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NEWS
Bearing compartment module behind secondary Trent 900 oil leak Qantas Airways has specified the part it is replacing in some of its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines due to a secondary oil leak. That oil leak is unrelated to the stub pipe fault identified earlier this month as the cause behind the Qantas Airbus A380 uncontained engine failure on 4 November. The part in question is the high pressure (HP)/intermediate pressure (IP) bearing compartment module in "A mod" and "B mod" Trent 900 variants, the spokesman says. "The 'C mod' doesn't have the faulty bearing compartment," he says. Link
Airline industry emerges from COP 16 meetings with ICAO recognition, no green tax UNFCCC climate talks in Cancun (COP16) ended early Saturday morning with ICAO firmly established as the proper forum for addressing aviation's role and responsibilities regarding emissions, according to air transport industry officials attending the event. In a clear sign of this development, aviation was not mentioned in the agreement that emerged from the meeting. Link
Flybe raises £66 million in IPO Flybe raised £66 million ($104.2 million) in its long-awaited stock market flotation completed Friday. The Exeter-based regional airline sold 20.3 million ordinary shares priced at 295 pence per share. The offer represented around 28% of its total float of 72.8 million ordinary shares, excluding the exercise of an over-allotment option of up to 2 million shares granted to Merrill Lynch International. Flybe shares surged 16% to close the day at 341.25 pence, giving it a market capitalization of 248.6 million, Bloomberg reported. Link
Qantas pilot recalls A380 engine incident to RAes In an interview with the Royal Aeronautical Society, one of the five pilots aboard the Qantas Airbus A380 that suffered an uncontained engine failure after take-off from Singapore Nov. 4 gave insight into the handling of the emergency on that “extraordinary day”. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has credited the Qantas crew with saving the aircraft and all on board. Link
SunExpress to launch new airline SunExpress, the Antalya-based joint venture between Turkish Airlines and Lufthansa, will establish a subsidiary called SunExpress Germany next summer. Link
C-17 pilot ignored stall warnings before crash, USAF says A US Air Force accident investigation report released today blames the pilot for a 28 July crash of a Boeing C-17 at Elmendorf AFB that killed all aboard. The non-identified pilot first ignored stall warnings after banking right “aggressively” within 60sec of takeoff, then responded incorrectly, according to an executive summary of the accident investigation board report.
Australia introduces flexible control of military airspace Australia has introduced a series of changes to the way military airspace operates in the country following a two-year review designed to deliver more flexible and efficient airspace usage. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority says the changes are designed to provide civilian access to military access when safety and operational factors allow it. Link
Qantas 747 power loss incident prompts calls for safety action Australian safety regulators have called for US regulations to address the potential risk caused by liquid contamination of aircraft electrical systems, following an investigation into a 2008 Qantas Airways Boeing 747 power loss incident. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), which released its final report into the incident today, also urged Boeing to update its handbook for 747 flight crews to help them make the right decisions when working with an electrical power loss. Link
Investigators locate cockpit recorder of Dagestan Tu-154 Russian investigators have retrieved the cockpit-voice recorder of the crashed Dagestan Airline Tupolev Tu-154M in Moscow, nearly a week after the accident. Link
Boeing receives $5.3 million advanced aircraft contract from NASA NASA has awarded a third contract for studies designed to identify advanced concepts for airliners that could enter service in 2025. Link
Other News
Delta Air Lines told investors at the Hudson Securities airline conference in New York that it is focusing on top-line revenue growth, cost discipline, delivering its balance sheet, improving profitability, and using free cash flow to pay down debt. During the third quarter ended Sept. 30 the carrier invested $750 million in de-levering its balance sheet, which it said will further enhance its profitability in 2011.
Boeing on Wednesday delivered its 200th direct-delivery jetliner to Air France. The aircraft also launches AF’s new business-class seat; it is outfitted with 42 of the 78.74 in. (2 m.) -long lie-flat seat beds that include 15-in. (38cm.) IFE screens. The 383-seat GE90-115B-powered 777-300ER will operate its first commercial flight Dec. 20 and will be used on the carrier's Paris-Montreal service, as well as on Paris-Ho Chi Minh City beginning in January.
Dutch Antilles Express Airlines, which celebrated its fifth anniversary earlier this year, said Arnold Leonora has purchased the airline from Niek Sandman, who is leaving to pursue other interests. DAE, which launched April 30, 2005, has a fleet comprising of two ATR 42-320s, one ATR 42-500 and two Fokker-100s. It flies to nine destinations: Curacao, Bonaire, Valencia, Santo Domingo, Aruba, St. Maarten, Caracas, Bogota and Cartagena.
ACSS said that its T3CAS Traffic Management Computer was certified by Airbus for the A320 family. The unit includes TCAS incorporating Change 7.1 software, TAWS and ADS-B capability.The first installations of T3CAS start this month on A320 family aircraft to operators in Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. ACSS is owned by L-3 Communications and Thales.
United Parcel Service announced it is expanding its policy to require customers who ship packages from retail shipping locations to present a government-issued photo ID for verification of identification. The directive will apply at The UPS Store and Mail Boxes Etc. locations as well as authorized shipping outlets worldwide.
Vueling will open a base in Amsterdam in April, and will launch service to Zurich, Alicante and Palma de Mallorca, bringing the number of direct routes it operates from the airport to 10. It currently operates three year-round routes from Schiphol to Barcelona, Malaga and Valencia and four summer routes to Ibiza, Seville and La Coruna. The LCC will station one Airbus A320 at AMS, which will be its second base outside Spain after the merger with Clickair in 2009. Last month, it announced it would launch a base in Toulouse-Blagnac airport in late April, with one A320 and four new direct routes to Pisa, Venice, Ibiza and Malaga.
Flydubai launched service from Abha (four-times-weekly), Sulaymaniyah (twice-weekly), and Ashgabat (twice-weekly).
SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Egyptair reached a codeshare agreement on routes to Brussels, Gothenburg, Oslo and Stockholm Arlanda, under which MS will place its code on SK flights from Copenhagen connecting to Cairo, effective Dec. 15.
AirAsia X launched thrice-weekly Kuala Lumpur-Tokyo Haneda service with an Airbus A330.
Etihad Airways launched daily Abu Dhabi-Seoul Incheon service using an A330-200 under a codeshare agreement with Asiana.
AirAsia will launch thrice-weekly Kuala Lumpur-Balikpapan service Jan. 12.
Condor Airlines will launch twice-weekly Seattle-Frankfurt service June 23 with a Boeing 767-300ER.
Saudi Airlines Cargo launched thrice-weekly MD-11F Riyadh-Jeddah-Amsterdam Schiphol service.
AerCap Holdings board of directors approved a share repurchase program. The Amsterdam-based aircraft lessor said the program "is limited by restrictive covenants in a debt facility expiring in 2015 to $25 million share repurchases annually and $50 million in aggregate."
GECAS delivered one new Airbus A320 to Philippine Airlines, to be operated by AirPhil Express. It also delivered three new Boeing 737-800s to Garuda Airlines in Indonesia.
AVIATION QUOTE
Sometimes things are bigger than you, and the best you can hope for is to keep your wings level and have patience and a little luck. — Warren L "Wally" Simpson, a pilot with more than 75 round-trips 'over the hump' in WWII.
ON THIS DATE
December 13, 1918
In 1918... The first flight from England to India is made by A.S. MacLaren, Halley, and McEwen in Handley Page V-1500 four-engined bomber.
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EDITOR’S CHOICE
HUMOR
Greatest Lies In Aviation
• Pardon me, ma'am, I seem to have lost my jet keys. • I have no interest in flying for the airlines. • I fixed it right the first time, it must have failed for other reasons. • All that turbulence spoiled my landing. • I only need glasses for reading. • I broke out right at minimums. • The weather is gonna be alright; it's clearing to VFR. • Don't worry about the weight and balance -- it'll fly. • If we get a little lower I think we'll see the lights. • I'm 22, got 6,000 hours, a four year degree and 3,000 hours in an F-16. • We shipped the part yesterday. • I'd love to have a woman WSO. • All you have to do is follow the book. • This plane outperforms the book by 20 percent. • We in the military aviation are overpaid, underworked and well respected. • Oh sure, no problem, I've got over 2,000 hours in that aircraft. • I have 5,000 hours total time, 3,200 are actual instrument. • No need to look that up, I've got it all memorized. • Sure I can fly it -- it has wings, doesn't it? • Your plane will be ready by 2 o'clock. • We fly every day -- we don't need recurrent training. • It just came out of annual -- how could anything be wrong? • I thought YOU took care of that. • I've got the field in sight. • Of course I know where we are. • I'm SURE the gear was down. • Of COURSE the navigation unit is working.
And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight. — E. B. Jeppesen
that pounding noise you hear is Queso realising what 3 was
Hire Engineers to drive the vision and execute a plan. Hire MBAs to shuffle the papers and work in sales. Hire Accountants to manage your staff working a viable livable wage, and never have either an Accountant or an MBA run your company. - Steve Jobs
There's the right way, the wrong way and the railway.
Thorben/forum/images/avatars/gallery/first/default.pngoffline13 Dec 10, 19:29
2. Eastern 5. Finnair 9. Volaris
With previous posters this should be solved.
Edit: Beautiful Il-96, btw. I love Russian jets.
I demand a fifth Emirates (EK) destination in Germany: Berlin, coolest and biggest city.
miamiair/forum/images/avatars/gallery/first/user54/1.pngoffline(netAirspace FAA) 14 Dec 10, 11:02
ANSWERS:
1. TUAHLNSFA is LUFTHANSA. 2. REESNTA is EASTERN. 3. UTSOSHETW is SOUTHWEST. 4. RACNAEIM is AMERICAN. 5. RNANFII is FINNAIR. 6. EITADH is ETIHAD. 7. IBAIRE is IBERIA. 8. GVRAI is VARIG. 9. LIOSARV is VOLARIS. 10. AROOFTEL is AEROFLOT.
And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight. — E. B. Jeppesen
