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It’s personal: China sanctions Boeing, Raytheon execs over Taiwan arm sales
China announced personal sanctions against Raytheon and Boeing Defense, Space and Security executives citing recent arms sale to Taiwan.
Link (AeroTime)

ICN wins top level of ACI Customer Experience award
Seoul IncheonIncheon Airport has become the first airport in the world to achieve this highest level of Airports Council International Customer Experience accreditation.
Link (International Airport Review)

Australia’s Rex to finalize National Jet Express takeover in September
Australia’s Rex gains regulatory approval to move forward with the proposed takeover of the charter airline National Jet Express.
Link (AeroTime)

British Airways and LHR make arrangements to ensure silence on Queen's funeral
British Airways and London Heathrow airport are rearranging flight schedules to ensure a moment of silence during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral
Link (AeroTime)

Air NZ inaugural flight to NYC completes return journey amidst luggage issue
Air New Zealand’s inaugural flight to NYC returns to Auckland, but a fuel issue has caused the flight to leave over 50 passengers’ luggage in the US
Link (AeroTime)

MIA launches pre-scheduled TSA screening times
Miami International Airport has welcomed TSA checkpoint screening time with a free reservation service for passengers travelling with American Airlines.
Link (International Airport Review)

Baggage operations at London City Airport
Alison FitzGerald, Chief Operating Officer at London City Airport, tells International Airport Review about the airport’s unique baggage handling operations, which they choose to insource, rather than outsource.
Link (International Airport Review)

Siginificant increase in passenger numbers across Avinor’s airports
During August 2022, a total of 4,526,709 passengers, an increase of 84 per cent compared with figures from August 2021, travelled to, from or via Avinor’s airport network.
Link (International Airport Review)

Pilot killed after jet bursts in flames during Reno Air Racing
An Aero L-29 Delfin jet crashed and burst into flames killing a pilot during the Reno Air Racing event in Nevada, the United States.
Link (AeroTime)

In conversation with Satyaki Raghunath, Chief Strategy & Development Officer, BLR
Watch this exclusive video interview with the Chief Strategy & Development Officer of Bangalore International.
Link (International Airport Review)

Aviation Quote

Don’t be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots.

- E. Hamilton Lee, 'Ham' Lee began his long and distinguished career as an instructor pilot during World War I. After leaving the Army Air Corps, he flew the airmail for United Air Services, later United Airlines. The “old pilots, bold pilots” statement was made on his retirement from United Air Lines in 1949. 'Ham' Lee did indeed become an old pilot. On his 100th birthday he fly a restored United Airlines DC-3.

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1. What airplane produced by a well-known aircraft manufacturer was rejected by the U.S. Army in 1973 because it could be brought down by bow and arrow?

2. What is the largest, post-World War II, piston-powered, twin-engine airplane designed from scratch and produced exclusively as a general aviation airplane?

3. Why should every dedicated pilot fly at least once to KFFA

4. Several types of liaison airplanes served the U.S. military during World War II. Best known of these were the first five, the L-1, L-2, L-3, L-4, and L-5. Can you identify these utilitarian “L-birds?”

5. Almost everyone has heard of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, but what is the Lightning II?

6. U.S. military flight-crew positions often have nicknames. What are the official positions of a boomer, a GAFO (pronounced GAY-fo), a raven, a GIB (pronounced gib), and a whizzo?

7. The Pratt & Whitney J58 (JT11D) engines that powered the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird use JP-7 fuel so inert that it could not be ignited with spark or ignition plugs. How was this exotic fuel ignited during engine start?

8. On November 13, 1942, and after having survived in a life raft in the western Pacific for 23 days, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Col. Hans Adamson, and Pvt. John Bartek were found by the pilot of a Vought-Sikorsky Kingfisher, a U.S. Navy seaplane. What was so unusual about the subsequent rescue?

MIA launches pre-scheduled TSA screening times
Miami International Airport has welcomed TSA checkpoint screening time with a free reservation service for passengers travelling with American Airlines.
Link (International Airport Review)