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IndustryBell-Boeing Joint Program Office awarded of a 16 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the CV-22
Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Patuxent River, Md., is being awarded a $16,000,000 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract (N00019-93-C-0006) to provide additional funds for... more
AirlinesAVIONEWS interviewed Livingston Group President Luciano Di Fazio and Livingston Group strategic planning officer Gianluca Cedro
Rome, Italy - "Quality, safety and care for passenger characterize the entire group which proves successful just thanks to such factors"
AVIONEWS interviewed Livingston Group President, Luciano Di Fazio, and Livingston Group strategic planning officer, Gianluca Cedro, during a joint analysis on the company’s situation and its activities.... more
Government actsQuestion Time: Iranian nuclear programme
Rome, Italy - By Hon. Sandro Delmastro delle Vedove (AN)
Italian Deputy Hon. Delmastro delle Vedove intended to understand how one can analyse the relations between the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the recent announcement by Iran in front of UN concerning... more
Government actsQuestion Time: "Re d'Italia" ship wreckage as Italian Navy's wealth
Rome, Italy - By Hon. Roberto Menia (AN)
Italian Deputy Hon. Menia asked Italian ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs for making sure that the wreckage of the old Italian ship named "Re d’Italia" (stemming from 1866) must be always considered a... more
PeopleItalian Government approved the reform of air navigation code
Rome, Italy - One can remind among the major aspects the separation of competences between ENAC and ENAV, airport operator licence, carriers agreements
Italian Government approved the reform of air navigation code and it will be enforced in 120 days. It deals in particular with the single supervisor authority (ENAC, Italian Civil Aviation Agency), the... more
Government actsQuestion Time: possibility of foundation for an Italian Firemen Command in Brindisi for UN-managed international rescue
Rome, Italy - By Hon. Giovanni Carbonella (Margherita)
Italian Deputy Hon. Carbonella asked Italian Minister of Interior if a possibility exists for creating an Italian Firemen Command in Brindisi capable of performing international rescue operations in collaboration... more
Government actsQuestion Time: FREMM frigates and Avio's difficulties
Rome, Italy - By Hon. Giovanni Carbonella (Margherita)
Italian Deputy Hon. Carbonella intended to understand, by asking it to Italian Minister of Defence, which kind of steps Italian Government wants to perform in order to face Avio’s difficulties concerning i... more
Government actsMotion: results of the investigation on Nicola Calipari's death are insufficient
Rome, Italy - By Hon. Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio (Misto-Verdi-l'Unione) and other deputies
Italian Deputy Hon. Pecoraro Scanio asked Italian Government for changing the legal relations concerning the US military bases in Italy and US soldiers’ responsibilities after the failure of coherent i... more
AirlinesRyanair: passengers increased in April
Dublin, Ireland - This date can be considered polluted by great flow of pilgrims who flew to Rome for the death of Pope John Paul II
Last April, passengers carried by Irish low-cost carrier have been 2.66 millions, which represents an additional 24 per cent from the same period in 2004. A light decline affected instead the load factor:... more
Government actsMotion: investigations on the death of Nicola Calipari
Rome, Italy - By Hon. Ramon Mantovani (Rifondazione Comunista) and other deputies
Italian Deputy Hon. Mantovani asked Italian Government for withdrawing Italian troops from Iraq and solve the matter concerning Italian SISMI agent Nicola Calipari’s death by resorting to new measures a... more
Government actsMotion: full an coherent enforcement of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
Rome, Italy - By Hon. Marco Zacchera (AN) and other deputies
Italian Deputy Hon. Zacchera asked Italian Government for ensuring a full and coherent implementation of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, also by aiding states concerning development, nuclear peaceful... more
AirportsNetherlands: poppies dropped by chopper to celebrate the 60th anniversary of liberation
Amsterdam, Netherlands - The flowers failed on cemetery where are buried Canadian soldiers
Sixty years ago, it occurred the sacrifice of soldiers killed to free the country of tulips from Nazi troops: just flowers rendered homage to 1355 Canadian fallen in Holten’s fight to which the cemetery h... more
Aerospace"NASA, Opportunity is speaking, I am sanded up on Mars!"
Washington, USA - NASA's technicians prove confident about the possibility of finding tha right solution to help the robot to escape from the mess in which it got itself
US Opportunity probe is "sanded up" on Mars. Experts from NASA have in fact revealed that the robot has stopped and its six wheels have been blocked sinking for about a 80% in the planet’s sand. Nevertheless, t... more
Science and technologySacbo: visit of the Sandefjord Airport's delegation
Bergamo, Italy - The Norwegian Airport is linked with a daily flight departing from Orio al Serio from Monday to Sunday
"A Sandefjord Airport’s delegation of Torp, Norwegian city situated in the area of Oslo, visited the Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport. The Norwegian Airport is linked with a daily connection departing from O... more
AirlinesEurofly: flight assistants renewed work contract
Rome, Italy - It provides for recovering purchasing power and suppling new warranties
Yesterday, in the Rome’s office of Assaereo (Italian Association of Air Transport Carriers and Operators), Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Anpav unions have achieved the agreement for renewing the contract of E... more
HelicoptersThe Holy See thanked the 31th Wing of Italian Air Force
Rome, Italy - The corp gave a "Generous effort" in occasion of papal helicopter trip to Castel Gandolfo
The helicopter which flew Pope Ratzinger to Castel Gandolfo summer house, was the SH-3D/TS provided by Italian Air Force 31th Wing: it took off from Ciampino military airport and landed on Vatican pad... more
Civil aviationBush in Europe under the watchful eye of Awacs
Amsterdam, Netherlands - He will go to Riga, Netherlands and Russia
From Saturday May 7 untill Tuesday May 10, United States President, George W. Bush, will be in visit through Europe to attend ceremonies remembering the 60th anniversary of the end of the II World War.... more
DefenseGeneral Cecchi visited Italian contingent in Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon - He greeted more than 50 Italian soldiers of Army, Air Force, Navy and Carabinieri corps
Rome’s COI (Inter-service Operative Command) commander, General Filiberto Cecchi, yesterday visited Italian military contingent in Lebanon: 52 soldiers belonging to four Italian forces for Army, Navy, A... more
Latest newsKC-330: four states compete in the USA for the production of the EADS' air tanker
Washington, USA - Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina have been requested to provide additional data on potential sites for the future facility
European aerospace and defence holing EADS decided to select four US states out of the original 32 which suggested territorial solutions for the production of the new KC-330. These four states have been... more
IndustryEmbraer reaffirmed commitment to business aviation market
São José dos Campos, Brazil - 49 Legacy currently fly in 12 countries
The Legacy marked Embraer’s introduction in the business aviation market, where it intends to establish itself as a strong player. The Legacy enjoys worldwide market acceptance with 49 units in service i... more
Latest newsFrance believes in the Mirage 2000 for the new Indian light fighter
Paris, France - French Government hopes that the selection criteria can favour the Dassault's fighter after the defeat of Airbus for the new Air India's fleet
France does not seem to succeed in accepting the idea that Boeing was awarded with a contract for the purchase of some 50 commercial airplanes by Air India so defeating its rival Airbus (see for details... more
PeopleThe Dreamliner makes Northwest Airlines dream as well
Washington, USA - Some 18 Boeing 787s have been ordered with options for additional 50 airplanes
Northwest Airlines selected the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The decision was considered on the basis of the necessity to meet the new exigencies related to the point-to-point routes and the US carrier intends... more
HelicoptersSikorsky S-92 for South Korean President
Seoul, South Korea - South Korean Air Force selected the proposal from the well known US maker and some three helicopters have been ordered
South Korean Air Force decided to select the Sikorsky S-92 as the new Presidential helicopter. The armed force was requested last year to start an evaluation for the replacement of the VH-60, operated... more
MiscellaneousFighters to ensure Moscow protection on the Victory Day against Nazism
Moscow, Russia - Its 60th anniversary to be celebrated on next May 9
Russia is going to celebrate the 60th anniversary of victory against Nazism on next May 9 and the sophisticated Russian defensive system is already at work, in order to ensure the best protection during... more
Press releaseDelta Air Lines Reports April Traffic
Atlanta, Usa - Delta boarded 10,301,672 passengers during last month
"Delta Air Lines reported traffic results for April 2005. System traffic for April 2005 increased 7.3 percent from April 2004 on a capacity increase of 4.3 percent. Delta’s system load factor was 76.4 p... more
AirlinesVolare: Zoccai and Soddu to go home
Varese, Italy - Their accusations have been confirmed but their role would have been re-evaluated
After the result of questioning, Busto Arsizio’s gip, Adet Toni Novik, decided to grant to Gino Zoccai and Vincenzo Soddu, home arrest: they would not have voluntary embezzled funds; thus, the events c... more
AirlinesAlitalia: carrier and unions searching for a deal on redundancies
Rome, Italy - In the meantime, the setting of the new AZ Servizi board is being awaited
Alitalia Board and the trade unions’ representatives are making efforts in an attempt to solve the recent debates and achieve a new agreement, most of all considering the need of an integrative fund w... more
Civil aviationFAA (Correction) AD on Boeing model 767-300 and -400ER series airplanes
Washington, Usa - To prevent failure of the IFE cooling card to configure itself correctly in response to input signals from airplane system interfaces during a forward cargo fire, which
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: May 5, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 86)] [Page 23911] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation... more
Civil aviationFAA (Correction) AD on General Electric Company (GE) CF6-80A1/ A3 and CF6-80C2A series turbofan engines, installed on Airbus Industrie A-300/600 and A-310 series airplanes
Washington, Usa - To prevent inadvertent thrust reverser deployment, which, if it occurs in-flight, could result in loss of control of the airplane
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: May 5, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 86)] [Page 23783] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on McDonnell Douglas model MD-90-30 airplanes
Washington, Usa - To prevent damage to certain wires due to contact between the wires and the adjacent structure, which could result in electrical arcing and consequent smoke and fire in the cabin
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: May 5, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 86)] [Page 23784-23786] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
PeopleWill LOT select the 787?
Warsaw, Poland - An official notification by the Polish airline is likely to be released in few weeks
European-made fighters were not able to win against the US offer when Polish Air Force proved in need of a new combat airplane for the modernization of its defensive system and its operational adaptation... more
AirlinesMyAir.com increases its activity with six new routes
Milan, Italy - During the Summer period destined mostly to the touristic traffic
"MyAir.com informs that during the Summer period six new routes will be inaugurated destined largely to the touristic traffic: Orio al Serio-Olbia; Orio al Serio-Ibiza; Boulogne-Olbia; Boulogne-Ibiza;... more
Government actsQuestion time on Alitalia flight assistants dispute
Rome, Italy - By senator Luigi Malabarba (Mixed group)
Italian senator Malabarba asked Italian Prime Minister and Italian Transport Minister to make clear the tensions which are affecting the relations between Alitalia and its workers. Italian Government is... more
Press releasePossible hardships for Alitalia's flights starting on May 12 due to an unacceptable company's attitude
Rome, Italy - SULT' s press release
Italian SULT trade union considers the Alitalia’s attitude as unacceptable to date. The union moans about the shortage of sufficient members in every crew so that one must ask oneself how can it be that r... more
AerospaceDiscovery: additional time to improve Space Shuttle crew's training
Washington, USA - As a consequence of the postponement of the space ship's launch
The Discovery space ship’s crew does not prove upset about the news related to the postponement of the new Space Shuttle’s launch (see for details AVIONEWS). The seven members of the team assigned wit... more
AirlinesAlitalia (2): routes for Crotone go on
Crotone, Italy - Province Authority and the Chamber of Commerce prove satisfied about the services which will be provided till September
Italian Crotone Province and the local Chamber of Commerce have recently announced that Alitalia will go on ensuring its flights from "Sant’Anna" Airport (Crotone) towards Milan and stopping in Rome. T... more
IndustryEADS: no double appointment for Forgeard
Amsterdam, Holland - The holding would not be willing to assign the double lead in Airbus and EADS
Aerospace and defence holding EADS Board would not be willing to accept the hypothesis of a double leading role for Noel Forgeard as both the Airbus CEO and EADS Co-CEO at the same time. Forgeard will... more
Government actsQuestion time on US report about Calipari case
Rome, Italy - By senator Alessandro Battisti (Margherita, Dl-L'Ulivo)
Italian senator Battisti asked Italian Minister of Interior and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs to know if Italian Government would have avoided to report some objections on US relation about Calipari... more
Government actsQuestion time on US special anti-terrorism units at Sigonella base
Rome, Italy - By senator Costantino Garraffa (Ds-L'Ulivo) and other senators
Italian senator Garraffa asked Italian Minister of Defence which kind of steps Italian Government intends to resort to know US Government intentions on the possibility advanced to concentrate anti-terrorism... more
Fair and showsBenedict XVI is flying to Castel Gandolfo
Rome, Italy - His helicopter has just left from Vatican heliport
Pope Ratzinger left at 3:30pm the Apostolic Palace to take off at 3:45 with the private chopper direct from Vatican heliport to Pontifical Villas heliport in Castel Gandolfo: the arrival is expected at... more
IndustryFinmeccanica aims to favour the promotion of the FREMM frigates in the international market
Rome, Italy - And it suggests together with Alcatel an agreement with EADS and Thales for the Galileo satellite programme
Finmeccanica analyses the situation regarding a series of programmes which are directly involving it, with reference in particular to defence, space and the civil activities. Concerning the new FREMM frigates,... more
DefenseSouth Korea: "Pyongyang is developing a missile able to hit the US bases in our territory"
Seoul, South Korea - It would have unveiled by South Korean military sources with reference to the recent Communist regime's missile test
According to what recently revealed by South Korean military and governmental sources, the recent North Korean missile test (see for details AVIONEWS) would have dealt with a special version of the Russian-made... more
Science and technologyEuropean Justice Court to decide on German flight restrictions
Berlin, Germany - Do limitations set up by Germany violate Chicago agreement on air traffic?
Unique (Zurich-Kloten Airport) and Swiss Air Lines, sued Germany for flight restrictions imposed to aircraft direct to the Swiss airport and considered noisy: such limitations would violate the 1944 Chicago... more
AccidentsAN-26 crashed in Congo
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo - Eleven were killed, one person survived
Yesterday, an Antonov 26, taken off from Kisangani Airport (in the North-West of the country), hit a tree and crashed while was preparing to land at Isiro. On board there were 12 people (including 6 crew... more
Latest newsF-16: the "Desert Falcon" will protect the United Arab Emirates
Dubai, UAE - The fighter purchased by the Arab country which took delivery of its first F-16 Block 60 has been renamed in this manner
The first of the new F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters (renamed as Desert Falcon) purchased by the United Arab Emirates has arrived in the arab country. Government ordered some 80 multirole combat airplanes... more
Latest newsMig and Sukhoi compete for the future of Venezuelan air defence
Caracas, Venezuela - Venezuelan Government is searching for a solution against the shortages caused by the lack of the F-16s' spare parts delivery from the USA
The USA do not intend to provide spare parts for the F-16 fighters operated by the Venezuelan Air Force due to bad relations between Washington and Caracas. So, the improvement of diplomatic and commercial... more
Science and technologyFiumicino thanked European Union
Rome, Italy - The Commission allocated project for rapid transit link at Rome Airport
EU Commission has just allocated more than EUR 14m to 9 projects regarding transport infrastructures: EUR 1m have been destined to Rome-Fiumicino hub to finance the accomplishment of a rapid transit link... more
Civil aviationSenate: Investigation Committee on the depleted uranium starts working
Rome, Italy - It is expected to accomplish its analysis within one year and Italian Minister Martino will attend to a hearing on May 11
Italian Senate Investigation Committee devoted to health appraisals for soldiers affected by possible negative effects generated by dangerous materials has started working. The first steps regard a series... more
Miscellaneous88th Tour of Italy: the first time of AMI's weather service
Rome, Italy - RAI, Italian state television, to take the event with one plane and four choppers as well
The 2005 Italian cycling tour is expected to start next Saturday May 7: the 88th edition will be attended also by Italian Air Force which provides a weather assistance suppling records in real time. AMI... more
ReportThe V-22 Osprey ready to face cold
Washington, USA - The tilt-rotor's test flights with low temperatures and ice forming on the vehicle's surface have been accomplished
Despite the war events occurred during the last years got us used to think about a typically desert, rocky and particularly hot battlefield for the US armed forces the new means destined to revolutionize... more