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Aviation RSS FeedsA Flier Strikes Back. - (Fortune Magazine): On Feb. 21, 2008, Mitchell Berns heard every flier’s two least favorite words: weather related. Citing snow, Delta Airlines was canceling his flight from Las Vegas to New York City and rescheduling him for a redeye connecting in Boston. With 47% of all delays so far in 2008 caused by weather (up 5% from last year), most fliers can relate ...Feed Source: planenews.com Pilots Defend Safety of Small Planes. - On Wednesday night, residents got the chance to air their concerns about flights into and out of the North Las Vegas Airport. On Thursday night, it was the aviators’ turn.
Several dozen pilots, from flight instructors to weekend hobbyists, gathered in the airport terminal to defend the safety of small private airplanes and respond to questions and criticism from residents ... Iraq Eyes Lockheed F-16 Fighter Aircraft Purchase. - WASHINGTON (Reuters): The Iraqi government has asked for information about buying 36 F-16 fighter aircraft built by Lockheed Martin Corp, the U.S. Defense Department said on Friday. The request, received Aug. 27, is being reviewed "in the normal course of business" as part of the U.S. government-to-government arms sale process, said Air Force Lt. Col. Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman ... At Least 3 Killed in Coast Guard Helicopter Crash. - HONOLULU (AP): An official says at least three U.S. Coast Guard crewmembers were killed when their helicopter crashed in waters about five miles south of Honolulu, and another crewmember is missing. Spokesman Lt. John Titchen says the search continues Friday for the remaining crewmember. He says the Coast Guard release the names or ranks of the dead crewmembers for another day.... FAA Investigating 11 Air Carriers on Safety Issues. - WASHINGTON (AP): Federal aviation officials say they are investigating 17 cases in which 11 air carriers did not comply with safety directives. An inquiry earlier this year found seven instances in which four carriers had not complied with directives issued by the Federal Aviation Administration ... 777 Crash Inquiry Urges Changes. - Aviation authorities in the US and Europe are to order airlines flying Rolls-Royce-powered 777s to change operating procedures after a British Airways jet crash at London Heathrow airport in January. The seven-month probe by air accident investigators has shown that the fuel flow to both engines on the BA 777-200ER was restricted ... Edwards F-22 Raptor Refuels Using Synthetic Fuel. - EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE: The F-22 Combined Test Force reached another milestone as an Edwards F-22 Raptor performed aerial refueling using a synthetic fuel. It is the first time an Air Force aircraft refueled mid-air using an alternative jet engine fuel ... Cirrus Design Eliminates 102 Positions. - Cirrus Design, seeking greater efficiencies across the board, has eliminated 102 positions at its Duluth, Minn., and Grand Forks, N.D., locations, including 25 positions where employees had made routine resignations. Chief Operating Officer Brent Wouters said "efficiencies" is his new company-wide mantra. "I think we’d gotten a little bit complacent and added positions that weren’t needed," Wouters said ... NASA Changes 2008 Shuttle Target Launch Dates, Schedules TCDT. - HOUSTON: NASA has adjusted the target launch dates for the two remaining space shuttle missions in 2008. Shuttle Atlantis’ STS-125 mission to the Hubble Space Telescope is targeted for Oct. 10, while Endeavour’s STS-126 supply mission to the International Space Station has moved to Nov. 12.... Researchers Look to Bury Current Air Traffic Control Network. - The current air traffic control system is scary enough without involving probability, statistics, optimization modeling, economics and game theory. But that’s the kind of system researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Texas are looking at ... TSA Calls on GA Pilots to Stop Unauthorized Aircraft Use. - From terrorist networks to joyriding teenagers, the prevention of unauthorized aircraft use is an issue at the forefront of concern for the Department of Homeland Security. This week, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has released specific recommendations for GA pilots and fixed-base operators ... Seven Killed in Gulf Helicopter Crash. - DUBAI (AFP): Seven people including a Briton and an American were killed when their heliopter crashed in the Gulf en route to an offshore oil platform, civil aviation authorities in Dubai said on Thursday. The Bell 212 came down on Wednesday about 50 nautical miles from Dubai, killing all seven crew and passengers on board, a United Arab Emirates civil aviation authority statement said ... Robot Helicopter Teaches Itself How to Fly. - A new artificial intelligence system allows a robotic helicopter to teach itself how to fly and even do challenging stunts, just by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. The result is an autonomous helicopter than can perform a complete airshow of complex tricks on its own, its inventors say ... 'No Survivors' in DR Congo Crash. - No-one appears to have survived a plane crash in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the plane’s operator says. The Beechcraft plane was carrying 15 passengers and two crew members when it crashed into a mountain near Bukavu, said the operator, Air Serv ... Firefighting Plane Crashes Near Reno Airport. - RENO, Nev.: A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration says a firefighting aircraft has crashed at Reno’s Stead Airport, killing everyone on board. The twin-engine air tanker crashed just after its 6:11 p.m. takeoff about a half-mile from the runway, according to FAA spokesman Ian Gregor. Preliminary reports from witnesses suggest the tanker lost a piece of its engine or a wing before it caught fire and went down, Gregor says ... Russian Bombers Again Cloud Skies in Europe's Far North. - Bodoe Airbase, Norway: In scenes reminiscent of the Cold War, Russian bombers have returned to the skies in Europe’s far north after years of absence, putting NATO’s jet fighters on alert once again. At the Bodoe airbase, above the Arctic circle, two F-16s are always on call, ready to take off in less than 15 minutes for stand-offs with surprise visitors from Norway’s eastern neighboor ... Cargo Plane Crashes in Ohio, Killing All 3 Aboard. - LOCKBOURNE, Ohio (AP): A cargo plane crashed into a row of trees and skidded into a cornfield shortly after takeoff Monday, killing all three crew members and sparking a fire, authorities said. The twin-engine 1956 Convair 580, owned by local cargo transporter Air Tahoma, departed from Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus at around noon and had turned around to land at the airport. It crashed south of Columbus near the town of Lockbourne, Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Tony Bradshaw said ... KC-45 Tanker Truths: What About the Warfighter? - A number of media outlets, today, carry updates on the ongoing tanker debate. While examining it from a number of different angles, each of these stories highlights Boeing’s now very transparent strategy of attempting to force another delay in the long overdue delivery of new aerial refueling tankers to the United States Air Force ... The Great UAV Pilot Shortage. - The U.S. Air Force has a record number (nearly a hundred) of Predator and Reaper UAVs in service. But so far this year, seven have been in major accidents (causing more than a million dollars in damage), and since 2003, another twenty have been hurt bad. Turns out that two-thirds of those losses are because of human error ... Labor Day 2008: Aviation Strategies - There’s nothing quite like Labor Day for a little reflection about the state of business in America. This year, there’s plenty to give us a moment’s pause too, because short of auto manufacturing, I can’t think of another American industry that is as organized as aviation. Even FAA employs tens of thousands of labor members. ... Rocket Racing League Tests New Rocket Racer. - New York, NY: The Rocket Racing League today announced the successful results of the first three test flights of the Bridenstine DKNY Rocket Racer now equipped with liquid oxygen (LOX)-alcohol engines manufactured by Armadillo Aerospace, a leading developer of reusable rocket powered vehicles based in Mesquite, TX. These test flights mark an important milestone for the League, occurring just weeks after the first public demonstration flights of the Rocket Racer at the 2008 EAA Oshkosh AirVenture.... NASA Studies Shuttle Program Extension, Fall Launch Delay. - NASA is taking a look at what might be required to postpone the retirement of its three space shuttles until their Orion capsule replacement begins operational flight in 2015, but only as a preparatory measure for Congress and the incoming president, agency officials said Friday ... Medical Helicopter Crash Kills 3. - BURNEY, Ind.: A medical helicopter crashed into a farm field in southeast Indiana shortly after takeoff Sunday, killing all three people aboard. The Air Evac Lifeteam aircraft crashed about 1:17 p.m. near Burney in rural Decatur County, about 40 miles southeast of Indianapolis, authorities said ... EAA Defends Homebuilts' Access To Airports. - EAA President Tom Poberezny today offered perspectives from EAA’s amateur aircraft-building community to an airport official who, in the aftermath of an accident involving an amateur-built aircraft, publicly called for federal policies that could restrict the operation of experimental-category aircraft at metropolitan airports. Poberezny also ramped up EAA’s ongoing outreach to Congressional delegates to provide information and views on the safety and value of amateur-building activities in aviation ... Bavarian Police Purchases Eight New EC135 Helicopters. - On August 27, the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior announced its decision in Munich to purchase eight new Eurocopter EC135 P2i helicopters for the Bavarian Police Helicopter Squadron. This will enable the squadron to carry out its work using helicopters of the latest generation. Fitted out with state-of-the-art police equipment, the EC135s are slated for delivery between September 2009 and April 2010 ... FAA Intends to Reduce VOR Network Soon. - The FAA has confirmed to AOPA that it is making plans to reduce the network of VORs across the country, beginning in 2010 ... Military Channel: Top Ten Jet Fighters. - Number ten is the F-22 Raptor. Guess which Fighter is number one! Feel free to comment here on Planenews ... Sudan Plane Hijackers Surrender. - Two hijackers of a Sudanese plane flown to Libya have given themselves up in the desert town of Kufra. The surrender comes almost 24 hours after they seized the plane, shortly after it left Nyala in Darfur ... Unmanned Machines Fight to the Death - What happens when science-fiction becomes reality? In what certainly could be a precursor to future battles, the Air Force said this week its unmanned MQ-9 Reaper aircraft destroyed and unmanned, remotely controlled vehicle containing an explosive device in Iraq ... Up to 26 Hospitalized After Emergency Landing. - PARIS (AP) A Ryanair plane made an emergency landing in central France after it suddenly lost cabin pressure and descended 26,200 feet (8,000 meters) in five minutes, French officials said Tuesday. Up to 26 people were hospitalized ... F-15 Tests Alternative Jet Engine Fuel. - ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga: An aviation first was accomplished when an F-15E Strike Eagle flew here Aug. 19 using an alternative fuel. Engineers from the 830th Aircraft Sustainment Group, maintainers with the 561st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and pilots from the 339th Flight Test Squadron joined with the Air Force Alternative Fuels Certification office for the first airborne test of the F-15 using a 50-50 mix of JP-8 jet fuel and a natural gas-based synthetic fuel ... The Rationale for Breaking Up BAA. - The UK Competition Commission has some very good reasons for BAA to sell off some of its airports. Full story.... Obama: China's Aviation System "Superior" to America's - Barack Obama talks up Chinese infrastructure, but does he really want to import China’s lax labor and environmental standards?..... Americans Die in Guatemala Crash. - Five US aid workers are among 10 people who died in a plane crash in Guatemala on Sunday, police in the Central American state say. The Guatemalan pilot and co-pilot were also killed when the small aircraft crashed about 90km (55 miles) east of the capital, Guatemala City ... Plane Crashes in Kyrgyz Capital. - A passenger plane has crashed shortly after take-off from Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, killing 68 out of the 90 passengers and crew. There were many foreigners on board, including Iranians and Canadians. The Itek Air Boeing 737 took off bound for Iran, but turned round some 10 minutes later. An airport spokeswoman said the crew had reported a technical problem, and the plane crashed not far from the airport and caught fire ... Copyright © 2008, Top Websites. All Rights Reserved. |
