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JTSB: Incorrect wiring found in ANA 787
The Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) said it has found incorrect wiring in the All Nippon Airways (ANA) 787 that made an emergency landing Jan. 16.
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United Removing 787 From Schedule Until June
United Airlines said it was taking its Boeing 787s out of its flying plans until June 5, except for a Denver-to-Tokyo route scheduled for a tentative launch in May.
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AirAsia’s Indian LCC to launch in 4Q
AirAsia said its new Indian budget carrier—a joint venture between AirAsia Berhad and Tata Group—will launch by the fourth quarter, pending regulatory clearances.
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Qantas Group to order new five 737s, upgrade A330 fleet
Qantas Group announced plans to order five additional Boeing 737-800s and upgrade its Airbus A330 fleet. Qantas said the 737-800s, scheduled for delivery in 2014, would be used for Qantas Domestic. It will also extend the leases on two existing 737-800s this year. The airline will phase out its older narrowbody 737-400s by the end of this year and will retire its Boeing 767s by mid-2015.
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Swiss International Air Lines close to finalizing deal for six 777s
Swiss International Air Lines may finalize an order forsix Boeing 777-300ER sooner than expected, an unnamed source told ATW. The aircraft would replace its fleet of 15 Airbus A340-300s.
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JetBlue unveils first A320 with sharklets
JetBlue Airways unveiled its first Airbus A320 outfitted with sharklet winglets on 21 February. The winglets will result in an about 3% fuel burn reduction and either increase the range of the aircraft by 100nm (185km) or allow for a 453kg (1,000lb) increase in payload, say JetBlue and Airbus executives at an event in JetBlue's hangar 81 at New York's John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport.
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Bombardier Disappoints, New Learjet Delayed
Bombardier on Thursday reported quarterly results that fell short of expectations, sending its shares down 9 percent.
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Five Killed In Small Jet Crash In Georgia (USA)
Five people were killed and two were injured when a small plane overran a runway in eastern Georgia and crashed into woods, authorities said on Thursday.
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Etihad's Pause Highlights India Investment Risk
The sudden display of caution by Etihad Airways over taking a stake in Jet Airways is the legacy of a string of failed forays by Gulf investors into India.
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Flights Cancelled As Snow Pounds US Great Plains
A major winter storm pounded the US Great Plains on Thursday creating hazardous travel that resulted in at least one death, closing schools, scuttling air travel, and cutting off power to some communities.
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Iberia strikes: the challenge to one of Europe’s least productive workforces
Strikes carried out by Iberia employees in protest against the job cuts proposed under the airline’s Transformation Plan again highlight the divide between labour and management. With cumulative losses of EUR862million from the start of 2009 to Sep-2012, management had to act to restore profitability in the face of intense competitive pressure. We have extended our recent analysis of European airline labour productivity and found that Iberia has one of the least productive workforces.
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China Southern's A380 operation is still struggling
While the carrier waits for all interested parties to sign off on its Beijing-Paris joint operation with rival Air China, it still has three A380s currently on domestic routes for which it needs to find suitable long-haul services.
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Other News
A J Walter Aviation signed an agreement with Russia’s Engineering-The Aviation Maintenance Holding to establish an exclusive consignment stock pool of Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 parts at Engineering’s facility at Moscow Domodedovo Airport.
Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services (AMES) won a contract from DHL to provide heavy maintenance services for at least 28 C checks over three years on DHL-owned and leased Boeing 767-200Fs, operated by ABX Air.
MTU Maintenance Canada has a long-term agreement from Southwest Airlines for the maintenance of the carrier’s CFM56-3 engines. MTU will provide Southwest Airlines with a total engine care program.
Lufthansa Technik won a three-year component support contract from Republic of Maldives carrier Maldivian covering its first Airbus A320 aircraft, which entered service in November 2012. Lufthansa Technik will provide spare parts supply and pooling for 465 part numbers, component repair and overhaul, with components sourced from Frankfurt and Hamburg. Overhaul and repair work will take place at Lufthansa sites in Hamburg.
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There are four ways to fly: the right way, the wrong way, the company way and the captain's way. Only one counts.
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On This Date
---In 1912... The Fokker Aviatik G.m.b.H. company is entered in the trade register at Berlin, Germany with a quoted capital of 20,000 marks. The company’s Holland-born founder, Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, was brought up in Haarlem, the Netherlands and moved to Germany where he developed a passion for aviation before designing his first airplane – the Spider No. 1 – in late 1910.
---In 1913…French aviator Jules Védrines becomes the first pilot to fly over 100 mph, behind the controls of a Deperdussin Monocoque near Pau, France
---In 1925... Geoffrey de Havilland takes off in his newly built D.H.60 Moth G-EBKT, heralding a new age of light aviation.
---In 1928... Australian Bert Hinkler lands at Fanny Bay in Darwin, Australia after 11,000-mile solo flight from England. He is the first to make such a trip, setting four other new records: longest solo flight, longest light plane flight, first nonstop flight from London to Rome and fastest journey from Britain to India.
---In 1965…USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test).
---In 1966…USSR launches Kosmos 110 with Veterok and Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew.
---In 1974…An unemployed tire salesman named Samuel Byck attempts to hijack a Delta Air Lines DC-9 at Baltimore/Washington International Airport using a .22 caliber handgun and a suitcase filled with gasoline bombs. Byck’s objective: To crash the plane into the White House and assassinate President Richard Nixon. The plane never leaves the gate, though he does shoot and kill a police officer and one of the pilots and wounds the other pilot before being wounded by police and then committing suicide.
---In 1975…First flight of the Sukhoi T-8-1, prototype of the Su-25 attack aircraft.
---In 1987…First flight of the Airbus A320.
---In 1995…The CIA’s Corona reconnaissance satellite program, run in secret with help from the US Air Force from 1959 through 1972, is declassified. Corona satellites were launched aboard rockets, took photos of the Soviet Union and China, then parachuted back into the atmosphere where they would be retrieved in the air by specially equipped US Air Force C-119 Flying Boxcar transport planes.
---In 1996…STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit.
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F16's legs are too short. And they've only got one (semi-reliable) donk.
Lean, Mean, Flameout Machine.
I SHALL RETURN...Well, I might.
Mach Nix.
The F-16. Takes a licking, and takes a licking.
Have you hugged your chute today?
This Vehicle Makes Frequent Stops.
I came. I saw. I bingo'd.
No deposit, no return.
We've spent so much money on this thing that we can't afford to admit we were wrong.
A triumph of style over substance.
The best damn second place fighter in the world.
Instead of a CAS mod, we're going to install a roll bar.
And now with this LANTIRN thing and our new Block 40's, we can hit the ground at NIGHT!
We cover the target like a thong bikini.
And BINGO is my Name-O.
We crash more airplanes before 9-o'clock than most people crash all day.
Last in the talent show, but first in the swimsuit competition.
Lose a few, lose a few.
Feet and knees together, eyes on the horizon...
Designated no-hitter.
Everything you wanted in a fighter and less.
Optimist: F-16 pilot who's worried about dying from cancer.
Only Michael Jackson is more manly.
Hey, today we didn't lose a single jet.
This is going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you.
User friendly... if you've got three hands.
If we have a war with BDUs, we've got 'em beat.
Careful badguys...I'm carrying BOTH bombs today. I'm talkin' wall-to-wall MK-82's Pal.
If I carried more weapons, and if I had enough gas, and if I could actually hit the target, and if I had some more REALLY expensive electrons so I could find you, and if my motor didn't quit, and if My wings didn't crack, Boy, I'd really teach you a lesson!
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