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A Cathay Pacific Airbus A350-900 diverts to Darwin due to engine problem
May 24, 2019 - by airlinerwatch.com
Darwin, Australia - A Cathay Pacific Airbus A350-900 made an emergency landing at Darwin International Airport in Northern Australia due to a problem in one of the engines.
The aircraft was en route from Hong Kong to Melbourne and was over Katherine in the Northern Territory when it was forced to divert to Darwin...
Read more https://airlinerwatch.com/a-cathay-pacific-airbus-a350-900-diverts-to-darwin-due-to-engine-problem/
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Duncan's New Provo Paint Shop Completes First Aircraft
May 24, 2019 - by Curt Epstein for ainonline.com
The first completed aircraft paint project has rolled out of the new paint hangar at Duncan Aviation's full-service facility in Provo, Utah.
The Bombardier Global 5000 was inducted in mid-April and delivered less than a month later. Before the 53,000-sq-ft, environmentally friendly, state-of-the-art paint hangar came online, its staff had been...
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Boeing and FAA did not put safety first: Former NTSB chairman
An investigation into two 737 Boeing Max fatal crashes show that even regulators were not keeping both eyes open.
May 24, 2019 - by Henry Fernandez for foxbusiness.com
BoeingOpens a New Window. 737 Max jets remain grounded as the Federal Aviation AdministrationOpens a New Window. (FAA) met with civil aviation authorities from around the world Thursday looking to regain confidence in federal safety procedures.
"They've lost the confidence of the international aviation organizations across the world," former NTSB Chair James Hall told FOX Business' Liz ClamanOpens a New Window. on Thursday.
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U.S. airlines expect Boeing 737 MAX jets need up to 150 hours of work before flying again
Each aircraft will likely require between 100 and 150 hours of preparation before flying..
May 24, 2019 - by Tracy Rucinski for reuters.com
Once regulators approve Boeing Co's grounded 737 MAX jets for flight, each aircraft will likely require between 100 and 150 hours of preparation before flying, officials from the three U.S. airlines that operate the MAX told Reuters.
The estimate, provided to Reuters by American Airlines Group Inc, United Airlines and Southwest Airlines Co officials, is the first indication of the time needed to bring the jets out of storage following a worldwide grounding in March spurred by deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
The allotted 100 to 150 hours of jet preparation comes on top of the hours needed for pilot training...
Read more https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-boeing-airlines-exc-idUSKCN1ST2BG
China airline association estimates losses from 737 MAX grounding at US$579 million
May 24, 2019 - by Stella Qiu, editing by Christopher Cushing for reuters.com
BEIJING (Reuters) - The China Air Transport Association (CATA) on Friday said it estimates losses at Chinese airlines caused by the grounding of Boeing Co's 737 MAX aircraft will reach around 4 billion yuan ($579.32 million) by the end of June.
China was the first country to ground the 737 MAX two months ago after a crash in Ethiopia killed 157 people in March, in the second such incident for Boeing's newest aircraft. The U.S. air regulator expects approval for the plane to return to service as early as late June, sources told Reuters on Thursday.
Airbus Now Wants To Remain In UK Regardless Of Brexit Outcome
May 23, 2019 - By Jorge Valero for eurasiareview.com
European planemaker Airbus wants to stay in the UK whatever the outcome of Brexit, as the country is "a very important pillar" for the company, new CEO Guillaume Faury said on Tuesday (21 May), amending negative comments made by his predecessor.
Airbus, seen as the poster child of industrial integration in creating European champions, also wants to be "more Asian" to be closer to its fastest-growing markets.
Faury spoke with journalists invited to the innovation days at the company's Toulouse headquarters. EURACTIV was part of the attendees.
In one of his first major media appearances since taking over in April, Faury stressed that the UK is "a very important pillar" for Airbus.
For that reason, he said, "we want to stay in the UK", regardless of the Brexit outcome...
Source: Boeing
U.S. Air Force F-35s and F-15s Could Get Drone Wingmen
Robotic Wingmen...
May 24, 2019 - by by David Axe for nationalinterest.org
The U.S. Air Force has identified the manned fighters that, in coming years, could get robotic wingmen.
A new version of the Air Force's F-35A stealth fighter, as well as the heavily upgraded version of the F-15 that the flying branch hopes to acquire, both could function as flight leads for the service's Skyborg wingman drones, Will Roper, the Air Force's top weapons-buyer, on May 22, 2019 told Defense News reporter Valerie Insinna.
Roper's statement implies that other Air Force fighter types such as F-16s and older F-35s and F-15s likely won't function as drone flight leads.
The Air Force is in discussions with Boeing and Lockheed respectively to modify their F-15EX and F-35A Block 4 fighters to accommodate the datalinks and processors from the Skyborg effort, Insinna reported...
Read more https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-air-force-f-35s-and-f-15s-could-get-drone-wingmen-59257
FAA will move first to approve the Boeing 737 MAX to fly again, possibly within weeks
"We will do it alone," said Acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell
May 24, 2019 - by Dominic Gates for seattletimes.com
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — During a break from an international gathering of air safety regulators from around the world, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) made clear Thursday that his agency will move first to lift the order grounding Boeing's 737 MAX. While he steered clear of specifying a timetable, his comments suggested such clearance could come as early as late June.
"When we get to the point where we can lift this order, we will do it alone," said Acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell, explaining that because the U.S. certified the original design, it must be first to certify the Boeing software fix for the flight-control system that went awry on the fatal Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines flights.
Safety regulators elsewhere will make their own decisions after looking at the FAA's data, he said. Some will accept it, while "other countries have already decided they will not only review our work but look at some other things of interest to them."
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My name is Normand Hamel. After a 35 year career in aviation I retired in 2009 to better concentrate on my favourite activities: reading and writing. If you wonder what Run-up Pad means it refers to this special section of a run-up area on an airport that can be heated up in cold temperatures to prevent an aircraft from slipping forward when power is applied to test the engines. It also refers symbolically to the yellow pad I am using to write these articles for which I intend to bring our readers to contribution to test my ideas, like one would test an engine to make sure it works properly.