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Science and technologyPolitecnico of Turin: tomorrow researchers will carry out tests on hydrogen in altitude
Turin, Italy - Used in the development of "Ecological" APU for aeronautics
"The expedition of researchers from Environment Park and Politecnico of Turin will leave tomorrow, Tuesday August 28th from Gressoney la Trinité (Aosta) to the 4556 mt. of Punta Gnifetti, on Monte Rose,... more
Science and technologyThe world's greates flying lab - the M-55 Geophysica aircraft
Rome, Italy - It will analyze the equatorial-tropical belt
A Soviet ex-spy aircraft, transformed for scientific purposes, is become the world's greatest flying lab for the study of the changes in climate. This stratospheric aircraft, called M-55 Geophysica,... more
Science and technologyAVIONEWS at Paris Air Show "Le Bourget" (4): RFID technology to the NAMSA
Paris, France - For the 26 nations of the NATO alliance and non-NATO nations of the Partnership for Peace initiative
The NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA) has established an “In Service Support” contract with Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin company, for its Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-based pro... more
Science and technologyAn airplane for personal use for silent flight that exploits green energy
Rome , Italy - A technology used by Nasa too
California's Personal Flight System (Pfs), one of the many Start-Up of Silicon Valley defined as "Commercial solution supplier", received the certification of the patent for a silent airplane for personal... more
Science and technologyPolytechnic of Turin: "ENFICA-FC" project and the hydrogen-power aircraft
Turin, Italy - A preventive cost equal to EUR 4,5 million
The 3 year "ENFICA-FC" project was launched on the 1st of October 2006, and led by Politecnico di Torino and comprising 11 partners has been selected for co-funding by the European Commission in the Aeronautics... more
Science and technologyHeliplat: a new project supported by Polytechnic of Turin
Turin, Italy - An UAV powered by solar panels and fuel cells
The Polytechnic of Turin is supporting an important and international project aimed to design a new type of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) plane, the so called Heliplat. This innovative aircraft has... more
Science and technologyWhen the information technology links to aerospace solutions
Washington, USA - An interesting innovation
VictorSystems, an American company specialized in the aerospace and military sector, has produced a new Mac mini using the technologies applied to aeronautic sector. The computer, in fact, is equipped... more
Science and technologyThe da Vinci code for flight will be soon on-line
Florence, Italy - All the codes of the famous scientist that was one of the first to think about the human flight
They will be readable on the web thanks to multimedia project, named E-Leo, sponsored by the European Community and it will allow through the web-page (www.leonardodigitale.com) to vision also the famous... more
Science and technologyEsa's satellite Giove-A transmits first navigation message
Paris, France - The data received will allow Esa to calculate the exact positionf of the satellite
For the first time from the beginning of its mission the satellite Giove-A launched by Esa, the European space agency, sent navigation data that were necessary in order to analyze its position, since today... more
Science and technologyFinmeccanica re-opens selection process for its “FHINK” Masters Programme
Rome, Italy - The deadline for the filing of the application is next June 15th
After the success of the first master’s programme in International Business Engineering (FHINK), Finmeccanica has now started the enrolment process for 2007-2008. The objective of the programme is to f... more
Science and technologyThree-dimensional Sun
Washington, USA - Images published by NASA
Visiting the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Website, anyone can take a look at fantastic 3D Sun images, transmitted by the two probes involved in the “STEREO” (Solar Terrestrial Rel... more
Science and technologyAtlas Air reduces communication costs and drives employee efficiency using MobileAware
New York, USA - By providing flight crews with mobile access to constantly changing travel information
MobileAware, the world’s leading provider of Mobile Service Infrastructure (MSI), today announced that Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc., a global provider of air cargo charter services, has reduced i... more
Science and technologyA new Icarus flies over Spain
Madrid , Spain - The legendary deeds of Yves Rossy
Yves Rossy, Swiss pilot and inventor, has flown over the Spanish sky using a pair of artificial wings. The new Icarus, in fact, who has designed and implemented a flight reaction system equipped with... more
Science and technologyThe on board usage of mobile phones does not take off
Washington , USA - FCC disagreement
According to "USA Today", FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is assessing again the possibility to allow the usage of mobile phones on board of aircraft. The proposal to let passenger use their... more
Science and technologyDeutsche Bank funds Piccard's solar plane
Berne, Switzerland - Always nearer the collection of the necessary 112 million Francs
Bertrand Piccard, inventor of "Solar Impulse", solar energy-powered airplane, seems to get nearer to the collection of the 112 million Francs necessary to implement the innovative aircraft (see AVIONEWS). The... more
Science and technologyBoeing to Help Caribbean Airlines Streamline Its Maintenance Operations
Seattle , USA - A new Web-based maintenance solution
"Caribbean Airlines has adopted Boeing's Web-based maintenance solution, 'Maintenance Performance Toolbox', to help improve the maintenance of its fleet of seven Next Generation 737/800s. Caribbean... more
Science and technologyThe European Space Agency (ESA) has introduced a new satellite receiver system for cars on the occasion of "Space Expo"
Amsterdam, Holland - After a three-year study, the prototype is ready
The European Space Agency (ESA) has introduced on the occasion of "Space Expo", Holland, the prototype of a satellite receiver system expected to be used as a next generation car radio. This system... more
Science and technologyThe Moon will colour in red
Rome, Italy - A chance of a lifetime. The next to be only in 2026
How many times we paused to see the Moon during the clear nights. How many times we turned our eyes to It, but also a thought... tomorrow night we have more than a reason to make it. A total eclipse... more
Science and technologyAn Italian Defense's research about a device sensitive to hazardous substances
Rome, Italy - Researchers of the Italian Defense perform an important experiment
Lucio Accardo, Chief of the Italian 5th Technological Research division of the Segretariato Generale della Difesa/Direzione nazionale Armamenti (Sgd/Dna), has given an interview to "RaiUtile" to introduce... more
Science and technologyThe laser-war is approaching
California, USA - Solid State Heat Capacity Laser (SSHL) ready within few months
Bob Yamamoto, Lawrence National Laboratory's Program Manager, California, has announced that Solid State Heat Capacity Laser (SSHCL) will be completely effective within few months. This device is expected... more
Science and technologyAn European joint-project on the creation of an aircraft with a lower environmental impact
Manchester, United Kingdom - It will last three years and cost about EUR 34 million
European Union is working to an experimental project. The object is the realization of a new lighter and smaller aircraft. This one might to transport from 10 to 50 passengers and it will have a lower... more
Science and technologyEurope: realized a model of transmission for a possible pandemic
Brussels, Belgium - The epidemic simulation on a worldwide never realized at global level
"Modelling the Worldwide Spread of Pandemic Influenza: Baseline Case and Containment Intervention" is the name of a study, financed in part by European Union, in part by American National Science Foundation... more
Science and technologyThe first prototype of the battery-power plane
Tokyo, Japan - An aircraft with a wingspan of 31 m and a weight of 44 kg
It is the first ultralight aircraft powered by conventional batteries. It was powered by 160 AA batteries, which are commonly used in portable CD players and cameras. Thanks to members of the Tokyo... more
Science and technologyNew opportunities for the crew suffering from anxious-depression disturbance
Washington, USA - Sertraline: an anti-depression drug that does not alter the psychomotor performance
According to ECA (Epidemiological Catchment Area) of United States, depression and anxiety are so spread that one citizen in five will suffer in own existence. Moreover, (Goodwin and Jamison, 1990), these... more
Science and technologyPD-10 and PD-20: revolution in the world of the lens with display
New York, USA - They might be employed also by the Civil Aviation's pilots
An Israeli company, dubbed Lumus-Optical, is looking to change all that by offering up a relatively normal looking set of spectacles with twin microdisplays and mini projectors. The firm's latest prototype... more
Science and technologyThe iPod on airplane
Washington, USA - An agreement between Apple and six airlines
Apple announced a cooperation with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM and United Airlines to provide the first perfect integration between iPod and in-flight entertainment systems. These... more
Science and technologyWill Connexion by Boeing survive?
Luxembourg, Luxembourg - SES Global is in talks with Panasonic
Satellite operator SES Global is in talks with Panasonic and with an airline to evaluate the eventual extension of the Connexion by Boeing service, which Boeing decided to close next December 31 because... more
Science and technology"Academician Fiodorov" Russian oceanographic ship is sailed away
Saint Petersburg, Russia - 52nd Russian Antarctic expedition
Last Friday from Saint Petersburg is sailed away in the direction of the Antarctic the "Academician Fiodorov" Russian oceanographic ship, on which will be taken aboard 130 crew members of the 52nd Russian... more
Science and technologyA US-UK ecologic airplane
Washington, USA - It will be quiet and will consume less fuel
British and US Air Forces are preparing to launch a new generation of quiet airplanes, which can cut 25% of fuel consumption. The aircraft, endowed with an only wing and looking like a spaceship, is able... more
Science and technologyThe M-55 Geophysica in the service of scientific research
Florence , Italy - The only stratospheric airplane in the world that is used in this sector
European consortium Geophysica made a mission in Burkina Faso called AMMA (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analiysis), also joined by NASA, to understand the African monsoon's impact on the Central African... more
Science and technologyThe Italian base at Terra Nova Bay is open again
Rome, Italy - Twenty men arrived to reopen the station
Friday the Italian Antarctic Base "Mario Zucchelli" at Terra Nova Bay has been opened again, on the field of the national program of researches in the Antarctica (PNRA). Twenty men arrived to Terra Nova... more
Science and technologyRussian spy plane which search for hurricanes maybe will launch satellites
Rome, Italy - The M-55 Geophisyca celebrates its fifth year of activity
The Russian former spy plane M-55 Geophisyca is operating since 10 years in Italy, as a flying laboratory containing 2500 scientific equipments to study the weather changing, and now it seems it could... more
Science and technologyHoles in airplane wings to save fuel
Stuttgart, Germany - A German research
A group of researchers from the Gas Aerodynamics and Dynamics Institute of the Stuttgart University assured that some micro holes in airplane wings help to reduce fuel consumption by 15%. Markus Kloker... more
Science and technologyNASA: a supersonic roar reduction system is being tested
Washington, USA - The "Quite Spike" is tweaked with Gulfstream
An F-15B by NASA is the testing aircraft for a technology that reduces roars produced by supersonic planes. A "Nose" has been installed in the jet, being able to extend up to seven meters, tweaked by Gulfstream... more
Science and technologyNew Bangkok International Airport: problems in luggage sorting
Bangkok, Thailand - The opening is scheduled in few days
A few days before the inauguration scheduled on September 28, tests of the new "Suvarnabhumi" Airport in Bangkok revealed some problems in the management of the luggage sorting system, which is very different... more
Science and technologyAgreement Bulgaria-Fraport for airport management
Sofia, Bulgaria - The contract has a 35 years last and a value of EUR 403m
"The concession of the two airports will be very important for Bulgaria’s economy and image", Bulgarian transportation minister, Petar Mutafchiev, stated after the signing of the agreement between Bulgaria’s gov... more
Science and technologyFiumicino: passengers are afraid of the breakdown and refuse to board on the plane
Rome, Italy - The aircraft of Air Memphis stopped in Rome for a technical breakdown and had to fly to Milan
Yesterday morning the 65 passengers of an Air Memphis flight refused to continue the trip to Malpensa, after the plane where they were flying had to make a stopover at Fiumicino for a technical breakdown.... more
Science and technologyThe Kangding Airport will be the second highest of the world
Kangding, China - It will greet Boeing 737-300 and Airbus A-319
Recently, the Chinese government begane construction of the Kangding Airport, in Sichuan, in Southeast China. At an altitude of 4280 meters it will be the highest second airport in the world, after that... more
Science and technologyRFID tracking at San Francisco airport
San Francisco, USA - Based on automatic luggage-passenger coupling
San Francisco airport will use, starting from next Spring, a tracking and automatic luggage-passenger coupling RFID system that should replace current system based on bar codes. The system should improve... more
Science and technologyESA asks for proposals to enterprises
Paris, France - On the field of Leading-Edge Technology program
The European Space Agency (ESA) has advanced a request for innovative technological developments on the field of the Leading-Edge Technology program (LET) to small and average enterprises of the Agency’s M... more
Science and technologyLebanon: end of the air block, the Beirut airport opens again
Beirut, Lebanon - An aircraft of the Lebanese airline MEA has landed yesterday after 6:00pm at "Rafik Hariri" airport
As already announced yesterday by Olmert himself, the Beirut airport has been freed by the air block and can resume its activity of civil flights. In the past days the embargo has been violated two times... more
Science and technologyJuly-record for Hong Kong airport
Hong Kong, China - There have passed 4,1 million of passengers, 8,6% plus compared with July 2005
The airport of Hong Kong has signed record numbers for what concerns passengers traffic on the month of July 2006. In fact 4,1 million of travellers have passed in the terminal, 8,6% plus compared with... more
Science and technologyLow-cost airlines against new Berlin airport
Berlin, Germany - The new air terminal will gather the three already existing, the low-fare carrier fear an increase on airport taxes
It’s begun the building of the new Berlin airport (vedi AVIONEWS), the Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, and the polemics are already raising. The low-cost carriers are not favorable to the construction o... more
Science and technologyCancun airport: wireless check-in
Cancun, Mexico – 10 new mobile reception desks
Purchasing 10 mobile reception desks, Cancun International Airport, Mexico, is the first –and the only one by now- air station in Latin America to have wireless technology for passenger check-in procedures. T... more
Science and technologyChechnya: Grozny airport opens in October
Grozny, Chechnya – After more than eight years
Chechen Premier, Ramzan Kadirov, announced that Grozny airport, in the ex-Soviet Republic Capital, will be opened next October 5 again, after more than eight years of inactivity. In the runway of this... more
Science and technologyNew Berlin airport: the works started today
Berlin, Germany - It will be ready in 2011
The works opening ceremony for the new Berlin airport has taken place today, after a sentence did not agree last March with environmentalists opposing the building of the Berlin Brandenburg International... more
Science and technologyAdR should decide today if it intends to acquire Alitalia's real estates
Rome, Italy - The deadline for interest expression is today
Today is the deadline for interest expression concerning acquisition of real estates that Alitalia wants to sell near Rome and Milan airports. Aeroporti di Roma is the only company which expressly considered... more
Science and technologyHeathrow: 120 laptops "Forgotten" every month by passengers
London, United Kingdom - The British terminal is the one that registers the biggest number of missing laptops
It doesn’t seem one of those devices you can easily forget and yet at London airport of Heathrow every month 120 laptops are found missing by their owners, that often in a hurry run toward the gates l... more
Science and technologyFog at Rome-Fiumicino airport: cancellations and delays
Rome, Italy - A dozen flights did not take off
A Malaysia Airlines flight, coming from Kuala Lumpur, which should have landed at 6 am this morning at Rome-Fiumicino airport, proceeded to Milan-Malpensa, that was scheduled as the prosecution air station... more
Science and technologyFiumicino: flames in a landing gear of a Boeing 767
Rome, Italy - The fire has been immediatly put, no discomforts for passengers
Yesterday morning at Fiumicino airport a Boeing 767 of the US company American Airlines, due to take-off, has been involved in a beginning of a fire at the landing gear, causing an emergency that however... more