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Qantas prepares legal actions against Rolls-Royce over A380 engine failure

(netAirspace) Qantas today has filed a statement of claim towards Rolls-Royce, and has been granted an injunction by the Federal Court of Australia, to ensure that the airline can pursue legal action against the engine manufacturer. The airline said that it will undertake a further one-off inspection of its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines for possible tubing defects. This measure had been recommended by the Australian Transport and Safety Bureau (ATSB).

Earlier today, the ATSB had released first findings of their investigation on the engine failure incident that happened in Singapore on 4 November 2010. According to the ATSB, a "fatigue cracking" within a stub pipe that feeds oil into the high pressure / intermediate pressure bearing structure led to an oil leakage, and subsequently an oil fire and the engine failure.

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Qantas press statement
Flighglobal article

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Australia modifies controller training after near-miss incident
Australia has modified its air traffic control training to improve controllers' conflict resolution skills, according to an Australian Transport Safety Bureau report examining a 3 September 2009 loss of separation incident.
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Background article on the incident

Saudi Arabian Airlines on path to Sky Team alliance
Details of the new codeshare between Saudi Arabian Airlines and Air France- KLM were revealed earlier this week in Jeddah. It will take effect in January. The move allows Air France to increase frequency to both Riyadh and Jeddah to offer a daily service to and from Paris. Both Saudi cities will be served three times weekly by an Air France A330 and by a Saudi Arabian Airlines A320 on the other four days.
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TSA takes full control of passenger watch list checks
US Dept. of Homeland Security stated that all passengers on flights "within or bound for the United States are now being checked against government watch lists" under implementation of the Transportation Security Administration's "Secure Flight" program, which entails the agency prescreening a passenger's full name, birth date and gender prior to issuance of a boarding pass.
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Ryanair to open three bases on Canary Islands
Ryanair announced Wednesday it will open three new bases in the Canary Islands next year as part of the LCC’s Spain expansion plan, bringing the number of bases in the country to 11. It opened two new bases in Spain last month, in Valencia and Seville, following a new base at Barcelona El Prat in September.
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China approves Air China / Cathay Pacific cargo joint venture
China's Ministry of Commerce gave the green light for the air cargo joint venture between Air China and Cathay Pacific Airways, which is expected to launch by year end or early next year, according to CA Board Secretary Huang Bin.
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AirBridge Cargo may seek compensation for 747-800F delays
AirBridgeCargo Airlines told ATW it “hopes” that Boeing will not announce further delays to its 747-8 Freighter program and that it is in discussion with the manufacturer on compensation for the first set of delays. The Russian cargo carrier placed orders for five firm 747-8Fs in 2007 with purchase rights for a further five.
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Other News

Finnair said it was able to carry 40% of its normal amount of passengers during a cabin staff strike on Wednesday. Around 30% of AY flights have been operated.

SAS announced incoming President and CEO Rickard Gustafson will take over the position on Feb. 1, 2011. It previously had been announced that he would take over no later than March 1. Outgoing President and CEO Mats Jansson left the position Oct. 1 and Deputy CEO John Dueholm will continue as acting president and CEO until Feb. 1, 2011.

ANA said Wednesday it has "received notification" from South Korea's Fair Trade Commission "of an alleged violation by ANA" of Korean antitrust laws related to cargo surcharges, and has been ordered to pay a KRW1.633 billion ($1.4 million) fine. "ANA intends to carefully consider the details of the notice and give an appropriate response through its legal representative," the Tokyo-based carrier said.

Malev Hungarian Airlines named Marta Rona communications director. Rona arrived from Omnicom Media Group's Hungarian subsidiary.





AVIATION QUOTE

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, 'Wind, Sand, and Stars,' 1939.




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December 2, 1986

A Concorde airliner carrying 94 passengers returns to Charles de Gaulle airport after an 18-day round-the-world journey; total flying time amounted to 31 hours 51 minutes.

The Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST) was one of only two models of supersonic passenger airliners to have seen commercial service. Concorde had a cruise speed of Mach 2.04 and a cruise altitude of 60,000 feet with a delta wing configuration and an evolution of the afterburner-equipped engines originally developed for the Avro Vulcan strategic bomber. It is the first civil airliner to be equipped with an analogue fly-by-wire flight control system. Commercial flights, operated by British Airways and Air France, began on January 21, 1976 and ended on October 24, 2003, with the last "retirement" flight on November 26 that year.




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The Frenchman, Shanwick Oceanic and Claudia Schiffer

There was a Frenchman, Shanwick Oceanic and Claudia Schiffer sitting together in a carriage in a train going through Provence. Suddenly the train went through a tunnel and as it was an old style train, there were no lights in the carriages and it went completely dark. Then there was a kissing noise and the sound of a really loud slap. When the train came out of the tunnel, Claudia Schiffer and Shanwick Oceanic were sitting as if nothing had happened and the Frenchman had his hand against his face as if he had been slapped there. The Frenchman was thinking: 'The English fella must have kissed Claudia Schiffer and she missed him and slapped me instead.' Claudia Schiffer was thinking: 'The French fella must have tried to kiss me and actually kissed the Englishman and got slapped for it.' And Shanwick Oceanic was thinking: 'This is great. The next time the train goes through a tunnel I'll make another kissing noise and slap that French bastard again.'




TRIVIA

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TRIVIA

1. What did Lieutenant Petr Nikolaevich Nesterov of the Imperial Russian Army do to assure himself a place in aviation History?

2. What is a Cessna Titan?

3. What was the first type of civilian airplane to be equipped with an autothrottle system(No, the Flight Engineer doesn’t qualify)?

4. A conventional spin can develop to the ______if the airplane is stalled with the slip-skid-ball positioned to the _____.
a. right, right
b. right, left
c. left, right
d. left, left

5. True or False. Pilots operating in Canada generally advised not to use the standard 45-degree entry into the traffic pattern of non-towered airports.

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Trivia:

1. What did Lieutenant Petr Nikolaevich Nesterov of the Imperial Russian Army do to assure himself a place in aviation History?

Answer: Russian pilot P.N.Nesterov gained his fame as a creator of aerobatics. He was one of the first pilots in the World to reject concept of 'flat turns' (also known as 'pancake turn' or 'Major Headquarter turn'). While inventors were working hard on devices excluding any banking of the aircraft, he theoretically proved that bank is not a danger for flying machine.
Of course some of pilots dared to perform sharp turns with large bank angles, but this was explained by their exceptional talent rather than proper flight technic. 'There is everywhere support in the air!' - Nesterov said.
He was the first to perform the Nesterov Loop.

Source: http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/ram/x-nesterov.html

2. What is a Cessna Titan?

A piston-powered turbocharged light twin aircraft manufactured by Cessna in Wichita, KS during the late 70's and early 80's. It could carry about 10 people IIRC and had a decent safety record (for a light twin).

3. What was the first type of civilian airplane to be equipped with an autothrottle system(No, the Flight Engineer doesn’t qualify)?

Pure guess...the 737?

Queso wrote:2. What is a Cessna Titan?

A piston-powered turbocharged light twin aircraft manufactured by Cessna in Wichita, KS during the late 70's and early 80's. It could carry about 10 people IIRC and had a decent safety record (for a light twin).

Fond memories flying it...

ANSWERS

1. Flying a Nieuport IV monoplane near Kiev on 27 AUG 1913, Nesterov was the first pilot to perform the inside loop.

2. The Cessna 404 Titan is slightly larger, more-powerful evolution of the Cessna 402 cabin-class twin. It can seat up to 10 passengers and has geared, turbocharged, 375 horsepower Teledyne Continental Engines (GTSIO-520-M).

3. Safe Flight Instrument Corporation introduced AutoPower in a Douglas DC-3 in 1956. Then as now the system automatically adjusted throttle position to maintain as specified indicated airspeed.

4. (b) and (c). Airplanes initiate spinning in a direction opposite to the direction of the ball.

5. True. The Canadian AIM advises pilots to approach the runway on the upwind leg (on the opposite side of the runway to the downwind leg), cross the runway at pattern altitude, and enter the downwind leg at midfield.