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IndustryMcDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co. awarded of a near 9 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the Apache helicopter
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co., Mesa, Ariz., was awarded on Sept. 16, 2004, an $8,744,528 firm-fixed-price contract for composite rotor blades for the Apache Helicopter Program. Work will be performed... more
IndustryRolls-Royce Defense Services Inc. awarded of a over 60 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the engines
Rolls-Royce Defense Services Inc., Indianapolis, Ind., is being awarded a $60,157,394 fixed-price modification to a previously awarded requirements contract (N00019-03-D-0012) to exercise an option for... more
IndustrySimula Aerospace & Defense Group Inc. awarded of a over 3 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter
Simula Aerospace & Defense Group Inc., Phoenix, Ariz., was awarded on Sept. 23, 2004, a delivery order amount of $3,237,000 as part of a $17,423,975 firm-fixed-price contract for 130 aircraft pilot seats... more
IndustryRaytheon Co. awarded of a near 10 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the missiles
Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $9,958,168 firm fixed price contract modification. This action will exercise an option of 11 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) Air Intercept... more
AirportsThe USA penetration in Mali
Bamako, Mali - The stages that gradually have made to become the African country an American allied
The Americans arrived in Mali in 1992, in order to supply medical supports to the inhabitants of ten villages; later the Alabama Aviation national Guard reconstructed an asylum on the ground of a military... more
Latest newsGripens in exchange of chickens? Only Saab can decide on it
Stockholm, Sweden - It would have been underlined by the Swedish Prime Minister to the Thai delegation during an official visit
Swedish Government would not have succeeded in satisfying Thailandia, with reference to the so hoped deal in order to favour the export of chicken from the Asian country towards the Northern Europe in... more
Civil aviationFight against illegal immigration: Libya ensures the deployment of its vehicles
Tripoli, Libya - The Libyan armed forces' helicopters would be already at work to monitor the territory
The situation related to the fighting against the illegal immigration that Italy is going to carry on in cooperation with Libya appears evolving constantly. Now, the North African country would prove ready... more
AirlinesVirgin Atlantic aims to space tourism (2): from 2007 the space commercial flights will start
Washington, USA - Travel will last maximum three hours and will cost minimal USD 80.000
The Virgin Group thanks to the agreement with Mojave Aerospace Ventures, the American firm behind SpaceShipOne, will begin to offer space flights from 2007, for groups until 5 passengers (see news AVIONEWS):... more
MiscellaneousSimone kidnapped in Iraq: new hopes from the King of Jordan
Rome, Italy - The Monarch will reach tomorrow in Rome
"The two Italian volunteers kidnapped in Iraq are alive and hope of receiving within Tuesday good news [... ] With the intelligence aid we are trying to localize them and using all our contacts with leaders... more
Weather forecastsSBAC: Farnborough International Ltd has been founded
London, UK - The new company totally owned by the traditional promoters of the event proves able to renew the success of the air show
Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) would appear to be able to avoid the worst consequences concerning the future of the great Farnborough International Air Show. The company promoting the event... more
AirlinesVirgin Atlantic aims to space tourism
Washington, USA - A deal with the producers of the SpaceShipOne was signed and, according to Branson, it will enable to train 1000 pilots in 5 years
Richard Branson would prove convinced about the quality of the SpaceShipOne programme, that enabled a pilot to perform the first space tourism flight in history aboard a special aircraft during last June.... more
Science and technologyEU finances plans in order to reduce the aircraft noisy emissions
Brussels, Belgium - By more silent and ecological airplanes
The noise deriving from the aircraft emissions (see news AVIONEWS) could be reduced thanks to the realization of ecological and silent planes, to whose plan would be working the European Commission in... more
MiscellaneousOlympic flight: it was false the alarm (2). The airplane left again bound for its destination
London, UK - Police confirms it did find nor anything suspicious in the aircraft neither in the baggage
"The airplane was accurately checked and we are satisfied we can say no danger for security exists [...] The aircraft will be refuelled and prepared to fly again": this was the statement by an Essex Police’s s... more
DefenseEurogendfor: in Iraq if the European Union decides so
Rome, Italy - It would have been put into evidence by Gen. Mosca Moschini, President of the EU's Military Committee
Italian Defence Minister Antonio Martino excluded that the new European gendarmerie can be redeployed in Iraq in the near-term (see for details AVIONEWS). Nevertheless, President of the European Union’s M... more
PeopleSwiss and German greens against the air transport
Kostanz, Germany - Nocturnal pauses for the airports and taxes over kerosene: ecologists met today in Kostanz talk about it
Today the "Greens without frontiers" talks have kept in Kostanz, where representatives of German and Swiss ecologists has discussed about the air traffic, and they would have demanded a nine hours nocturnal... more
Helicopters"Volcanex 2004": Italian Air Force's HH-3F for SAR operations redeployed for the military exercise
Saragoza, Spain - An aircraft belonging to the 16th Wing to perform search and rescue operations supporting the ground forces
The military exercise named "Volcanex 2004" started in Spain today, and it is destinated to finish only on next October 8. More than 600 soldiers will be deployed for joint ground-air missions with several... more
Science and technology"G. Marconi": arrested because transported cocaine in his stomach
Bologna , Italy - A Nigerian would have ingested 61 eggs containing approximately a kilo of drug in order to pass the customs inspections
A Nigerian landed at "Guglielmo Marconi" air station in Bologna by an airplane coming from Ivory Coast, has been stopped from the agents of the Italian Guardia di Finanza because the dog of the dog unit... more
AccidentsNew Terminal 3 collapsed at Dubai International Airport (2): the project designed by French architects related to the "Charles de Gaulle" Airport
Dubai, UAE - However, the Paris air station's operator would have given the lie to the fact it had direct responsibilities for its building
The available news about the number of victims produced by the collapse of the Dubai air station’s Terminal 3 still appear unclear presently: they could be four or even eight, but local press seems to f... more
Civil aviationProhibited to fly low over the center of London
London, United Kingdom - From today planes and helicopters will have to ask authorization to fly over the capital city
From today on the sky of London will be prohibited to fly low. A circular communicated last Friday from the national service of air traffic control of the Ministry of Transportation established it. For... more
AirlinesBA: sit-in of the call center staff at Fiumicino airport
Rome, Italy - They manifest within the 9 hours strike announced for today by trade unions
Sit-in of the Rome call center dependants of the British Airways at Fiumicino (Italy): from 10:00am to 12:00am the Italian staff of the British carrier have manifested within the national strike announced... more
AirlinesAlitalia (2): fixed and variable share in the new pilots' contract
Rome, Italy - The related variations determine remuneration advantages as the flight hours number rises beyond the minimum amount set
Alitalia's pilots trade unions representatives would have quite positively considered the company's policy, aimed to make the carrier a more competitive one through the cost cutting and the rise of productivity.... more
Science and technologyTempelhof airport does not close
Berlin, Germany - Upheld the airlines and air station dependent union appeal
Counter-order: Tempelhof does not close more (see news AVIONEWS). The historical Berliner air station that October 31 would have had to lock the doors in sight of the realization of the new Berlin Brandeburg... more
AerospaceICBM as space carriers?
Moscow, Russia - The hypothesis to turn the ballistic missiles into space rockets would be under consideration by engineers and privates
Using intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) as space cargo carriers for the transport of supplies and satellites: an idea not considered as completely new but that would be anyway catching on in Russia,... more
Weather forecastsAir shows and exhitions in the first days of October
Rome, Italy - Form next Friday 1, to Sunday 3
Friday 01 - Hang Gliding - 2004 Canugra Classic. Canungra, Australia. + 61 4 2813 2215 www.chgc.asn.au - Paragliding - 1st International São Paulo Acro Challenge. Guarapiranga Dam, São Paulo, Brazil. +... more
AccidentsNew Terminal 3 collapsed at Dubai International Airport
Dubai, UAE - Several persons among the workers would have been killed and injured following the incident
A structure still under construction at the Dubai international air station would have suddenly collapsed today, around 11:00 (local time in the United Arab Emirates), so killing and injuring a still not... more
MiscellaneousCanada ready to send a C-130 with necessities towards Haiti
Montreal, Canada - Food, medicines and clothes to be delivered to population in difficulty soon
After the great solidarity coming from anywhere in the world and addressed to Haiti, as being in difficulty in these days (see for details AVIONEWS), also Canada would have decided to cooperate. After... more
AerospaceISS: a failure affected the main oxygen generator
Washington, USA - Without supplies, the two astronauts on board would be forced to go back to the Earth by the space lifeboat
The situation aboard the International Space Station (ISS) appears a delicate one. Starting from the last weekend, the two astronauts on board would have found the existance of a serious failure for the... more
HelicoptersKaman Seasprites for Romanian Navy?
Bucharest, Romania - BAe would have suggested this solution for the provision of new shipped aircraft to be destinated to the Type 22 class frigates
Romanian Navy is about to make the two new Type 22 class frigates enter the service, and it would have proven willing to purchase new shipped helicopters to be destinated to the operative activities of... more
AccidentsAn emergency landing for a short-circuit on board
Brindisi, Italy - The plane left from Greece was directed to England with 200 passengers
In the late evening on Friday a charter coming from Greece would have carried out an emrgency landing on the Brindisi airport runaway because of a short-circuit occurred aboard the flight directed in England.... more
Weather forecastsAir shows and exhibitions in the fifth week of September
Rome, Italy - From today, Monday 27 to Thursday 30
Monday 27 - Hang Gliding - 2004 Canugra Classic. Canungra, Australia. + 61 4 2813 2215 www.chgc.asn.au - Electronic Warfare Conference & Exhibition 2004. Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. +60... more
SecurityOlympic flight: it was false the bomb alert
London, United Kingdom - "The flight 411 for America carries a bomb for Iraq"... "America will see": this is the message of the anonymous calls to the Greek newspaper "Ethnos"
No bomb aboard the Olympic Airways flight Athens-New York, forced yesterday afternoon to make an emergency landing, because of three anonymous telephone calls perceiving about the presence of a device... more
MiscellaneousIsraeli Apache helicopter hit the Khan Yunis refugee site
Gaza City, Gaza Strip - An armed operation aimed to prevent Hamas from threatening by mortars and Kassam rockets the Israeli territory
Israeli Army would have performed several military operations against the Khan Yunis refugee site on last Saturday and Sunday. Israeli forces would have acted with soldiers, tanks and combat helicopters,... more
MiscellaneousFalluja and Baghdad in the sights of the American fighter-bombers
Falluja, Iraq - Starting on last September 24, several bombing activities would have been accomplished in order to face the rebels
US Air Force's combat airplanes would have been carrying on a series of operations in Iraq since the last September 24, most of all night operations, aimed to weaken the rebels' activities, in several... more
Press releaseVitrociset and Eads Space sign a Memorandum of Understanding
Rome, Italy - In the aerospace sector
"Vitrociset and Eads Space announce the signature in Paris of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the study of future initiatives and collaborations in the aerospace sector. Major field of cooperation... more
AirlinesAlitalia: measure on the social safety valves to be in line with EU's ruling and the company-unions deal
Rome, Italy - It would have been underlined by Italian Minister Maroni, waiting for the meeting with ministries Siniscalco and Buttiglione occurring today
Italian Welfare Minister, Roberto Maroni, is going to show today, gathering together with Minister of Economy, Domenico Siniscalco, and Minister for EU's Policies, Rocco Buttiglione, the preliminary draft... more
Latest newsEcuador and Colombia: two cases of renewed viability in the military aviation sector
Quito, Ecuador - While the first country starts a massive military exercise, the second one thinks to design the first national-made airplane
South America proves more and more in ferment regarding the industrial and military activities related to the aerospace sector. Ecuador would have started a massive military exercise, which would be involving... more
IndustryAlan Manes Machine awarded of a near 17 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the F-15 aircraft
Alan Manes Machine, Fort Collins Colo., is being awarded a $16,872,693.16 firm fixed price contract to provide for two line items of F-15 titanium pylon wing ribs (NSNs 1560-01-500-4283FX and 1560-01-5005502FX)... more
IndustryUnited Technologies awarded a over 28 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the F-100 engine
United Technologies, East Hartford, Conn., is being awarded a $28,650,088 firm fixed price contract to provide for High Pressure Turbine Case, (stock number-2840-01502-6781NZ P/N: 4087195,) 1,000 each,... more
IndustryMcDonnell Douglas Corp. awarded of a over 6 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the F/A-18C/D/E/F aircraft
McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo. is being awarded a $6,590,000 not-to-exceed modification to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive/award-fee contract... more
DefenseDepleted uranium: Italian Senate's Defence Commission gives its green light for an investigation committee
Rome, Italy - 20 Senators will have one year to verify prospective relations between its deployment and the cancer cases among the Italian soldiers
Italian Senate's Defence Commission would have recently given its green light for the creation of an investigation committee, aimed to verify the existance of prospective concrete direct relations between... more
Science and technologyUSA: policeman detained in airport with an undeclared weapon in his suitcase
Los Angeles, USA - Also knowing the procedures he was going up aboard with a gun
The Los Angeles police department anti-terrorism commander on Thursday would have been detained by federal authorities within the international airport of Los Angeles, because carried a 38-caliber gun... more
Press releaseLauda Air SpA: the A-330/200's Captain honoured the received permission
Vizzola Ticino, Italy - The aircraft, bound for Bordeaux, without passengers on board, for a technical positioning flight, was performing the taxiing stage
"With reference to what released by press today regarding the event occurred at Milan-Malpensa Airport on last Wednesday (September 22) in the evening, Lauda Air SpA reveals that the Captain of its own... more
AirlinesAeroflot: denationalization to occur only after joining SkyTeam
Moscow, Russia - It would have been underlined by the Russian carrier's board during a meeting with the air France's representatives
Aeroflot will not be involved by a denationalization process until it joins the SkyTeam strategic alliance. This is what the Russian airline's representatives would have recently put into evidence during... more
PeopleBoeing: two hundred 7E7 Dreamliners have been ordered
Washington, USA - The names of the purchaser airlines to be unveiled by the end of this year
According to Boeing's representatives, the rivalry with Airbus is significantly destinated to increase when considering the economic trend of the worldwide air transport sector. Boeing would in fact think... more
DefenseDepleted uranium (4): historico-environmental settings for the deployment of the DU
Rome, Italy - From the War in the Gulf to the intervention in Kosovo and the military operations following September 11, 2001
The deployment of depleted uranium-endowed munitionment occurred during several real military operations, besides the exercises performed in particular by the US armed forces during the last 15 years.... more
DefenseDepleted uranium (3): weapons and vehicles using the DU
Rome, Italy - A-10, Apache, Cobra and the Abrams tank among the vehicles deploying depleted uranium-endowed munitionment and armouring
An analysis of the major weapon systems, aircraft and ground vehicles endowed of components and bullets produced with the use of depleted uranium could be carried out, finding that its use especially involves... more
DefenseDepleted uranium (2): deployment and theories on the dangerous features of the DU
Rome, Italy - It is usually used to produce extremely resistant bullets but clashing theories exist about its radioactivity
Uranium 238 DU: this is the full name of the so called depleted uranium, a rejected product stemming from the uranium enrichment process itself, extremely resistant so that it is even by far preferred... more
HelicoptersMarine One: the promotional activity to end after October 11
Washington, USA - US Navy will have to appraise the two solutions suggested by the candidates to enable Government to decide by the end of the year
The promotional activities by the candidates competing for the Marine One programme, related to the provision of the new helicopter fleet destinated to the United States' President, are scheduled to finish... more
AerospaceFirst tests for the experimental satellites destinated to the Galileo system
London, UK - The two models subjected to tests on the ground to be put into orbit by the end of next year
ESA (European Space Agency) would have got the ground testing activities started for the instruments and devices scheduled for the first two satellites destinated to the Galileo European global positioning... more
AirlinesTurkish Airlines: accounts improve
Ankara , Turkey - State puts for sale airline stake
The Turkish Airlines today reports that it have realized in the first part of the year a net profit for USD 5,35m, after the huge losses recorded in 2003. The Turkish government at early week would have... more