the overspeed protection function without the flightcrew's awareness, due to missing jumper wires, which could result in engine overspeed and possible uncommanded engine shutdown
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2001-NM-315-AD; Amendment 39-13011; AD 2002-26-22] RIN... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on McDonnell Douglas airplanes
Washington, USA - To prevent chafing of wires at the disconnect panel above the aft left lavatory, which could result in electrical arcing, and consequent fire in the cabin
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2000-NM-166-AD; Amendment 39-13009; AD 2002-26-20] RIN... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on General Electric Co. CF6-80A series turbofan engines
Washington, USA - To detect cracks in the bottoms of the dovetail slots that could propagate to failure of the disk and cause an uncontained engine failure
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2002-NE-44-AD; Amendment 39-13016; AD 2003-01-05] RIN... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Boeing model 747-400 and -400D series airplanes
Washington, USA - To prevent unrestrained drip shields from interfering with the rudder pedal mechanism, which could result in reduced controllability of the airplane
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2002-NM-46-AD; Amendment 39-13018; AD 2003-02-02] RIN... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Bombardier model CL-600-2B19 series airplanes
USA - To prevent false smoke warnings from the smoke detectors in the cargo compartment, which prompt the flightcrew to discharge fire extinguisher bottles, leaving those bottles depleted in the event of an actual fire, or which create uncertainty as to
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2001-NM-250-AD; Amendment 39-13013; AD 2003-01-02] RIN... more
HelicoptersDelivered the first helmet for Rah-66: to be the real weapon
California, Usa - The pilot will have a complete vision, in any flight condition
It continues in the best way the development of the helicopter Rah-66 Comache whose program can, since now, to benefit of an other futuristic solution, the Hidss (Helmet Integrated Display Sigthing System),... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Boeing model 767/300 series airplanes
Washington, USA - To ensure that the airplane crew is able to remove electrical power from the passenger entertainment system when necessary and is advised of appropriate procedures for such action
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2002-NM-56-AD; Amendment 39-13002; AD 2002-26-14] RIN... more
AirlinesAlaska Airlines towards Airbus, dropping Boeing
Seattle, Usa - It going to be an heavy loss for the Seattle-based industry
Also Alaska Airlines, one of the most Boeing reliable partner, seems to be addressed to conclude important business with the rival, the European consortium Airbus, for its fleet, made up entirely of B-737... more
IndustryTen Brasilian planes for Lot air company
San Paulo, Brasil - The first deliveries in 2004
The manufacturing Brazilian company, Embraer, has communicated that the Polish air company Lot has decided to acquire ten Embraer 170 cargo planes. Aircraft cost, able to transport up two 70 passengers... more
AirlinesSAS Group: traffic and yield development was weak as expected
Stockholm, Sweden - Passenger load factor continues to improve
There's a negative trend, for the Sas Group, as shown y the figures on December performance. In the last two months, traffic and yield development was weak as expected and indicates a thougher trading... more
AccidentsFokker 28 flight recorders sent in Usa for the control
Lima, Peru - USD 5,000 the insurance indemnity for every victim
According to the first indiscretions that come from the Peruvian governmental palace it would have been a human error the cause of the Thursday incident in Peru, in which 47 persons died, an hypothesis... more
IndustryJohnson Technology awarded of a over 5 USDm contract
USA
Johnson Technology Inc., Muskegon, Mich., is being awarded a $5,044,761 fixed-price contract for procurement of high-pressure turbine nozzle segments used on the F404 engine for the F/A-18 aircraft. Work... more
PeopleUs carriers ordered to report causes of delays or cancellations
Washington, Usa - The traveller to take advantage from this situation
As it had been announced the last year, there will be some changes about American carriers, especially in terms of regulations. Indeed, since June, the greatest airlines will have to explain the reasons... more
IndustryFlight Explorer introduces a flight-status information system available from the web
Washington, Usa - A service suited both for the sector's needs and for entertainment
It has been introduced few days ago by Flight Explorer, leader in the field of the computerized services offered to all those who operate in the field of the civil aviation, such as airports, airlines,... more
PeopleCarriers begin to face the dvt problem, Alitalia among the first to distinguish
Rome, Italy - An attitude that could prevent many class economic syndrome cases
They have been being several years since the airlines are convened by hundreds of passengers after that these have been victims of the dvt (Deep Vein Thrombosis), called also "economic syndrome class",... more
IndustryBoeing authorizes the purchase of Conquest Inc
Seattle, Usa - The purchase will be concluded within the first quarter of 2003
Boeing Corporation, the world giant of aeronautical and aerospace industry, has authorized the purchase of Conquest Inc., firm specialized in providing services for intelligence within the first quarter... more
DefenseAmerican airplanes bomb an emplacement of missiles in Bassora
Bagdad, Iraq - It said the center commando of Tampa, in Florida
They continue the skirmishes of war from part of the Americans in Iraq: airplanes, in fact, have today hit a emplacement of missiles anti-ships in the south of the Iraq, near Bassora, the second Iraqi... more
IndustryBombardier sells to Qantas three 50-seated aircraft
Montreal, Canada - The selling has been concluded during the last weekend
During the last weekend Bombardier Aerospace, one of the biggest aerospace industries in the world, has signed the selling to Qantas, the Australian national carrier, of three aircraft series Q300 with... more
SecurityItalian volounteers for peace will leave to Iraq next January 28
Rome, Italy - The volounteers are decided to stop Anglo American bombings
In the field of the protest manifestations against war in Iraq, is taking its own shape a manifestation, that in short time will attract on itself the attention of the whole world's medias. The next January... more
Latest newsLanded Saturday in Kabul 35 Italian soldiers
Rome, Italy - The soldiers will be employed in the operation Enduring Freedom
The group of 35 Italian soldiers that had taken off by Rome on Thursday evening (news already published by AVIONEWS), transported to Abu Dhabi with a B-707 of the 14th group of Italian Air Force, then... more
IndustryJet Aviation has signed a contract with Czech airlines
Zurich, Switzerland - The contract regards the supply of cargo services at Zurich airport
The Swiss society of supplying of aeronautical services, Jet Aviation, has signed a contract for supplying cargo services to Czech Airlines, Czech air carrier, upon the B-737/400 working on the haul Prague-Zurich. Trusting... more
IndustryPratt & WIthney has presented a new engine
Ottawa, Canada - The new engine will be used to give more power to Cessna Citation Mustang
The Canadian aerospace industry Pratt & Withney has presented the new engine PW615F that soon will be supplied in the equipment of the Cessna Citation Mustang. The new engine will supply higher operational... more
Latest newsLack of money, it's crisis for the Russian Military Aviation
Moscow, Russia - An ignominious end for a sector that has marked the way of flying
The Soviet former-empire, whose peculiarity always has been the armaments, especially in the aeronautic field, must face one of the worst crisis of its history: the crash of its Air Force. This sector... more
AccidentsEmergency landing at Charles De Gaulle airport for a bomb alarm
Paris, France - The plane was a MD-11 of the Klm air company
A MD-11 of the Dutch air company Klm, taken off from Amsterdam to Aruba, in the Antilless, has been forced last Saturday to an emergency landing at Charles De Gaulle airport for a bomb alarm. The pilot... more
AccidentsToronto: Dominican citizen deceased in the undercarriage vain of an airplane
Montreal, Canada -The flight has taken off from Punta Cana (Dominican Republic)
He tried to arrive in Canada, hiding in the undercarriage vain of a Canadian air company plane, but has died because of congelation. According to the first reconstructions, he’s a 35 years old man, probably a... more
AerospaceHolocaust art to space
Cape Canaveral, USA - Col. Ilan Ramon will carry a pencil sketch of a young artist killed in Auschwitz
"I know my flight is very symbolic for the people of Israel, especially the survivors, the holocaust survivor, because I was born in Israel and many people will see this as a dream that is come true".... more
AerospaceLaunched by Nasa the Icesat satellite
Washington, Usa - It will be used to study polar ices
During the last night, by the air base of Vanderberg, California, Nasa has launched the satellite called Icesat, whose mission, once reached the previewed orbit, will be to study the level of the oceans'... more
PeopleFirst air connection Europe - Australia no-stop
Tolouse, France - It has carried out an Airbus of Qantas
For the first time an airplane, left from Europe, has caught up Australia, without to carry out some pause. The enterprise has been completed from Airbus A-330/200 of the Qantas that, taking off from Tolouse,... more
Finance and economyRaytheon enquired in the Usa for suspect irregularities in the balances from 1997 to 2001
Washington, Usa - The enquiry has been started by Sec (Security and Exchange Commission)
The aeronautical industry Raytheon has been involved in an enquiry of Sec (Security and Exchange Commission) for some irregularities discovered in the balances presented from 1997 to 2001. Until now it... more
AirlinesEasyJet under pilots strike threat
London, UK - As soon as possible a meeting with Ray Webster to face this stanby situation
The threat of a strike has always been an action that the airlines had to avoid, in Great Britain, preferring to please their own employees rather than to engage in a controversy that could paralyze the... more