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American Airlines to end flying service to India

2012-01-17T05:12:00.000-08:00

American Airlines declared that the Chicago O'Hare-New Delhi service is being cancelled due to the “historical financial performance of the route and its future outlook given the global economic climate and high oil prices.”

American Airlines said it would end direct flights to India. The airline’s 15-hour flight service from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to New Delhi will end on 28 February. Instead, American Airlines will offer flights to India through its partner airlines.

American Airlines daily New Delhi-Chicago O’Hare service was launched in November 2005 after the US and India signed an Open Skies Agreement.The financially troubled carrier headquartered in Fort Worth stated that the Chicago O’Hare-New Delhi service is being cancelled due to the “historical financial performance of the route and its future outlook given the global economic climate and high oil prices.” The airline also announced on Monday that it planned to lay off 150 workers in the company.

Air India is also bleeding on the Chicago-New Delhi route (although all of its international routes are loss-making) with a loss of $62.9 million on the operations in 2009-10. The recent Comptroller and Auditor-General’s report, noted that the India-US route “was the single biggest factor adversely affecting Air India’s operations”, accounting for 41 percent of total losses.

Emirates commences New Dublin Services

2012-01-10T05:32:00.000-08:00

Emirates have started its new Dublin route. It is the third new route to be added to Emirates’ route network in the opening days of 2012 as the airline forges promote with its global expansion.

The carrier has been put forward for an astonishing 12 World Travel Awards at the World Travel Awards Grand Final, including World’s Leading Airline. The prestigious awards ceremony is set to take place tomorrow in Qatar.

After the launch of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and Buenos Aires in Argentina on 3rd January 2012, the Irish capital took its position as Emirates’ 118th destination, opening up a new efficient channel via Dubai to key markets such as Australia, India, Thailand, China and the Philippines.

Emirates will serve Dublin daily with an A330-200, offering First Class, Business Class and Economy Class travel. EK 0161 leaves Dubai at 0700hrs daily and arrives at Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2 at 1130hrs. EK 0162 departs Dublin at 1255hrs and lands in Dubai at 0025hrs the next day.

Taxes and Fees included to Airline Tickets - New Rule

2011-12-31T01:28:00.000-08:00

Taxes and fees will soon be added in the price of an airline ticket on all advertising sites. It's a new rule rolling out next month. The Transportation Department is now requiring airlines to include those fees in all advertising as of Jan. 26th 2011.

Local travel agencies say this new rule will help bring consistency to consumers. Agents say sometimes when they quote a price, customers think there might be something cheaper out there when really what they saw excluded hidden fees. They say this is particularly true when booking international flights where fees can be more complicated.

Some airlines want to overturn the rule because they say it violates commercial free speech rights. Next month there will also be a ban on price increases after a ticket has been purchased and a 24-hour window to hold or cancel a reservation without penalty.

New rules for Pilots - FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)

2011-12-25T22:27:00.000-08:00

The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) has announced some new changes to the way pilots are able to work in the commercial industry. The new rules will place requirements for shorter shifts and longer rest periods on the pilots. The changes are an attempt to reduce the tiredness of a pilot that could potentially lead to an accident. USA Today reports that the changes come after a crash of a Colgan Air flight in 2009 killed 50 people.

The new rules will force a flight duty time of 9 to 14 hours. The new rules also count up the time the pilot spends heading to a flight, known as deadheading, as part of the workday. Flight time limits will be eight or nine hours. The length of the day depends on the time of day and the number of flights the pilots has flown.

The minimum downtime after a flight is now set at 10 hours and the pilot must be given at least 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. The pilots must also have at least 30 hours of consecutive rest during each week, which is 25% more than current standards allow for.

Pilots and the FAA may be happy over the new changes, but in a time when airlines aren’t doing well, the carriers won't like the bill. The new rules are expected to cost the airlines almost $300 million over the next decade according to the FAA.

Extra flights for the Lunar New Year festival

2011-12-02T21:39:00.000-08:00

Reservations have started by (CNA) Airlines for extra Lunar New Year flights, and companies are still applying for more extra flights to meet a great demand for the busy holiday season and the upcoming elections, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said Friday.

The additional flights were approved for the Jan. 9 to Feb. 6 periods, with no limit on the number of extra flights to any destination in Taiwan or China except for Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Guangzhou.

According to the CAA, the first wave of additional flights was approved on Nov. 30, with a total of 87 and 151 extra flights for Taiwanese and Chinese airlines, respectively.

The administration noted that the total number of extra flights available for Taiwanese and Chinese airliners for the lunar New Year festival is limited to 102 and 201, respectively.

Airline companies urged the public to make reservations as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

JetBlue Won the sale of LaGuardia, Washington Flights

2011-11-23T21:11:00.000-08:00

JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) won a public sale to add flights at New York’s LaGuardia airport and Reagan airport in Washington, beating rivals that included Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV), two people familiar with the matter said.

JetBlue will receive eight pairs of takeoff and landing slots at each of the airports, said the people, who weren’t authorized to comment publicly about the U.S. Transportation Department auction. WestJet Airlines Ltd. (WJA) said it won the auction for eight other slot pairs at LaGuardia.

Federal rules limit flights at both airports, so airlines can expand only by securing slots. LaGuardia International, part of the nation’s busiest aviation market, and Ronald Reagan National are prized by carriers because each is popular with business fliers who typically buy the most-expensive tickets.

Jeff Straebler, an independent aviation analyst in Stamford, Connecticut said, “Surprisingly, it does not look like Southwest put in a credible bid for either LaGuardia group”. “At least for now, it appears that Southwest is satisfied with its position at LaGuardia, given slots it picked up from the AirTran acquisition.”

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Seven New Destinations in 2012 - Qatar Airways

2011-11-17T00:03:00.000-08:00

Qatar Airways will fly to seven new destinations in 2012 including Perth, Helsinki, Zanzibar and Gassim, spread over four continents, the Doha-based carrier declared on Wednesday at the Dubai Air Show.

The new destinations set to connect the airlines is rapidly-growing global network are Perth in Western Australia, the Finnish capital Helsinki, Croatia's capital city of Zagreb, Gassim in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and three East African cities Zanzibar, Kigali and Mombasa, in Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya, respectively, reports Qatar News Agency (QNA).

Operating from the airline's hub in Doha, capital of the State of Qatar, all seven new routes will be launched over the next few months. They will join earlier announced Baku and Tbilisi, the capital cities of Azerbaijan and Georgia, respectively, which will become part of Qatar Airways family of routes from Feb 1.

Speaking at the Dubai Air Show on Wednesday, Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker unveiled the new destinations, stressing the airline's relentless expansion strategy was continuing with vigour.

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2014 Test Flight - NASA’s Orion Spaceship

2011-11-08T22:33:00.000-08:00

The NASA’s new astronaut vehicle agency has announced the first flight of Orion, will take place in early 2014. It will see Orion make two highly elliptical orbits of the Earth before re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down in the ocean. The vehicle is being designed to take astronauts beyond the space station to destinations such as the Moon, asteroids and even Mars.

NASA is also developing a dedicated new rocket, known at the moment only as the Space Launch System (SLS), to put Orion and any associated equipment in orbit. Because the SLS will not be available until at least 2017, the Exploration Flight Test, or EFT-1, of Orion in 2014 will have to use an existing heavy-lift rocket.

This is likely to be the Delta-IV Heavy rocket that is used currently by the United States Air Force to launch its big surveillance and communications satellites. The launch will take place from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The new capsule is being built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems. The EFT-1 will supply the company's engineers with important flight performance data.

Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s human exploration and operations associate administrator said, “The entry part of the test will produce data needed to develop a spacecraft capable of surviving speeds greater than 20,000mph (32,000km/h) and safely return astronauts from beyond Earth orbit".

"This test is very important to the detailed design process in terms of the data we expect to receive."

China plans to launch new Spaceships in 2012

2011-10-31T05:22:00.000-07:00

China plans to launch in 2012 spaceships named Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10, which are expected to dock with China's first space lab module. Tiangong 1 is expected to be joined soon by three separate unmanned Chinese spacecraft — Shenzhou 8, Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 10 — that will spot China's first attempt at docking maneuvers in space.

Shenzhou 8 is expected to be launched on a 12-day mission in November, while Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 10 are scheduled to lift off during 2012. One or both of these latter missions may carry the first astronauts to Tiangong 1.

The International Space Station orbits Earth in a 51.6-degree inclined orbit, 233 miles by 248 miles (376 by 399 kilometers) high and is visible from 95 percent of the inhabited land on Earth.

But Tiangong 1 orbits Earth at a somewhat lower inclination of 42.8 degrees and at a lower 122-by-214- mile (197 by 345 kilometer) altitude. As such, it is visible from about 80 percent of inhabited land areas. Tiangong 1 can occasionally appear to arc high across the sky, even passing directly overhead at times.

Airline seats secured for Winter Tourist Season -Jamaica

2011-09-30T23:36:00.000-07:00

Jamaica is known to be the third largest island in the Caribbean. The island is residence to the Blue Mountains inland and is surrounded by a narrow coastal plain. Jamaica is also home to the seventh largest natural harbour in the world, Kingston Harbour. There are numerous tourist attractions scattered across the country, including Dunn's River Falls in St. Ann, YS Falls in St. Elizabeth, the Blue Lagoon in Portland, and Port Royal, which was the site of an earthquake that helped form the island's Palisadoes.

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett of Jamaica has announced that 300,000 airline seats have been secured out of Canada for the forthcoming Winter Tourist Season. He said this will set the stage for record arrivals out of Canada. On 29th September, Bartlett said the boost follows the addition of three new flights from Canada.

Bartlett said two of the new flights will come from Thunder Bay, Ontario and one new flight from St. John’s, Newfoundland. The tourism minister also explained that beginning in March next year, Sun wing Airlines will initiate direct flights from Newfoundland, Canada to Montego Bay every Sunday through to 29th April.

Bartlett added that the country has seen more than 200,000 visitors during the 2010 winter tourist season. Edmund Bartlett said in light of Jamaica’s homecoming activities planned for next year 2012 a target of over 250,000 has been set for the upcoming season.

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Plane Crash killed 43 in Russia

2011-09-13T05:26:00.000-07:00

Russian plane crashed in Yaroslavl, 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow in Russia, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. The crash killed 43 people, including 36 players, coaches and staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team, many of whom were European national team and former NHL players.

The chartered Yak-42 jet crashed into the banks of the Volga River moments after takeoff from an airport near Yaroslavl. The crash sent shock waves through the hockey world, which was already mourning the tragic loss of Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien and Wade Belak in the off-season.

At least 43 people were killed in the crash. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry told the Associated Press the Yak-42 airplane crashed into a river bank on the Volga River immediately after takeoff from Yaroslavl, which is 150 miles northeast of Moscow.

Russia’s record for air safety is one of the worst in the world, but Canadians defenseman Andrei Markov said that, “he was shocked when he learned of the crash and it was too early to assign blame for the plane crash”.

Cambridge Airport Invites New flights to Verona

2011-08-23T00:02:00.000-07:00

Cambridge Airport, the east of England, has announced that leading UK-based tour operator New market Holidays will be operating an opening contract flight from Cambridge to Verona, Italy on 16 September 2012.Passengers on the Verona flight are being offered the opportunity to select from a choice of six varied week-long trips in the breathtaking central and northern regions of Italy.

Archie Garden, Director at Cambridge Airport said, “This flight marks a significant step forward in our plans to increase the number of regional charter and schedule flights available from the airport. With unrestricted slots and no congestion aircraft are assured of on-time departures and arrivals. Passengers enjoy quick transits through the terminal both on arrival and departure, there is easy parking and we can offer fast check-in facilities which makes us very attractive for the smaller regional carriers. For those living locally this significantly reduces their journey time when compared to travelling to one of the London airports. We anticipate this will the first of a number of similar specialist charters and look forward to welcoming more to the airport.”

New market Holidays will offer 7 night packages with a strong focus on the cultural aspects of Italy. The Italian contribution includes relaxing trips to expansive Lake Garda, excursions to Venice and tours of medieval Verona where the balcony inspiring the famous Romeo and Juliet scene is located. Other trips feature Renaissance capital Florence, breathtaking Sienna, city of towers San Gimignano, Assisi and Rome.

World Travel Health Alertness on Australia Airport

2011-07-20T23:16:00.000-07:00

Trials planned for Aussie malaria vaccine, stage 1 human trials on an Australian vaccine that researchers hope will protect against all strains of malaria are expected to begin in the next 12 months.Called PlasProtecT, the new malaria vaccine was exposed at Griffith University on Queensland’s Gold Coast last Friday.

The vaccine is the result of decades of work by a team led by Professor Michael Good (pictured), one of Australia’s leading scientists. Professor Good said that, “our approach has entailed putting the malaria parasite to sleep by using a new class of chemical compounds that target certain DNA sequences in the parasite.

“We have observed very strong immune responses that can protect from multiple strains and species of parasite, potentially overcoming the major hurdle to developing a vaccine.”

WORLD TRAVEL HEALTH ALERTS – July 20, 2011

Have a measles shot, Europe urges visitors
Measles taking a massiveterrible toll in Africa
South Australia bucks national flu trend
Sharp rise in scarlet fever figures
Dengue on the rise in Thailand’s north
Encephalitis toll rising in India’s north; New JE case in Taiwan
Malaria looms as monsoon threat for Delhi
Typhoid risk in Fiji’s sweet spot
Zimbabwe’s cities now carry risk of malaria
Travellers warned of rabies on Flores
Legionnaires hits Las Vegas hotel
More leptospirosis tipped in wake of Philippines’ floods
Rampant HFMD claims young lives in Ho Chi Minh City
Diphtheria death in Rajasthan

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Emirates (airline) Plane Crashes

2011-07-20T07:14:00.000-07:00

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ,A United Arab Emirates fighter plane crashedduring a training mission, killing the pilot, the state news agency said Wednesday. Command of the UAE Armed Forces said that,” the plane went down Tuesday evening”.

It was the second crash involving an Emirati fighter plane in less than three months. On April 27, an Emirati pilot cast out safely in Italy when his F-16 veered offs the runway. The military said that plane sustained minor structural damage.

The UAE has quickly expanded its air force in recent years, in part to protect itself from larger neighbor Iran. The fighter fleet consists of American-made F-16 and French-built Mirage jets.

The Gulf nation is increasingly more using its military assets to project power beyond the Gulf. The UAE agreed in late March to send 12 warplanes — six F-16s and six Mirage fighters — to help enforce the no-fly zone over Libya. It was the second Arab country after Qatar to contribute aircraft to the effort.

Leonardo da Vinci Airport Invites Emirates For 50th Anniversary Celebrations

2011-06-07T02:52:00.000-07:00

Today is the great day for Rome is celebrating its 50th anniversary of Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport. An Emirates' A380 arrived in Rome to join celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport, while marking 150 years of Italian association. The first time superjumbo has landed in Rome. Today's one-off flight replaces EK 97 and EK 98 - one of two daily services between Dubai and the Italian capital.

Since1992, Rome has served twice a day and it has been part of Emirates' network. Coupled with a double daily service to Milan and a daily flight to Venice, the 35 weekly frequencies contribute to a $4.6bn trade relationship between Italy and the UAE. The latest visit was the day after the UN's World Environment Day, fitting for an aircraft with such impressive environmental credentials.

Salem Obaidalla, Emirates' Senior Vice President said that, “bringing an A380 to Rome is an important moment for Emirates and Leonardo da Vinci airport and means another facility can accommodate the aircraft in future”. After the commencement of services to Geneva on 1st June, Emirates now flies to 113 destinations throughout its transcontinental network. Flights to Copenhagen start in August, while Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires will come on line in January 2012.

Kingfisher Flight Landed Safe, Passengers Narrow Escape

2011-06-01T21:39:00.000-07:00

On 30th May Monday morning 140 passengers on board Kingfisher flight from New Delhi to Bangkok. The flight was made a safe landing, Kingfisher passengers had a narrow escape and the flight was landed safely. The airport official said that, “the pilot noticed a crack on the cockpit windscreen and made an emergency landing at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport”.

The flight, which took off from New Delhi on Sunday evening, was overflying Kolkata at 37,000 ft when the commander noticed a tiny spot on its windscreen. On examining it was found a crack by the co-pilot and it could turn dangerous if the journey was not immediately aborted.

The pilot contacted the air traffic control in Kolkata and sought immediate landing permission which was granted without any delay. A full emergency was declared at the airport. The plane landed safely here at around 0500 hrs on Monday. The aircraft was grounded and another aircraft of the airlines was flown in from Bangalore to take the stranded passengers to their destination at around 1100 hrs.

Plane Crash On Residents India

2011-05-26T06:31:00.000-07:00

The unexpected aircraft crash has killed 10 persons including all seven onboard when the medical ambulance flight to Delhi from Patna crashed into a densely-populated housing area due to bad weather on Wednesday.The aircraft belonging to Delhi based Air Chartered Services India Pvt Limited. The aircraft crashed in Jawaharnagar locality near the IAF station at around 10.35pm shortly before landing at IGI airport in Delhi.

Two persons were also injured in the crash. The persons who lost their lives on the ground are believed to be residents of the houses hit by the plane.According to Delhi airport sources, the airplane lost control and dropped from a height of about 8,000 feet fifteen minutes before landing. There were strong breezy winds due to a dust storm at the time of the crash. The plane caught fire as soon as it crashed on two houses sending up plumes of smoke.

The plane was piloted by Harpreeet with Manjeet Kataria as the co-pilot. The bodies of all the 10 victims were overdone beyond recognition, according to Faridabad Police Commissioner P K Agarwal. The plane had taken off at 9.30am. All 10 bodies recovered in air ambulance crash.

Some outstanding Resources to recognize Military Airplane

2011-05-07T04:38:00.000-07:00

Here are some first-class resources that might help out in the recognition of military airplanes, mutually for combat or non-combat reasons.They present outstanding photographs of military airplanes from all over the world as well as complete line drawings that present two observations of the aircraft:

1. FAS.org (Federation of American Scientists): It gives in-depth information on different aircraft types, be it fighter, bomber, cargo or attack helicopter. Just attach on any airplane linkage and you will find in-depth stats and conditions on any kind of aircraft. Special indistinct and colorful photographs as well as line sketches instruct on any aircraft.

2. GlobalSecurity.org: The site shows off an arrangement of military airliner from the U.S. or around the world. Each aircraft is categorized under different military aircraft styles. Just get on any aircraft name and find in-depth information and figures on the formulate, manufacture and function of operation.

The fastest Jet airplanes at all time

2011-04-20T06:52:00.000-07:00

The principle of complete fastest, pilot soaring, jet airplane goes to the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. The Blackbird was considered by well-known aircraft designer Kelly Johnson. It served up as an investigation aircraft for the U.S. Air Force commencing from 1964 until 1998. The SR-71 was so speedy its main suspicious method against surface-to-air armaments was to fly so quick a rocket could not catch it.

A SR-71 place the certified jet speed documentation in 1976. On July 29 of that year, the SR-71 flew at a calculated speed of 2,193 mph, surroundings the jet speed record that still positions.

Blackbirds could travel at well over mach 3 and set quite a lot of other proceedings in the 1970's. In 1974, a Blackbird takes off from New York City to London in 1 hour and 55 minutes, standardised over 1,800 mph. And the Blackbird had to measured to subsonic speed division way across to strike a tanker aircraft for fuel. On the arrival trip the similar jet flew from London to Los Angeles--5,477 miles--in 3 hours and 47 minutes. The plane had to slow to refill several times but motionless averaged over 1,400 mph for the journey.

Fastest Jet of All!

In 2004, the U.S. Air Force plunged an X-43 Scramjet from the section of a B-52. The X-43 required a rocket shot to get it up to the momentum where the air-breathing scramjet would scamper. Once it acquired going the X-43 was capable to motor up to mach 10, or 6,600 mph for concerning 10 seconds. That's moving!

Innovative Self-healing Magic Skin Aircraft

2011-04-14T06:11:00.000-07:00

NASA has rewarded Cessna Aircraft Co. with a $1.9 million growth agreement for its self-healing “magic skin” condom for future aircraft.

The plan is to stuffing the whole airliner through energy-absorbing bubbles, and then slides the massive conductive cover along the plane’s body. Previously on, the snug-fit casing would protect the vehicle from impact damage, lightning strikes, electromagnetic interference and temperature extremes.

The film, named as STAR-C2 (Smoothing, Thermal, Absorbing, Reflective, Conductive, Cosmetic), would provide clear evidence of harm once the plane lands. If the external shielding has been concession, engineers can scrutinize the major plane structure for damages.

Similar to Stanford University’s cobweb-inspired netting, the magic skin would offer an active health observing system. Cessna remarks in its N+3 study — an extensive, 400-plus sheet report (.pdf) about potential aircraft innovations, together with this skin — that “the technology could integrate devices that comprise temperature sensors, moisture sensors, damage sensors, accelerometers and light or activity sensors.”

“This information could offer the information needed for preservation and restore.” The determined state also say the skin could repair itself, from puncture and snuffles, once it detects compensations. Don’t imagine seeing a magic skin enfolded about the next airplane you fly on. STAR-C2 is division of NASA’s faraway creative thinker research of tech we may not observe until 2030 to 2035. NASA separated its $16.5 million financial plan for the plan along with four ideas after 18 months of powerful review.

In adding up to business Cessna’s aerocondom, NASA honored Boeing $8.8 million for Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research, or SUGAR, which is an experimentation of different engines, fuel kinds and wing shapes for the outlook of electric and mixture aircraft. MIT got $4.6 million for its “double bubble” re-think of plane layouts that fuses two aircraft bodies together. Northrop Grumman will receive $1.2 million to test jet wings that could lead to quieter, more fuel-efficient aircraft.

Merits and Demerits of High wings

2011-03-26T04:00:00.000-07:00

Rewards of High wings

In the air a high wing airplane gives the most excellent visibility beneath the aircraft. The downhill visibility is certainly a plus for plot a route by ground position, doing ground hunts and photography. A high wing airplane is protect in a tumble, avoiding the adverse possibility of coming behind on a different aircraft, particularly on move toward to the airport or in the traffic pattern.

High wing aircraft are usually easier to acquire in and out of. The fuselage sits lesser to the ground and nearby is no wing to mount over to come in the cabin. The high wing design is especially valuable when there is a requirement to load and drop off cargo.

High wing planes are measured safer to land on soft meadows or water landings with float prepared planes. Keep the wing superior off the ground stay away from the chances of catch a wingtip in the occurrence of a dip or sloping of the plane.

Drawbacks of High Wings

High wing aircraft have deprived visibility up and last the plane. The wing slabs what a pilot can see after of the face of the wing, particularly difficult to see on top of the plane. This may be one cause there are no elevated wing fighter aircraft.

A chief restriction to the high wing plan is the assignment of landing gear. The gear supports must be emotionally involved to the fuselage, consequential in a narrower gear thickness than a low wing plane with the corridor gear coming in a straight line down from the wings. Retractable gear frequently necessitates pods on the fuselage of a high wing plane, growing the heave from the fuselage.

Since the wing is the most important fuel storage space area for several aircraft, fueling a high wing aircraft needs rock climbing up on the wing or some kind of lift.

Boeing’s Biggest Plane drawn near First Flight

2011-03-15T05:20:00.000-07:00

Boeing’s innovative 747-8 Intercontinental finished engine runs on the earth Tuesday as the team organizes the behemoth for its initial flight. And still as the company move towards the end of its first flights for the 747 and 787 plans, it established the first new order for an international in more than one year.

Air China has acquired five of the airplanes; the biggest Boeing 747 has ever built. The order carries to 112 the entire sales count up for the new 747-8. Moreover it highlights Boeing’s hard work to advertise the new airplane to Asian markets.

It’s no chance for both the 787 and 747-8 contains a number supposed to take good luck China and other Asian nations. At the inauguration of the new Boeing747-8 worldwide last month, Boeing completed it clear that the plane’s red and orange paint work was a waggle to what it expects will be a tough market in Asia.

The Air China regulate is the first 747-8 order in each the passenger or cargo design for the Chinese market. Many think about China the largest development market for airliners in the upcoming decades. Both Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific and Korean Air have prearranged cargo reports of the new jumbo and Korean Air as well has controlled passenger descriptions.

As the global approaches its first flight with the current two hour and 45 minute engine dart, the freight version of the 747-8 maintains its busy flight test program. Modern testing consists of halt testing where mock ice is fond of to the wings as well as experiment of the auto land system.

The 747-8 Intercontinental is estimated to construct its first flight previous to the end of the month.

Pilots May acquire Magic Fingers To stay Them attentive

2011-03-03T00:46:00.000-08:00

A trembling seat may be joining the technically sophisticated airline cockpit of the future. Previously there is abundance of visual and acoustic alarms in the cockpit to counsel pilots about things involving instant action, but now several think there might be a restrained way to repeat them of some more custom actions.

The design comes from official documents filed by the Boeing Company. The airline maker could combine an easy mechanism that would supply a physical signal to the group that would strike a chord when certain dealings require to be taken such as radio calls and could even be triggered slightly by air traffic controllers.

There are copiousness of euphemisms that could be worn to confer preserving crew attentiveness and serving situational awareness. But the suggestion of a shaking seat appears to be directly intended at pilots declining asleep in the cockpit or flattering so diverted that they might overfly their purpose as happened to a Northwest Airlines crew in 2009.

According to a tale in Flight Global, there is no suggestion of plans to set the idea into service.

Also to being activated by air traffic controllers, the chairs could also be pre-programmed to just repeat pilots of planned tasks during a flight.

DIY Single Seat Aerobatic Aircraft: Reasonable Flying Fun

2011-02-11T01:22:00.000-08:00

In the center of a glacial Wisconsin winter, the group at Sonex Aircraft has resolute it’s a great time for another first flight. Among abundance of snowfall on the ground and cold air above the wings, company president Jeremy Monnett finished the first flight in the all innovative Onex, a single seat sport aircraft with folding wings (visible in video after the jump) and designed to cost less than $25,000.

For the same cost as a little boat or a pleasant motorcycle you’ll get some exciting presentation together with a top speed of 170 miles per hour and aerobatic potentials. All this among just 80 horsepower which means the oil bill will be a portion of that for other airplane, just like the purchase cost.

The journey of the Onex is the subsequent first flight Sonex has completed this winter after a small first jump in its electric aircraft in December. The Onex first flight preceding about 20 minutes and provided Monnett time to charge the primary handling qualities which are very good.

The Onex is appearing like the single seat, fighter airplane kind of experience several pilots have dreamed of, but were deficient the hundreds, if not millions of dollars to complete. Okay, this is no P-51, but simply the Vans RV-3 comes to intellect as far as fighter-like entertaining on a budget.

Like some other designs from Sonex, the Onex utilizes the AeroVee engine. The 80 horsepower, four-cylinder cruise is founded on the VW racing core, and is air cooled. But it has been entirely redesigned and customized for aviation use counting an all new crankshaft and dual explosion. Basically it’s a new motor that seems like the VW it was built upon.

Both the aircraft and the motor can be obtained as a kit. The AeroVee 2.1 involves about 12 hours gather according to the company. Moreover the aircraft itself will be advertised only as a kit. Construct times for kit aircraft differ wildly depending on the budget, experience of the designer and the intensity of finish, but Monnett imagines builders to spend 500-1000 hours finishing the Onex.

Boeing misplaces 12 aeroplane orders

2010-12-18T04:01:00.000-08:00

Boeing declares orders for 12 jets have been cancelled, together with orders for four of its most profitable planes.

The company says clients canceled orders for three 777s and one of its postponed 787s. The company refused to say who cancelled the orders.

It also misplaced orders for eight of its 737s. Boeing makes more of that small- to midsize plane than any other type.

Boeing's weekly organize update on Thursday showed that it also expanded four new orders for 737s.

The cancelled 777 and 787 orders would have been value at least US$882 million ($1.2 billion) at list prices, even though discounts are regular. The smaller, cheaper 737s sell for US$57 million to US$86 million each at catalog prices.

SpaceX Launches Freight Spacecraft Into Orbit

2010-12-13T05:20:00.000-08:00

Space Exploration Systems successfully started on its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft at 10:43 a.m. EST this morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida into low down earth orbit. The launch symbols the second flight for a Falcon 9 and the primary for the spacecraft. The first effort for the demonstration flight was ended two minutes and 50 seconds before a planned 9:03 a.m. EST launch after a defective signal in one of the devices that controls knob off the rocket motors. A small in excess of nine minutes subsequent to launch SpaceX proclaimed the Dragon spacecraft had attained orbit and clapping could be heard from the launch team.

The SpaceX rocket and spacecraft are considered to hold cargo or human payloads to the International Space Station as division of the Commercial Orbital Transportation System that will restore the space shuttle. Today’s COTS 1 test flight is predictable to last around three and a half hours with the Dragon manufacture almost two orbits roughly on the earth before splattering down in the Pacific regarding 500 miles off the coast of Mexico. If successful, it will be the initial time a private company has launched and improved a spacecraft from earth orbit. Moreover it symbols the first time a new American spacecraft able to carrying humans has launched into orbit while the space shuttle first take off nearly 30 years ago.

DIY Plane : From toolbox to impression in two weeks

2010-11-24T05:18:00.000-08:00

Glasair has been making kit planes for almost 30 years, but its accelerated-build program has strained a whole new customer who sees building in their own high-performance plane as a huge way to spend a holiday. It also make sure they finish what they’ve in progress. Homebuilt airplanes, legitimately known as trial amateur-built aircraft, have long been accepted. Usually, the homebuilt market has requested to pilots excited to fly aircraft that simply aren’t built by the chief manufacturers. Such planes can moreover offer a comparatively cheap way to get into soaring. More than 30,000 of these types of airplanes have been built in the United States.

Problem is, it can take years to end the job. Home builders usually work in their garages, basements and even breathing rooms, and it can take somewhere from numerous hundred to several thousand hours. Not everyone closes it. No one stays any kind of statistics, but the agreement is there might be as many planes completed as not.

So Glasair, which advertises kits to pilots just about the world, in progress thinking about how to help customers make their planes in less time while stick on to Federal Aviation Administration rules that declare the “major portion” of the aircraft must be “fabricated and accumulate by person(s) who assume the construction project exclusively for their own education or recreation.” This is generally referred to as the “51 percent rule,” the scheme being the designer must do 51 percent of the responsibilities needed to build the airplane. The rule was accepted since DIY aviation has developed over the years. Still some people acquire a set of plans and produce everything themselves. But kit makers are still out there fabricating parts and even subassemblies to help put away time.

Airbus passion the A380 a Wonder of the World

2010-11-11T05:43:00.000-08:00

For the First time An Airbus A380 flight test aircraft flew over the Pyramids of Egypt. On Wednesday Nov 2010, Airbus announced An Airbus A380 flew over the Pyramids of Egypt for the first time. The double-decker airliner came at the end of a visit to Eypt for the AVEX International Air show at Sharm El Sheikh International Airport and tests to verify that Cairo International Airport to can handle A380 operations. So, in associating the A380 by way of the Pyramids, is Airbus saying the jet is also a Wonder of the World? Airbus responded to my question in its U.S. Twitter page, inscription that the message of the photo is: "Current wonder juxtaposed with ancient wonder."

Korean Air Will Be The foremost To Fly The A380 From Asia To The USA

2010-11-10T05:49:00.000-08:00

Double-decker planes have been directed back and forth over the Atlantic for fairly some time, but there hasn’t been an alternative to take the Airbus A380 the other way about the world. Luckily Korean Air is planning to modify that, as the airline’s first A380 is set to strike the skies early by next year. Best of all, they’re scheduling to use it for some new nonstop transpacific directions from the United States.

The airline has four planes on organize in total, but the primary one should be getting into their hot small hands this upcoming May. It sounds like they’re still confirm all the goodies when it comes to the seats options, but Korean Air is gifted that their big birds will be the roomiest when evaluated to the competition. Right now they’re scheduling between 400 and 450 seats on the planes. We’re just eager that all their promises of extra space will be sustained into the economy cabin, rather than just for those big spenders that are sitting up front.

The excitement doesn’t stop in May, as planes two, three, and four will be offered over to the carrier in June, July, and August of next year. In addition the long drag routes between North America and Asia, be expecting some short trips as well. They’re appearing to send the planes within Asia as well, so maybe both legs of your trip will be in one of the world’s newest airplanes.

Eurocopter X3 Enters Race for Fastest Helicopter

2010-10-26T06:16:00.000-07:00

Eurocopter is formally entering the contest to manufacture a high-speed helicopter with its new X3 technology supporter. The model helicopter is planned to offer “the speed of a turboprop-powered airplane and the complete hover-flight capacities of a helicopter,” according to Eurocopter.

The declaration from Europe approaches just days after Sikorsky’s high-speed helicopter take off at its target speed of 250 knots. The Sikorsky X2 has been in voyage testing for two years and the 250-knot flight is the fastest yet for a helicopter flying without outer boost.

The two prototypes utilize very special approaches to high-speed helicopter flight. The Sikorsky utilizes a pair of counter-rotating main rotors and a supplier prop on the tail. Eurocopter’s X3 hybrid design applies a pair of turbine engines to power the main rotor as well as a pair of forward-facing propellers increased on small wings.

The drive for high-speed helicopters is being determined by military demands, though both companies mention civilian applications with search-and-rescue and medical-evacuation flights.

In fact Eurocopter donates to the Nigel Tufnel school of consideration that using a quantity that is just one more must be superior — finished its first flight Sept. 6, but it was only revealed to the public this week.

Eurocopter says testing will maintain through the end of the year and the plan is to steadily work their way to 180 knots by December. After a three-month promotion over the winter, the X3 will recommence testing in March 2011 and the company says it anticipates the helicopter to reach cruise speeds of 220 knots.

Plane Crashes At classified Airport In Fayetteville

2010-10-20T06:21:00.000-07:00

For the 3rd time in latest weeks, emergency responders are called to a private airport in Fayetteville to contract with a plane crash. It was a biplane that wrecked up, tail-up, with the edge of the plane in the ground. Emergency dispatchers with the 911 hub in Fayette County say no injuries were reported in association with this plane crash. They declare the crash was reported at 6:50 p.m.

The collide occured on private belongings at the airport and our 59 News group was asked to depart. Someone at the landscape, who did not wish for to go on camera for an interview, did say that somebody rented the crashed aircraft when they came in for a corridor a little too insistently, lost control and ended up placing the nose of the plane into the runway. Fayetteville police were surrounded by the first repsonders and they are handling part of the search into the accident.

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo slither Flight

2010-10-12T06:45:00.000-07:00

After four confined carry flights attached to its mother ship Eve/cite>, SpaceShipTwo was released for the first time on yesterday. Later than being released at 45,000 feet, Scaled complex test pilot Pete Siebold achieved several flight quality tests throughout the 11-minute flight before moving down on runway 30 at the Mojave Air and Space Port. In a video released by Virgin Galactic, early morning arrangements can be seen followed by in-flight footage from the discharge to touch down. SpaceShipTwo (aka VSS Enterprise) is obviously bigger than its predecessor, SpaceShipOne. Intended to carry six passengers on a suborbital trip to space, the fuselage of SpaceShipTwo is equal to that of the fuselages on Eve. The spacecraft has a much wider landing gear position than SpaceShipOne and uses a nose skid parallel to Burt Rutan’s first spaceship design. It also uses a belly-mounted speed brake which can be seen at some point in the landing. The flight test team at Scaled Composites is predictable to entire numerous flight tests within the next 18 months before moving the first passengers to space. Virgin Galactic is setting up on flying standard flights from its Spaceport America in New Mexico beginning some time in 2012.

US Approves Trans-Pacific Airline agreements

2010-10-07T06:20:00.000-07:00

The US Department of Transportation on Wednesday hesitantly permitted antitrust protection for alliances between American Airlines and Japan Airlines, and between United Airlines, Continental Airlines and All Nippon Airways.

If the judgment becomes final, the members of each association would be bright to more closely synchronize on international operations in transpacific markets.

Parties have 21 calendar days to mention and seven business days to file answers. After that period, the DOT will evaluate all filings and issue a final decision.

The trans-Pacific marketplace is profitable for major US airlines that supply to business travellers.
United and Continental combined last week to generate the world's largest airline.

Turkish Air may plan to buy double-deck Aircraft

2010-09-27T06:07:00.000-07:00

Turkish Airlines, Europe's fourth-biggest shipper, does not have adequate planes to meet its expansion plans and may obtain double-deck aircraft, Chairman Hamdi Topcu informed Star newspaper on Friday.

The Istanbul-based airline seems at the possibility of both the Airbus A380 or Boeing's 747-8 double-deck aircraft, Topcu told the newspaper.

Boeing is increasing the 747-8 for delivery estimated next year. It will straightly fight with Airbus's A380 model, which is already in service.

Topcu repeated the flag carrier's navy target of 184 planes in 2011, up from 142 now. It has positioned orders for 89 planes, 24 which are for wide-body aircraft planned for long-haul routes.

SpaceX targeting to launch Dragon in November

2010-09-24T23:14:00.000-07:00

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is retargeting the launch of its next Falcon 9 rocket, which will take an operational Dragon capsule, from Oct. 23 to near the beginning of November.

The flight is the original of up to three launches designed below SpaceX’s $278 million Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) bond with NASA. The company also has agreements worth $1.6 billion for 12 cargo liberation runs to the International Space Station.

“Our targeted launch date has stimulated,” Kirstin Brost, SpaceX’s communications director, wrote in an e-mail. “We’ve presented a request for November 8th or 9th and are coming up for the series to complete their standard deconfliction work and give a formal approval.”

On Sept. 15, SpaceX performed a tanking test as part of a countdown preparation for the launch of its second Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 40. An engine test notice also is expected in the weeks leading up to this event .

The purpose of the flight is to reveal Dragon’s orbital maneuvering, communication and re-entry facilities. After several orbits about Earth to confirm performance, the tablet is designed to re-enter the atmosphere and splash down off the coast of southern California, where a revival team will be standing.

Normally, Dragon will come into the atmosphere at around 7 km. per sec. (15,660 mph.), which will heat its outside up to 2000C. For shielding, SpaceX is using a material it calls PICA-X – Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator.

“We will collect performance data and leave significant amounts of risk on key spacecraft systems, together with Draco thrusters, the Dragon communication systems, PICA-X high-performance heat-shield material and other serious navigation, re-entry, landing and healing systems,” the company says on its website.

Thai Air advertises Out USD $488 Million Share concern

2010-09-21T05:38:00.000-07:00

Thai Airways supposed on Monday its offer of 483.87 million share to presented shareholders and the public to increase THB15 billion baht (USD$488 million) had sold out.

The segment set away for retail sponsors was twice oversubscribed; the national mover said in a report, adding up the new shares would start dealing on September 28, two days former than expected.

"Most of the accessible shareholders used their rights," the airline said.

On Monday, shares in Thai Airways stopped up 5.13 percent at 41 baht payable to prospect the share sale would be a success, whereas the main Thai catalog fell 0.06 percent.

The shares were sold to shareholders at 31 baht each, a 14.5 discount to the market price last week. The earnings will be used to repay debt, make stronger the airline's financial status and support its business growth.

Several 246.93 million shares were presented to the Finance Ministry to allocate it to sustain its 51.03 percent stake.

An additional 221.83 million were offered to existing shareholders other than the Finance Ministry at a proportion of 0.2667 new share for every one held and regarding 15.11 million shares were sold to retail investors.

Boeing to suggest Rides Into Low Orbit by 2015

2010-09-17T06:04:00.000-07:00

Nowadays many of the airliners shipping passengers around the world will now be carrying passengers to low Earth orbit. Boeing declared today it has signed a memo of agreement with Space Adventures to extend and market the private space travels. Space Adventures is the companionship that has put together numerous orbital trips for private individuals to the International Space Station.

The companies have not proclaimed what the cost of a travel to orbit will be, or when the first rides will take place. Trips could include vacations to the ISS or to other orbital stations to be constructed in the future. Boeing is already associated with Bigelow Aerospace on a profitable space-station program to be built shortly in the decade.

The passenger air travels will take place on commercial trips on board the Boeing team Space Transportation-100 spacecraft to low earth orbit. In addition to those with sufficient money, rides will also be accessible to companies, nonprofits and centralized agencies in addition to NASA. The seven-passenger spacecraft is estimated to be operational by 2015.

The statement from Boeing is the first from one of the existing, large space-contractor corporations to offer transportation to space for private individuals. Space Adventures has formerly contracted with the Russian space agency to suggest rides to orbit. Those rides happening at $20 million, but costs have increased to as high as $40 million for a single passenger.

The conformity with Boeing is likely to generate some competition for the Russians and may help to maintain costs down for cargo and passengers. Unknown space launch company SpaceX has also talked about transporting passengers to low earth orbit.

In the future the company is paying attention on delivering cargo payloads to the ISS, but SpaceX’s Dragon container is expected to carry passengers to orbit as well.

For suborbital passenger flights, Virgin Galactic released a new video at present with information about the company’s space flights aboard VSS Enterprise (aka SpaceShipTwo).

Some hundreds of people have previously signed up for the flights, which will include several minutes of lightness and views of Earth from more than 65 miles above the surface.

Boeing 787 First release postponed Again

2010-09-10T03:16:00.000-07:00

Boeing proclaimed the delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner to start customer All Nipon Airways will be postponed until the middle of the first quarter of 2011. In a report released Thursday night Boeing said, “the release date revision follows an appraisal of the availability of an engine needed for the concluding phases of flight test this fall.” The reports comes after a Rolls Royce test engine botched earlier this month.

The Rolls Royce Trent 1000 is one of two engine choices for airlines purchasing the 787 Dreamliner all along with the General Electric GEnx. While be experienced on a test stand in England, the Trent 1000 practiced an “uncontained” failure meaning parts of the engine were expelled beyond the fairings that are planned to keep engine parts controlled in the event the engine comes apart.

The Rolls Royce Trent 1000 is the engine of alternative for launch customer ANA. Preceding month, following workmanship matters related to the horizontal stabilizer on the 787, Boeing said the liberation of the first 787 could slip into the first few weeks of 2011.

With the addition of the engine breakdown experienced by Rolls Royce, the company says it will now be standard way through the first quarter of 2011 before ANA obtains the first 787 to be delivered for customer service.

Bad-Ass Biofuel Snow Speeder started to Antarctica

2010-08-26T05:57:00.000-07:00

Explorers planning to navigate Antarctica this winter are concluding work on one bad-ass snowmobile a Lotus-designed, prop-driven, biofuel-burning ice-rider that will inspect for crevasses under the snow. The Bio-Inspired Ice Vehicle will guide the way for the group of 11 researchers in two vehicles that will travel 3,600 miles through the Moon Regan Tran Antarctic Expedition. The trip begins on the west coast of Antarctica at Patriot Hills and starts east to the South Pole repeating the steps of the famous Fuchs and Hillary voyage. Then it heads north to McMurdo through the Trans-Antarctic Mountain Range.

The point of the 40-day trip is to observe the impact of global climate change on the continent and raise consciousness of the issue. They also expect to make the fastest overland crossing of Antarctica. The journey was scheduled for last year but ran into some interruptions, which gave the team time to modify the cool ice-glider we first informed you about two years ago. The biggest change is under the covering — the 1150-cc BMW motorcycle engine is being discarded in favor of a Rotax 914, which is said to suggest better performance in the cold. The four-cylinder turbocharged boxer engine, considered for recreational aircraft, is good for 100 horsepower (sustained) and 106 pound feet of torque. They’ve just ongoing the substitute, which is why the photos illustrate the BMW engine.

The engine dashes on E85 biofuel and drives a three-blade support with variable pitch. The BIV weighs 675 kilograms and is more about 15 feet long with a track of 15 feet. It travels on three skis with independent deferment. Flooring it and it’ll top out at 84 mph. When it’s time to stop, a studded “foot” carries you down from velocity much like an ice axe. A GPS-enhanced radar system will help to perceive voids in the ice, and the driver can report the matches up to the rest of the team. There’s only space for one in the BIV, so the 11 people making the trips will take rotates driving it.

China’s Private Pilots take wing Under The Radar

2010-08-19T06:50:00.000-07:00

China’s private aviation industry is mounting with some serious regulatory manacles attached. Unfortunately for the increasing population of Chinese pilots, there are so many limitations on flying in the country, many of them are resorting to soaring under the radar, both literally and symbolically.

If you desire to fly anywhere in China in your own aircraft, there are many hoops to jump through. Requirements must be filed days, even weeks in advance. And the needs have to be made in several places to keep everyone happy. There’s no chance of just jumping in your plane and flying to a meeting on a moment’s perceive. Instead of trade with all the red tape, many pilots are simply deciding to fly illegally.

According to a story in Time, some pilots are preferring to pay the fine if they are caught as it is roughly the same price as the sanction needed to make the flight legally. With a population of above 1.3 billion people, there are only just about 200 private aircraft in China. The strongly proscribed nation has only permitted private ownership of aircraft since 2003.

However with so many millionaires and billionaires in the quickly growing economy, aircraft makers are placing themselves in what could be the next big market for general aviation. Several makers of general aviation aircraft together with Cessna, Cirrus and Diamond Aircraft are all building a strong presence in the Chinese market. Both Cessna and Diamond are manufacturing airplanes in China nowadays.
For making aircraft in China is for the same economic motivations many things are made in China. But its no top secret that there is a thrust for aviation companies to place themselves in the world’s most crowded nation so when the aviation market overflow gates open, those companies will be there to train and sell the rising pilot population. It’s a parallel strategy to that used by GM and Volkswagen, the two top products in the country. But as the manufacturers are pointing themselves to serve a market that has yet to blow up, previously flying private aircraft in China maintain to find it hard to enjoy the friendly skies.

There are various places in the country where local governments have formed some faintly more comfortable airspace rules. But in the Chinese aviation world expect the same transportation report that happened with cars and guide to highways and driving clubs, will find its method to the flying world in China as well.

Pentagon’s Flying Car plane Takes Off

2010-08-13T06:46:00.000-07:00

The Pentagon’s far-out research agency has revealed more information of their plan to create a shape-shifting, multipurpose car.

Flying cars have been endeavored before, dozens of times. And a small number of the labors have even be successful. But the Pentagon concept is numerous steps in front of existing vehicles, like the Terrafugia Transition, which is more like an insubstantial plane that can, by folding up its wings, function on land. The Transition also desires runways for takeoff and landing, and can’t fly in cruel weather.

And, in what could moreover mean revolutionary progress or huge failure, this initiative has out-there military agency Darpa behind it. In January, the organization, who has been trying with the flying car idea ever since at least 2008, hosted a proposer’s day workshop for their new Transformer (TX) project. At the same time, details were sketchy: Darpa required a “morphing vehicle body” that could activate largely separately, dropping the chance of human piloting error in high-risk war zones. Plus, the agency’s initial documents noted, a suspended car would be able to cruise over obstacles and keep away from areas widespread with IEDs.

Now, Darpa’s unconfined a solicitation calling for prototypes, which they would like to be testing in the air by 2015. The vehicles, which will have the all-terrain capabilities of SUVs, should moreover boast a 1,000-pound capacity, and hold four fully suited crowds or a stretcher and a medic, telling the agency hopes for a fleet of flying ambulances, too.

Darpa also needs a vehicle that can execute vertical takeoffs and landings, and achieve an altitude of 10,000 feet — and do it all whereas traveling 250 miles on a single tank of gas. That means less Humvee, more Prius: The agency recommend that proposals would be wise to take in ideas like “hybrid electric drive, superior batteries, adaptive wing structures, ducted-fan impulsion systems and advanced lightweight heavy fuel engines.”

All that, and no pilot: Any troop able to drive a military road vehicle could operate a Transformer, because the vehicles will include “automated takeoff and landing,” and be “fully autonomous” in the air and on the ground.

It’s a lofty plan, albeit one with a relatively small budget: Darpa’s allotting around $55 million to the development and testing of prototypes.

Sikorsky X2 breaks previous Helicopter Speed Record

2010-08-09T06:30:00.000-07:00

Two hundred and fifty-nine miles per hour. That’s how the fast of the Sikorsky X2 flew through a latest test flight in Florida. The flight bust a record that had stood ever since 1986 when a Westland Lynx handled 249 mph.

And Sikorsky isn’t finished yet. The X2 is a technology protester aimed at developing helicopters that simply cruise up to double the speed of traditional helicopters. By using a twin rotor design, a pusher sustain and several aerodynamic improvements, Sikorsky says this kind of design could guide to helicopters that are easily competent of even higher cruise speeds.

After locating the helicopter speed record with the 259 mph flight, X2 program director Jim Kagdis said that the helicopter is performing better than anticipated so far.

“Vibration levels and aircraft presentation have continued to meet or go beyond our expectations, so we are satisfied to report that all systems are ‘go’ in our mission to accomplish a 250-knot [288 mph] travel speed shortly this year,” he said.

By tradition Helicopters are restricted by the complex aerodynamics produced with the moving rotor blades losing lift when they are affecting backwards relative to the direction of flight. A propeller at the back of the helicopter agrees to the X2 pilot to fly at top speeds although minimizing the problems related with high speed flight and the main rotors.

Sikorsky considers that there is a marketplace for a fast touching helicopter in the military and civilian world. Both the markets are concerned in faster medical helicopters to decrease response times for carrying patients in and out of remote areas. The company hasn’t released details about the plans for a production version of the X2, but has supposed the technology will find its way into a future model.

Kitfox establishes Radial Engines and firewood Props Rock

2010-08-02T06:28:00.000-07:00

Wisconsin — Idaho-based Kitfox Aircraft commenced one of the more interesting looking sport light aircraft here at Airventure by just adding a radial engine to the front. The 110-horsepower, seven-cylinder engine is ready by Rotec. Kitfox president John McBean declares the most popular engine selection for the company’s Model 7 is the accepted four-cylinder Rotax 912 that controls most LSAs. But subsequent to the trend of classic design features ruling a way into new vehicles (think Beetle, Camaro or Mustang), McBean declares that they wanted to offer customers a vintage look in a recent light sport aircraft.

“We performed it for aesthetics,” he says. “We’re leaving for the retro look of old get togethers new.” Unlike most of the retro car designs that make use of all new technology basically covered in a retro looking design, the Rotec power-driven Kitfox provides some of the experiences of a classic engine as well.

“If you don’t need oil flame,” McBean says, ”you almost certainly shouldn’t choose a radial.” Radial engines from the 1920s throughout the 1950s are scandalously dehydrated for oil. Pilots flying the bigger, 1,000-horsepower radials on a DC-3, for illustration, measure the oil flame in gallons per hour. The Rotec isn’t that terrible, but it does burn a fragment more oil than more conventional 100-horsepower aviation engines. The Kitfox 7 is a kit-built aircraft that is recognized for its back-country presentation. The aircraft requests less than 300 feet to take off and land, and can activate from a farmer’s field as easily as a covered airport.

Cruise speed up with the big, drag-inducing radial out front is a reputable 110 miles per hour. Through a fuel flame connecting 5 to 6 gallons per hour, that works out to rational competence for an airplane optimized for deliberate flying in and out of small airfields rather than cross-country speed. Pricing is highly reliant on optional gear such as cockpit instruments and radios, but you should be capable to build a radial powered Kitfox for less than $50,000.

French Company reveals Exotic model Plane

2010-07-28T23:35:00.002-07:00

The new Cobalt Co50 is the French respond to a broad selection of fast, personal airplanes from companies like Cirrus and Cessna. The company maintains the five seat pusher configuration will be capable to cruse at more than 250 miles per hour and have a choice of more than 1150 miles.

New airplane designs at Air venture in Oshkosh are as frequent as left turns in NASCAR. In every year someone demonstrates with a new airplane they hope will modify aviation. One of the more appealing looking new designs this year comes from Europe to challenge some of the American companies that have guided the way for single engine airplanes for decades.

The Co50 that illustrates in Oshkosh isn’t fairly done yet, in fact it’s typically a rough case of an airplane. The airframe is distant from finished and there is no engine or propeller. If the airplane does make it to the air travel test stage and into production, Cobalt will have one of the more exciting looking planes on the market.

The company plans on use a 350 horsepower, turbo-charged motor giving it the capability to fly at high altitudes. The airplane uses a fairly weak looking canard wing below the canopy that opens upright to allow entry and exit to the cabin.

Regrettably there have been plenty of new designs that show up at Air venture that not at all get away from this rough stage of development. But the company hopes to end a prototype and complete its first flight by the end of the year.

French Company reveals Exotic model Plane

2010-07-28T23:35:00.001-07:00

Spaceship Two creates First Slither Flight?

2010-07-17T03:15:00.000-07:00

Spectators at the Mojave Air and Space Port report that SpaceShipTwo was still companion to WhiteKnightTwo when it grounded today, which means there was no slide flight today.

No official statement from Virgin Galactic or Scaled compound on a first flight yet, but there’s been a lot of movement at Scaled Composites recently. If SpaceShipTwo hasn’t previously made its first glide flight, we anticipate it to happen soon.

WhiteKnightTwo, the care for ship that will carry SpaceShipTwo to elevation for its first flight, has made numerous flights over the past month. Three of the four most recent flights were flown by test pilot Peter Siebold and portray as practices for SpaceShipTwo glide flight missions with “SS2 move toward simulations.”

A fourth flight was flown by test pilot Mark Stucky with the same report. So it is clear that the flight test group has been preparing for the first glide flight. SpaceShipTwo made its first confined flight back in March and a second captive flight was made in May. Siebold is the Director of Flight Testing at level and spoke with us last year at Oshkosh regarding flying Eve, the mother ship that holds the new spacecraft.

Like its mother ship ancestor, White Knight, the cockpit of Eve has the same fundamental cockpit pattern as the spacecraft. Eve can be configured to fly like SpaceShipTwo through the advance segment of the flight profile to replicate the slither path to the runway before the first flight of the spacecraft. Think of it as a simulator that flies.

SpaceShipOne made some glide flights where the spacecraft is accepted to altitude and released. The assessment pilots use the flights to review flight characteristics and the relatively steep approach path to the runway before the first motorized flights are made.

Yet, during powered flights into space, SpaceShipTwo will go back to earth as a glider after reentering the atmosphere. The Virgin Galactic program has been postponed somewhat recently and the company says passenger flights would not occur until later in 2011 at the earliest.

About Commander 115TC Personal Sport Plane 2010

2010-07-10T01:39:00.000-07:00

The new yield of 2010 Personal Sport Planes are here, preparatory with the Commander 115TC. Turbocharged to fly at higher elevations and field elevations, the 115TC can sail up to 25,000 ft., and arrives at speeds of up to 215mph, thanks to its Lycoming 260 HP, six-cylinder, fuel-injected engine. Make stronger by quality creation and greater handling, the team and passengers will enjoy a smooth journey every time you leave the runway. The indoors of this Commander personal sport plane is just as inspiring, with a complete leather interior, luxurious carpet tiles and backlight switch labels.

Solar inclination blank for Night Flight

2010-07-08T06:20:00.001-07:00

The Solar Impulse group has given pilot André Borschberg the thumbs up to take off through the night. The team on the land has been carefully observing the aircraft’s batteries and power practice throughout the day in Switzerland.

As the sun set above the mountains, the choice was made that the airplane would stay in the air and continue flying through the dark of night. During the day the flight has gone according to plan with presently a bit more wind than predictable. However the wind wasn’t all bad news, at one end the solar-powered electric plane attained a top speed of 71 miles per hour thanks to a tailwind.

Following 14 hours of flying, Borschberg shut down the solar power makers and as an alternative will rely on a gentle descent and battery power to keep flying. With no autopilot on board, it will be up to the human pilot to stay the aircraft flying.

By means of the batteries completely charged, Borschberg is anticipated to touchdown back at the home airfield in Payerne, Switzerland, at sunrise on Thursday morning local time.

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Enchanting the Sonic Boom away of Supersonic Flight

2010-07-02T03:49:00.000-07:00

The large names in aerospace have several new designs for the supersonic airliner of the future. Mutually Boeing and Lockheed Martin have proposed ideas for a NASA research mission appears into new airplanes that could take the bang out of supersonic flight.

Pictures of both aircraft on the rampage by NASA show long and slim designs suggestive of the Concorde. However both planemakers maintain to have many updates in an attempt to solve matters that disturb those who dream of Concorde-like speeds once again.

For somebody who ever observed the Concorde in flight, the most understandable place for enhancement was the huge noise created by both the engines and the recognized sonic boom. Nobody has been bright to take the bite out of the boom yet, but both Boeing and Lockheed Martin anticipate to at least put a new muffler on the problem.

The most attractive looking idea is the inverted-V from Lockheed Martin at the conclusion end of its aircraft (above). Part of the idea following the curious-looking design is to organize airflow in a technique that could diminish the sonic boom heard on the ground.

Both the Boeing and the Lockheed Martin designs leave the engines on top of the wings slightly than below like those on the Concorde. While jet engines are very good at exchanging fuel into noise, the purpose is to have some of that growl shielded from the ground by the wings.

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FAA declares Flying Car Can increase a Little Weight

2010-06-29T00:29:00.001-07:00

The group of members over at Terrafugia, the company mounting the Transition Roadable Aircraft (aka the Flying Car) has been given agreement to increase some extra pounds. The company has been working hard to defeat the constant issue of how to construct a safe enough car, that can still be light sufficient to struggle with the other aircraft in its class. But the determined plan still came in too important to qualify as a Light Sport Aircraft.

The Federal Aviation Administration obtainable a small help to the company by questioning a maximum takeoff weight exception specially for the new design. Now Terrafugia can attach some automotive safety features such as airbags, wrinkle zones and a safety cage, and still meet the requirements as a Light Sport Aircraft. The LSA designation is significant since it opens the marketplace up to a wider swath of probable customers thanks the basic requirements desired to receive an LSA pilot’s license.
Terrafugia says the exception will permit them to be in conformity with the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, incredible to most of its LSA competitors don’t have to be concerned about it. The FAA has decided the company an extra 110 pounds to the LSA boundary of 1,320 pounds maximum takeoff weight. Terrafugia declares this will allow the additional safety equipment and still allow the airplane to fight with other LSA aircraft in terms of series and the amount of shipment it can carry.

The company productively finished flight and drive testing of the verification of concept description of its roadable aircraft last year. The original design has foldable wings that permit the owner to drive to the airport, and in less than a minute, exchange the car into an airplane. Flying cars are nothing innovative, but the conversion is simply the most sensible version of the idea so far. The company maintains the airplane will sail at a speed of 115 miles per hour and a choice of more than 450 miles. On the road, the two place, frontage wheel drive vehicle attains a reputable 30 miles per gallon.
Terrafugia speaks it will reveal the design of the production description of the evolution in Oshkosh in belated July. It can anticipate carrying the first customer versions in late 2011. Autopia will be at EAA Air venture again this year and will give updates from Terrafugia and any of the other flying car developers eager to fulfill the Jetson like dream of an airplane in each and every garage.

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Solar airship Prepares for Crossing the English Channel

2010-06-25T06:25:00.000-07:00

Almost precisely a year ago a new invention about Projet Sol’r, an attempt by French engineers to construct a helium-filled airship pushed by solar power. Nowadays the airship is quite factually off the ground.

There might be ten test-flights have revealed Néphélios getting closer to fetching the first solar-powered airship to cross the English Channel. Néphélios has a knowledgeable airship pilot, Bastien Lefrançois, and a devoted team of sponsors to make sure the lighter-than-air craft gets a few material support.

The Channel crossing could take place as beginning in this summer, and team member Julien Souaad approximation will take about five hours at 10 to 12 mph. Néphélios, visualized through a collaboration between INSA Lyon and ESSEC Business School and construct by students at engineering schools and technical high schools, features semi-flexible solar cells accomplished of generating 2.4 kilowatts. The airship is 72 feet long and 18 feet broad and has an aluminum frame enclosed in nylon and polyethylene.

The Channel crossing was scheduled for last summer but postponed. “We had technical concerns and few accessible persons to make this flight possible,” Souaad says. The team just enfolded up encouraging their creation at the Salon de l’Aviation Verte at Le Bourget and the Solar Family Event, where the solar blimp was a mass pleaser.

“We participated at quite a lot of shows and demonstrations,” said Souaad. “The public is always very thoughtful to our evolution.” We are, also, and will be confident to let you know when the crossing takes place.

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Aerobatic aircraft Has Four exciting electric Engines

2010-06-23T06:34:00.001-07:00

EADS, the parent company of Airbus, revealed its most recent four engine aircraft this week at the Green Aviation Show in Paris. Unlike the huge A380, this four engine airplane has just only one seat. Except the airplane has fixed the consideration of the aviation world since it is the first electric powered, entirely aerobatic four engine airplane to take to the skies.

It is based on the small twin engine Cri-Cri airplane developed by Michael Colomban in France for the duration of the 1970s, the innovative electric report is being advertised by EADS as a technology protester. Like the unique, the airplane is competent of aerobatic exercises and the company maintains a flight time of up to 30 minutes. The new aluminum structure was restored with a combined airframe to help reimburse for the extra weight of the batteries.

With a wingspan of just below 13 feet, the Cri-Cri has detained the title of the world’s smallest twin engine airplane as it was first developed. The most recent gasoline flaming version is motorized by a pair of 15 horsepower engines. The design has a realistic following, frequently in Europe and has even been customized to fly with small jet engines.

The electric Cri-Cri features has four brushless electric motors with a counter rotating propellers and lithium batteries. EADS supposed in a press release the first flight tests are predictable this week.

Boeing’s Biggest Airliner eternally strikes Key highlights

2010-06-19T03:55:00.000-07:00

The Boeing Company has in progress fuselage congregation on its chief passenger airliner yet, the 747-8 Intercontinental. A cargo account of the newest version of the jumbo jet has been undergoing air travel test because its first flight back in February.

The passenger report of the 747-8 is Boeing’s contradict to the Airbus A380. In recent times, The European super jumbo established a boost up after Emirates airline prepared 32 of the double Decker aircraft worth more than $11 billion. The 747-8 Intercontinental isn’t as large as the A380, but Boeing maintains the operating costs are lower per passenger flown thanks to a redesigned division and well-organized engines rented from the 787 program.

Boeing also received prolonged type inspection approval for the 747-8 from the Federal Aviation Administration. The authorization is a solution step in the flight test program and permits the company to enlarge the flight test program to contain a wider choice of flight conditions as well as permitting the FAA personnel to take off on board the aircraft to gather data. Boeing says high elevation take offs and landings as well as engine out tests and deliberately hard landings are part of the prolonged flight test program anticipated to begin soon.

However both reports of the airplane are of the same length, the passenger report of the 747-8 can be eminent from the freighter version of the airplane by the extended upper deck and passenger windows. The prolonged upper deck increases the iconic 747 bump following the cockpit. The consequential aerodynamic enhancements should indicate human passengers on the airplane will like not only a vision out the windows, but also a little higher cruise speed than the post on board the freighter.

At just more than 250 feet, the 747-8 is the greatest airliner in survival. Although with a maximum take off weight of 975,000 pounds, it is a remote second place to the A380 which can be take off at 1,300,000 pounds.

So far the 747-8I lags following the freighter report with only 33 established orders. Lufthansa and Korean Air are the only two airlines to presently have orders on the books. However there have also been numerous orders for the 747-8I through Boeing Business Jets, meaning that there will be some pretty large and likely very comfortable private jets flying the skies in the near future.

So far Boeing declares it has completed roughly about 450 flight test hours on the new 747-8. The company utters it anticipates about 1,600 hours of flight testing will be required to whole documentation of the new airplane. The first 747-8 Intercontinental is predictable to be brought for passenger use some time in late 2011.

At which condition Cockpit warning sounds are produced ?

2010-06-17T06:30:00.000-07:00

Auto pilot disconnect
Excessive rate of descent
Incorrect takeoff configuration
Windshear warning
Exited selected altitude
Selected altitude reached
Below glide slope
Altitude loss after takeoff or go-around
Excessive rate of descent or sink
Bank angle exceeds 35 degrees
Excessive terrain closure rate
High speed at low altitude
High speed / low altitude gear up

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner's Interiors Will Be packed with Southern Hospitality

2010-05-18T06:41:00.000-07:00

In our passion with the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, we’ve been frequently centering its exterior and construction, but some of the coolest substance is going to happen on the inside. And when we listened about that cold weather test, we recognize that there was no place somewhat inside an airplane with that new log cabin smell.

Boeing is transferring some of its crowds down south to just outside of the Charleston, South Carolina to get things rising and falling on the airplane’s interior. A spot for the new plant should be selected out this summer, and it will be in charge for making and bring together all the parts that are to be fixed in the new birds by next summer. They will be functioning on substance like the overhead bins, so let’s just hope they can press in a few extra inches of room, when the wheels are like a centimeter are too long.

Beside with the new factory comes some new replicates of the interior, and the company is cute thrilled about bringing more and more headroom and space to the flying loads. Windows will be more about 65% larger than that they are on current 777 jets, and designers are annoying their best to trick us into thinking the cabin is taller than before. This sounds are all fine and great, but we can’t wait in anticipation of they start rolling out the previews for the front of the plane, up into the First Class. If the Airbus A380 can do an in-flight shower, then the Dreamliner get better to have like at least two in-flight hot containers.

NASA’s tiny X-Plane finishes first Flight Testing

2010-04-22T22:18:00.000-07:00

A group from NASA and Boeing finished the first stage of flight testing of its merged wing body design that could symbolize the airliner of the future. The airplane is based on a design where the fuselage provides a significant part of the lift.

Such designs, as shown in the above picture, could take more than hundreds of airline passengers in the large center division whereas burning much less fuel than current airliners of like capacity. Fine, except that the airplane imaged above is only about one foot tall.

The trial aircraft is only 8.5 percent scale model with a 21 foot wingspan, excluding engineers at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center were capable to show the tailless aircraft can be safely take off, and more prominently safely landed in a variety of conditions.

The X-48B program is partition of NASA’s new Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project intended at developing more fuel efficient and quieter aircraft for the future. ERA Project manager Fay Collier says that the conclusion of the final test flight last month confirmed the feasibility of a combined wing body design, “the team has demonstrated the ability to fly tailless aircraft to the border of the low-speed covering safely.”

With an X-48B test pilot reverse in October, and learned that regardless of its size, the merged wing body aircraft offers the same confront as any aircraft in flight testing. One of the big challenges the X-48B group has been working on during the past some months is the aircraft’s handling uniqueness at the lower speeds, particularly during the landing.

NASA engineers arrange the X-48B for a test flight . In the concluding test flights, the pilots were able to purposely go beyond the normal limits of the aircraft in terms of variables such as approach of attack and side slip angle. During the tests, the aboard computer was able to safely control the aircraft permist the pilot to return to normal flight conditions.

Subsequent to a new flight computer is fixed later this year, the X-48B will continue a new phase of flights tests. The group is also preparing for a second hybrid wing body aircraft, the X-48C for future flight tests. The -C model is intended to have a lower noise profile to keep people in the region of airports as happy as the airline bean counters paying the fuel bills.

Top Five Ways To attain enhanced Airlines Seats For Holiday journey

2010-04-09T04:01:00.000-07:00

If you like it or not the holiday season has arrived, and chances are you’ll be spending some time at the airport. We’ve jotted down a few of our experiences have helped to make the complete getting there process a little better, still if it’s just as simple as receiving out of the middle seat. We can't assure that these will work, since they have worked in the past, and it never impairs to ask.

• Pick Out Your Seat:

If you didn’t pick out your seat when you reserved your ticket, it’s time to check and select one right now. Then enter your confirmation number at the airline’s website and it should be quite simple to choose your own seat, pretentious the airline still permits you to book a seat without a fee. Use SeatGuru and SeatExpert to decide which coach seats are better than others, and maybe you’ll learn that your seat has power on the base.

• Seat alter At Check-In:

If you’re read-through in online or at the airport it’s value appearing to see if any new seats have already opened up. Occasionally way out rows or immediately less bad seats open up within 24 hours to take-off, so there’s for all time a possibility that something has changed that will assistance your legs for the next two to twelve hours. If no high-quality seats have opened up, maybe an entire family disregarded their flight, and at least you can take their passageway or window depending on your preference.

• Ask At The Gate:

It’s almost certainly finest not to line up an hour previous to airline workers get to the gate, because that’s irritating and won’t help your cause. Though, once they’ve completed doing what they do, get in line to converse them up. Just graciously ask if there’s any exit row or partition seats available. We’ve had them willingly throw us into an exit seat with no charge or an trial. It helps to bring along a tall relation, or a total foreigner and explain that they’ll be uncomfortable. Remember to be pleasant and polite, that goes a long way.

• Break Out The folder:

If you want to make sure that you are as comfortable as likely you are going to have to pay for it. Most of the airlines have promotes available straight from the check-in kiosk. US Airways has obtainable us a first class upgrade for as little as $100, but it’s up to you if that’s value it. United Airlines has financial system Plus seats in the back of the plane and upgrades create at just $9. Jet Blue has their smooth More breathing space seats which will place you back at least $10 each way. If you’re a total muddle when flying and we all are sometimes, a small extra cash can make all the dissimilarity.

• Be Friendly With The Plane Attendant:

When you get on the flight start to smile, because most aren’t looking ahead to visiting their passionate relatives, the workers aboard the plane may just notice you. To pay attention to your environment while everyone is sitting down so grip off on the iPod as you need to see if families want to control seats. If someone needs your less than attractive seat so his or her group can be together, make it known that you desire to trade. The flight attendants will normally be thankful that you’re a team player and will attempt to make sure you get a superior seat even if it’s just faster to the front and away from the lavatory.

Google Earth Zooms The US Military's enormous Aircraft Graveyard

2010-03-26T05:49:00.000-07:00

There's a very fresh story excavated up by Gizmodo recently, that Google Earth now offers an eagle-eyed view of an aircraft boneyard for the US military force. We dream of visiting an airplane boneyard, but for now this might be as close as we can get. Here's what they have to say about its awesomeness.

The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), also known as the Boneyard, it is a four square mile place in Arizona housing 4,000 retired aircraft or at least one of approximately every US armed forces plane since WWII.

And don't think that they are just oxidising out there. Recovered parts come from this spot like nobody's business, helping to recycle what's left and get back some money. Miserably, there are no guided tours of the spot.

Jetblue Plane Celebrates Their 10th Anniversary With A new Paint Job

2010-03-16T03:22:00.000-07:00

Ten years ago on Feb-11th, Jetblue began its operations, with an inaugural flight from New York-JFK, where they would open their own brand new fatal eight year later, to Fort Lauderdale, intelligently heading south to warmer climes.

Following Jetblue connected to the blue skies, now they couldn't stop adding new destinations, and today they have more than 600 daily flights in excess of 60 destinations. However Jetblue is a low-cost carrier, they've been to lead the way in the aviation industry for incorporating technology in their planes, social media into their advertising, and responsibility into their customer service. We signify, this is the first airline that brought us the Customer Bill of Rights and such pleasures as free Terra Blue potato chips.

So how are they celebrating this important occasion? By placing on a fresh new group, of course. Jetblue proclaimed their special 10th Anniversary plane colors this time on their B6 Blog, and it's so beautiful! It's on the airplane "Blues Borthers," so stay your eyes stripped for the bright jet to come 'round your airport soon.

Airplane nerds and especially those hot for colors, can check out a full Flickr set of the new paint job here.

India’s largest civil aviation expo to commence today

2010-03-03T03:16:00.000-08:00

The stage is put for the inauguration of India Aviation 2010, the second edition of the international civil aviation exhibition and meeting, at the Begumpet airport on Wednesday.

As many as 190 companies participate, together with 115 companies from abroad, representing the who’s who of the aviation industry including Boeing, Airbus, Cessna, Bombardier, Beechcraft and Bell etc., are participating in the five-day event from March 3 to 7 to travel around business opportunities with prospective customers.

Subsequent to the success of the first edition in October 2008, India Aviation 2010 will include fixed and flying display of over 40 aircraft, if an ideal platform for companies to further enhances their commercial aircraft activities and support services.

The exhibition - the biggest of its type in the civil aviation sector in the country - is set to present opportunities to companies that are competing with one another to grasp their share of the massive investments being planned by the government in the aviation sector. The projects include the regeneration and building up of the necessary infrastructure in the future years.

Though the A380 — one of the major attractions of the previous edition - would not be on display, the Boeing 777-300, the huge aircraft from Boeing’s constant, several small-sized business jets and a swarm of choppers will more than compensate in its absence.
The first three days of the Aviation expo, to be inaugurated by Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, will have characteristic business interactions between delegates from various countries. It will be open to view for the public on the last two days.

Mr. Patel will give up the state-of-the-art A320 aircraft to Air India and Indigo, and then the Sagar Pawan aircraft of the Navy are set to prevent from seeing the skies with their display at the inaugural function.

Hyderabad airport considered among top five in the world

2010-02-18T03:13:00.000-08:00

The Hyderabad international airport has been named among the world’s top five in the annual Airport Service Quality (ASQ) passenger survey beside with the ones at Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing.

The review, conducted by Airports Council International (ACI), an independent body representing world airports, considered the airport in the Andhra Pradesh capital as the best in the five to 15 million passenger capability type and the fifth best among all airports, for both worldwide and in the Asia-Pacific region.

“The best awards in the worldwide category go to Seoul Incheon International Airport, Singapore Changi Airport, Hong Kong International Airport, Beijing Capital International Airport, and Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport,” said by ACI Director General Angela Gittens.

As a leading industry benchmarking tool, ASQ is planned to help taking part in airports to measure their improvement year on year.
“2009 was a hard-hitting year for airports worldwide. It was a year of balancing tight budgets with high consumer expectations for overhaul excellence. The results of the year-long passenger study help identify the leaders in gathering that challenge,” added Gittens.

The Hyderabad International airport is administered by a public-private joint scheme consisting of the GMR Group, Malaysia Airports assets Berhad and both the State Government of Andhra Pradesh and Airports Authority of India (AAI).

Airbus increases Jobs In United States

2010-02-04T02:48:00.000-08:00

Airbus in North America is adding jobs at its Alabama and Kansas sites due to demand for design work on the A350 and A330F.

Strengthened by a growing demand for design work on the A350, A330F and other models of Airbus North America Engineering (ANAE) is set to put in 80 new engineering jobs at its Wichita, Kan., site and is in front of schedule with expansion plans at its Mobile, Alabama, facility.

In addition, Airbus supposed that the new hires will “permit us to do repair engineering as well the first time we had that ability in the United States. Currently that office is tied in directly with our engineers in the U.K. and will continue to do so.”

Now, the work force at ANAE Wichita stands at 201, having grown-up from 40 when the site opened in 2002, and is place to grow close to 300 with the addition of new office facilities, structure of which is due to begin later this year. Employment is at the second facility; ANAE Mobile opened in 2007, has now attained the 150-mark, and is set to grow as added interiors design work comes in.

Airbus recognized the Wichita site to capitalize on the local talent puddle of design engineers and set up the capability to support design and stress work on wings for both the existing and new models of Airbus, together with the A350. The Mobile site, recognized in tandem with the thrust to build up an A330 tanker for the U.S. Air Force’s KC-X competition, as well as associated plans to stand a final assembly line there for the A330F, is generally focused on aircraft interiors and cargo system design work.

Barry Eccleston, president and CEO of Airbus Americas, told, “…At present, with two American engineering facilities, we can work crosswise the time zones, in tandem with our European colleagues, optimizing our research and development competence. Airbus is a main example of global industry investment in the U.S. economy.”

In addition to taking advantage of U.S. engineering skill, the development forms of Airbus’ over-arching tactical plan to grow the percentage share of its U.S. dollar-based business.

According to Airbus in 2008 it exhausted $10 billion with U.S. suppliers in more than 40 states, interpreting into support of more than 180,000 American jobs.

NASA jumbo jet plans to release origins of the universe

2010-01-19T02:04:00.000-08:00

A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists to unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations arrived at a milestone on December 18,2009 when doors covering the plane’s telescope were completely opened in flight.

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a customized 747 jet recognized as SOFIA, flew for nearly one hour and 19 minutes, which incorporated two minutes with the telescope’s doors entirely opened.

The main goal was to permit engineers to know how air flows in and around the telescope.

It was the first time that outside air has interrelated with the part of the plane that carries the 98-inch infrared telescope.

“Today we opened the telescope hollow space door, the first time we have completely bared the telescope and the largest cavity always flown while in flight,” said by Bob Meyer, SOFIA program manager at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.

“This is an important step to certifying NASA’s next great observatory for future study of the universe,” he added.

In addition these test flights of the airplane, two flights to function and confirm the scientific capabilities of the telescope assembly are planned for spring 2010.

Telescope systems like the vibration isolation system, the inertial stabilization system and the pointing control system will be experienced during daytime flights.

These flights will arrange the telescope assembly for the first flight with the telescope in service.

That first flight will be the original opportunity that scientists have to use the telescope and start the process of counting its performance to prepare for SOFIA’s planned 20-year science program.

Top 6 Battle for India's Warplane

2009-12-31T05:06:00.001-08:00

1. Dassault Lockheed Rafale (France)

Sales Pitch: According to Dassault Aviation, this omnirole fighter eradicates the need for seven types of aircraft, with seasoned planes such as the Jaguar and three variants of the venerable Mirage 2000. A minimal amount of protection support required on the ground and France's purpose to use it as the country's principal aircraft until 2040—that means spare parts and training services will remain accessible make this plane reasonable, maintainable and durable.

Entered service: 2001 (Air Force)

Engine: Two M88-2E4s, each generating up to 11,250 to 17,000 pounds of force

Max speed: Mach 1.8+

Maximum takeoff weight: 54,000 lbs

Radar: Thales RBE2 radar

2. Saab Gripen (Sweden)

Sales Pitch: The Gripen Fighter is designed by room for a spare system to incorporate new sensors, avionics and weapons easily, according to Saab. The Gripen IN, based on the domestically used Gripen NG, is designed to put up India's MMRCA needs. It offers raised combat range and endurance, additional weapons capacity and a more influential General Electric F414G engine.

Entered service: 1997 (Air Force NG version)

Engine: One Volvo Aero Corporation RM12, generating up to 18,000 lbs of force

Max speed: Mach 2.0

Maximum takeoff weight: 28,000 lbs

Radar: Ericsson PS-05/A pulse Doppler radar (AESA radar scheduled for 2012)

3. Eurofighter Typhoon (European Union)

Sales Pitch: The Eurofighter Typhoon is known for its quickness in the combat zone and comes with a multirole weapon system. Now the chief aircraft in six nations' air forces— the U.K., Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria and Saudi Arabia. This Typhoon presents a "consistently high level of operational readiness, quick turn-around times and easy deployment," according to Eurofighter. At present it employs a Doppler radar, and the aircraft successfully tested an AESA CAPTOR radar (CAESAR) in 2007.

Entered service: 2003 (Germany)

Engine: Two Eurojet EJ200s, each generating up to 20,000 lbs of force

Max speed: Mach 2.0

Maximum takeoff weight: 50,000 lbs

Radar: CAPTOR (ECR 90) pulse Doppler radar

4. Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet (United States)

Sales Pitch: According to Boeing, the Super Hornet's advanced potentials and versatility mean it can be soar on a variety of missions. This strike fighter's control system gives it sharp maneuverability, and Boeing asserts that the plane's internal design makes it easy and reasonable to upgrade.

Entered service: 1998 (Navy)

Engine: Two F414-GE400s, each producing up to 22,000 lbs of force

Max speed: Mach 1.8

Maximum takeoff weight: 66,000 lbs

Radar: AN/APG-79 AESA radar

5. Lockheed Martin F-16IN Super Viper (United States)

Sales Pitch: Like the Gripen, the Super Viper, a modified version of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, can be built specially to meet India's requirements. Not only does the Super Viper have a "robust upgrade capacity," according to Lockheed Martin, it also show off the newest APG-80 AESA radar and the highest-thrust engine.

Entered service: N/A

Engine: One GE F110-132A, generating up to 32,000 lbs of force

Max speed: Mach 2.0 (Fighting Falcon)

Maximum takeoff weight: 48,000 lbs (Fighting Falcon)

Radar: Northrop Grumman APG-80 AESA radar

6. Mikoyan MiG-35 (Russia)

Sales Pitch: Through the MiG-35, you obtain the "possibility of advanced Russian and foreign origin weapons" and "increased combat survivability," according to the Russian Aircraft Corporation. The plane supplements its AESA radar along with an optical locator system that utilizes photo analysis to identify targets without producing telltale emissions.

Entered Service: 2005

Engine: Two RD-33MKBs, generating up to 19,000 lbs of force

Max speed: Mach 2.5

Maximum takeoff weight: 65,500 lbs

Radar: Zhuk-AM AESA radar

Did u come across Boeing's Big Flight ?

2009-12-22T21:34:00.000-08:00

Boeing's new 787 wide-body jetliner finished its maiden flight on December 15,2009. Although, rollout of the aircraft has been resolute by a series of development delays, which will cost the company millions of dollars in recompense to customers. Receiving the 787 Boeing's main new competitor in the key high-margin wide-body market section and a platform for several new technologies back on track is very important to securing the company's future in its fierce competition with Airbus.

The Boeing’s 787 has won around 840 orders to date, which, regardless of some cancellations, is a record for a commercial aircraft at launch.

The maiden flight permits Boeing to boost the confidence of customers, arrest the flow of orders to the forthcoming Airbus A350 and get the program backside on track after a two-year delay.

Though, with a demanding twelve months of testing in front relating an aircraft that features inventive large-scale composite material structures, the pressure on the company to deliver is set to increase.

The most significant question is whether Boeing can meet the remarkably determined monthly production targets it has set for itself; if not, the company faces additional program losses and may sacrifice its current aggressive advantage over Airbus.

Airbus catch-up? The repetitive delays have given Airbus an opportunity to recover ground that it lost to Boeing in wide-body aircraft market. The Boeing 777's comprehensive market success over the A340 and the arrival of the 787 forced the European firm to speed up the design of a new competing product, the A350XWB although it is still at least two years behind the 787.

Airbus's cash flow and focal point on the A350 have both been disturbed by chronic production problems with its A380 superjumbo airliner. The A380 is still mainly being ended as a custom product while the company has failed to standardize the aircraft's wiring system. Deliveries insulate last year's total, and delivery targets for 2010 have been reduced. Deferrals and cancellations have eaten into EADS's cash reserves, moving its ability to finance the A350.

Boeing response. Boeing emerges to have learned from its rival's troubles, so the 787 is unlikely to come across the same chronic production problems that still bedevil the A380although its heavy complex material use does take the 787 into relatively uncharted territory as far as large-scale mass civil aircraft production is worried. Therefore, it is believable that there could be further delays in Boeing's extremely demanding testing and production schedule.

787 prospects. So far predictions for the 787 remain very bright. The aircraft is more superior than the A350. It assures improvements in fuel glow and general emissions reduction that will make it the most environmentally friendly airliner in check particularly important when fuel prices are set on a rising curvature.

Riding out recession. Boeing and Airbus both anticipate a fall in demand in 2010 due to the deep airline industry depression. In the longer term, Boeing still predicts a global market for 29,000 airliners worth $3.2 trillion, over the next 20 years an estimate that appears credible.

Overall, Boeing has travelled out the depression and credit crisis relatively smoothly. The company profits from liquidity support from the U.S. export credit agency, the Export-Import Bank, accounting for almost 40% of the bank's $21 billion in business last year. This support is a major support for the company in its battle with Airbus, which has related backing from three national credit agencies albeit not at the similar volume or at such advantageous rates.

World's Top 10 Airlines

2009-12-11T04:08:00.000-08:00

1.Singapore Airlines

2.Cathay Pacific

3.Qantas

4.Thai Airways

5.Asiana

6.Malaysia Airlines

7.Qatar Airways

8.Air New zealand

9.Emirates

10.Etihad Airways

New aeroplane seat designs provide sleepy travellers more room

2009-12-01T02:32:00.001-08:00

Sleep while you fly - that’s the motivation behind a new series of airplane seats designed by a British designer.

Emil Jacob thinks while it isn’t possible to enlarge the horizontal space in a plane, departing vertical might just do the deception for passengers.

The foundation of inspiration for Jacob, a fiscal data analyst who also runs Jacob-Innovations LLC, was his individual experience trying to sleep in long flights.

“I got the plan for the new designs from my own lack of sleep on long flights,” said by him.

The original designs involve elevating interchange rows of seats to give passengers more room to incline back in economy class, and the space to recline down in business class, in what Jacob observes as a move that will benefit both travellers and airlines.

He said: “Passengers and airlines will both win from using the innovative designs which make new space available on planes. Passengers will have additional space in each of the various models and airlines will be able to present better accommodations at better prices.”

Airbus’s communications manager, Mary Anne Greczyn, recognized the designer’s effort saying, ” This is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking Airbus really likes to encourage.”

Malaysia Airlines endures $89 million Q3 loss

2009-11-26T03:19:00.001-08:00

National carrier Malaysia Airlines said Wednesday it endured a net loss of 300 million ringgit ($88.9 million) in the third quarter, mostly because of wrong way stakes on fuel prices.

The transporter’s loss for the three months through September marked a reversal from a 38 million ringgit net profit in the same three months of last year. Losses on imitative contracts used to be cautious against volatile fuel prices totaled 202 million ringgit.

Profits for the quarter chop 28% to 2.9 billion ringgit, hit by the cuts in ticket charges that airlines made to attract travelers during the global recession.

The airline said it would shortly need to raise prices to boost its bottom line.

"Fares-wise, the current low levels are not sustainable in the long term," the airline's chief executive, Azmil Zahruddin, held in a statement. But he added the company would "continue to offer competitive and persuasive fares."

Malaysia Airlines said it accepted 3.3 million passengers in the third quarter, the highest since early 2008.

It said advance bookings for next year were enhanced compared to 12 months ago, and that it was increasing profitable flights domestically and somewhere else in the Southeast Asia.

International Flight charge Increasing

2009-11-24T01:36:00.000-08:00

The amounts are specified in 'special drawing rights,' a group of chief currencies periodically reviewed by the IMF.

The highest amount airlines can be held responsible for on many international flights for passenger death or injury and lost or damaged luggages is about to increase by 13%.

Carriers previously received notice earlier this year about the increase, which goes into result Dec. 30 as part of the periodic adjustments necessary under the Montreal Convention. Under Article 24 of the Convention, ICAO appraisal the limits every five years in light of the increase that has occurred during that period. The revised amount reflects rise between 2003 and 2008 for various countries, as cursed out in the Convention.

The amounts are specified in “special drawing rights,” a group of chief currencies periodically evaluated by the International Monetary Fund to replicate the relative importance of the various currencies. As of Oct. 28, the U.S. dollar value of the SDR was $1.58.

Under the increase, the responsibility limit for death or bodily injury will increase to 113,100 SDRs. For destruction, loss, delay or damage of bags, the limit will increase to 1,131 per passenger. For cargo, the amount will raise to 19 per kilogram. And for an interruption in passenger arrival, the new limit will be 4,694.

Japan Airlines positions $1.5 billion first-half loss

2009-11-13T02:47:00.000-08:00

Struggling carrier Japan Airlines alleged Friday it racked up $1.5 billion in losses in the first half and applied for government help to restructure.

Japan Airlines Corp., Asia's biggest carrier by revenues, supposed details of its restructuring plan are still being labored but it was working with the government during a "turnaround procedure" that will connect up the assistance of a private operator.

The company's 131.2 billion yen ($1.5 billion) loss during its financial first-half during September marked its biggest-ever loss for the period. With the intention of compared to a 36.6 billion yen profit in the same period a year in advance.

It did not concern forecasts for the year, saying it was too hard to offer projections among the restructuring.

Japan Airlines has been tattered by a collapse in travel brought on by the global slowdown and swine flu outbreak.

The company supposed international and domestic travel, as well as cargo traffic, all refused during the April-September half, dragging its revenues down 29 percent to 763.9 billion yen ($8.5 billion).

World’s first commercial passenger flight motorized by fuel made from natural gas lands in Qatar

2009-11-03T03:07:00.000-08:00

A Qatar Airways aircraft completed the world’s first commercial passenger flight power-driven by a fuel made from natural gas. The remarkable journey from London Gatwick to Doha took above six hours and was operated with an Airbus A340-600 aircraft using Rolls-Royce Trent 556 engines.

Shell developed and formed the 50-50 blend of synthetic Gas to Liquids (GTL) kerosene and conservative oil-based kerosene fuel. The State of Qatar is locate to become the world’s leading producer of GTL kerosene when it is put into commercial production from 2012.

The fuel, as an option to conventional oil-based kerosene, will supply to diversification of aviation fuel supply. It also burns up with lower sulphur dioxide and particulate discharges than pure conservative oil-based kerosene, making it gorgeous for improving local air quality at busy airports.

The merge of conventional kerosene and GTL kerosene will be known as GTL Jet Fuel. The flight was the latest footstep over two years of scientific work approved by an association consisting of Airbus, Qatar Airways, Qatar Petroleum, Qatar Science & Technology Park, Rolls-Royce, Shell and WOQOD into the profit of using GTL Jet Fuel to power commercial aircraft. A great deal of this work is being undertaken at the Qatar Science & Technology Park in Doha.

“Qatar’s location as the GTL capital of the world has been further improved with today’s achievement. GTL technology enables us to generate liquid fuels and other products from natural gas. Commercial aviation is one of the electrifying new markets that this opens up, helping us maximize the value from our natural resources,” supposed Abdulla bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry of the State of Qatar.

Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker, who was onboard the flight, said: “Qatar Airways is proud to be connected with this consortium and to develop into the world’s first airline to use this new fuel technology on a commercial passenger flight.

“Once again, Qatar Airways has shown its assurance to the environment and we expect this alternative fuel to provide benefits, particularly the enhancement of air quality. This highlight flight is the first step in making this alternative fuel available to airlines. Qatar Airways looks ahead to continuing to work with the association members to further increase this exciting project and consign towards a cleaner environment.”

The GTL kerosene will be formed in commercial quantities by the Pearl GTL project, presently under construction by Qatar Petroleum and Shell. The project is estimated to produce about one million tonnes per annum of GTL kerosene from 2012, enough to power a classic commercial airliner for half a billion kilometres (equal to carrying 250 passengers around the world 4,000 times) when used in a 50 percent combine to make GTL Jet Fuel. GTL Jet Fuel, with GTL kerosene up to 50 per cent, was entirely and unconditionally accepted as safe for use in civil aviation by ASTM International (originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials) last month.

Dr Eulian Roberts, Managing Director of the Qatar Science & Technology Park, said: “The commitment of Qatar Airways and the consortium partners to make sure that new aviation fuel technology is efficiently applied is a great example of the kind of research being established at QSTP through its partners. Research activities on choice and environmentally-friendly fuels like GTL will launch QSTP as a leading international center for the application of new platform technologies. This is a great example of an effective multi-partner collaborative research and development programme which is already producing successful outcomes.”

Malcolm Brinded, Shell’s Executive Director Upstream International, added: “Today’s flight opens the door to an another choice to oil-based aviation fuel. Shell has been rising the technology to change natural gas into valuable liquid transportation fuels, lubricants and chemical feedstocks for more than 30 years. We are now fit to launching GTL on a world level for the first time thanks to our partnership with Qatar Petroleum.”

Panasonic’s Fusion amusement concept for aeroplanes

2009-10-25T22:35:00.000-07:00

10 Topper Airline Safety Tips

2009-10-15T05:22:00.000-07:00

Fly on Nonstop Routings
Most accidents occur during the takeoff, climb, crash, and landing phase of flight so flying nonstop would reduce revelation to these most accident prone phases of flight.

2. Prefer Larger Aircraft
At present, aircraft with more than 30 passenger seats were all considered and certified under the strictest policies. Also, in the doubtful event of a severe accident, larger aircraft provide a superior opportunity for passenger survival.

3. Pay Attention to the Preflight consultation
While the information looks like repetitious, the locations of the bordering emergency exits may be different depending on the aircraft that you fly on and seat you are in.

Keep the Overhead Storage Bin Free of Heavy Articles
Visual projection storage bins may not be able to grip very heavy objects during turmoil, so if you or another passenger have trouble stimulating an article into the bin, have it stored elsewhere.
Keep Your Seat Belt fixed firmly While You are Seated
Keeping the belt on when you are seated provides that extra safeguard you might need if the plane hits sudden turbulence.
Listen to the Flight Attendants
The main reason flight attendants are on an aircraft is for safety, so if any one of them asks you to do something like lock your seat belts, do it first and ask questions later.
Don't Bring Any harmful Material
There are rather long lists of dangerous materials that are not allowed, but commonly tell you that you shouldn't bring gasoline, corrosives, poisonous gases, and other such items on the aircraft if they were allowed by the airline and shipped in a proper container.
Let the Flight Attendant empty Your Hot Drinks
Flight attendants are trained to hold hot drinks like coffee or tea in a crowded walkway on a moving aircraft, so allow them to pour the drink and hand it too you.
Don't Drink Too Much
The atmosphere in an airliner cabin is rushed to about the same elevation as Denver, so any alcohol you drink will affect you more strongly than at sea level. Moderation is a good policy at any height.
Keep Your mind About You
In the doubtful event that you are concerned in an emergency situation such as a protective emergency evacuation, follow the instructions of the flight attendants and flight group and exit the aircraft as quickly as possible.

World First Speed Record locate by 100% Electric Airplane

2009-10-07T00:05:00.000-07:00

A NASA astronaut from Italy, Maurizio Cheli, put a world record for piloting an entirely electric SkySpark. The flight lasted for eight-minute at the World Air Games 2009 in Turin, Italy. Maurizio Cheli strike a top speed of 155 mph (250 km/h). That’s considered as a record speed for a 100-percent electrically powered aircraft.

This hydrogen fueled aircraft is prepared with a liquid-cooled Valentino synchronous motor by Sicmi Motori project had been in progress since September of 2007. However SkySpark merely considers it a transitional goal for the plane. They think that the aircraft can realize the speed of 186 mph (300 km/h). Though the development of hydrogen aircrafts are still in its emerging phase and this speed is hardly significant when compared to some predictable planes, the future might still be bright. The SkySpark team is confident of improving the plane’s performance. Using a “hydrogen fuel cells powered engine,” they plan to increase the planes variety as well as speed.

SkySpark, place a new landmark in the field of greener aviation which took the sky for the first time on June 10. SkySpark is the 100% electricity-powered airplane. When it touched the speed of 250 km/h it was considered a world record. The airplane is mainly built upon Pioneer Alpi 300. SkySpark is powered by a 75KW brushless electric motor fueled by a range of lithium-polymer batteries. The team that developed the SkySpark is aspiring for better range and more speed using engine technology that runs on hydrogen fuel cells.

World's Smallest Twin - Engine Aeroplane

2009-09-29T23:18:00.000-07:00

Airline industry lost more than $6 billion in 1st half of this year-2009

2009-09-21T02:05:00.000-07:00

Airline companies lost more than $6 billion during the primary half of the year appropriate to the economic crisis, yet as new statistics explained some signs of recovery in the passenger and shipment business, an industry group said Tuesday.

A section of more than 50 airlines initiate their losses declined to $4 billion in the first quarter from $2 billion in the second quarter, the International Air Transport Association said, reminding that the period of April-June is usually a strong one for the industry.

"Since the model of airlines is incomplete, total industry losses in the first half of 2009 are likely to have been in surplus of the reported $6 billion," said by IATA . The Geneva-based group, which characterizes 230 airlines worldwide, said seat tenancy in international markets become stable in July, the first time in over a year, but added that airlines need to further cut capacity to meet demand.

Cargo capacity also still go beyond demand in spite of an 8.1 percent capacity cut in July, IATA said. "With excess capacity long-lasting through Q2 it was not surprising that freight rates were down more than 20 percent over the year," it said.

Airlines are still totaling to their fleet because of enduring orders committed to before the recession.

Statistics show companies increased their aircraft numbers by a web of 487, or about 2 percent of their overall fleet.

The group noted that rising fuel prices are once again eating into airlines' cash reserves. Airline shares have risen 7.4 percent since the starting of this year, covering behind overall market improvements of 23 percent.

"However, stronger impartiality markets gave airlines an opportunity to raise much more needed— cash," IATA said.

Airlines have raised $3 billion of equity and $12 billion from new balance issues since the start of the year.

Major airplanes hijacking since 1990

2009-09-10T06:07:00.000-07:00

A glance at major airplane hijackings since 1990 till now:

— January 2007: Sudanese plane carrying 103 passengers and team is captured and diverted to Chadian capital, N’Djamena, where hijacker surrenders.

— August 2004: Four Eritreans equipped with knives hijack plane that they left Libya and force it to land in Khartoum, Sudan, earlier than surrendering to security forces.

— September 2001: Terrorists take over four airplanes and crash two of them into World Trade Center in New York and one into Pentagon. In fourth jetliner, passengers fight terrorists and plane crashes in rural Pennsylvania. In all the planes, nearly 3,000 people from 90 nations killed.

— March 2001: Three Chechens capture Russian plane and oblige it to land in Saudi Arabia. One flight assistant and a hijacker are killed while Saudi special armed forces storm aircraft.

— December 1999: Five men take over flight from Katmandu, Nepal, to New Delhi. Indian passenger wounded to death when he disobeys commands not to look at hijackers, but other 154 passengers and team released after eight days.

— November 1996: Three hijackers squall cockpit of flight from Ethiopia to Ivory Coast, challenging to go to Australia. Plane runs out of fuel and smash into lands, killing 125 of the 175 people aboard.

— October 1990: Single Man capture Chinese airplane and attacks pilot as he makes emergency landing in Guangzhou; 128 people are killed.

Planes you never seen before!!!

2009-09-01T23:23:00.000-07:00

US Airways plans to proffer in-flight Internet

2009-08-24T06:57:00.001-07:00

US Airways declares it will provide in-flight Internet service from the beginning early next year in an agreement with provider Aircell.

The service announced recently will include Web browsing, instant messaging, e-mail and VPN access for obtain by passengers with laptops or other Wi-Fi devices.

Depending on the length and size of the flight and the type of device used by the passenger prices will range from $5.95 to $12.95.

Initially Aircell's Gogo service will be installed on US Airways' Airbus A321 aircraft on some household routes.

US Airways strategy is to let passengers check whether access will be accessible on their flight by looking for a Wi-Fi icon while booking on the airline's Web site.

Some other airlines, including Delta and American, have previously begun furnishing some planes with Internet access using Aircell's Gogo. Southwest is testing a system from a opponent supplier.

World's costliest fighter jet - $276 Billion financed by US and other 8 Nations

2009-08-17T00:18:00.000-07:00

The costliest international warplane project, the F-35 Lightning 2 Joint Strike Fighter, securely completed its first test flight this month, advancing a $276.5 billion program financed by the United States and eight other countries.

The company is developing three models of the radar-evading, multirole fighter jet. The United States’ and the partners involved in the project are Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Australia, Denmark and Norway. Singapore and Israel are also involved but have not devoted funds yet.

The jet climbed to 15,000 feet with high speed. Two F-16s and an F/A-18 served as escorts to the “successful inaugural flight,”.

Two separate, interchangeable F-35 engines are under development — one built by United Technologies Corp.’s , the other by a team of General Electric Co.and Rolls-Royce Plc.

About $170 million dollar were offered to the buy Southwest Frontier Airlines

2009-08-12T01:58:00.000-07:00

Southwest Airlines had announced that it has offered over $170 million to buy the Frontier Airlines in a bankruptcy auction, which is approximately a 50 percent enhance over its initial proposal of $113.6 million.

Southwest is now competing with Republic Airways, which had originally offered $108.8 million. In a statement said that, the Southwest said a bankruptcy auction in New York would start soon. Frontier filed for bankruptcy was in April 2008.

KC-135 Stratotanker's Principal Mission and its general Specification Principal Mission

2009-08-07T22:11:00.000-07:00

The KC-135 Stratotanker's principal mission is air refueling, which has a unique quality to improve the USAF's capability to accomplish its primary missions of Global Reach and Global Power. It also provides the aerial refueling support to the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps aircraft as well as aircraft of allied nations.

General Specifications :

Main Function: Aerial refueling and airlift.

Power Plant: The KC-135R/T, CFM International CFM-56 turbofan engines, KC-135E, Pratt and Whitney TF-33-PW-102 turbofan engines.

Wingspan: 130 feet, 10 inches i.e. 39.88 meters approximately.

Length : 136 feet, 3 inches i.e. 41.53 meters approximately.

Height : 41 feet, 8 inches i.e.12.7 meters approximately.

Speed : 530 miles/hour at 30,000 feet say 9,144 meters.

Ceiling : 50,000 feet say 15,240 meters.

Unit Cost : $39.6 million say FY98 constant dollars

Date Deployed: On August 1956

Range : 1,500 miles i.e. 2,419 kilometers with 150,000 pounds say 68,039 kilograms of transfer fuel; ferry mission, up to 11,015 miles i.e. about 17,766 kilometers.

Maximum Takeoff Weight : 322,500 pounds which is 146,285 kilograms.

Maximum Transfer Fuel Load: 200,000 pounds which is 90,719 kilograms.

Maximum Cargo Capability : 83,000 pounds which is 37,648 kilograms and 37 passengers

Pallet Positions : 6

Crew Members : Four: pilot, co-pilot, navigator, boom operator. Aircraft equipped with PACER CRAG don’t have a navigator in all the missions. The Air Force procured a partial number of navigator suites that can be installed for unique missions.

The Bombardier Aerospace is the third largest aircraft company in the world providing Commercial and Amphibious aircraft

2009-07-31T03:28:00.000-07:00

Bombardier Aerospace is a partition of the Bombardier group which is the third largest aircraft company in the world in terms of yearly delivery of commercial airplanes (behind Boeing and Airbus).

Bombardier builds the business jets, short-range airliners and fire-fighting amphibious aircraft and also provides defense-related services. Their aircraft were initially delivered with the same names as the original companies, but the Bombardier has re-branded all of their current offerings under the Bombardier name.

The main product line includes the Learjet, Challenger and Global family of business jets developed from Lear designs, the CRJ series developed from the Challenger, the Q series turboprops developed from the de Havilland Canada Dash 8, and the Bombardier 415 water bomber, developed from the Canadair CL-215.

Bombardier BD-700 Global 5000 takes off both commercial aircraft models have similar 2x2 seating, overhead bin storage, lavatories, and galleys. The latest Dash-8 models have a superior noise and vibration suppression (NVS) system which reduces the noise considerably. This system has led to the implementation of the name "Q-Series" where as in this designation; the original aircraft name is abbreviated, using only the sub-designation of the aircraft model. For example, the de Haviland DHC-8-400 is abbreviated as "Q400", with the "Q" standing for "Quiet".

The Bombardier 415 i.e. the previously Canadair CL-415 is an amphibious aircraft purpose-built as a water bomber. It is the only aircraft designed and built specifically for aerial firefighting, which is based on the company's CL-215.

NASA /USAF XB-70 Valkyrie the intentional experimental Bomber Aircraft

2009-07-28T22:50:00.000-07:00

The XB-70 Valkyrie, with a planned cruise speed of Mach 3 and operating altitude of 70,000 feet, was to be the final high-altitude, high-speed manned strategic bomber. However, this would cause to play a far different role in the history of aviation.

To achieve Mach 3 performance, the B-70 was proposed to "ride" its own shock wave, much as a surfer rides an ocean wave. The resultant shape used a delta wing on a slab-sided fuselage that controlled the six jet engines that powered the aircraft where as the outer wing panels were hinged.

During the take off, landing and subsonic flight, they remained in the horizontal position. This feature increased the amount of lift created, improving the lift-to-drag ratio. Once if the aircraft was supersonic, the wing panels would be hinged downward. By changing the position of the wing panels it can reduce the drag caused by the wingtips interacted with the inlet shock wave.

These repositioned wingtips can also reduce the area behind the airplane's center of gravity, which in turn reduce the trim drag. The down turned outer panels will also provide more vertical surface to improve directional stability at high Mach numbers attached to the delta was a long, thin forward fuselage. At the rear the cockpit were two large canards, which acted as control surfaces.

As an inspiring technological feat the B-70 represented, the aircraft that was under development at the time when the future of the manned bomber was uncertain. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, many had felt that manned aircraft were obsolete, and the future belonged to missiles. As a result, the Kennedy Administration had ended the plans to deploy the B-70. Two experimental XB-70A prototypes were under the construction at North American Aviation when the program was canceled.

Simultaneously there was a growing interest in an American supersonic transport (SST); Jet airliners had cut the flight times by more than half in comparison to propeller-powered aircraft. A Mach 2 or 3 SST could make a comparable improvement over the new subsonic jet airliners. The Flight Research Center had several SST studies during the early 1960s where as, the NASA's Douglas F5D-1 was used for landing studies, a North American F-100C was modified to simulate SST handling qualities, a North American A-5A was used to simulate an SST for tests of the air traffic control system, and a Lockheed JetStar was modified as an in-flight SST simulator.