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NEWS
Boeing at work behind the scenes on 737 re-engining project Boeing's customers may have given a tepid reaction to a 737 re-engining project, but behind the scenes the airframer has not slowed the pace on work to refine the design of an updated narrowbody. Link Discussion
ATSB focuses on "mod A" and "mod B" Trent 900s The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) ordered stub pipe inspections on only two specific versions of the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine as part of its investigation into an uncontained engine failure on a Qantas Airways Airbus A380 aircraft on 4 November. The stub pipe inspections completed 8 November were on 45 Trent 900 engines which were exclusively "mod A" and "mod B" versions of the powerplant, a spokesman says. The latest version of the engine, "mod C", was not inspected. The ATSB could not say what differentiated "mod A" and "mod B" versions from the "mod C" version. Link Discussion
Secret SpaceX payload revealed "Do you have any cheese at all?" SpaceX CEO and PayPal founder Elon Musk doesn't have to worry about angering John Cleese with his answer. Musk revealed the top secret payload aboard the Dragon capsule for its first trip to space 8 December to be a wheel of cheese - Le Brouere cheese, to be precise, a French cow's milk cheese rather like Gruyere. Link
Lufthansa to place fifth Airbus A380 on JFK-Frankfurt route Lufthansa plans to begin operating its fifth Airbus A380 on the New York JFK-Frankfurt route in February. Executives with the carrier announced the news this week at an event in New York. Link
SpiceJet signs firm order for 15 Bombardier Q400s Bombardier announced Thursday that Indian LCC SpiceJet ordered 15 Q400 NextGens and took options on a further 15. Based on list prices, Bombardier valued the firm order at approximately $446 million, rising to approximately $915 million if all 15 options are firmed. Link
Lufthansa orders 8 Embraer 195 E-jets Lufthansa ordered eight more Embraer E-195s, in a deal valued at $338 million, based on list prices and January 2010 economic conditions, according to the Brazilian manufacturer. The new aircraft will be operated within the Lufthansa Regional family serving German and European destinations. Link Discussion
Oneworld will take Manhattan; names Bruce Ashby to lead alliance Oneworld has tapped former SpiceJet and Sama Airlines Chief Executive Bruce Ashby to lead the alliance, which will relocate its headquarters from Vancouver to New York City. Ashby is replacing current Managing Partner John McCullough, who said he is “not in a position to relocate,” citing family reasons. Link
FAA missing key data on 119,000 planes The Federal Aviation Administration's aircraft registry is missing key information on who owns one-third of the 357,000 private and commercial planes in the U.S. — a gap the agency fears could be exploited by terrorists and drug traffickers. Link
Other News
Mechtronix Systems will supply Mexico-based Interjet with one A320 FFS X simulator for its new training facility in Toluca. It will be Interjet’s first FFS and the first A320 full motion simulator to be installed in Mexico in 12 years. Interjet operates a fleet of 22 A320s and awaits delivery of 12 more.
CAE has renewed its flight crew training services agreement with Airbus through 2017. The agreement provides Airbus operators with a joint global network of training centers for all Airbus aircraft types and standardized courseware.
Lufthansa Consulting signed agreements with Libyan Airlines and Afriqiyah Airways to check the current airline safety status and provide a twice-weekly safety and quality assessment program and methodology. It will also implement a pilots’ upgrade program, administering a computer-based theoretical test and simulator assessment to pilots at both airlines, to recommend a training program. The two airlines are certified IOSA and ISO 9000 companies.
Oxford Aviation Academy said it secured UK CAA approval of its Melbourne, Australia-based training center for both ATPL Integrated and Modular airline pilot training courses.The former General Flying Services business at Moorabbin Airport was acquired by the OAA Group in 2008.
AVIATION QUOTE
I've never seen an airplane yet that can read the type ratings on your pilot's license. — Chuck Boedecker
ON THIS DATE
December 10, 1919
Capts. Ross Smith and Keith Smith become the first Australians to fly directly between Great Britain and Australia, a distance of 11,340 mi., after flying 135 hr. 55 min. at an average speed of 83 MPH.
In 1919 the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes announced the now famous ‘AIR RACE’. A prize of £10,000 was to be awarded for the first machine to fly from London to Australia in 30 days or less. Taking up the challenge, Ross Smith applied to the British company Vickers to supply a Vickers Vimy bomber for the race, and the Smith brothers flew their way into Australian folklore.
Landing in Darwin on December 10th, 1919, the Smith brothers and their two mechanics, Sergeant W.H. Shiers A.F.M. and Sergeant J.M. Bennett A.F.M., M.S.M., completed the flight from Hounslow in 27 days and 20 hours. The brothers received a cheque for £10,000 which they insisted on sharing equally with their two mechanics. They also each received a knighthood for the achievement.
DAILY VIDEO
EDITOR’S CHOICE
HUMOR
Feel Like A Woman
On a transatlantic flight, a plane passes through a severe storm. The turbulence is awful, and things go from bad to worse when one wing is struck by lightning. One woman in particular loses it.
Screaming, she stands up in front of the plane. "I'm too young to die!" she wails. "Well, if I'm going to die, I want my last minutes on Earth to be memorable! I've had plenty of sex in my life, but no one has ever made me really feel like a woman! Well I've had it! Is there ANYONE on this plane who can make me feel like a WOMAN??"
For a moment, there is silence. Everyone has forgotten their own peril, and they all stare, riveted, at the desperate woman in the front of the plane.
Then, a man stands up in the rear of the plane. "I can make you feel like a woman," he says. He's gorgeous. Tall, built, with long, flowing black hair and jet black eyes, he starts to walk slowly up the aisle, unbuttoning his shirt one button at a time. No one moves.
The woman is breathing heavily in anticipation as the stranger approaches. He removes his shirt. Muscles ripple across his chest as he reaches her, and extends the arm holding his shirt to the trembling woman, and whispers:
"Iron this."
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