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IndustryBombardier delivers the 100th aircraft of the year
Montreal, Canada - The firm has also registered big incomes during the year 2002
Bombardier Aerospace has delivered in the last days the 100th aircraft of the year, improving in this way the magical moment of the industry that has also big incomes confronted with the last year. This... more
IndustryBoeing to scrap Sonic Cruiser project
Seattle, Usa - It's to be careful to the real customers needs
In the conference that Boeing will hold tomorrow in Seattle will be addressed, among the other arguments, the concrete possibility of scraping the high-speed Sonic Cruiser's plan. According to indiscretions... more
AirlinesAir France will have a majority of private share holders for its 70th anniversary
Paris, France - The state will sell nearly all its shares when it will be possible
The French state has declared one more time ready to sell nearly its shares held in Air France passing from the actual 54,4% to a quote previewed between 15% and 25%. The operation will be made when the... more
PeopleBombardier choosen as official supplier of business jets for the next World Economic Forum
London, Great Britain - The convention will be held in the next month of January
During the next World Economic Forum previewed in Davos, in Switzerland, from 23rd to 28th of January 2003, the delegates will travel on the business jets supplied by Bombardier Flexjet. The president... more
PeopleLow-cost carriers: an unprecedented success
Birmingham, Great Britain - There're 12 no-frills carrier in England, a record
Aimed strategies and quickness in the execution of the initiatives: these the two main ingredients of the prescription of the carriers that operate in the low-cost, that are experiencing, since some years,... more
HelicoptersOfficial: armed guards to defend English flights
London, UK - The decision to have immediate effect
A position that was just waiting for formally rendering official, therefore also Great Britain will have, onboard its own flights, the "sky marshalls", in order to assure the due control while flying.... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Eurocopter France model AS332C, AS332L, AS332L1, SA330F, SA330G, and SA330J helicopters
Washington, USA - To prevent bearing wear, bearing seizure of the change rod, loss of tail rotor effectiveness, and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2001-SW-35-AD; Amendment 39-12976; AD 2002-25-01] RIN... more
Press releaseContinental Airlines begins nonstop service to ski destinations
Houston, USA - From Houston, New York hubs
"Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) announced the start of expanded seasonal ski service from its Houston and New York hubs, including nonstop service to two new resort destinations in the Colorado Rockies... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Rolls-Royce Limited, Aero Division-Bristol, Snecma Olympus 593 Mk. 610-14-28 turbojet engines
Washington, USA - To prevent contamination of any or all of the four airplane engine fuel control units, causing power loss or one or more engines to shutdown
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2002-NE-30-AD; Amendment 39-12981; AD 2002-25-06] RIN... more
HelicoptersMD Explorer celebrates 10 years
Arizona, Usa - In 1992 MD introduced a new helicopter topology
It was on December 18, 1992 when the first MD Explorer raised in flight for the first time, completing a test of 20 minutes. Since that moment many successes and satisfactions were reached for this,... more
AirlinesUS Airways gets an important agreement with its employees
Washington, Usa - Tense the consultations with the labor unions
The consultations continue without pause between Us Airways and part of its employees to make sure ulterior cuts that will allow the carrier to save approximately USD 116m per year. Indeed they were... more
IndustryRaytheon Technical Services awarded of a over 12 USDm contract
USA
Raytheon Technical Services Co., Norfolk, Va., is receiving a $12,592,055 time and materials contract for repair parts for the Sidewinder missile, SPS-49 radar system, NATO Sea Sparrow and WDC-6 communication... more
PeopleUS air traffic controllers fear a possible privatization
Washington, Usa - The government's aim is to save about USD 50m
It begins to raise vigorously the protest of the flight-grounded operators who, with deep uncertainty, wait for a decision about the reform that would involve the sector. Indeed there's a lot of dispute... more
IndustryBaldi Brothers Inc. awarded of a near 14 USDm contract
USA
Baldi Brothers Inc., Beaumont, Calif., is being awarded a $13,934,628 firm-fixed-price contract for repair of an aircraft parking apron at Channel Islands Air National Guard Station. Work will be performed... more
IndustryMcDonnell Douglas Helicopter awarded of a over 22 USDm contract
USA
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co., Mesa, Ariz., is being awarded a $22,344,413 firm-fixed-price contract for the first four aircraft (AH-64D) Apache Longbows necessary to support the government of Kuwait's... more
AirlinesUnited Airlines: it's time sale
Chicago, Usa - The airline reacts with a proper promotional campaign
United, that operates approximately 1800 flights daily, will launch January 1st of the next year, for national flights, lower fares, while for the international connections the offer will begin January... more
AirlinesOnly Delta and US Airways still keep the stanby fee
Washington, Usa - Probable consequences for its budget
One of the last initiatives in the American airlines panorama regards the decision to cancel the standby fee, that is the tax when it's changed to another flight time on the same day as the original departure.... more
AccidentsRecognized the paybacks to the relatives of the victims of the air crash in Linate airport
Rome, Italy - The government has recognized paybacks for Eur 12,5m
Italian government has recognized to the relatives of the victims of the air crash happened in Linate airport in October 8 2001, paybacks for Eur 12,5m. The president of the commitee of the victims, Paolo... more
IndustryPratt & Withney receives the certification ISO 14001
Quebec, Canada - "It is a great victory for us"
Pratt & Withney has received the certification ISO 14001 for the quality of its work and for the quality of the environmental supplied by the Canadian firm. The president of the firm, Alain M. Bellemare,... more
DefenseSpace shield and Iraq: a quick view of the international situation
Washington, Usa - Many doubts about the international balance
The decision announced yesterday by the Bush administration to equip USA with the "space shield" system for 2004 has sure potential consequences that can be, now, only outlined. Surely that American... more
IndustryBae announces two new contracts after that with Finmeccanica
London, Great Britain - The contracts have a total value of EUR 128m
Bae (British Aerospace) Systems has announced two new contracts that will be signed in the next days. The contracts will have a total value of EUR 128m. The contracts represent an entrance of new capitals... more
Science and technologyFir to give a new tracing system to the US National Guard
Oregon, Usa - The contract has a value of USD 7,8m
The Flir System, American company that produces infrared imaging system for a variety of applications, will supply a new technology to the National Guard Bureau in order to improve the present apparatuses.... more
IndustryIt's strengthened the partnership between Boeing and Mitsubishi
Tokyo, Japan - The Nippon company to produce center-wing supports for B-747
The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Mhi) participates since long time to the construction, on Boeing's behalf, of several parts of the aircraft designed by the Seattle-based company: panels for the fuselage,... more
IndustryCfm to supply engines to easy Jet for a USD 1bn order
London, UK - A winning strategy of easyJet to decide the important order
Rolls Royce, with its American partner Pratt&Whitney with which form the consortium Iae (International Aero Engines) has lost a USD 1bn contract with easyJet; or it could be said that Cfm, joint venture... more
HelicoptersEurocopter delivers the last EC-155 to the Hong Kong government
Marignane, France - 8 helicopters have been delivered since 1999
The contract of USD 93m between the Eurocopter and the Gfs (Government Flying Service), government agency Hong Kong-based, had been signed in the September of 1999 for the delivery of 3 Super Puma AS-332L2... more
AirlinesSas inaugurates a new low-cost concept
Stockholm, Sweden - The initiative to start in March 2003
In the market of the civil aviation, where the interstices in order to try to develop a commercial profitable idea are more and more narrow, it gets a remarkable visibility the new low-cost airline that... more
IndustryBombardier inaugurates a 25-hours jet membership
London, Great Britain - "It is an adaptation to the European market"
Bombardier inaugurates a 25-hours jet membership, to put together with another preexisting for 50 hours to be used on the fleet built by Bombardier Aerospace. In the declaration of Dan Maiden new managing... more
AerospaceLaunched a telecommunications satellite in the field of the Ariane project
Evry, France - The launch has been made tonight
By its French plant Arianespace says that this night round midnight (CET time) has taken off a new telecommunication satellite that will have to install at 36000 km height over the equator in an orbit... more
AirlinesThe privatization of Air France goes ahead
Paris, France - The State will sell a great part of its participation
With a project of law that will be examinated today the State continues its abandon of the French national carrier, Air France. Now the State has a quote equal to 54,4% of the shares and has the intention... more
PeopleStrike blocks the air traffic in Germany
Frankfurt, Germany - Hundreds of flights cancelled
Yesterday German airports has been blocked by the strike of hundreds of employees in the whole country. Lufthansa, the national carrier, because of this strike has been obliged to cancel several domestic... more
AerospaceRepaired a Galileo space probe recorder
Washington, Usa - The reparation has been done by the planet Earth
Nasa has done by the planet Earth the reparation of a recorder of the space probe Galileo that now is in planet Jupiter's orbit, on which surface it will crash in the month of September 2003 after having... more
Civil aviationFAA Emergency AD on Agusta model A-109E helicopters
Washington, USA - To prevent fatigue failure of the tail rotor blade and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 Docket No. 2002-SW-55-AD; AD 2002-25-51 Agusta S.p.A. (Agusta) Model... more
HelicoptersRussia to produce the new Mi-28N
Moscow, Russia - First deliveries will begin next year if all the tests are positive
Russia is ready to launch in the helicopter market its last creature that, in the intentions of its constructors, would have to be superior to every western combat aircraft: we are talking about Mi-28N.... more
IndustrySikorsky Aircraft awarded of a near 23 USDm contract
USA
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., was awarded a delivery order amount of $22,748,760 as part of a $22,748,760 firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance and overhaul of the following components:... more
AccidentsChinese plane loses pressure while flying: 13 injured
Beijing, China - The pilot was forced to an emergency landing
At approximately 8100 m of altitude the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 of the China Eastern, one of the three most important Chinese airlines, has begun to lose pressure and the passengers to suffer the typical... more
DefenseBush: the space shield to operate by 2004
Washington, Usa - The project has been reduced in comparison with the previous one
The last frontier of the missile defense passes obligatorily for the space shield, a sophisticated network of bases in a position to intercept whichever arm that can be pulled down on the American territory.... more
HelicoptersPerù asks Russia to take care of its planes and helicopters
Lima, Perù - The fleet, not just the military one, is falling to pieces
It's desperate the situation of the civil and military aviation in Perù, forcing the president Alexandro Toledo to ask the aid of Moscow government. Russia has been, in fact, the greatest supplier,... more
Latest newsFalse terrorism alarm in Washington (2) : F-16's technical sheet
Rome, Italy - The technical features of the aircraft
We are publishing the technical date of the aircraft taken off yesterday in the false terrorism alarm in Washington: Features: General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole fighting tornado Wingspan:... more
HelicoptersFirst Black Hawk celebrates 10000 hours of fly
Alabama, Usa - Sikorsky is ready to launch a new model
Usually it's waited for that an aircraft to show the first problems in order to send it in pension or to operate with drastic upgrades that improve the reliability. But this is not sure the case of the... more
Latest newsFalse terrorism alarm in Washington
Washington, Usa - Because of the alarm two Us Air Force F-16 aircraft have taken off
Yesterday morning, because for a false terrorism alarm that involved the White House, two F-16 aircraft of the USAF (United States Air Force) have taken off and immediately patrolled the entire area to... more
IndustryIn preparation revolutionary project of Boeing
Seattle, Usa - The projected aircraft should be the biggest in the world
The Boeing, worldwide giant of aeronautic industry is preparing a project that, if realized, should be a project for the Guinness book of records. It's the aircraft named "Pelican" that in the intentions... more
PeopleToday will begin the celebrations for the centennial of the first motor flight
New York, Usa - Exactly within one year the real centennial
99 years ago Orville and Wilbur Wright realized the first motor flight of the history of the mankind. The realization of the first aircraft had nearly heroic borders considered the difficulties that... more
Civil aviationAir France will verify the identity of passengers with biometry
Paris, France - The new exam will be introduced on the flights to Israel
By now Air France for all flights which destination is Israel will adopt more security measures to save the life of the travelling personnel and of passengers. The system will be centered on biometry... more
IndustryEads Casa delivers the first in-flight refuelling kit
Madrid, Spain - The first delivers in the next days
The Spanish firm Eads Casa, responsible within Eads of the Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) is starting the first delivers of the in-flight refuelling. These first kits will be delivered to the Luftwaffe... more
AirlinesThe Swiss airline cuts down the flights from Lugano
Lugano, Switzerland - Reduced also the flights to Basilea
The Swiss airline will cut down since the next March 30 the present two day links Lugano-Berna. The connections to Basilea will reduce from three to one while it will strengthen the links to Zurich. In... more
AirlinesDelta pilots ready to cut their wages for the company's future
Washington, Usa - It could be the unique possible solution
The United Airlines vicissitude has shaken the operators of the field, having left that sense of impotence to the fact, that it makes more bitter. Indeed according to the analysts mainly been involved... more
AirlinesAustralia supports "marshalls sky"
Sydney, Australia - Plainclothes detectives on board Singapore and Australia flights
The Australian government, jointly to Singapore one, has decided to use in a more effective way of the so-called "marshall sky" who would have to assure a greater protection on the Qantas and the Singapore... more
HelicoptersChc to deliver the helicopters to UN team in Iraq
St John's, Canada - The technical sheet of the AB-212
Chc Helicopter Corporation, a Canadian company that supplies helicopters at world-wide level, has gained the contract of USD 14m in order to supply, to the team of the United Nations operating in Iraq,... more
Press releaseContinental Airlines begun nonstop service on five new domestic and international routes
Houston, USA - Effective from December 12
"Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL)announced it has inaugurated service on five new routes, effective Dec. 12: Daytona Beach, Florida; Kingston and Montego Bay, Jamaica; Palm Springs, California; Villahermosa,... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Pilatus Britten-Norman Limited airplanes
Washington, USA - BN-2 and BN2A Mk. III series
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2002-CE-35-AD; Amendment 39-12980; AD 2002-25-05] RIN... more