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Science and technologyIt is very hot at Sydney airport
Sydney, Australia - It is already started the fire season in the kangaroo land
At International Airport of Sydney there is a very record hot, so temperature seems reached 38,3 degrees, going above the previous 38,2 degrees record registered October 4, 1942. While also in the Sydney... more
Science and technologySolar Impulse: sustainable development and medicine progress
Lausanne, Switzerland - There are several concrete applications which could be produced by the interesting project of Piccard
It had already been announced during the last months: the Bertrand Piccard’s project for the production of an airplane powered by solar energy able to perform a flight around the globe and named Solar I... more
Science and technologyBus service from Verona's and Brescia's airports
Trento, Italy - The new bus service is directed to some of the main touristic place of Trento
It would start next December, 11, 2004 the new bus service which would link Verona's and Brescia's airports to some of the main prestigious districts of Trento. The project aims to facilitate passengers... more
Science and technologyFlorence: everyone agreed, local authorities and Adf; the airport "Vespucci" has to be improved
Florence, Italy - The discussion is about how to do it
Some curious voices would like "Vespucci" airport as a future air station capable of accommodating intercontinental flights. But according to what Riccardo Conti, Regional Chairman of the transport, said... more
Science and technologyLinate airport: two Sea' s employees could not avoid the temptation to steal some pieces of cheese
Milan, Italy - It would be processed October, 14 the 37-Italian man who was arrested yesterday at Linate's airport; his accomplice instead only reported a declaration
The Sea's Italian employee who tried yesterday to steal three pieces of cheese from the bag of a Sicilienne passenger seems to have an accomplice, a 36-Pakistani man who owns a regular residence permit... more
Science and technology"Ben Gurion" Airport linked to Tel Aviv by a railway
Tel Aviv, Israel - Inaugurated yesterday the EUR 80m work
From yesterday the International Airport "Ben Gurion" will be linked to the Tel Aviv downtown thanks to a 24 km railway. The work, of the cost of about EUR 80m, has been inaugurated yesterday, and it is... more
Science and technologyThe International Muscovite airport is disputed by many contendings
Moscow, Russia - It is still an open battle the one to control Sheremetyevo' airport
The Alfa Group's chairman (one of the battlings which aims to renovate the Russian airport), Mikhail Fridman, said in an interview published last Thursday in Vedomosti newspaper, that the battle for control... more
Science and technology"G. Marconi" Airport: the main European airports on the noise pollution
Bologna, Italy - At workshop it attended the "Ambient strategy Committee" of Aci Europe, association which gather 450 continental air station managers
On Thursday and Friday, at Bologna "Guglielmo Marconi" International Airport has been held a workshop on the noise pollution from air traffic, to which have attended 34 environmental defense responsibles... more
Science and technology"La Guardia": stopped the "Incubus" singer while he was taking a plane with a knife
New York, Usa - Cleared the disagreement, by the following flight he went to North Carolina
The rock group "Incubus" singer, Brandon Boyd, would be stopped from the airport authorities in the "La Guardia" international air station of New York, because he brought a knife: "I have just forgot to... more
Science and technologyMoscow: Sheremetyevo's airport would be renovated
Moscow, Russia - Vedomosti newspaper declared that a stake of the airport, after its renewal, could be sell to a private investor
The Russian Government declared that it intends to invest USD 70m in order to restructure the main airport of Moscow, Sheremetyevo. The Russian Transport Minister, Igor Levitin, who is Sheremetyevo's chairman... more
Science and technologyBrussels: seized a hard-drugs haul at the Belgian airport
Brussels, Belgium - Two women, coming back from Brazil, had into their bags the narcotics
The news has been communicated only yesterday from a local press agency, but the seizure of the drug haul by means of the Belgian policy seems to be happened last Monday. The haul's value seems to come... more
Science and technologyFog to Fiumicino: tens of delays, cancelled flights or diverted
Rome, Italy - Unease to Ciampino during the early morning, too
Today it is the fog to alarm travellers which are waiting to leave from the Rome International Airport "Leonardo da Vinci": since the early morning a dense blanket of fog surrounds in fact the capital,... more
Science and technologySMART: the new UAV programme of the Campania region's aerospace pole
Naples, Italy - CNR, CIRA, University "Federico II" and University of Sannio attending to produce an aircraft endowed of leading edge wing performance
SMART: this is the name of an interesting aeronautics programme under development in the Campania Region (Italy), which is based on the cooperation among the Institute for Composite and Biomedics Materials... more
Science and technologyBMW tests the hydrogen way at Munich Airport
Munich, Germany - It will seat of the first hydrogen fuel station in Europe
At Munich Airport will be carried out the activation of the first hydrogen fuel station in Europe, of which is protagonist the BMW group, ever since engaged in the study about the hydrogen energetic carrier... more
Science and technology"Charles De Gaulle": interrupted the radio communications for twenty minutes
Paris, France - It occurred yesterday in the first afternoon
Yesterday in the first afternoon, the radio communication system that links the control tower of the Paris-Charles De Gaulle International Airport with the planes flying over its competence area, would... more
Science and technologySea: also at Linate baggages supervised from 50 cameras
Milan, Italy - Sos Baggages Service: it will at disposition of the passengers the Numero Verde (800-964693)
"After Malpensa also at the Linate’s airport have been installed 50 cameras in the baggages shunting areas. The Labour Provincial Office of Milan, in fact, has allowed the authorization to the Sea SpA t... more
Science and technologyZurich-Kloten: few delays despite the new rules
Zurich, Switzerland - The society that manages air station enrolled additional staff to avoid discomforts to travellers
The "Unique", Zurich-Kloten airport management society, reported that in this week end there was no delays, as it feared after the new security rules gone into effect on Saturday, October 2 (see news AVIONEWS):... more
Science and technology"Riviera del corallo" Alghero Airport: September positive, the one million passenger record is closer
Alghero, Italy - Above all thanks to the Irish airline Ryanair
The Italian Alghero Airport "Riviera del Corallo", in September would have recorded a passenger increase equal to 100.000 unit, and the one million passenger in a year record is closer. Above all thanks... more
Science and technologyA new Weather Reconnaissance radar destined to the C-130J
Washington, USA - It will be employed to analyse the evolution of phenomena such as hurricanes just from within their eye
US Air Force Reserve would have recently started to test a new radar dedicated to Weather Reconnaissance, and mounted aboard a specific version of the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules. The major purpose... more
Science and technologyThe heir to the throne of Brunei landed at Pisa yesterday
Pisa, Italy - His own personal plane arrived in the country for his honeymoon, but there is a need for making some aspects on the air station's signals clearer
The personal airplane of the Brunei's heir to the throne, 29 years old Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah, landed at Pisa Airport, together with his own wife, Sarah Salleh (17), in order to start their honeymoon... more
Science and technologyA drug traffic at the airport of Perugia
Perugia, Italy - Substances that provoke hallucination have been sequestered to an Italian passenger who returned in Italy from Brazil.
It was during some particular checks of passengers coming from countries considered suspect, from the drug traffic’s point of view, that the bag of an Italian passenger, was controlled. Inside the bag, w... more
Science and technologyZurich-Kloten: new rules for take off and landing
Zurich, Italy - Civil Aviation Federal Board established to boost the interval times between departure and arrivals
As from tomorrow at Zurigo-Kloten airport will start new rules about the interval times between leaving and coming planes: the Civil Aviation Federal Board would have in fact established to diminish the... more
Science and technologySab: new scheduled flight towards Kiev by Blue Panorama
Bologna, Italy - The connection will be biweekly with B-737/400
"Another international connection for the Bologna's airport. After the starting of the long haul flights for Bangkok, Cancun and Havana and after the increase of the links towards the main cities of the... more
Science and technologyIt seems that there are different potential partners for Biac
Vienna, Austria – The Belgium's BIAC decided to sell some of its stakes
Flughafen Wien which is Vienna Airport operator seems to be interested in acquiring a stake in Belgium’s BIAC which is Brussels airport operator. The shareholders of the BIAC decided to sell a stake i... more
Science and technologyItalian airports should be in full working order
Rome, Italy - there is a considerable increasing number of passengers in the Italian airports
It is an inquiry of the Touring, that underlines the increasing number of passengers which crowds all the Italian airports. In particular, it seems that the smallest Italian airports are those which record... more
Science and technologyTerrorism has a new enemy to face up to
New York, USA - It is a test the one which is on, in three of the most important American airports
It is a recent news that confirmed the use of very sophisticated machines, in some of the most famous American airports, that can identify possible explosive traces through the passengers’ personal objects... more
Science and technologyFrance will yield an Aeroports de Paris stake
Paris, France - The French Minister of Transport explained it
The French Minister of Transport, Gilles de Robien, today at the end of the Ministers council, would have explained the Government aim to yield a stake in Aeroports de Paris, the society which manage the... more
Science and technologyAVIONEWS' special. The flying car (6): Aerocar 2000, that is to say a winged Lotus
Rome, Italy - The small spider Elise was selected some years ago in order to promote again, in a modern manner, the original 40s programme
A perfect union between a car and an airplane does not appear an old solution, when considering that the idea of the Aerocar, founded in the 40s, has recently been re-analysed, on the basis of the original... more
Science and technologyAVIONEWS' special. The flying car (5): "Volantor", the future of flight according to Moller
Rome, Italy - The M-400 Skycar encompasses within itself a new manner of thinking about the flying car
Paul Moller can surely by proud about the M-400 Skycar prototype, as it was not only able to represent a specific development philosophy for the future flying car, but it was even subjected to test flights,... more
Science and technologyAVIONEWS' special. The flying car (4): future opportunities and management problems
Rome, Italy – Economic, bureaucratic and judicial problems make the achievement of such goal a hard one
Which are the present opportunities for a such so attractive as hard aim to reach? It is the case for underlining how, first and foremost, several aerospace enterprises, authorities and privates are currently... more
Science and technologyAVIONEWS' special. The flying car: an idea thought during early XX century
Rome, Italy – The mounting of aerodynamics surfaces together with aviation engines was immediately considered
A vehicle able to carry one or more persons both in the street and in flight: a such brave and revolutionary concept that appears not so topical as one could think anyway. The first projects followed by... more
Science and technologyAVIONEWS' special. The flying car (2): tired of waiting for a taxi at the airport? Here is the Airphibian
Rome, Italy – US Eng. Robert Edison Fulton thought to solve this problem by designing a flying car
The WWII is certainly one of the most important periods for the development of cars able to fly, and so achieve an absolute transport autonomy that actually it has not been reached yet, at least when considering... more
Science and technologyAVIONEWS' special. The flying car (3): Convair and Ford aiming to the mass production
Rome, Italy – Economic and industrial problems determined the end of many hopes placed in the respective programmes
Convair: one of the most famous American aerospace companies in history, whose factories manufactured military airplanes such as the F-102 Delta Dagger, the F-106 Delta Dart and the B-58 Hustler, was really... more
Science and technologyEU finances plans in order to reduce the aircraft noisy emissions
Brussels, Belgium - By more silent and ecological airplanes
The noise deriving from the aircraft emissions (see news AVIONEWS) could be reduced thanks to the realization of ecological and silent planes, to whose plan would be working the European Commission in... more
Science and technology"G. Marconi": arrested because transported cocaine in his stomach
Bologna , Italy - A Nigerian would have ingested 61 eggs containing approximately a kilo of drug in order to pass the customs inspections
A Nigerian landed at "Guglielmo Marconi" air station in Bologna by an airplane coming from Ivory Coast, has been stopped from the agents of the Italian Guardia di Finanza because the dog of the dog unit... more
Science and technologyTempelhof airport does not close
Berlin, Germany - Upheld the airlines and air station dependent union appeal
Counter-order: Tempelhof does not close more (see news AVIONEWS). The historical Berliner air station that October 31 would have had to lock the doors in sight of the realization of the new Berlin Brandeburg... more
Science and technologyUSA: policeman detained in airport with an undeclared weapon in his suitcase
Los Angeles, USA - Also knowing the procedures he was going up aboard with a gun
The Los Angeles police department anti-terrorism commander on Thursday would have been detained by federal authorities within the international airport of Los Angeles, because carried a 38-caliber gun... more
Science and technologyFiumicino: the 1st airport in Italy and the 6th in Europe for quality
Rome, Italy - Previewed already new EUR 30m investments
The "Leonardo da Vinci" international airport rises at 6th in the table of quality of the European air stations in the first quarter 2004: Copenaghen, Amsterdam, Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Paris, London and... more
Science and technologyTroubles at Heathrow for the strike of the refuelling workers
London, United Kingdom - The Afs dependents will cross the arms for 48 hours
The fuel refuelling workers at international airport of Heathrow started at 4:30am (local hour) this morning a 48 hour strike, promulgated in a trade-union dispute. The abstention from the job could provoke... more
Science and technologyAn all Italian-made project against the risk of hijacking
Rome, Italy - It would have been designed by an Italian Air Force's engineer and then shown to a competent National Inter-Ministries Committee
The Italian Inter-Ministries Committee for the Air Transport and Airports Security would be analysing an important proposal, aimed to face the threat represented by the aerial hijacking by criminal persons... more
Science and technologyMoscow-Sheremetevo: third terminal for the Aeroflot flights
Moscow, Russia - So the flag airline hopes to increase its traffic
Soon the Moscow-Sheremetevo airport will have a 3rd terminal from which will leave Aeroflot Russian flag airline flights exclusively. The free way has been given from the board of directors of the carrier.... more
Science and technologySab: "Guglielmo Marconi" airport four new destinations from October 31
Bologna, Italy - They will be operated from the Icelandic carrier JetX
"Berlin (daily flight), Hamburg (five weekly flights), Brindisi (5 connections per week) and Reggio Calabria (4 links per week): they are the first four new scheduled destinations offered from the 'Guglielmo... more
Science and technologyEU finances the Elba airport
Brussels, Belgium - A EUR 1,6m contribution will serve to develop and improve the Tuscany air station
Green light from European Union to the development Marina di Campo airport on the Italian island of Elba financing. The monetary contribution of EUR 1,6m would have been authorized yesterday at Brussels... more
Science and technologyTempelhof: last days of activity
Berlin, Germany - The historical air station is retiring
It is beginning the last month of activity of the Berliner Tempelhof airport, planned and realized from the nazi government, an architecture masterpiece (see news AVIONEWS). The Berlin regional authorities... more
Science and technologyZurich: Armani store in the Airside Center
Zurich, Switzerland - The Italian designer had already launched a boutique with his brand at Rome-Fiumicino airport
At the Zurich airport from the last Friday (see news AVIONEWS) there is the "Emporio Armani": the Italian designer group in fact has inaugurated on the Airside Center second floor, an other store in an... more
Science and technologyFiumicino: arrested Chinese citizens for clandestine immigration abetting
Rome, Italy - They sold EUR 10.000 false documents that they supplied to their compatriots in the Schengen zone
The Polaria has arrested at "Leonardo da Vinci" airport in Fiumicino, 6 Chinese and others 5 have been denounced, in order to have acquired air tickets at Roman travel agency and to have supplied it, together... more
Science and technologyThe Frankfurt airport air traffic is on the up
Frankfurt, Germany - Positive the August data, thanks to the intercontinental flights boost
Fraport, the Frankfurt management society, yesterday has communicated that in August the passengers transit in the air station would have grown 1,8%, respect the previous year, increase obtained by the... more
Science and technologyReptiles and eggs of birds at Brisbane airport
Brisbane, Australia - The two men who tried to introduce them in the country were arrested and risk until 10 years of jail
They are appearanced yesterday in front of judge, two men accused for illegal import of alive animals, in order to have introduced at Brisbane airport snakes and eggs of birds. Gregory John Comans, 47... more
Science and technologySeized a Renoir picture at Peretola airport
Florence, Italy - A Belgian was taking off by a private flight towards Paris without the art work export permit
Yesterday around 01:00pm at Peretola airport, the Guardia di Finanza has succeeded to stop a Belgian citizen resident in France that was in order to leave Florence with a directed private flight in France,... more
Science and technologyZurich: inaugurated the new airport area
Zurich, Switzerland - 270.000 persons between Friday and Sunday have participated at celebrations organized from the "Unique"
On Friday, September 10, have been inaugurated a new area within the Zurich airport, and in the conclusion of the 5th phase of the air station widening jobs, have been organized a 3 day celebration, to... more