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IndustryIndian government ready to buy new low-level radars
New Delhi, India - The beginning ahead has been given by the ministry of Defense
The Press Trust of India (PTI) communicates that the local government has decided to buy new low-level radars following the request presented in 1996 by Indian Armed Forces in order to improve the security... more
PeopleAustralian government to install X-ray at its airport
Canberra, Australia - A decision maybe too late
The Canberra government has taken in serious consideration the threats of the international terrorism that promises to hit Australia in the next few months. Also the Australian intelligence agencies... more
PeopleCalled off the strikes of English airport staff
London, UK - The decision after the agreement between Baa and the trader union
No strike will hit the seven greatest English airports after the agreement reached the last night between the Baa (British Airport Authority) and the trader union of the airport staff. The threat of... more
DefenseIntercepted a North Korean ship loaded with Scud missiles (2): they were for Yemen
Sanaa, Yemen - Immediately called the US ambassador
According to the news of last hour the North Korean ship intercepted by two Spanish war vessels, and containing 15 Scud missiles (and not 12 as erroneously circulated this morning) was carrying an order... more
Latest newsDiplomatic accident between Greece and Turkey
Athens, Greece - Turkish military jets near a Greek military aircraft
Yesterday it has verified a diplomatic accident between Greece and Turkey caused this time by the excessive nearing of two Turkish aircraft to a Greek military transportation jet. The accident occurred... more
AccidentsExiled Cuban survived in the landing gear of a Canadian flight
Montreal, Canada - The discovery has happened in the north American airport
Discovered at the airport of Montreal an exiled Cuban that was hided in the landing gear of a light previewed to land just in the Canadian town. The man has fortunately been found still alive by the employees... more
AirlinesUE condemns the financial state supports to Olympic Airways: they were illegal
Brussels, Belgium - Ryanair to be charged as well
The UE Transport Commission, leaded by Loyola de Palacio, has declared illegal the financial aids of which it would have enjoyed the national Greek airline Olympic Airways, because such financial provisions... more
AirlinesAir France raises the transported passengers of 12,7% in one month only
Paris, France - The increase is more evident on the long-haul links
Compared with the month of November 2001, Air France has noticed an increase of 12,7% in the number of passengers transported. Moreover the French carrier's flights load factor is grown until to 74,9%. The... more
IndustryUs government has approved the Northrop's purchase of Trw
Washington, Usa - Now, for the definitive approval it is necessary only the ratify vote of the two societies
Yesterday the Us government has approved the purchase of Trw, a society that produces electronic systems, by Northrop for a value of USD 11,8bn. This contract was in the air already by some months, even... more
AerospaceDelay in the programs of the Iss
Washington, Usa - The cause is the disease of one astronaut
The disease, of which we do not know any more, of one astronauts of the Iss (International Space Station) has caused the delay of one space walk initially previewed for tomorrow. Now the space walk, that... more
PeopleUal crisis could be a double-edged weapon for the small carriers
Washington, Usa - It's important which relation ties the air company to Ual
United Airlines bankruptcy has sure left many astonished while the most careful waited just for the moment of the formalization of the financial collapse: USD 4bn of losses in the last two years. It's... more
Latest newsChina ready to fit out with an invisible fighter
Beijing, China - The project is already in progress
China continuous in its process of approach to the standards of the western countries that pass, as it was easy to expect, also through a modernization of its military aerial fleet. According to the... more
Press releaseRoute-proving flight allows Bombardier Flexjet Asia-Pacific to expand charter network in China
Montreal, Canada - With its Challenger 604 aircraft
"Bombardier Challenger 604 proves high-altitude capabilities at Lhasa Gongga Airport in Tibet. Bombardier Aerospace and Rainbow Jet Co. Ltd., a member of the thriving Bombardier Flexjet® Asia-Pacific... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Cirrus Design Corporation airplanes
Washington, USA - Models SR20 and SR22
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2002-CE-31-AD; Amendment 39-12973; AD 2002-24-08] RIN... more
Press releaseContinental Airlines completes installation of new business first sleeper seat
Houston, USA - For its Boeing 777 fleet
"Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) has completed installation of 864 new BusinessFirst sleeper seats throughout its fleet of 18 Boeing 777 aircraft. The new BusinessFirst seats feature several significant... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Pilatus Britten-Norman Limited airplanes
Washington, USA - Series BN2T and BN2T-4R
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2002-CE-34-AD; Amendment 39-12974; AD 2002-24-09] RIN... more
PeopleCondemned a Jal captain, protests from all the pilots association
Tokyo, Japan - A sentence without concreteness
He was tried and condemned the Jal pilot Koichi Takamoto, who on June 8th 1997 was in charge of the Jal flight 706 coming from Hong Hong and directed to Nagoya airport, on which a crew member lost his... more
AirlinesUal crisis: Ana to offers its financial support
Tokyo, Japan - Ana and Ual are members of Star Alliance
As it was obvious to attend the first reassurances arrive, about Ual's bankruptcy, from part of the carriers that are members of the Star Alliance, "network" of international carriers of which also the... more
IndustryKing Aerospace awarded of a over 448 USDm contract
USA
King Aerospace, Addison, Texas, is being awarded a $448,140,430 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for FY2003-2012 (Dec. 5 2002 through Sept. 30, 2012) Contractor Logistic Support for the C-20 aircraft.... more
IndustryBell Helicopter awarded of a over 9 USDm contract
USA
Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded a delivery order amount of $9,583,092 as part of a $56,041,061 firm-fixed-price contract for six TH-67A+ Training Helicopters for use as instructional... more
DefenseIntercepted a North Korean ship loaded with Scud missiles
Washington, Usa - Perhaps it was for Yemen
Two Spanish warships have blocked a ship flying North Korean Jack, probably directed in Yemen, in the zone of the Indian Ocean: on board 12 Scud missiles. Even if it would be better to specify that they... more
SecurityUS spy unmanned aircraft to fight drug smugglings in South America (2): the technical features
Washington, Usa - It's in charge for the operations carried in Afghanistan
The unmanned Global Hawk aerial vehicle (UAV) is able to fly more at remarkable altitudes supplying to the military intelligence the most detailed information about the enemy resources. Once that the... more
SecurityUS spy unmanned aircraft to fight drug smugglings in South America
Washington, Usa - First test at the beginning of the next year
The attempt is to intercept the considerable drug loads that every day leave from the Latin America states and reach the Southern coasts of USA, from which then they invade all the American territory.... more
AerospaceRosetta space probe ready to be launched in less than a month?
Rome, Italy - The mission is to study comets' mysteries
For the first time in the history of the human kind a spacecraft will take off from the Earth to study the mysteries of the comets directly on the place. It is to say landing on the head of the Wirtanen... more
Science and technology10 pictures of 17th century are exposed in Amsterdam's airport
Amsterdam, Netherlands - Rijksmuseum exposes inside the Dutch capital's airport
By yesterday in the new terminal of Schiphol airport are exposed 10 pictures of the 17th century, between them also one painting of the great Dutch painter Rembrandt. The painting are exposed in a hall... more
HelicoptersVandals damage three helicopters
Sydney, Australia - They were firefigthing aircraft
Without any doubt an action carried by some stupids that one that has caused serious damages for three Bell Jet Ranger helicopters, used in firefighting work. Serious damages that have forced the responsibles... more
DefenseCia seizes the Iraqi dossier intended for Onu
New York, Usa - Strong condamn by the whole of UN Security Council
USA were able to, thanks to Cia action, to get the Iraqi document regarding the weapons of mass destruction. An action that has irritated the UN general secretary Kofi Annan and the other member countries... more
Fair and showsBoeing announces a new top manager
Washington, Usa - It is Michael Lewis
In the last days Boeing has announced a new top manager. It is Michael Lewis who will have the delicate charge of managing the Air Traffic Management (ATM), business unit of the Global Communication Navigation... more
Press releaseColombia acquires two Eads Casa CN-235 aircraft
Madrid, Spain - For maritime surveillance and drug traffic control
"The Colombian Navy has just acquired two (2) Eads Casa CN-235-200 aircraft for patrol missions in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and for the fight against drug trafficking. They are equipped with specific... more
AccidentsCollision in flight between two Pakistani F-7
Islamabad, Pakistan - The fighters were Chinese manufacture
Another incident that has involved two Pakistani Air Force fighters, then crashed in the south-western region of the Belucistan, near the border with the Afghanistan. The collision in flight between... more
DefenseRussia to host conference on ballistic weapons
Moscow, Russia - Probably a China and North Korea involvement
It is attempted to come to a regulation on the ballistic weapons that involves more nations as possible, comprised also North Korea and China. These the Russia's intentions for voice of its vice minister... more
DefenseB-52 supports US Special Forces in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan - No casualties on US troops
It has become as necessary as ever the air support when, two days ago, 10 members of the US Special Forces have been under an enemy ambush. After nearly an hour of stand-by it has been demanded a proper... more
AerospaceBy 2006 will raise the number of astronauts boarded on the Iss
Tokyo, Japan - The decision has been approved Friday
In a joint meeting that involved Europe, Usa Russia and Japan they have decided to raise the number of astronauts boarded on the Iss (International Space Station) up to six and not three anymore. During... more
AccidentsDestroyed the biggest telecommunication satellite
Moscow, Russia - It was impossible its recovery
After the lack to send into orbit, with a Russian rocket Proton, the Astra 1K, the European satellite for the telecommunications, it has been tried to do as well as it could in order to get it back. But... more
DefenseIt was perfectly performed the launch of the old RS-18 ballistic missile
Moscow, Russia - It's the most powerfull in the former Soviet arsenal
It was carried out this morning the launch of RS-18 missile from the base of Baikonur situated in Kazakhistan hitting, as previewed, the target placed in the region of the Kamciatka, in the eas-Pacific,... more
Science and technologyTwo US fighters land in the civil airport of Osaka: angry among the citizens
Osaka, Japan - It's the sixth in this year
Several citizen associations, but also the airport authority, protested yesterday when an US fighter has made an emergency landing at Osaka international airport, because the passengers safety would have... more
IndustrySikorsky Aircraft awarded of a near 7 USDm contract
USA
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a delivery order amount of $6,810,150 as part of a $6,810,150 firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance and overhaul of 150 Cat III - main rotor... more
AirlinesIn Asia to appear the first low-cost carriers
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - A new challenge for the pioneer in this field
Surely the market of Asian civil aviation and the European one cannot be compared, but some new ideas could be taken in consideration. As for the so-called low-cost carriers, that had so much fortune... more
HelicoptersIndia buys several Ka-31 helicopters from Israel
New Delhi, India - The government plan is to renew its Navy
Indian Navy will be able to be equipped, by the next year, with the sophisticated KA-31 supplied by the Israeli Army. The agreement, caught up some days ago, falls back in the wider program of modernization... more
PeopleEurocontrol gives its support to the project of the European "single sky"
Brussels, Belgium - "This contract can be fundamental for Europe"
Eurocontrol, the European society for the safety and for the Air Navigation gives officially its support to the project called "single sky". The General director Victor M. Aguado has said: "The initiative... more
AerospaceLast Friday meeting in Los Angeles between some astronauts to remember the thirty years of the last lunar mission
Los Angeles, United States - The spacemen have invited Nasa at new missions
To remember the thirty years from the last lunar mission, four astronauts protagonists of historic missions, met the last Friday in a restaurant of Beverly Hills. Were present Eugene Cernan, the last... more
AirlinesRestored after 11 years the flight Ljubljana - Belgrade
Ljubljana, Slovenia - The flight had been cancelled after Slovenian declaration of indipendence
After eleven years it has been restored the direct flight Ljubljana - Belgrade, that had been cancelled after Slovenian declaration of indipendence and the following blowing of the Balkan war. The contract... more
Science and technologyInterrupted the Siberian air traffic controllers' hunger strike
Moscow, Russia - The protest was going on from last week
The hunger strike, from some days, of the air traffic controllers of six siberian airports that were asking a salary increase and social benefits to the local air carrier Kolavia, has been interrupted... more
PeopleIsrael tries to protect its planes from missiles attacks, Usa still unsettled
Washington, Usa - An unbearable cost for US carriers
The dramatic attacks that on November 28th have taken place in Kenya, involving the Paradise hotel and, above all, an Arkia B-757 aircraft, are pushing Israeli government of Tel Aviv to adopt proper measures... more
DefenseWar US simulation has started in Qatar
Doha, Qatar - They will be useful to test the coordination of the alley forces
The operation so-called "Internal Look" will last 10 days and also Australian and English observatories will be present at the war tests that for the first time will be carried out outside the US borders.... more
Science and technologyA light snowfall cancelled a lot of flights in Japan
Tokyo, Japan - It has been being since eleven years a snowfall didn't occur in December
The Japan panics for a light snowfall: a lot of trains are late and many flights are cancelled. It doesn't snow since eleven years in December and this exceptionality has generated many discomforts. In... more
Civil aviationMeeting in Moscow between the Nato's general secretary and Russian authorities on anti terrorism
Moscow, Russia - "Collaboration can be useful for us both"
During some meetings happened in Moscow during the last days between the General Secretary of Nato Lord George Robertson and Russia Defence Foreign Minister, which theme was a future collaboration between... more
Science and technologyAt Kerman airport in Iran some students were hitted from Islamic extremists
Teheran, Iran - They attended an Islamic liberal dissident
In Iranian airport of Kerman a group of Islamic integralists would have assaulted and hitted some students that they would have attended a famous Islamic liberal dissident, Ezatollah Sahabi. A lot of newspapers... more
AccidentsPanic on board of an Egyptair flight
Il Cairo, Egypt - Problem on a flight Il Cairo-Madrid that it took off yesterday
An Egyptair flight previewed yesterday on the haul Il Cairo-Madrid has been stopped during the taking off phase on the runway of the Egyptian capital town's airport because of a damage. The rough baking... more
AirlinesIt's bankruptcy for United Airlines, the second world's biggest airline
New York, Usa - The bankruptcy petition was failed few minutes ago
According to Ual (United Airlines) there was no other solution after the refusal of the federal government to grant to the airline a loan of USD 1.8m, because the emergency plan did not give sufficient... more