Breaking news reports claim that British Airways’ cabin crew will strike just in time for the busy Christmas travel period. The cabin crew voted today (Monday, Dec. 14) to strike over the week of Christmas, which could be potentially devastating…
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UPDATE: Breaking News: British Airways to Strike Over Christmas Holiday
PICTURES: Airbus celebrates as A400M gets airborne By Craig Hoyle Airbus Military’s first A400M transport took off from San Pablo airport near Seville, Spain at 10:15 local time on its historic first flight, with the aircraft expected to remain airborne for up to 3h. Perhaps in keeping with the programme’s delayed nature, the A400M got airborne 15min later than scheduled. Some 15min into its sortie the aircraft was at 8,000ft (m) performing low speed testing, and Airbus says all is performing as expected
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Airbus A400M takes to the sky!
People who suffer from a fear of flying can sometimes miss out on the joys and experiences of travel. Earlier this year, we told you about Virgin Atlantic’s iPhone application for “Flying Without Fear” and now there is another comprehensive..
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Miracle on the Hudson Co-pilot Helps Inform Nervous Fliers
A descriptive TSA manual that outlines security procedures has been mistakenly placed on the agency’s web site. The federal government posted an internal guide to its airport passenger screening procedures that might allow insight into how to navigate security. It…
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Descriptive TSA Screening Manual Published on the Internet
MEDIA-ARGENTINA: Fighting Stereotypes of Slums ‘From the Inside’ BUENOS AIRES, Dec 5 (IPS) – A group of local residents from Villa 1-11-14, a slum on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, put out a magazine aimed at breaking down the stereotypes propagated by the mainstream media, which associate neighbourhoods
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Latin America – MEDIA-ARGENTINA: Fighting Stereotypes of Slums ‘From the Inside’
MIDEM 2010 To Come Alive to the Sounds and Sights of South Africa (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) PARIS—-Organisers today announced at a press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, details of the events that will form South Africa’s ‘Country of Honour’ programme for the world’s largest music trade fair – MIDEM 2010.
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African News Update – MIDEM 2010 To Come Alive to the Sounds and Sights of South Africa (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Somalia : British Government Sends Condolences to Somali Journalists (AllAfrica.com) British Government has today sent condolences to Somali journalists for the murder of three journalists who were killed in Mogadishu blast. Mogadishu suicide attack was Somalia’s 9/11: NGO (AFP via Yahoo! News) A suicide blast that ripped through the graduation ceremony of medical students in
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Somalia – Somalia : British Government Sends Condolences to Somali Journalists (AllAfrica.com)
Nakheel creditors ponder bare cupboardThe government is aware that it needs to restructure Nakheel’s short-term liabilities with its long-term development assets. For many with inside experience of the company, the very public airing of its troubles has been long overdue Jain held by India in money laundering probeAn underground banker was held at the weekend in
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Middle East News – Nakheel creditors ponder bare cupboard
Pakistan Told to Ratchet Up Fight Against the Taliban (New York Times) The Obama administration warned that if Pakistan does not act aggressively, the U.S. will use more force on the Pakistani side of the border, officials said
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South Asia – Pakistan Told to Ratchet Up Fight Against the Taliban (New York Times)
Russia’s Putin lambasts officials after disco fire (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News) MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lambasted fire and health officials Tuesday in a city where 113 people died in a weekend nightclub inferno and promised compensation to victims’ families. Putin lambastes Russian officials for disco blaze (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News) PERM,
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Russian News Monitor – Russia’s Putin lambasts officials after disco fire (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)
Somali rebels deny responsibility for deadly bombing (AFP via Yahoo! Singapore News) Somalia’s hardline Islamist insurgents on Friday denied they carried out a suicide bomb attack in Mogadishu that killed at least 23 people, including three government ministers.
Honduran Congress against Zelaya returnThe Honduran Congress has voted not to allow the reinstatement of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, a move that closes the door on his return to power after he was toppled in a June coup. Iraqi Scam: Looking For Police Job, Finding A Con In Iraq’s dismal
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World News – General – Honduran Congress against Zelaya return
Both the Wall Street Journal and TheStreet.com are reporting that United Airlines is set to announce a 50-aircraft order split between both Boeing and Airbus. The reports suggest that United has purchased 25 787 Dreamliners and 25 A350 XWBs with options for more to follow. Neither report specifies the variant or delivery dates for each type selected, but could have significant implications for each airframer
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Reports: Boeing and Airbus to split United Airlines order
In recognition of the 68th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, today’s Movie Monday is another installment of the show Dogfights. This episode explores the development and deployment of the US Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat as a response to the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero and the battles that ensued in the Pacific Theater of Operations. The A6M was one of three aircraft that made up the assault on Pearl Harbor along with the Nakajima B5N and Aichi D3A
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Movie Monday – December 7 – Hellcat v. Zero
Embraer’s Phenom 300 light jet earned its Brazilian type certificate this morning, the Brazilian airframer confirms. First delivery, says an Embraer spokeswoman, is expected “soon” and an official announcement from the company is due out shortly. UPDATE: Here’s my extended story on the Phenom 300 Brazilian certification.
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Embraer Phenom 300 earns ANAC type certificate (Update1)
Around 9:30 PT last night, ZA001, parked in Stall 105 on Boeing’s Everett flight line, restarted its twin Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines. The engines were started left to right and each produced clouds of white smoke as a result of an inhibitor that was stored inside each engine while the aircraft’s side-of-body was being modified, says engine-maker Rolls-Royce. The twin-power plants were run for roughly 45 minutes at idle as part of last night’s tests.
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Video: 787 makes chilly engine restart
While Boeing crunches the data from the latest volley of static tests to validate the side-of-body reinforcement, sources within the company are increasingly confident that the long-delayed program could fly not one, but potentially two 787s later this month. A static test yesterday, internally dubbed “2C” , was a key hurdle on the now restarted path to 787 first flight. Boeing will review the data between now and December 9th to formally validate the side-of-body reinforcement and provide a green-light for first flight.
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After two long years, first flight countdown begins again for 787
UPDATE: Boeing Completes 787 Dreamliner Static Test EVERETT, Wash., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Boeing (NYSE: BA) today completed the static test necessary to validate the side-of-body modification made to the 787 Dreamliner. The company expects a full analysis of the test results to be concluded in approximately 10 days.
Bombardier plans a major expansion of its Mirabel, Québec facility to support an ambitious ramp up that, if required, will see 20 new CSeries aircraft produced a each month by 2016. Gary Scott, Bombardier President of commercial aircraft, spoke to Flightglobal at the Dubai Air Show about the plans to “more than double” the size of Mirabel to support production of the CSeries. “We’re planning, and have all of our suppliers committed to, a day rate,” says Scott.
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Exclusive: Bombardier aims to build 20 CSeries per month
In the ever growing list of “Things Aviation Geeks Love” , combining airline nostalgia, classic route structures, new aircraft, trip reports and complex accident investigations might put this week’s Movie Monday close to the top of my favorites. The first half of this classic news reel from the earliest days of commercial jet travel chronicles the May 1952 London to Johannesburg flight (via Rome, Beirut, Khartoum, Entebbe, Livingstone ) of the De Havilland Comet 1 (G-ALYP) on the British Overseas Airways Corporation
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Movie Monday – November 30 – Comet to Jo’Burg