You are at netAirspace : Forum : Air and Space Forums : netAirspace Daily News

News

UK government gives welcomed guidance on no-deal Brexit
UK pilots and European airports have welcomed the publication of UK government guidance on what will happen if the country leaves the European Union (EU) in March 2019 without an agreed-upon Brexit deal.
Link

South African Airways denies sell-off reports; confident of turnaround
South African Airways (SAA) has dismissed local media reports that it plans to sell off parts of its business to raise funds after banks declined to loan the cash-strapped airline more money. Reports in a South African newspaper had suggested the airline’s cargo operations and catering business, Air Chefs, had been earmarked for sale.
Link

Air Mauritius postpones narrowbody fleet decision
Indian Ocean-based Air Mauritius has delayed a decision on new narrowbody aircraft to replace two Airbus A319s and expand its fleet as competition and high fuel prices create pressure on the company, CEO Somaskaran Appavou told ATW on the sidelines of last week’s IATA Aviation Day in Mauritius.
Link

Air France, Air Senegal in commercial partnership talks
Air France is in discussions with Air Senegal about a possible commercial partnership, Air France-KLM EVP-commercial sales and alliances Patrick Alexandre told ATW’s sister publication Aviation Daily.
Link

Spirit to resume A320neo deliveries after P&W engine problems
Florida-based ultra-LCC Spirit Airlines plans to take delivery of two more Airbus A320neos this year and to resume regular deliveries next year after problems with its Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-powered airliners caused the carrier to stop accepting them. CEO Robert Fornaro said at the APEX Expo conference in Boston, Massachusetts that industry-wide problems with the geared turbofan engine both extended Spirit’s delivery schedule and limited the destinations it plans to serve with the fuel-efficient A320neo. Spirit now has five of the single-aisle aircraft; it temporarily parked three of them last year because of engine problems.
Link

The dilemma of the high-tech aero-engine
The irony is woefully obvious. Aero engines developed for the newest generation of airliners are designed and built to be super fuel efficient, quiet and environmentally clean. But the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000, which powers around 45% of the worldwide Boeing 787 fleet, has been brought down, in part at least, by something as common as air pollution.
Link

One-Day General Strike Halts Argentina’s Air Traffic
A nationwide strike shut down much of Argentina’s air travel Sept. 25, as aviation-sector employees joined the country’s public transportation and port workers in a full-day protest called by the country’s major labor unions
Link

Cathay Pacific plans to grow new US services
Cathay Pacific will grow its new routes to Seattle Tacoma and Washington Dulles before adding any new US markets, says chief executive Rupert Hogg. The Oneworld Alliance carrier hopes to increase frequency from four-times weekly to both new destinations – Seattle begins in March 2019 and Dulles began on 15 September – he tells FlightGlobal at an event at Washington Dulles today.
Link

Spirit still open to buying non-Airbus in next aircraft order
Spirit Airlines remains open to adding a new aircraft type to its all-Airbus fleet, a move that Spirit's chief executive insists would not necessarily erode Spirit's cost advantage. Robert Fornaro says Airbus's A220 and products made by Boeing remain on the table, and the company has also said it is considering Embraer jets.
Link

Chile's Sky takes first A320neo
Chile’s Sky Airline has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320neo, a twinjet being taken via US lessor Air Lease. Sky Airline is intending to lease 21 of the type.
Link

A350 diversion crew received engine temperature warning
Preliminary information on an Iberia Airbus A350-900 diversion to Boston shows the crew received a warning that exhaust gas temperature on the left-hand engine was over limit. The aircraft (EC-MYX), powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-84 engines, had been cruising at 41,000ft en route from Madrid to New York JFK on 11 September.
Link

Boeing wins UH-1N replacement contract from USAF
Boeing has been awarded the first portion of a $2.38 billion firm fixed-price contract to replace the US Air Force’s Bell UH-1N fleet with its MH-139 helicopter, derived from Leonardo Helicopters' commercial platform. The $375 million initial award is for four helicopters and the integration of non-developmental items, the USAF announced on 24 September. The total program cost accounts for the acquisition and sustainment of up to 84 MH-139s, training devices and associated support equipment. The service expects the first operational helicopter to be delivered in fiscal year 2021.
Link

Aviation Quote

To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.

- Metrodorus of Chios, 4th century BCE

On This Day

Click Here

Daily Video

Editor's Choice

Trivia

WW2 Luftwaffe

1. The JU-87 "Stuka" was not a pretty site to look at, all the less so when it was hurtling towards you at an 80 degree angle, but it was not pleasant to hear either. It had a siren on its port landing gear. What was the nickname the crews gave this device?

The Horns of the Reich
The Trumpets of Jericho
The Sirens of Jericho
The Trumpets of Victory

2. This out-of-date bomber was used for high altitude reconnaissance by Germany for a short period of time after the Battle of Britain. Which was it?

Junkers 88P
Junkers 86R
Dornier 217N
Dornier 23R

3. Germany shortly before WW2 is commonly believed to have had little interest in long range heavy bombers, but in fact it had one of the largest supporters of long range bombers from the get-go. Who was he?

Ernst Udet
Ernhard Milch
Kurt Student
Walter Wever


4. Many medium bombers that Germany had were converted into night fighters when the need arose. Which of those was unpopular with its crews?

Junkers 188
Junkers 88
Dornier 217
Messerschmitt 110

5. The He-177 was a great aircraft when it worked. What was one of the things the RLM (Reichsluftministerie) did that caused the 177 to go from a great bomber to a great disaster?

Elimination of the evaporative cooling system
Demands that poor french engines power the He-177
Demands that the He-177 be built out of wood
Underpowered BMW 132 Bramo engines

6. Which one of the three German Battle of Britain bombers could carry the most tonnage, and which could carry the least over a short distance?

Junkers 88, Junkers 87
Junkers 88, Junkers 87
Dornier 215, Heinkel 111
Heinkel 111, Dornier 17

7. This is the only bomber in World War II to have a top speed of over 460mph, what was it?

Arado 234
Heinkel 111P
Arado 232
Junkers 388K

8. The Junkers 287 was the intended replacement for the aging Stuka in 1944. With forward swept wings, two Junkers 003 turbojets and something interesting captured from the Americans, the JU-287 would have been a formidable ground attack/bomber aircraft. What was the American "contribution"?

Landing gear taken off B-24's
Rockets of P-47 wing racks
Guns off of P-51D fighters
Norden bombsights off of B-17's

9. Ground attack was a field of bombers in which the Germans excelled. Convinced that more armor was necessary to protect the pilots of ground attack aircraft Henschel came up with the HS-129, what was its nickname?

armored Panzer destroyer
The flying tank
The flying armoured car
the flying assualt gun

10. The Germans had originally decided to build one carrier known as the Graf Zeppelin. What were the two types of aircraft that were designed to be based on the carrier?

Fi-282, Do-215
He-115B, Bf-110E
Fi-167, Ju-87C
Ju-87T, Bf-109L