Show Comments (
LX1075 today
Click Like to Follow Fliegerfaust Facebook page to get the News ASAP / Share to share this post now.
It's Free! Subscribe To Fliegerfaust Newsletter
Laid-Off Boeing Workers To Get Extra Federal Help That Doubles What Most Unemployed Get
Click Like to Follow Fliegerfaust Facebook page to get the News ASAP / Share to share this post now.
July 4, 2020 - by Dominic Gates for seattletimes.com
Though labor unions have lost much of their leverage against giant corporations, they still retain political clout in Congress. This week, the Boeing unions clinched a big victory in their scramble to add protections for the thousands of their members being laid off.
The upshot: Boeing workers will be eligible for benefits for nearly twice as long as most other recently laid-off workers, under a program meant to protect workers hurt by foreign competition, not by virus-driven industry downturns.
Because of a union push, laid-off Boeing employees were this week ruled eligible for additional federally funded assistance under a program called Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) that offers extended unemployment benefits for up to two years while...
From Your Site Articles
- You'll remember that Boeing's response to the Bombardier CSeries ... ›
- Boeing To End 747 Jumbo Jet Production After More Than 50 Years ... ›
- Boeing Kept FAA In The Dark On KEY 737 MAX Design Changes ... ›
- Boeing 737 MAX No Return In Service Before First Quarter 2021 ... ›
Related Articles Around the Web
Australia’s Pivot From Defence to Offence Counters Beijing’s ‘Military Adventurism’ in Indo-Pacific: Expert
Click Like to Follow Fliegerfaust Facebook page to get the News ASAP / Share to share this post now.
July 3, 2020 - by DANIEL Y. TENG for www.theepochtimes.com
Australia's pivot towards an offensive-focused military is to counter Beijing's rising militarisation in the Indo-Pacific region. It is part of a grander move for nations to unite against the Chinese regime’s coercive actions, according to a defence expert.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on July 1 presented the new Strategic Update and Force Structure Plan, which included a record $270 billion (US$187 billion) investment into the Australian Defence Force (ADF) over the next ten years.
Morrison said Australia faced a world “that is poorer, that is more dangerous, and that is more disorderly."
Regarding the increasing risks in the Indo-Pacific, Morrison...
From Your Site Articles
- Ryanair Still Committed To Chinese Built Aircraft Amid Airbus ... ›
- Not Good: China Claims It Can Find and Track the F-22 - Not a good ... ›
- China Aerospace News - AVIS MA700 - FliegerFaust ›
Related Articles Around the Web
Who is visiting Fliegerfaust now... plus all visitors since December 25, 2018 14:56 - 19:56 UTC
Boeing 747 aircraft
Boeing To End 747 Jumbo Jet Production After More Than 50 Years: Report
Demand for the iconic four-engine jet has dwindled in recent years and other factors have further pushed Boeing to stop making them entirely
Click Like to Follow Fliegerfaust Facebook page to get the News ASAP / Share to share this post now.
July 3, 2020 - by JOSEPH TREVITHICK for www.thedrive.com
Boeing will reportedly stop making 747 Jumbo Jets for good after it completes the last of the 16 aircraft currently on order now.
The final 747 is now expected to roll off the line in the next two years or so, after which time the type will have been in production for more than five decades.
The impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had across the air travel and aviation industries have only further depressed an already declining market for the iconic plane, which is lovingly nicknamed the "Queen of the Skies."
Bloomberg was first to report the impending closure of the 747 production line on July 2, 2020.
Boeing has, so far...
From Your Site Articles
- World's Largest Underwater Theme Park with Submerged Boeing ... ›
- Video - Boeing 747 Steep Bank To Land at Hong Kong Airport - China ›
- Low Cost Carrier Avatar Airlines Wants To Order 30 Boeing 747-8s ... ›
- Boeing 747 Nears End of the Line as Storied Factory Shuts Down ... ›
- The Boeing 747: The Plane That Shrank The World - FliegerFaust ›
- Laid-Off Boeing Workers To Get Extra Federal Help That Doubles What Most Unemployed Get - FliegerFaust ›
Related Articles Around the Web
An artist's conception of a pair of the Air Force's future F-15EXs.
Pratt & Whitney Facing The Prospect Of Losing Engine Business With The Air Force
Click Like to Follow Fliegerfaust Facebook page to get the News ASAP / Share to share this post now.
July 3, 2020 - by JOSEPH TREVITHICK for thedrive.com
The U.S. Air Force is buying an unspecified number of General Electric F110-GE-129 jet engines to power at least some of its future F-15EX Eagle fighter jets.
The service says this is an "unusual and compelling urgency acquisition" and comes ahead of a formal competition to decide on the F-15EX's powerplant, with Pratt & Whitney expected to submit their F100-PW-229 engine as an alternative.
The Pentagon first announced the deal for the F110-GE-129s, which also "including installs and spares and modernized engine monitoring system computers," in its daily contracting notice on June 30, 2020.
Winning could be especially important for Pratt & Whitney, which is facing the prospect of losing other engine business with the Air Force in the coming years, including with respect to the service's B-52 bombers and its F-35A Joint Strike Fighters.
The award is valued at $101,345,500 and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center expects to have all the engines and associated items and services delivered by...
From Your Site Articles
- airBaltic Replaced 50 Airbus A220 Pratt & Whitney Engines In The ... ›
- Cessna's SkyCourier Makes Initial Ground Runs - Features two Pratt ... ›
- Pratt & Whitney Canada Delivers First PW127G Engines Destined ... ›
- F-35: ONE Engine is Safer than TWO!?? - Says Pratt & Whitney ... ›
Related Articles Around the Web
U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO BY SENIOR AIRMAN MILTON HAMILTON/DVIDS
The USAF Is Transporting COVID-19 Patients in Modified Shipping Containers
Click Like to Follow Fliegerfaust Facebook page to get the News ASAP / Share to share this post now.
July 3, 2020 - by KYLE MIZOKAMI for popularmechanics.com
The U.S. Air Force is using modified shipping containers to safely transport people with the coronavirus from one location to another.
The containers are designed to carry patients on stretchers or on foot, and are loaded into the back of heavy transport planes. A specially designed air filtration system ensures the virus does not escape the container to pose a danger to the air crew.
Once embarked, the NPC is then loaded onto a C-5 or C-17 transport and then flown to the destination.
The larger, jet-powered transports can carry two NPCs each while the smaller C-130J Hercules can carry a smaller...
Read more https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a33084291/covid-19-air-force/
From Your Site Articles
- 500 Delta Airline Staff Test Positive for Coronavirus, 10 Dead ... ›
- Airbus Detectors Could 'Sniff Out' Coronavirus On Planes ... ›
Related Articles Around the Web
Source: FINNISH MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
The old emblem for the Finnish Air Force Command (left) featured a swastika, but the current emblem of the force does not
Finland's Air Force Quietly Drops Swastika Symbol...
Its roots go back many thousands of years...
Click Like to Follow Fliegerfaust Facebook page to get the News ASAP / Share to share this post now.
July 2, 2020 - by Claudia Allen for bbc.com
It was long a rather surprising choice of imagery for Finland's Air Force Command - a swastika and pair of wings.
The symbol will always be intrinsically linked with Nazi Germany and its crimes, even though its roots go back many thousands of years.
But now it has been confirmed the Air Force Command has quietly stopped using this unit emblem.
The change was first observed by University of Helsinki academic Teivo Teivainen.
He had previously questioned whether the continued use of the symbol was helpful for the Finnish armed forces.
Finland's air force has been using a swastika ever since it was founded in 1918,...
Read more https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53249645
From Your Site Articles
- Boeing capsule returns to Earth after aborted space mission ... ›
- Russia's power line: How Bombardier helped build a controversial ... ›
- Must See Video: The Economics That Made Boeing Build the 737 Max ›
- Expecting You To Be Stupid The Media Are So Insane- About What ... ›
Related Articles Around the Web
Airlifters Packed With 400 Paratroopers Just Practiced A Sudden Long-Range Invasion Of Guam
The operation saw Air Force C-17s laden with airborne troops fly thousands of miles across the Pacific to raid Andersen Air Force Base
Click Like to Follow Fliegerfaust Facebook page to get the News ASAP / Share to share this post now.
July 2, 2020 - by TYLER ROGOWAY for www.thedrive.com
As tensions in the Pacific Theater continue to increase, the U.S. military is flexing its muscles and reminding its potential enemies that it can reach out over vast distances and put boots on the ground on an island within a very short amount of time.
Case in point, an emergency deployment readiness exercise that just saw paratroopers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division out of Alaska descend onto Guam via airdrop from C-17 Globemaster III transports.
The airborne assault mission covered nearly 5,000 miles on its inbound leg from Elmendorf Air Force Base outside of Anchorage to Andersen Air Force Base on the northern tip of the island of Guam.
According to an...
From Your Site Articles
- Germany Recently Eliminated The Lockheed Martin F-35 Stealth ... ›
- Not Good: China Claims It Can Find and Track the F-22 - Not a good ... ›
- U.S. Army Flickr Page Inadvertently Reveals New Hypersonic ... ›
Related Articles Around the Web
Photo by Setyaki Irham on Unsplash
Huawei - Did a Chinese Hack Kill Canada’s Greatest Tech Company?
Nortel was once a world leader in wireless technology. Then came a hack and the rise of Huawei. By 2004 the hackers had breached Nortel's uppermost ranks.
Click Like to Follow Fliegerfaust Facebook page to get the News ASAP / Share to share this post now.
July 2, 2020 - by Natalie Obiko Pearson for www.bloomberg.com
- By 2004 the hackers had breached Nortel's uppermost ranks.
The documents began arriving in China at 8:48 a.m. on a Saturday in April 2004.
There were close to 800 of them: PowerPoint presentations from customer meetings, an analysis of a recent sales loss, design details for an American communications network. Others were technical, including source code that represented some of the most sensitive information owned by Nortel Networks Corp., then one of the world's largest companies.
At its height in 2000, the telecom equipment manufacturer employed 90,000 people and had a market value of C$367 billion (about $250 billion at the time), accounting for more than 35% of Canada's benchmark stock market index, the TSE 300. Nortel's sprawling Ottawa research campus sat at the center of a promising tech ecosystem, surrounded by dozens of startups packed with its former employees.
The company dominated the market for fiber-optic data transmission systems; it had invented a touchscreen wireless device almost a decade before the iPhone...
Read more https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-01/did-china-steal-canada-s-edge-in-5g-from-nortel
Related Articles Around the Web
Some of the Boeing 737 MAX waiting for delivery to their customers
Boeing 737 MAX No Return In Service Before First Quarter 2021
The plane flew tests for two hours on Monday, four hours on Tuesday and finally an hour and 37 minutes on Wednesday.
Click Like to Follow Fliegerfaust Facebook page to get the News ASAP / Share to share this post now.
July 2, 2020 - by Dominic Gates for seattletimes.com
- The plane flew tests for two hours on Monday, four hours on Tuesday and finally an hour and 37 minutes on Wednesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing on Wednesday completed the required re-certification flight tests on the 737 MAX, taking the plane a step closer to FAA approval to return to service.
An extensive to-do list must be accomplished before the plane can receive clearance to fly passengers again, a milestone now expected no sooner than mid-September. (A couple of months after that, U.S. airlines can fly the MAX again)
From Your Site Articles
- Indian IT Companies Blamed for Boeing 737 MAX Crisis; HCL ... ›
- Boeing 737 MAX Certification Flight Tests To Begin On Monday ›
- 'No one knows' when Boeing 737 MAX really will return, United CEO ... ›
- DOJ probe expands beyond Boeing 737 MAX, includes 787 ... ›
- Boeing 737 MAX Crash Reveals A Severe Problem With Older ... ›
- Laid-Off Boeing Workers To Get Extra Federal Help That Doubles What Most Unemployed Get - FliegerFaust ›
Related Articles Around the Web
Fliegerfaust's Selection about Bombardier Aerospace
Fliegerfaust's Selection about Bombardier Business Jets, including their new Global 7500!
Fliegerfaust's Selection about Bombardier Transportations!
Fliegerfaust's Selection about Everything related to Aviation
Selection of Videos we find Interesting to Share!
Selection related to Military, mostly Aviation!
Original notes and articles
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.