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Thomas Enders, Airbus CEO, announced that the plane maker was reviewing whether it could meet the A380 delivery deadlines
Thomas Enders, Airbus CEO, announced that the plane maker was reviewing whether it could meet the A380 delivery deadlines this year and still ship 13 superjumbos in 2008 and 25 in 2009. He spoke of a ?battle? to meet the schedule, but reiterated his confidence. The statement was made during the inauguration of a new […]
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:57:46 -0700
A Litany of Horrors
A Litany of HorrorsAmerica’s University of Imperialism By Chalmers Johnson This essay is a review of Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire by Alex Abella (Harcourt, 400 pp., $27) The RAND Corporation of Santa Monica, California, was set up immediately after World War II by the U….Read the full post from American Empire ProjectTags: Current Affairs
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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:25:57 EDT
Landing at Girona Airport
Boeing 737-800 of Ryanair landing runway 20 at Girona/Costa Brava Airport. Flight FR9013 from Malta/Luqa Aiport. Reg EI-DCB arr to LEGE 1h before schedule time !
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Dan York and Sallie Goetsch are your guest co-hosts; NewComm Forum, including an audio segment from Shel; Twitter outage; One-Minute News: Enterprise Web 2.0 to become a 4.6 billion industry according to Forrester, Linden Labs gets a new CEO, Skype on PSP, podcasting in plain English, Podshow renamed as Mevio, Facebook enables chat, WordPress plugin for Seesmic video comments; a report from David Phillips; LinkedIn discussions on blogging; Media Monitoring Minute; Neville on Twitter; LiveMesh; dataportability initiative gets a logo; David Phillips on Twitter; listener comments; the music; and more.
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Daimler’s 1st-quarter profit slips without one-time gains (AP)
Daimler’s 1st-quarter profit slips without one-time gains (AP)Automaker Daimler AG said Tuesday that its first-quarter profit slipped 32 percent from last year, when its results were lifted by a one-time gain from the transfer of shares in Airbus’ parent company….Read the full post from Yahoo! Finance: Auto Manufacturers - Major Industry News
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Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:13:19 EDT
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More A380 delays or not
In a confusing set of stories, reports suggest that there may be a new round of delivery delays for the Airbus A380. These generated from comments made by Airbus CEO Thomas Enders, who said Airbus is engaged in a major review of the A380 production to assess the delivery schedule of 13 A380s this year and more in succeeding years. This apparently was interpreted to mean that Airbus might not deliver the 13 airplanes promised this year. A spokesman immediately denied that?s what was meant. We
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Airbus begins ‘major review’ of A380 delivery schedule
Airbus is conducting a “major review” of its delivery schedule for the A380 superjumbo, the company’s chief executive said Tuesday, a plane that has been plagued by delays.
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:11:39 GMT
QANTAS BOEING B747-400 1:200 DESKTOP MODEL - $24.99
Brand new factory sealed desktop model of a QANTAS BOEING B747-400 in 1/200 scale. Beautifully detailed this model is prepainted and snaps together in minutes, no glue or paint is required. The stand is also included and has the QANTAS…
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Boeing won’t throw “elbows” in dispute - Seattle Times
Boeing, chided by the Air Force along with Northrop Grumman for the tone of its military-contract dispute, will avoid throwing “sharp elbows” without backing down from the protest, Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney said Monday. McNerney said it …
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:16:00 GMT
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Boeing bosses receive a bloody nose
A mass meeting of workers, outside the Port Melbourne Boeing plant, voted to go back to work today after nearly three weeks on strike….As reported previously, Boeing management had provoked this dispute after the unfair dismissal of a worker….At Boeing there where 700 workers on strike over the unfair dismissal of a worker, all were breaking the law in defiance of an employer attempting to drive the union o ut of the workplace….In a nut shell, Boeing sacked the worker, Allan Bloom, without having gone through the agreed dispute settlement procedure….
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:26:48 EDT
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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:46:02 -0700
Singapore Airlines takes Delivery of Fourth Airbus A380 - ASIATravelTips.com
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Singapore Airlines takes Delivery of Fourth Airbus A380ASIATravelTips.com, Thailand - 7 hours agoSingapore Airlines has taken delivery of its fourth Airbus A380, the world?s largest passenger plane. After a delivery flight from Toulouse in France, …Singapore Airlines collects its fourth Airbus jet AFPSingapore Airlines receives its fourth A380 XinhuaSingapore Airlines takes delivery of fourth A380 ReutersTMCnetall 21 news articles
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:51:27 GMT
Air safety investigators are about to recommend new safety guidelines for Boeing 777s,
Air safety investigators are about to recommend new safety guidelines for Boeing 777s, April 28, 2008 by avianews According to the Wall Street Journal, air safety investigators are about to recommend new safety guidelines for Boeing 777s, after a crash near London earlier this year. The Boeing jet had travelled from China to UK with unusual cold outside temperature, and some ice had formed in part of the fuel system. Therefore, investigators may warn pilots and operators of B777 jets to take e
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SKYMARKS AIRBUS A380 AIRPLANE MODEL 1/200 - $49.99
The quality of these models is SUPURB. Here it is!! The next generation of wide bodies……The Airbus A380-800 Double-Deck airliner! This incredible model represents the prototype of the largest airliner yet. This snap fit model is…
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Singapore Airlines A380
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Explainer: Is it safe to airdrop ammunition?
Dropping Bullets From a Plane Is it safe to airdrop ammunition? By Jacob Leibenluft A helicopter delivering supplies to an Afghan National Police outpost accidentally dropped its cargo at the wrong location, a NATO spokesman acknowledged Thursday. According to a briefing given to the Afghan Parliament, the supplies—which included ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades, and food—fell into the hands of a nearby Taliban leader. Wait, is it safe to drop ammunition and grenades from the air? Yes, if you make sure it’s not falling too fast. There shouldn’t be much risk of personal injury, since supplies aren’t usually dropped until an area is cleared of people. As a result, the biggest challenge is to ensure that the supplies themselves survive the fall. While smaller, less-fragile supplies—like individual rations of food or leaflets, for example—can be dispersed widely in a free drop, most airdrops utilize some method for reducing the delivery’s speed before it hits the ground. For a drop to be classified as “low-velocity,” the cargo must be falling at a rate of no more than 28 feet per second (about 19 mph) by the time it lands. But even higher-velocity airdrops, which fall at 70 to 90 feet per second, can include packages of ammunition. While details about the bungled Afghanistan drop are sketchy, it is likely that the supplies weren’t released from very high above the ground. Most higher-altitude airdrops are made from airplanes, which can carry far more than a helicopter but which are far harder to get near the ground in remote locations. When helicopters are used, they often carry and deposit large cargo by hooking it as a “sling load” that hangs below the aircraft and can be lowered more gently to the ground. Sling loads can be used to haul Humvees or even other helicopters; the Boeing-made Chinook can carry up to 26,000 pounds on a single hook. Since World War II, the most popular method of delivering supplies from high in the air has involved using parachutes that open after the cargo is released. Today, the most advanced aerial delivery methods, like the recently developed Joint Precision Airdrop System, can safely drop loads weighing several tons from as high as 25,000 feet. Using technology similar to that employed with smart bombs, the system tags cargo with GPS devices that help adjust the parachute to ensure the cargo reaches its intended destination. These drops are sometimes used in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they allow resupply convoys to stay off the road and out of the reach of IEDs and other hazards. In most cases, however, supplies are still dropped with a “dumb” parachute from lower altitudes. To reduce the force of impact, cargo is often secured within honeycomb, a cardboardlike layer a couple of inches thick. In some humanitarian drops, blankets or ration packets have been used instead to help cushion the rest of the delivery. Before items like munitions are cleared for aerial delivery, they are tested in repeated drops at places like the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. In the case of humanitarian relief, the biggest danger associated with airdrops often comes in the chaos that can occur when the food and medicine finally arrive. When the World Food Program is forced to airdrop, it creates cordoned-off zones to collect the supplies. But in India last year, at least three people sustained injuries after falling from their roofs while attempting to receive food packets dropped from Indian Air Force helicopters. And during the initial phases of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the United Nations warned that children might easily mistake “bomblets” dropped from airplanes with the similarly colored food rations distributed by coalition forces on the ground. Got a question about today’s news? Ask the Explainer.
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:44:01 EDT
DHL BOEING B727-200 desktop airplane model 1:150 scale - $27.50
Brand new, factory sealed snap fit model of a DHL B727-200 in 1:150 scale. These snap-together models are highly detailed with solid injection molded plastic construction. All models assemble in minutes and include a display stand. These…
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
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Independent Guides to Private Jets, Charter Flights, and Executive Air Travel | Halogen Guides Jets
news and info on the private aviation industry. includes a directory of providers.
Emirates A380 to land in New York this fall ” Peterjcooper’s Weblog
Emirates Airline set to become the first commercial A380 operator stateside this October.
ALITALIA BOEING B777-200 DESKTOP MODEL W/GEAR - $30.95
Brand new, factory sealed snap fit model of an ALITALIA B777-200 with gear. These snap-together models are highly detailed with solid injection molded plastic construction. All models assemble in minutes and include a display stand. This…
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
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Airbus A380 - at - Heathrow Airport Best view not seen on TV
Airbus A380 - at - Heathrow Airport Best view not seen on TVYeebsy5 min - Mar 18, 2008The first passenger service of the A380 into Heathrow, footage you will not have seen on TV.
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:13:14 PDT
В Будве будет круто
В Будве будет крутоГонки Class One в Будве Если кому интересно, я продаю пакеты гостя гонок Class One в Будве. Кликните на картинку, чтобы прочитать приглашение. Пакет гостя включает перелеты …Read the full post from Юго_Ру
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Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:40:56 EDT
Singapore Airlines collects its fourth Airbus jet - AFP
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Singapore Airlines collects its fourth Airbus jetAFP - 16 hours agoTOULOUSE (AFP) ? Singapore Airlines has taken delivery of its fourth Airbus A380 plane, the world\’s biggest passenger jet, which left Toulouse, France, …Singapore Airlines takes delivery of fourth A380 ReutersSingapore Airlines receives 4th A380, ready for Tokyo flights+ TMCnetall 15 news articles
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:45:36 GMT
Airbus: Vision of glory for Mobile /byBy GEORGE TALBOT - Everything Alabama
Barry Eccleston says Mobile is ready for takeoff. Eccleston, chief executive officer of Airbus Americas, is eager to break ground on a project that will establish the city as a major new center of aircraft production. Airbus, a subsidiary of the …
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:13:00 GMT
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ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 04.24.08>
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Delta announces an almost unbelievable first-quarter loss.Boeing, however, is doing great.And DOT says airline fares ended last year on an upbeat note.
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:01:01 -0400
Design of Boeing 777 electric system
Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE, Vol. 7, No. 7. (1992), pp. 4-11.The electric power system for the Boeing 777 is comprised of two independent electrical systems, the main and the backup. The main electric system includes two engine-driven integrated drive generators, a generator driven by the auxiliary power unit, three generator control units, and a bus power control unit. The backup electric system includes two engine-drive generators and one integrated converter/control unit to provide the redundancy of electrical sources equivalent to a three-engine airplane. Automation of the system is achieved by the use of state-of-the-art, microprocessor-based control units that perform system control, protection, and built-in-test functions. Each control unit has redundant two-way communication through an ARINC 629 communication bus that requires significantly fewer discrete wires than similar systems, allowing considerable reduction of the interface circuits and reduction in weight
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