Aviation

France Honors Anniversary Of American War Aviators

Armen Hareyan — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:19:51 -0500

On July 14, 2008, the day of France’s Fête nationale, more commonly known in the US as Bastille Day, many French cities and villages will be celebrating with parades, fireworks, and other festive events.

New technology may help Olympic sailing

harminka — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:29:43 -0500

A team of researchers at the Ocean University of China has developed and tested a mobile lidar (light detection and ranging) station that can accurately measure wind speed and direction over large areas in real time -- an application useful for aviation safety, weather forecasting and sports.

Hostess videoed stripping in cockpit during flight

Blood_Red_Sandman — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:40:20 -0600

Investigations have been launched after an air hostess was filmed stripping in a jet cockpit during flight.

Fujitsu Develops First 64KByte High-Capacity FRAM RFID Tag for Aviation Applications

harminka — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:36:10 -0600

Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of the world's first 64 kilobyte (KB) ultra-high frequency (UHF)-band radio frequency identification (RFID) tag with high-capacity FRAM, featuring memory capacity sufficient to store large volumes of aircraft part and maintenance history data, while supporting a number of different radio frequencies to enable traceability worldwide.

President Bush Discusses Aviation Congestion

Armen Hareyan — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:55:09 -0600

THE PRESIDENT: Thanksgiving is a week from today, and Christmas will quickly follow. This is really a time of joy for our families. Unfortunately, this is also a season of dread for too many Americans. Holiday travelers faced with the prospect of long delayed and cancelled flights and lost baggage, and other problems have become all too often an occurrence.

Cuba takes delivery of first Russian-made cargo airplane

Dinka — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:43:24 -0500

Russia's Ulyanovsk-based Aviastar-SP has delivered the first of four Tu-204SE transport airplanes it is building for Cuba's flagship carrier, Cubana de Aviacion, the company said Friday.

CAE wins contracts for CAE 7000 Series full-flight simulators, training devices

harminka — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:54:55 -0500

CAE has signed contracts to design and manufacture three CAE 7000 Series full-flight simulators (FFSs) and a suite of Boeing 787 maintenance training devices valued at C$51 million at list prices. This brings the total FFS sales that CAE has announced in fiscal 2008 to 16, including two Phenom FFS committed to by the CAE-Embraer planned joint-venture and previously announced on May 28, 2007.

Aviation In India To Launch Helicopter Service as Part of Public Transportation

Armen Hareyan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:38:44 -0500

Aviation industry to launch helicopter services for public in India.

Too little scope for development in today's aircraft technology

harminka — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:06:26 -0500

New technology can do much to improve certain aspects of aviation in terms of sustainable development over the next fifty years, but this will be nowhere near enough to compensate for the expected growth in air travel. This is the view of researcher Alexander de Haan, who will receive a Ph.D. at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands on Wednesday, June 27 for his research on this subject.

India stops Russian flights in Indian airspace

Dinka — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:23:40 -0500

Indian officials have ordered Russian airlines to stop flying in Indian airspace amid a dispute over air rights. The order goes into effect immediately, said Moushami Chakravarty, spokeswoman for India's civil aviation ministry.

Air India Express to add more aircraft to its fleet

Armen Hareyan — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:54:23 -0500

Air India would be adding four more aircraft to the Air India Express fleet this year to expand its budget flight services, with plans of increasing it to 25 by 2008.

Airbus' Super jumbo to fly to India in May

Armen Hareyan — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:35:23 -0500

The world's largest passenger aircraft, Airbus' A-380, would make its maiden flight to India on 7th May and would be spending three days romancing in skies of India.