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DefenseGeorgia invites Nato to deploy Awacs aircraft to patrol its airspace
Moscow, Russia - It's high the tension between Georgia and its Russian neighbour
According to the Georgian Ambassador to Moscow the request from part of his government to Nato to deploy Awacs surveillance aircraft is necessary to guarantee the defense of the national airspace, too... more
AccidentsHelicopter crashed on Borneo, two victims
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - The weather condition was very bad
A Bell Ranger 206 helicopter crashed in Sarawak state, on Borneo island, after having taken off from a logging camp in Lawas district, and according to the first indiscretions the main cause was sure the... more
IndustryNorthrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin to develop a new Ucav
Washington, Usa - They had already cooperated for the F-35 program
After the experience of the profitable collaboration in the Joint F-35 Strike Fighter program, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin will once again together to develop and produce a new joint unmanned... more
AirlinesAmerican Airlines to cut operativity and more staff
Washington, Usa - St Louis airport will be heavily hit by this decision
American Airlines has announced yesterday it will cut approximately 2000 workplaces starting from the next November 1, because of the decision to halve its operativity at the St Louis airport. As an... more
AccidentsMarine Corps Harrier jet crashed in Atlantic
North Carolina, Usa - It's the fourth incident of the sort at Cherry Point Air Base
A Harrier plane belonging to the Marine Corps has crashed yesterday afternoon in the Atlantic Ocean, 65 km off the coast of North Carolina; however the pilot, able to eject before the crash, has been rescued... more
Science and technologyMalpensa: technical hitch delays the flight for Dakar
Milan, Italy – On account of the captain decision
Last night a captain noticed a technical hitch on an Alitalia plane for Dakar, in Senegal. Passengers – they were 259, among them Senegaleses going back home and travellers on holiday – were already emb... more
Finance and economyMonti: it's needed conditions for an alliance between Air France and Alitalia
Brussels, Belgium - Otherwise a monopoly could take shape
The alliance between Alitalia and Air France risks, once again, to find on its way impediments of formal nature, because "It still raises important problems under the profile of the competition on a number... more
AirlinesAmr knocks its losses down
Rome, Italy – Cuts and funds avoid the last year deficit
Amr, at whose head is American Airlines, the world major air transport society, managed in the second quarter to reduce its losses. Job, salary and flight cuts helped to improve deficit account of the... more
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Rome, Italy
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Civil aviationFAA AD on Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. airplanes
Washington, Usa - Models PC-12 and PC-12/45
Airworthiness Directives Federal Register Information Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2002-CE-51-AD; Amendment... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on McDonnell Douglas model 717-200 airplanes
Usa - To find and correct cracking of the support fitting assemblies of the main spoiler actuators, which could result in damage of adjacent structure such as the rear spar or upper skin panel, and consequent reduced structural integrity of the airplane
Airworthiness Directives Federal Register Information Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2003-NM-156-AD; Amendment... more
Civil aviationFAA Emergency AD on Eurocopter France (Eurocopter) model SE-3160, SA-315B, SA-316B, SA-316C, and SA-319B helicopters
Washington, Usa - To prevent failure of a blade and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter
Airworthiness Directives Federal Register Information Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 Docket No. 2003-SW-34-AD; AD 2003-15-51... more
IndustryContract Fabrication and Design Inc. awarded of a over 7 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the HH-60 helicopter
Contract Fabrication and Design Inc., Princeton, Texas, is being awarded a $7,314,594 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for manufacture of 21 production Gun Mount/Ammunition Handling System Kits applicable... more
IndustryGeneral Electric Aircraft Engines awarded of a 510 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the F/A-18 aircraft
General Electric Aircraft Engines, Lynn, Mass., is being awarded a $510,000,000 performance-based logistics (PBL) contract for repair and replacement of 26 internal engine components for the F404-400/402... more
IndustryB-757 orders drop and it's thinking about a shut of the production line
Chicago, Usa - It weighs the Continental's reduction order
They do not want to answer at the Chicago-based Boeing headquarter about the conjectures made yesterday from analysts and experts care a possible closing of the B-757 production line, the Boeing commercial... more
AccidentsSigonella: a fire blazed suddenly on board the main cause of the MH-53E disaster
Sicily, Italy - It has been searching the fourth soldier
It's under the careful control of the American forces, the zone where yesterday an American helicopter, a MH-53E Sea Dragon, crashed just after taking off from the American Navy base at Sigonella, in Sicily.... more
AccidentsSurface-to-air missile comes close to Us C-130
Baghdad, Iraq - The plane was landing at Iraqi International Airport
It's the second attack delivered against an American objective with a surface-to-air missile, and this time the target has been a military cargo plane C-130 while landing at the International Airport of... more
SecurityAmerican helicopter crashes in Sicily
Sicily, Italy - It has just taken off from Sigonella base
An Us military helicopter has crashed few minutes ago near Catania (Sicily). The aircraft has just taken off from the military base of Sigonella and, according to the first indiscretions, the crew has... more
AirlinesDismissal in sight for Singapore Airlines pilots
Singapore - The passenger traffic is recovering, but it's not enough
Singapore Airlines, once one of the world's most profitable airline, would be on the point to fire its staff, in an attempt to reduce the costs, increased because of the epidemic of Sars that has kept... more
AirlinesRichard Branson ready to fly Usa with a low-cost carrier
London, Uk - New Virgin first class also introduced
Sir Richard Branson, the English tycoon founder and head of the Virgin empire, has today introduced the new "Upper Class Suite" service that promises to be one of the most innovative concepts for the first... more
Science and technologyBiometric controls to be introduced at the Japanese airports in 2005
Tokyo, Japan - The Us authorities requested
The Japanese government would be ready to satisfy the American demand to supply biometric controls at the airports that operate international traffic, in order to prevent any attempt to manage with passport... more
Science and technologyCommittee estimates as unpracticable a third airport in the French capital
Paris, France - Technical and ethic reasons are the causes
Protests take shape in France for the plan of the government to construct a third airport in Paris, in order to lighten the Charles de Gaulle, the most important of the Country, but unable to manage an... more
IndustryTurbomeca engines are coming from America
Texas, Usa - The French engine manufacturer to the conquest of the Us market
The Texan economy, precisely in the industrial zone of Forth Worth, turns out to be more and more globalized, as it confirms the important position Turbomeca has so far assumed in the area. The French... more
Science and technologyBoeing and Airbus to test a fuel tank safety technology
Washington, Usa - It's tried to prevent another in flight blow up
Boeing and Airbus, the two greatest world aircraft manufacturers, have announced in the next weeks they will lead jointly some tests in order to verify a new technology that should prevent the tank outbreaks.... more
Government actsParliamentary question: "Disruption of environmental policy by rock-bottom short-hop air fares within the EU by a non-European airline" (2)
Rome, Italy - The answer of European Commissioner for Transport, Loyola De Palacio
Answer given by Ms de Palacio on behalf of the European Commission (17 February 2003). "The Commission had not been aware of the commercial practices of the company in question on the Paris-Amsterdam... more
Government actsParliamentary question: "Disruption of environmental policy by rock-bottom short-hop air fares within the EU by a non-European airline"
Rome, Italy - Presented to the European Parliament by Erik Meijer (European United Left)
Official Journal of the European Union 161 E of 10 July 2003, page 113. Written question E-3618/02 by Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL) to the European Commission (16 December 2002). Subject: Disruption of environmental... more
Government actsParliamentary question: "Court of Justice judgment concerning bilateral aviation agreements concluded by EU Member States with other states" (2)
Rome, Italy - The answer of European Commissioner for Transport, Loyola De Palacio
Answer given by Mrs de Palacio on behalf of the European Commission (13 February 2003). "1. The -judgement of the Court of Justice of 5 November 2002 has confirmed that the so-called nationality clauses... more
Government actsParliamentary question: "Court of Justice judgment concerning bilateral aviation agreements concluded by EU Member States with other states"
Rome, Italy - Presented to the European Parliament by Erik Meijer (European United Left)
Official Journal of the European Union 161 E of 10 July 2003, page 98. Written question E-3511/02 by Erik Meijer (GUE/NGL) to the European Commission (10 December 2002). Subject: Court of Justice judgment... more
AirlinesUnited Airlines to use 40 aircraft to start a low-cost unit
Washington, Usa - It's the second effort after Shuttle by United
So far it's called Starfish, but it's only a working name within United rather than the real name with which it will be identified the low-cost airline that is taking shape from a United Airlines' rib.... more
AerospaceNasa orders for a Security Center dedicated to the space missions
Washington, Usa - It will be built in Virginia
After the controversies that in the last weeks have invested NASA, following the publication of the relationship on the incident that has involved the Columbia shuttle, the experts of the American space... more
AccidentsAustralian injures a Thai passenger with a cutting object
Sydney, Australia - The airport control didn't find the knife
A fight broken out on board of a Thai Airways airplane, serving the Bangkok-Sydney route, has concluded with the neck wounding of a 50-years Thai passenger and the arrest, once landed, of the attacker,... more
IndustrySikorsky Aircraft Corp. awarded of a near 6 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For six MH-60R helicopters
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $5,700,000 modification to a previously awarded advanced acquisition contract (N00019-03-C-0011) to provide additional funding for the low... more
IndustryMcDonnell Douglas Corp. awarded of a over 6 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the F/A-18E/F
McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $6,493,960 not-to-exceed modification to a previously awarded letter contract (N00019-03-C-0041)... more
AccidentsMissile hits a civilian during a training flight in Russia
St Petersburg, Russia - The man is lightly wounded
A human error or a tracking system failure; on these two hypotheses it's working the investigating committee named by the Russian high-rank officials to inquire on a disagreeable and dangerous incident.... more
IndustryUSD 1bn in less for Boeing space service sector
Chicago, Usa - It has always been a mainstay for Boeing
The Boeing turnover could suffer more than believed of the world-wide economic crisis just in a field where instead it seemed to be in shape, that is that one of satellite services (less 12%). According... more
IndustrySnecma, privatization can wait
Paris, France – They are searching for stable partners
Snecma, the French aerospace company specialized in propulsion and equipment, is now controlled for its 97.2% from the Government and for its 1.7% from United Technologies, but it’s searching for shareholders w... more
Military aviationThe Italian Force in Iraq is under British Operative Control
Rome, Italy – Today the transfer of military authority
The Italian Force in Iraq which is operating to garantee security and aid to the Iraqi people, is from today, July 15, under the operative control of the South East Multinational Division, controlled by... more
AccidentsSuper Puma helicopter crashes in Australia during a training flight
Sydney, Australia - Its a Singapore helicopter
A Singapore Army Super Puma helicopter has crashed today at 3:50 pm (5:50 GMT) while performing a landing maneuver, in Australian territory, more precisely in the state of Queensland, during a training... more
DefensePyongyang announces it's able to build nukes
Benjing, China -
The stall of negotiates on the Korean crisis north to you would be to a carried out point of, although it is not still clearly which road the negotiations will take in the next few days. Indeed the announcement... more
SecurityHurricane Claudette points Texas, security measures will come into effect as from few hours
Houston, Usa - It should reach the Us coasts this evening
The hurricane Claudette, that has taken form a week ago in the Caribbean, is strengthening more and more that approaches the American state of Texas, that would be hit this evening, according to the proper... more
Science and technologyXV-15 into history after 30 years of experimental flights
Texas, Usa - It was an important step for the aviation technology development
After 30 years from its first flight it has been withdrawed the XV-15 developed by Bell Helicopter Textron, the pioneer aircraft of the tilt-rotor technology, able to fly like an airplane but to take off... more
Press releaseChina's flag carrier, Air China, receives first A-319
Hamburg, Germany - The air company has a further seven A-319 on order
"Air China, the flag carrier of the People’s Republic of China, has taken delivery of its first A-319 at the Airbus delivery centre in Hamburg, Germany. This is the very first aircraft of the A-320 family e... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Boeing model 737-600, 737-700, 737- 700C, 737-800, 737-900, 757, and 767 series airplanes
Washington, Usa - To prevent incapacitation of the flightcrew due to lack of oxygen, which could result in loss of control of the airplane
Airworthiness Directives Federal Register Information Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2002-NM-282-AD; Amendment... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Airbus model A-330 and A-340 series airplanes
Washington, Usa - To prevent hydraulic leakage and failure of the servo-controls located on the ailerons due to cracks in the end caps and along the barrel, which could result in loss of the ailerons and consequent reduced controllability of the airplane
Airworthiness Directives Federal Register Information Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 2002-NM-02-AD; Amendment... more
Press releaseContinental Airlines to defer delivery of Boeing jets
Houston, Usa - The fleet reduction to continue
"Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) yesterday announced it will defer firm deliveries of 36 Boeing 737 aircraft originally scheduled for delivery in 2005, 2006 and 2007. As a result, Continental's fleet... more
Finance and economyDhl Airways sold for USD 57m, now it's named Astar Air Cargo
Washington, Usa - Decided the purchase of 10 B-727/200s
An American investment group has acquired Dhl Airways for USD 57m, in a financial operation concluded yesterday. Now the new company, that will have its headquarter in Miami and will be guided from the... more
Government actsParliamentary question: "Environmental Impact Assessment for Frankfurt airport" (2)
Rome, Italy - The answer given by the EU Commissioner for the Environment, Margot Wallström
Answer given by Mrs Wallström on behalf of the European Commission (17 January 2003). "The Honourable Member contests the lack of application of Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment... more
Government actsParliamentary question: "Environmental Impact Assessment for Frankfurt airport"
Rome, Italy - Presented to the European Parliament by Hiltrud Breyer (Green Party)
Official Journal of the European Union C 161E of 10 July 2003, page 83. Written question E-3322/02 by Hiltrud Breyer (Verts/ALE) to the European Commission (25 November 2002). Subject: Environmental... more
Government actsPublicated on the Official Journal of the European Union the operating licences of air carriers
Rome, Italy - The decisions taken by Spain
Official Journal of the European Union C 156 of 4 July 2003, page 4. Publication of decisions by Member States to grant or revoke operating licenses pursuant to Article 13(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 2407/92... more
AccidentsBmi B-737 in emergency landing
London, UK - It was a pressurization failure
From what it is learned only today, a Boeing 737 operated by Bmi (British Midland), taken off from Cardiff en route to Tolouse, has been forced to an emergency landing on Saturday because of one depressurization... more