lunes, 23 de enero de 2017
Airlink becomes first South African airline to acquire Embraer E-Jets
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 19, 2017 – Airlink, Southern Africa’s largest independent regional airline, is joining the E-Jet operator’s family. The airline is acquiring five E-Jets - three E170s and two E190s, from ECC Leasing, a wholly-owned Embraer subsidiary. Airlink will start to receive the aircraft in the first half of 2017.
Airlink already operates a large fleet of ERJ aircraft – last December, the airline started to add 11 further ERJ 140 jets to its fleet. By the end of the fourth quarter of 2017, the airline will be operating 30 ERJs, comprising all three types - ERJ 135, ERJ 140 and the ERJ 145.
Rodger Foster, CEO of Airlink, said, “This is the beginning of the implementation of a well planned growth and modernization strategy for Airlink that includes replacing our current fleet of Avro RJ85s over the next three years. The strategy calls for a total of 13 E-Jets, and we are in the process of sourcing the balance of the fleet requirement – an additional 8 E190s – from the market. The unique performance characteristics of the E-Jet family will enable Airlink to operate within the challenging environment of the region, including short field and “hot and high” operations, while managing capacity and providing for growth.”
Foster continued, “the E190’s ETOPS (Extended Twin Engine Operations) capability and range presents Airlink with new market opportunities to address isolated destinations that were previously beyond our reach and in some instances that have never enjoyed the privilege of reliable scheduled air services. Embraer has proven to be an excellent partner for Airlink on our ERJ fleet, and we look forward to the continuation of superb customer support as we enter a new chapter of growth with the E-Jets.”
“Welcoming another operator to the E-Jet Family is always a great endorsement of our aircraft and the Embraer experience”, said Simon Newitt, Vice President, Africa, Latin America & Portugal, Embraer Commercial Aviation. “We are very proud that Airlink will now become the first South African operator of the type.”
Embraer aircraft have been operating in Africa since 1978, when the first Bandeirante turboprop arrived on the continent. Currently, there are 127 Embraer aircraft in operation with 39 airlines in 19 African countries, performing a vital role in connectivity.
Embraer is the world’s leading manufacturer of commercial jets with up to 130+ seats. The Company has 100 customers from all over the world operating the ERJ and the E-Jet families of aircraft. For the E-Jets program alone, Embraer has logged more than 1,700 orders and over 1,300 deliveries, redefining the traditional concept of regional aircraft by operating across a range of business applications.
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About Airlink
Airlink is the largest independent regional airline in southern Africa, linking more passengers to the smaller towns, cities and regional centers than any other local airline. Airlink connects 36 destinations in 9 African countries.
The airline currently carries more than 1.4m passengers on 44,800 flights annually. Airlink has shown growth in every single year of its existence. Our passenger profile represents approximately 30% leisure and 70% business.
Airlink’s business destinations include: several State Capital Cities such as Antananarivo, Lusaka, Harare; multiple provincial Capital cities such as Pietermaritzburg, Polokwane, Bloemfontein, Kimberley and Nelspruit; Industrial towns such as Upington, Phalaborwa, Ndola, Tete, Sishen, Nampula, Beira, Pemba and Bulawayo. Additionally, airlink offers some exotic tourist destinations such as Cape Town, Mthatha, George, Windhoek, Okavango Delta (Maun), Chobe River (Kasane), Livingston, Skukuza, Vilanculos, and Nosy Be.
Airlink’s main hub is Johannesburg where our schedule is aimed at addressing the complexities of market demand and is specifically designed to satisfy point to point travel requirements whilst also optimizing interline connectivity, particularly with the arrivals and departures of our franchise partner of twenty years, South African Airways, and all other IATA member airlines.
737 MAX makes a splash
Boeing Test & Evaluation teams took the 737 MAX for a little dip to see how it would stand up to extreme conditions. Watch the video to see how they incorporated a new teammate, an unmanned aerial system, into this high-stakes water spray test.
Boeing Test & Evaluation teams employ an Unmanned Aerial System during water spray testing for innovation and efficiency.
https://youtu.be/hEx7Glp8Kk0
Boeing Test & Evaluation teams employ an Unmanned Aerial System during water spray testing for innovation and efficiency.
https://youtu.be/hEx7Glp8Kk0
My awful 48 hours as an astronaut
Volunteers are trying to live like astronauts on Earth in preparation for manned missions to Mars, but face isolation, confinement and terrible food. After almost a year without fresh air in the cramped, near-weightless environment of the International Space Station (ISS), American astronaut Scot...
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MRJ regional jet delayed until mid 2020
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Mitsubishi Press releaseMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) announced today that MHI and Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation will adjust the first delivery of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) from mid-2018 to mid-2020. The change is due to revisions of certain systems and electrical configurations on the aircraft to meet the latest requirements for certification.
MHI recently established the MRJ Business Promotion Committee, chaired by Shunichi Miyanaga, President & Chief Executive Officer of MHI, to oversee the continued development and long-term business performance of the MRJ, effective on November 28, 2016.
Since the historic MRJ first flight in November 2015, we have made significant progress in both engineering and test, and now three aircraft are in flight test in the United States.
Going forward, under the MRJ Business Promotion Committee’s oversight, we will continue to make prompt decisions and remain firmly committed to the development of the MRJ to offer our customers an aircraft with world-class performance and compatibility with latest industry certifications.
Advancing the MRJ project 
Mitsubishi Press releaseMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) announced today that MHI and Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation will adjust the first delivery of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) from mid-2018 to mid-2020. The change is due to revisions of certain systems and electrical configurations on the aircraft to meet the latest requirements for certification.
MHI recently established the MRJ Business Promotion Committee, chaired by Shunichi Miyanaga, President & Chief Executive Officer of MHI, to oversee the continued development and long-term business performance of the MRJ, effective on November 28, 2016.
Since the historic MRJ first flight in November 2015, we have made significant progress in both engineering and test, and now three aircraft are in flight test in the United States.
Going forward, under the MRJ Business Promotion Committee’s oversight, we will continue to make prompt decisions and remain firmly committed to the development of the MRJ to offer our customers an aircraft with world-class performance and compatibility with latest industry certifications.
Advancing the MRJ project
Airbus to supply French satellite communication systems [feedly]
Airbus to supply French satellite communication systems
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Mitsubishi delays MRJ deliveries by two years [feedly]
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has confirmed a two-year delay to the MRJ regional jet programme, the fifth time its schedule has been pushed back since launching in 2008.
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The Not-So-Secret Way to Kill a Stealth Fighter [feedly]
Combine phased array radars with big missiles
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F-35 Costs Expected to Drop | Boeing-IAI Deliver First Arrow-3 to IAF | Turkey & Russia Conduct First Joint Air-Strike | Airbus Wins $2B A400M Buy from Indonesia [feedly]
F-35 Costs Expected to Drop | Boeing-IAI Deliver First Arrow-3 to IAF | Turkey & Russia Conduct First Joint Air-Strike | Airbus Wins $2B A400M Buy from Indonesia
NASA Tracks Air Flow Generated By Drones [feedly]
Supercomputers Generate Images Showing How Air Interacts With Rotors, Fuselage For decades, NASA has used computer models to simulate the flow of air around aircraft in order to test designs and improve the performance of next-generation vehicles.
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Royal Navy gets new eyes in the skies [feedly]
When the Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth class carriers go into service in 2020, they'll be watched over by a new generation of eyes in the sky. In an announcement by the Minister for Defence Procurement, Harriett Baldwin MP, Lockheed Martin UK was awarded a £269 million (US $331 million) contract to develop and manufacture the Crowsnest Airborne Surveillance System to alert the carrier groups against incoming missile and other airborne threats.
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http://newatlas.com/royal-navy-carriers-crowsnest/47475/
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Iberia e Iberia Express reciben en FITUR el premio a las más puntuales del mundo en 2016
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Iberia e Iberia Express reciben en FITUR el premio a las más puntuales del mundo en 2016
Madrid, 19 de enero de 2017
Los presidentes de Iberia e Iberia Express han recibido hoy en FITUR el premio a las aerolíneas más puntuales del mundo de su categoría, según Flightstats, la consultora líder en información de vuelos, servicios y aplicaciones de la industria de los viajes. Representantes de FlightStats han volado expresamente desde EEUU a Madrid para entregar estos premios que suman ya su octava edición.
El acto se ha convertido en un homenaje a todos los colectivos de Iberia e Iberia Express –pilotos, TCP, personal de aeropuertos-, verdaderos artífices de este gran logro, que han estado representados por una delegación de empleados que han recibido los premios y a quienes ha cedido la palabra Luis Gallego, presidente del Grupo Iberia.
En 2016 Iberia no solo ha sido la aerolínea internacional más puntual del mundo (Major Global Airline), también la aerolínea más puntual de Europa (European Major Airline) y la más puntual de Europa también como aerolínea de red contabilizando sus datos junto a los de su franquiciada Iberia Regional Air Nostrum (European Major Airline Network).
En los últimos cuatro años, Iberia ha ido mejorando su situación en el ranking de puntualidad hasta situarse en lo más alto. Fue la cuarta más puntual del mundo en 2013, tercera en 2014, segunda en 2015 y la primera en 2016.
En el caso de Iberia Express, la compañía sido reconocida como la aerolínea de bajo coste más puntual del mundo, por tercer año consecutivo, lo que supone un importante reconocimiento a nivel internacional al esfuerzo, compromiso y dedicación de una aerolínea que en tan sólo 4 años y medio de vida ha conseguido importantes logros. Miembros del comité de dirección, así como responsables del área de operaciones vuelo, tierra y tripulaciones han estado presentes en la entrega de premios celebrada hoy.
90 cumpleaños
Además, Iberia ha celebrado hoy en FITUR su 90 cumpleaños en un stand en el que pueden seguirse los hitos más importantes de su historia, y donde los visitantes encontrarán la cabina de un Rohrbach Roland, primer avión de Iberia, y podrán vestir con ropa de los años 20.
Sobre Iberia: Iberia es la primera compañía de España y líder en las rutas entre Europa y Latinoamérica. Junto con su filial Iberia Express y su franquiciada Iberia Regional Air Nostrum, ofrece alrededor de 600 vuelos al día a medio centenar de países de Europa, América, África, Oriente Medio y Asia, con una flota de 135 aviones. En 2016, Iberia e Iberia Express han sido las más puntuales del mundo en sus categorías, según FlightStats. Es miembro de la alianza oneworld, que ofrece más de 14.000 vuelos diarios a cerca de 1.000 aeropuertos en más de 150 países.
Iberia e Iberia Express reciben en FITUR el premio a las más puntuales del mundo en 2016
- Se lo ha entregado Flightstats, consultora líder en información de vuelos, servicios y aplicaciones de la industria de los viajes.
- El acto se ha convertido en un "homenaje" a los empleados de las dos aerolíneas, verdaderos artífices del gran logro en puntualidad que Iberia e Iberia Express han alcanzado.
- Hoy la aerolínea ha celebrado también en FITUR su 90 cumpleaños, en un stand que recorre los grandes hitos de su historia.
Madrid, 19 de enero de 2017
Los presidentes de Iberia e Iberia Express han recibido hoy en FITUR el premio a las aerolíneas más puntuales del mundo de su categoría, según Flightstats, la consultora líder en información de vuelos, servicios y aplicaciones de la industria de los viajes. Representantes de FlightStats han volado expresamente desde EEUU a Madrid para entregar estos premios que suman ya su octava edición.
El acto se ha convertido en un homenaje a todos los colectivos de Iberia e Iberia Express –pilotos, TCP, personal de aeropuertos-, verdaderos artífices de este gran logro, que han estado representados por una delegación de empleados que han recibido los premios y a quienes ha cedido la palabra Luis Gallego, presidente del Grupo Iberia.
En 2016 Iberia no solo ha sido la aerolínea internacional más puntual del mundo (Major Global Airline), también la aerolínea más puntual de Europa (European Major Airline) y la más puntual de Europa también como aerolínea de red contabilizando sus datos junto a los de su franquiciada Iberia Regional Air Nostrum (European Major Airline Network).
En los últimos cuatro años, Iberia ha ido mejorando su situación en el ranking de puntualidad hasta situarse en lo más alto. Fue la cuarta más puntual del mundo en 2013, tercera en 2014, segunda en 2015 y la primera en 2016.
En el caso de Iberia Express, la compañía sido reconocida como la aerolínea de bajo coste más puntual del mundo, por tercer año consecutivo, lo que supone un importante reconocimiento a nivel internacional al esfuerzo, compromiso y dedicación de una aerolínea que en tan sólo 4 años y medio de vida ha conseguido importantes logros. Miembros del comité de dirección, así como responsables del área de operaciones vuelo, tierra y tripulaciones han estado presentes en la entrega de premios celebrada hoy.
90 cumpleaños
Además, Iberia ha celebrado hoy en FITUR su 90 cumpleaños en un stand en el que pueden seguirse los hitos más importantes de su historia, y donde los visitantes encontrarán la cabina de un Rohrbach Roland, primer avión de Iberia, y podrán vestir con ropa de los años 20.
Sobre Iberia: Iberia es la primera compañía de España y líder en las rutas entre Europa y Latinoamérica. Junto con su filial Iberia Express y su franquiciada Iberia Regional Air Nostrum, ofrece alrededor de 600 vuelos al día a medio centenar de países de Europa, América, África, Oriente Medio y Asia, con una flota de 135 aviones. En 2016, Iberia e Iberia Express han sido las más puntuales del mundo en sus categorías, según FlightStats. Es miembro de la alianza oneworld, que ofrece más de 14.000 vuelos diarios a cerca de 1.000 aeropuertos en más de 150 países.
sábado, 21 de enero de 2017
NTU Developing Traffic Management System for Safe UAS Flight in Singapore - Inside Unmanned Systems
Inside Unmanned Systems | NTU Developing Traffic Management System for Safe UAS Flight in Singapore Inside Unmanned Systems As unmanned aerial systems become a more common sight in the Singapore skies, researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) are looking for ways to make sure those drones can safely share the airspace at the same time ... |
viernes, 20 de enero de 2017
Spain’s GMV takes a stake in PLD Space’s reusable rocket quest
Spanish rocket startup PLD Space said Jan. 9 that it has raised the money it needs to continue development of its Arion 1 reusable suborbital launch vehicle thanks to a $7.1 million investment round lead by satellite ground systems provider GMV of Madrid, Spain.
Arion 1 is a kerosene-fueled, single-stage rocket designed to use a combination of parachute and propulsion to land after lofting its 200-kilogram payload into a 250-kilometer suborbital trajectory.
- See more at: http://spacenews.com/spains-gmv-takes-a-stake-in-pld-spaces-reusable-rocket-quest/?utm_content=bufferf35b7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#sthash.skgeQ9jN.dpuf
Meet China's Sharp Sword, a stealth drone that can likely carry 2 tons of bombs
It just won a technology prize, so China's pretty proud of it. The Sharp Sword UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), China's stealthy attack drone, just won second place in the National Science and Technology Advancement Prizes. Considering the secrecy surrounding stealth drones to come out of China—the...
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Watch the Army's hoverbike prototype fly
From sci-fi scout to robot pack mule The army has yet to deploy a hoverbike, but it isn't for a lack of trying. The devices, probably best popularized in Star Wars chase scenes, offer a science fictional promise: fast travel for human riders close to the ground, going in the narrow places helicop...
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jueves, 19 de enero de 2017
Need Your Own Private Air Force in a Hurry? Here’s One For Sale. [feedly]
Need Your Own Private Air Force in a Hurry? Here's One For Sale.
// The Aviationist
Listing Offers Twenty Complete Combat Aircraft For Sale, With Parts! For "only" 200K USD. Ever wanted to command your own private air force? Here's your chance, and the price seems reasonable. Raptor Aviation of Port St. Lucie, Florida in the U.S has listed the sale of 20 jet trainer/light strike aircraft, an entire squadron, with […] https://theaviationist.com/2017/01/17/need-your-own-private-air-force-in-a-hurry-heres-one-for-sale/
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