HelicoptersDelivered the first helmet for Rah-66: to be the real weapon

California, Usa - The pilot will have a complete vision, in any flight condition

It continues in the best way the development of the helicopter Rah-66 Comache whose program can, since now, to benefit of an other futuristic solution, the Hidss (Helmet Integrated Display Sigthing System),... more

AirlinesAlaska Airlines towards Airbus, dropping Boeing

Seattle, Usa - It going to be an heavy loss for the Seattle-based industry

Also Alaska Airlines, one of the most Boeing reliable partner, seems to be addressed to conclude important business with the rival, the European consortium Airbus, for its fleet, made up entirely of B-737... more

IndustryTen Brasilian planes for Lot air company

San Paulo, Brasil - The first deliveries in 2004

The manufacturing Brazilian company, Embraer, has communicated that the Polish air company Lot has decided to acquire ten Embraer 170 cargo planes. Aircraft cost, able to transport up two 70 passengers... more

AirlinesSAS Group: traffic and yield development was weak as expected

Stockholm, Sweden - Passenger load factor continues to improve

There's a negative trend, for the Sas Group, as shown y the figures on December performance. In the last two months, traffic and yield development was weak as expected and indicates a thougher trading... more

AccidentsFokker 28 flight recorders sent in Usa for the control

Lima, Peru - USD 5,000 the insurance indemnity for every victim

According to the first indiscretions that come from the Peruvian governmental palace it would have been a human error the cause of the Thursday incident in Peru, in which 47 persons died, an hypothesis... more

IndustryJohnson Technology awarded of a over 5 USDm contract

USA

Johnson Technology Inc., Muskegon, Mich., is being awarded a $5,044,761 fixed-price contract for procurement of high-pressure turbine nozzle segments used on the F404 engine for the F/A-18 aircraft. Work... more

PeopleUs carriers ordered to report causes of delays or cancellations

Washington, Usa - The traveller to take advantage from this situation

As it had been announced the last year, there will be some changes about American carriers, especially in terms of regulations. Indeed, since June, the greatest airlines will have to explain the reasons... more

IndustryFlight Explorer introduces a flight-status information system available from the web

Washington, Usa - A service suited both for the sector's needs and for entertainment

It has been introduced few days ago by Flight Explorer, leader in the field of the computerized services offered to all those who operate in the field of the civil aviation, such as airports, airlines,... more

IndustryBoeing authorizes the purchase of Conquest Inc

Seattle, Usa - The purchase will be concluded within the first quarter of 2003

Boeing Corporation, the world giant of aeronautical and aerospace industry, has authorized the purchase of Conquest Inc., firm specialized in providing services for intelligence within the first quarter... more

DefenseAmerican airplanes bomb an emplacement of missiles in Bassora

Bagdad, Iraq - It said the center commando of Tampa, in Florida

They continue the skirmishes of war from part of the Americans in Iraq: airplanes, in fact, have today hit a emplacement of missiles anti-ships in the south of the Iraq, near Bassora, the second Iraqi... more

IndustryBombardier sells to Qantas three 50-seated aircraft

Montreal, Canada - The selling has been concluded during the last weekend

During the last weekend Bombardier Aerospace, one of the biggest aerospace industries in the world, has signed the selling to Qantas, the Australian national carrier, of three aircraft series Q300 with... more

SecurityItalian volounteers for peace will leave to Iraq next January 28

Rome, Italy - The volounteers are decided to stop Anglo American bombings

In the field of the protest manifestations against war in Iraq, is taking its own shape a manifestation, that in short time will attract on itself the attention of the whole world's medias. The next January... more

Latest newsLanded Saturday in Kabul 35 Italian soldiers

Rome, Italy - The soldiers will be employed in the operation Enduring Freedom

The group of 35 Italian soldiers that had taken off by Rome on Thursday evening (news already published by AVIONEWS), transported to Abu Dhabi with a B-707 of the 14th group of Italian Air Force, then... more

IndustryJet Aviation has signed a contract with Czech airlines

Zurich, Switzerland - The contract regards the supply of cargo services at Zurich airport

The Swiss society of supplying of aeronautical services, Jet Aviation, has signed a contract for supplying cargo services to Czech Airlines, Czech air carrier, upon the B-737/400 working on the haul Prague-Zurich. Trusting... more

IndustryPratt & WIthney has presented a new engine

Ottawa, Canada - The new engine will be used to give more power to Cessna Citation Mustang

The Canadian aerospace industry Pratt & Withney has presented the new engine PW615F that soon will be supplied in the equipment of the Cessna Citation Mustang. The new engine will supply higher operational... more

Latest newsLack of money, it's crisis for the Russian Military Aviation

Moscow, Russia - An ignominious end for a sector that has marked the way of flying

The Soviet former-empire, whose peculiarity always has been the armaments, especially in the aeronautic field, must face one of the worst crisis of its history: the crash of its Air Force. This sector... more

AccidentsEmergency landing at Charles De Gaulle airport for a bomb alarm

Paris, France - The plane was a MD-11 of the Klm air company

A MD-11 of the Dutch air company Klm, taken off from Amsterdam to Aruba, in the Antilless, has been forced last Saturday to an emergency landing at Charles De Gaulle airport for a bomb alarm. The pilot... more

AccidentsToronto: Dominican citizen deceased in the undercarriage vain of an airplane

Montreal, Canada -The flight has taken off from Punta Cana (Dominican Republic)

He tried to arrive in Canada, hiding in the undercarriage vain of a Canadian air company plane, but has died because of congelation. According to the first reconstructions, he’s a 35 years old man, probably a... more

AerospaceHolocaust art to space

Cape Canaveral, USA - Col. Ilan Ramon will carry a pencil sketch of a young artist killed in Auschwitz

"I know my flight is very symbolic for the people of Israel, especially the survivors, the holocaust survivor, because I was born in Israel and many people will see this as a dream that is come true".... more

AerospaceLaunched by Nasa the Icesat satellite

Washington, Usa - It will be used to study polar ices

During the last night, by the air base of Vanderberg, California, Nasa has launched the satellite called Icesat, whose mission, once reached the previewed orbit, will be to study the level of the oceans'... more

PeopleFirst air connection Europe - Australia no-stop

Tolouse, France - It has carried out an Airbus of Qantas

For the first time an airplane, left from Europe, has caught up Australia, without to carry out some pause. The enterprise has been completed from Airbus A-330/200 of the Qantas that, taking off from Tolouse,... more

Finance and economyRaytheon enquired in the Usa for suspect irregularities in the balances from 1997 to 2001

Washington, Usa - The enquiry has been started by Sec (Security and Exchange Commission)

The aeronautical industry Raytheon has been involved in an enquiry of Sec (Security and Exchange Commission) for some irregularities discovered in the balances presented from 1997 to 2001. Until now it... more

AirlinesEasyJet under pilots strike threat

London, UK - As soon as possible a meeting with Ray Webster to face this stanby situation

The threat of a strike has always been an action that the airlines had to avoid, in Great Britain, preferring to please their own employees rather than to engage in a controversy that could paralyze the... more

PeopleUs Transport Security Administration forbids to airport screeners every collective bargaining

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

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

AccidentsEmergency landing for a Belgian plane in Malta

Brussels, Belgium - False bomb alarm

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

AccidentsAn attempt has prevented on military airplane

Washington, United States - It said the New York Times

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

Weather forecastsJanuary 2003: air shows and exhibitions

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

AccidentsNo survivors in the Peruvian flight crashed on Thursday

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

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

DefensePalestinian rockets hit Israeli town

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

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

Civil aviationChina enroles 2000 air marshals

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

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

Defense7000 Marines are leaving for the Persian Gulf

Washington, Usa - The soldiers have received the order today

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

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

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

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

AccidentsCessna of the police crashes on a runway of Brussels airport

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

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

AirlinesLufthansa improves the load factor, but the passengers number decreases

Frankfurt, Germany - The data have been supplied during the morning by the air company

Lufthansa has announced this morning that the load factor has recorded an increment of 3,1%, succeeding in to catch up 70,1%. It’s decreased instead the total number of the passengers who have chosen t... more

AirlinesIt's China Airlines the most important Boeing order so far

Seattle, Usa - An important shake for the Seattle-based industry

It has been finally revealed the name of the buyer of 10 Boeing 747-400s, an order that already had been confirmed by the Seattle-based colossus but whose origin had been scrupulously hidden. It's China... more

AerospaceThe decision of Columbia launch to be taken next Sunday

Washinghton, USA - In the crew the first Israeli astronaut

A technical disadvantage puts in doubt the launch date of the Columbia spaces shuttle. The start to the countdown would have to be given the next week, but the last decision will be only taken on next... more

AccidentsGb: the auto-pilot the cause of the Cessna 182 incident in May, 2002

London, UK - Husband and wife were well expert pilots

At a distance of 7 months from the incident of the small Cessna 182 that cost the life to the English couple Martin and Janet Griffs, it is finally reached the conclusion of surveyings. The investigators... more

Science and technologyFinally made clear the position of the Algerian arrested in Roissy airport

Paris, France - The man resulted to be the victim of a conspiracy

Abderakaz Besseghir, the 27 years old Algerian arrested in the last days in Charles de Gaulle airport with the accuse of illegal possession of weapons and explosives, has finally won part of his legal... more

AirlinesSix superjumbo for Malaysia Airlines

Paris, France - The airplanes will enter in service in 2006

They will be able to transport 550 persons each, the six A-380 ordered to Airbus by Malaysia Airlines to increase its fleet. No financial details have been still spread. The superjumbo will be operating... more

AccidentsAirplane clashes with gig in Paraguay

Assuncion, Paraguay - Wounded the calash rider, but he is not in life danger

He was over his gig along a rural road, Apolonio Aguilera, when he has seen to approach a two-seats plane in an emergency landing and in few moments he has been swept up by the aircraft. A singular incident... more

AccidentsHelicopter crashes in the United States

Washington, Usa - Luckily there have been no deads in it

During the last night has crashed an helicopter in the federal State of Mississippi. Luckily after this accident there have not been news of dead persons, but only about one hurted person that has been... more

IndustryRuag expands its presence in the areas of structural components and aircraft maintenance

Berne, Switzerland - Good figures for the firm during 2002

Swiss technological society, with interests in the aeronautical field, Ruag, has strengthened its presence, during 2002, in the working fields of structural components and aircraft maintenance, where it... more

Airlines2002 ended positively for Qantas

Sydney, Australia - The situation is coming back to 2001 levels

As the greater part of the airlines has experienced, also Qantas has recorded significant increments in the second half of the last year, having brought back the Australian carrier, even if not close to... more

DefenseThe first group of 35 Italian soldiers directed to Kabul has taken off

Rome, Italy - The group has taken off yesterday evening

During the evening of yesterday has taken off the first group of Italian soldiers destinated in Afghanistan in the field of the operation called Enduring Freedom that, for the part concerning Italian soldiers,... more