Fly the Airbus A380 V2
The Coalition of the Swilling (Free subscription) | yesterday
Man, what a scary flight Passengers on a London to Melbourne flight have described their terror after a faulty door "popped" in midair blowing a hole in the fuselage. Qantas flight QF30, with 300 passengers and crew on board, plunged...
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Viet Nam Administration of Civil Aviation on July 25 used an Airbus on the Ho Chi Minh-Phu Cat air route. The first flight carrying 166 passengers took off from Tan Son Nhat Airport at 6.45am on July 25 and landed at Phu Cat Airport at 8am. One hour after, the same aircraft carrying 166 passengers flew back from Phu Cat to Ho Chi Minh City. Vu Khac Chien, director of Phu Cat Airport said
The Amateur Economist & Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
I guess every little bit helps. (pic from Economist.com) Emirates throws out the magazines - Economist.com: "EMIRATES has decided to remove all paper from the seat-backs on its new Airbus A380s, in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/ for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cockpit Conversation (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
If you can read a technical aviation report, you may want to go straight to this one . The four and a half page National Transportation Safety Board report details an inflight incident where a United Airlines Airbus A320 lost much of its electrical power immediately after takeoff from the Newark Liberty International Airport. Because of the power loss, many systems stopped working, including three...
Aviation India (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Mumbai: Weighed down by rising crude prices, Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines is in negotiations with international carriers to sell two of the five A340-500 aircraft it had committed to buy from Airbus last year. The airline may also defer taking deliveries of 29 narrow-bodied A320s, airline sources said. The list price for A340 aircraft is $160 million, but insiders said Kingfisher might...
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
You would think that designating trim levels as Aero would be letter left to Boeing or Airbus. But you only have to remember the slogan “Born From Jets” to realize that’s why Saab uses it on sedans. The company was founded to build high-performance Source: www.chicagotribune.com Jumbo Jet Lands Fast With Hole In Fuselage [...]
Aviation India (Free subscription) | yesterday
C ockpit4u receives from DGCA India the approval as a Type Rating Training Organization (TRTO) for pilot training courses on Airbus and Boeing aircraft. Read On > >
UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | yesterday
On the eve of taking delivery of its first eco-efficient Airbus A380, Emirates unveiled Thursday a series of new initiatives to further improve the environmental performance of its operations worldwide. The programme, branded Environment, include
FinanMart.com - IT News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Daily Headlines 25 July 2008 Hello, News. Login to alter your email preferences or simply unsubscribe here Check out our other feeds and services News Dell adds multi-touch to Latitude XT Bigger SSD drives too Airbus A380-800: an airborne treat for gadget fans Editors' Blog Tech heaven at 37,000ft It's official: Samsung shows off i8510 8mp cameraphone Korean company joins
Times of India (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to sources, Flight MK 745, an Airbus 330-200, was to take off from the secondary runway at 1.30pm but was delayed due to bird activity.
Switched (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Filed under: Green Tech , Summer Fun United-Arab-Emirates-based Emirates Airlines has decided to banish all paper reading materials from flights on their brand new Airbus A380 jumbo jets. Pre-printed materials like magazines, pamphlets, and shopping catalogs (goodbye Skymall !) will no longer be available on planes. Instead, content that was previously in those printed publications and pamphlets will...
ziomal.biz (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
United Arab Emirates: Emirates eco-efficient Airbus A380 is to be handed over to the carrier with a special ceremony at the Hamburg facility of Airbus. With a lot of speculation to what will be provided on board AME Info will give you an insight as we board the 'delivery flight' into Dubai. Meanwhile, Phil Blizzard previews the event with a special look at the worlds largest passenger aircraft. [AMEInfo.com]...
ziomal.biz (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
United Arab Emirates: Emirates has announced a series of environmental initiatives on the eve of taking delivery of its first Airbus A380, to improve its operations worldwide. Named the Emvironment programme, it includes the adoption of a new environmental policy for the company, a global staff awareness campaign and internal goals to reduce energy consumption and waste, as well as increase recycling...
ziomal.biz (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
United Arab Emirates: On the eve of taking delivery of its first eco-efficient Airbus A380, Emirates today unveiled a series of new initiatives to further improve the environmental performance of its operations worldwide. [AMEInfo.com]
Greg Mankiw's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The next in the series : demand for new, more fuel-efficient aircraft has never been greater. The latest versions of the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737, the single-aisle workhorses for which demand is strongest, are up to 40% cheaper to run than the vintage planes some American airlines still use.
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hrishikesh | 12/20/2007
Superplanes: A Rapidly Growing Market for Carbon Fibre In 1980 the global consumption of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) based carbon fibres was 2,000 tons. By 2005 it had grown to approximately 22,500 tons. The new superplanes from Airbus and Boeing—expected to change the face of global air traffic—have been designed to incorporate more carbon fibre composite materials than ever before. Given that the number...
legionofmarduk | 10/26/2007
From the majestic Airbus 380 to the ultrafast Tgv train, from the International Space Stations' modules to the planned Galileo positioning system, the whole Europe has been bustling with hi-tech research and application in the last years. Eager to latch itself on this burgeoning trend Genoa (already hosting the Italian Institute for Technology and planning its Erzelli Hill Technology Village) started
