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Aviation RSS FeedsUnited May Cancel Order for 42 Airbus Aircraft. - CHICAGO (Reuters): UAL Corp, parent of United Airlines, may cancel an order for 42 Airbus aircraft, forfeiting a $91 million dollar deposit and possibly heralding a wave of deferrals and cancellations for the major plane makers as their customers scale back growth plans ...Feed Source: planenews.com Four Dead in B.C. Helicopter Crash. - VANCOUVER: Four people are dead after a helicopter carrying mining workers crashed off the northwest B. C. coast yesterday morning. Rescue officials hadoriginally thought that two people had died at the scene but shortly after 1 p. m. confirmed that all four occupants were dead ... Helicopter Crashes in S Thailand, Killing Ten Military Officers. - BANGKOK (Xinhua): A helicopter of the Royal Thai Air Force on Wednesday crashed in Thailand’s southern province of Yala, killing ten on board, including nine Air Force officers and one army officer. Initial report said the UH-1 Huey Helicopter crashed in a mountainous area in Yala’s Be Tong district, killing three soldiers aboard ... New Attempt at World Speed Record in AgustaWestland Helicopter. - NEW YORK (PRNewswire via COMTEX): Pilot Scott Kasprowicz departed New York at approximately 3:00 am Thursday morning in an attempt to set a new speed record for an around-the-world helicopter flight; the goal is to complete the trip in under 14 days. The record setting flight dubbed "The Grand Adventure" is being attempted in Kasprowicz’s twin engine, factory standard, executive configured AgustaWestland Grand helicopter ... 9 Presumed Dead in Wildfire Helicopter Crash. - SAN FRANCISCO (AP): Eight firefighters and a pilot are presumed dead in the crash of a helicopter that had just picked up workers battling a blaze in a Northern California forest, officials said Wednesday. The helicopter had lifted off from a clearing in a remote, rugged region of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, said Jennifer Rabuck, spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service ... Germany, Italy Looking to Buy Armed Drones: Pentagon. - Washington: Germany and Italy are seeking to buy MQ-9 Reapers, new armed drones that the United States recently began flying in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Monday. In notifications to Congress, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Germany request a possible sale of five of the unmanned combat aircraft while Italy was seeking four ... Sarasota Man Buys, Rebuilds MiG Fighter Jets. - SARASOTA: They’re relics of the cold war era that a local aviation buff is re-building in his garage. Doug Morgan is piecing together two MiG fighter jets. A few years ago, he went to the former Czechoslavakia and bought the two MiG 23 fighter jets in Prague. He disassembled them and had them brought to the U.S. by boat ... Learning from a Horrific Accident. - A horrific accident along the Oregon coast on Aug. 4 claimed the lives of a pilot and his passenger as well as three children on the ground. While it is far too soon to know what happened, AOPA Air Safety Foundation Executive Director Bruce Landsberg has some thoughts on lessons pilots can learn from the accident at this early stage ... Boeing, British Airways, GECAS Finalize Deal for up to 10 777-300ERs. - SEATTLE: Boeing [NYSE: BA] and British Airways have signed an order for two Boeing 777-300ER jetliners valued at $529 million at list prices. Boeing also announced that GE Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS) has purchased two 777-300ERs, airplanes that were previously listed as an unidentified order on the Boeing Web site. The airplanes are two of four 777s that BA has agreed to lease from GECAS – including two 777s ordered in 2007 – as part of its recent commitment to the 777-300ER.... Boeing, Azerbaijan Airlines Announce Order for 737s and 767s. - SEATTLE: Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Azerbaijan Airlines have finalized an order for two Boeing Next-Generation 737-900ERs and two 767-300ERs. The order is valued at $449 million at list prices. One of the 767s is a substitution for a previously ordered 787, as reflected today on Boeing’s Orders and Deliveries Web site. Including today’s announcement, Azerbaijan Airlines has a total of eight Boeing airplanes on order: four 737-900ERs, two 787-8s and two 767-300ERs.... Banning Cell Phone Use on Airliners Debate Latest Act in a Summer Silly Season - Maybe it’s the heat of summer, maybe we just need a distraction or maybe anyone associated with the airline industry is just whacked. For example, today we find that as the war between those who think it is their God Given Right to yap on their cell phones whilst sitting in a cramped, expensive and now pillow-less airline seat continues, word from the feds is people are pretty much divided on the subject. No kidding?!..... New Hoop for Travelers to Jump Through: Security-Checkpoint Friendly Laptop Bags - It’s not enough now that you have to pay for pillows and water on airline flights, you now have to replace your laptop bag. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said today that beginning August 16 it will let passengers leave their laptop computers in bags that meet new "checkpoint friendly" standards ... US Gov Releases Funding for Production of Six F-35B STOVL Aircraft. - FORT WORTH, Texas: The U.S. Department of Defense has released $1 billion of funding to acquire six Lockheed Martin F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft as part of the second Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) contract for the F-35 ... American Chambliss Wins Red Bull Race in London. - American Kirby Chambliss stole the glory at the Red Bull Air Race World Series on Aug. 3 in London after the race favorite hit a pylon and failed to make the finals. With Paul Bonhomme’s fall from grace, the competition is wide open for the overall victory with only four races remaining in the season ... SpaceX Launch Fails a Third Time. - A private rocket carrying three satellites, including a Nasa space sail, has failed to reach orbit. It is the third unsuccessful launch attempt for the Falcon 1 rocket, built by private space firm SpaceX ... Combating the Threat to Global Aviation from Man-Portable Air Defense Systems. - Countering the proliferation of Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) is a top national security priority of the United States. MANPADS, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, in the hands of criminals, terrorists, and other non-state actors pose a serious threat to passenger air travel, the commercial aviation industry, and military aircraft around the world (over 40 civilian aircraft have been hit by MANPADS missiles since the 1970’s) ... Female Pilots Gather, Set World Record. - Jill Long says we need more PDA. That is public displays of aviation. Friday morning’s gathering of female pilots, current, non-current and student, was just that, a very large PDA that set a world record ... Spitfire Continues to Captivate Crowds. - A newly restored Spitfire Mk. V fighter captured a crowd of admirers at a Warbirds in Review session Wednesday. The fighter’s place in history, and in the collective English consciousness, was highlighted by speaker Adam Smith, former EAA AirVenture Museum director and current vice president of membership ... Rocket Racer Takes to the Skies. - A rocket-powered racer will take the skies again for the air show crowd at Oshkosh, Wisc. this weekend, fresh from its public debut on Tuesday. Veteran pilot Rick Searfoss piloted the ship, powered by a liquid oxygen and kerosene rocket engine developed by XCOR Aerospace, through a straightforward flight pattern on Tuesday that lasted approximately ten minutes from takeoff to landing ... Next Space Tourist, Station Crew Eager to Fly. - WASHINGTON: America’s next space tourist and a new space station crew are gearing up for an October launch to the International Space Station (ISS). Computer game developer Richard Garriott, along with U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov are slated to launch Oct. 12 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport ... It's Just Plane Fun. - LOS ANGELES: Want to get away but tired of driving to a crowded airport and cramming into an airliner? How about hopping into a two-seat propeller plane that can be flown just about anywhere and land at the most remote places, including mountain lakes and desolate airfields? Better yet, a private pilot’s license is not required ... Mooney Teams up With Rolls-Royce on Potential Aircraft Line. - Mooney Airplane Co. has entered into a joint engineering project with aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce plc. The relationship will allow Mooney to explore the possibility of using Rolls-Royce’s RR500 turbine engine in its production line ... Five Dead in Ecuador Military Helicopter Crash. - QUITO: An Ecuadoran military helicopter crashed northeast of Quito, killing five soldiers aboard, the army said. The aircraft was on a personnel transfer flight on Friday when it went down near the town of San Miguel de los Bancos in Pichincha province, the army said in a statement, adding that the reasons for the crash were unknown ... Trial Canceled for Comair 5191 Crash Lawsuits. - A civil trial over the Comair Flight 5191 crash in 2006 that was scheduled for Monday has been canceled. Only two lawsuits against Comair remained Friday afternoon in Fayette County, and one was so close to settlement that the participants asked for more time for negotiations, said a secretary in U.S. District Judge Karl Forester’s office ... NTSB: Plane Crash Investigation Has No One Focus. - OWATONNA, Minn.: National Transportation Safety Board investigators are looking at all scenarios as to why a corporate jet crashed and killed eight people aboard, a board member said Saturday ... SpaceX: First 9 Engine Firing of Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle. - McGregor TX: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX ) conducted the first nine engine firing of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle at its Texas Test Facility outside McGregor on July 31st. A second firing on August 1st completed a major NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) milestone almost two months early ... Piper Jet Flies for the First Time. - The PiperJet made its maiden flight shortly after 11 a.m. on July 30 at the Piper Aircraft plant in Vero Beach, Fla. This is the aircraft manufacturer’s first jet in its 71-year history ... FAA Audits Could Lead to LSA Shakeout. - The FAA has chosen 29 of the original 52 manufacturers in the light sport aircraft (LSA) industry for a critical audit that could end with some companies losing their LSA approvals. Audits have begun at a handful of the companies in the belief that there are ones out there that are not in compliance with industry standards ... NASA Shakes, Bakes, Rattles and Blasts Lunar Spaceship. - NASA today said its spaceship successfully completed a series of stress-inducing tests to ensure it can make the rugged flight to the moon where it is expected to map the lunar surface in preparation for manned moon missions planned to take off by 2020 ... Sky Europe Fails to Start Flights to Russia. - The Russian aviation authorities have not let the Slovak low-cost
airline Sky Europe launch flights to Russia. "It
is just that Aeroflot does not want us to fly to Russia and it invents reasons to say no to us," Sky Europe’s representatives comment ... Serbia to Sell Airline. - BELGRADE, Serbia: Serbia’s government announced Tuesday the sale of a majority stake in the troubled state-owned flag carrier JAT Airways. JAT’s property is valued at 162.64 million euros ($256.09 million) and its current debt is 247.39 euros ($389.54) million, according to an international tender. Buyers have until July 31 to submit bids ... Is This Your Jetpack? - One of the classic dreams of aviation is to rise into the air with a flying machine strapped to your back. The jetpack dream is so iconic that it has shown up in movies ranging from "Thunderball" to "The Rocketeer" - and so elusive that it has spawned a book about high-tech failures titled "Where’s My Jetpack?"..... NASA Looking For a Few Cool (and Green) Aircraft. - NASA next week is holding another one of it Centenial Challenges this time $300,000 is up for competitors who demonstrate aircraft that are safer, less expensive and easier to operate, while having fewer negative effects on the environment and communities surrounding airports ... Russian Air Carriers at Risk of Mass Bankruptcy - If the fuel prices rise 20%, Russia might face mass bankruptcy of air
carriers. According to different prognoses, the first bankruptcies may
be registered by summer 2009 leaving the RF without half of its
airlines. Full Story... Aviation Innovators Compete for NASA Technology Prizes. - WASHINGTON: The 2008 General Aviation Technology Challenge will be
held Aug. 4-10 at the Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, Calif.
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Airport Parking- Make Your Trip Hassle Free Posted By : Article Manager - Traveling by plane is now highly required and popular traveling because it is affordable and quick. But airport parking is a big problem. Often the flight time is shorter compared to the time taken to find a parking niche. Airport parking is not counted among the enjoyable parts of travel, whether for pleasure or business. You have various choices to save the money that is spent in airport parking.... Airport Parking UK Save more than expect Posted By : Article Manager - Many people travel a lot by plane. Whether they are left for a couple of days or a month, finding safe and sound airport parking for their car or any other vehicle gives them incalculable peace of mind. But parking at airport can be expensive if you just turn up at parking without having made a reservation. Airport parking may not be your top main concern when it comes to categorizing your holiday.... 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