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

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

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

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

PeopleUs Transport Security Administration forbids to airport screeners every collective bargaining

Washington, Usa - For the administration is most important the security of flights

TSA (Transport Security Administration) has formally forbidden to the airport screeners of baggages and passengers to form a their own trade union and to let start collective bargainings to defend their... more

AccidentsEmergency landing for a Belgian plane in Malta

Brussels, Belgium - False bomb alarm

It has been revealed without base the bomb alarm that on last Saturday has forced an Airbus of the Belgian air company SN Brussels Airlines to an emergency landing in Malta. The plane, taken off from Brussels... more

AccidentsAn attempt has prevented on military airplane

Washington, United States - It said the New York Times

According to New York Times, the American intelligence agencies would have blanketed an attack against an airline that it carries out charter flights of the Pentagon to transport American soldiers in the... more

Weather forecastsJanuary 2003: air shows and exhibitions

GREAT LAKES INTERNATIONAL AVIATION CONFERENCE… Jan. 17-19, Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, East Lansing, Mich. Info: (517) 335-9880; Web site: www.greatlakesaviationconference.com. AERO ’... more

AccidentsNo survivors in the Peruvian flight crashed on Thursday

Lima, Peru - The plane was few minutes far from the airport

The searches of the Fokker 28 of Tans (Transportes Aereos Nacionales de Selva), a Peruvian airline, crashed on Thursday just to 15 km far from airport in the city of Chachapoyas. The airplane, operated... more

DefensePalestinian rockets hit Israeli town

Jerusalem, Israel - It has been another bloody week-end in the Palestinian territory

Just after the offensive launched by the Army Forces of the David star, the Palestinian reprisal has begun with the launch of three Qassam rockets on the city of Sderot, a Hebrew settlement in the south... more

Civil aviationChina enroles 2000 air marshals

Beijing, China - The decision has been taken to increase the safety on board

The People's Republic of China has decided, to increase the safety on board of its aircraft, to enrole 2000 air marshals. The decision will be made operative in a short term, because Chinese authorities... more

Defense7000 Marines are leaving for the Persian Gulf

Washington, Usa - The soldiers have received the order today

From the base of Camp Lejeune in the federal State of North Carolina 7000 Marines are on the way to leave for the Persian Gulf. The soldiers will have in their equipment underwater, terrestrial and air... more

IndustryCubic Corporation delivers the core part of a completely new radar system

San Diego, Usa - The delivery is programmed in a short time

The Department of Applications for Defense of Cubic Corporation and its British consorted firm are on the way to deliver the core part of a new radar system two months before the programmed term. It is... more

AccidentsCessna of the police crashes on a runway of Brussels airport

Brussels, Belgium - They died the two policemen who were on board

A Cessna airplane of the Belgian federal police has crashed today on one of the runway of Brussels airport. The two agents who were on board are died. It said the society that manages the airport of Zaventem,... more