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December 13, 2019 - by Jon Ostrower for theaircurrent.com
The final ungrounding order by the Federal Aviation Administration to return Boeing's 737 Max to airline service won't come until at least mid-February, according to a consensus among regulators, airlines and industry stakeholders. Driving the prolonged process is a combination of factors, including a yet-to-commence software audit, the jet's final certification flight and the Joint Operation Evaluation Board (JOEB) review that is now facing added uncertainty following a week of airline line pilot evaluations that yielded confusing results.
Southwest Airlines and United Airlines today all have the 737 Max restarting operations during the first week of March, American Airlines to April 7, but with the timeline pushing deeper into 2020, the likelihood of further disruption to their schedules is nearly assured.
During the recent pilot trials, which tested how crews react to various scenarios involving the revised 737 Max flight control software and new checklists, all the pilots managed to get themselves out of trouble, but Boeing and regulators found that "more than half…of pilots responded with the wrong procedures,"...
Air Canada First Airbus A220 First Flight - Mirabel International Airport, Quebec, Canada
First Air Canada Airbus A220 Delivery
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11:35 (16:35 UTC) - December 13, 2019 - by Sylvain Faust for fliegerfaust.com
With the maiden flight of the first Air Canada A220 now behind us (it happened on December 11 ) the next question is:
When will it be delivered to Air Canada? December 19, 2019 is the date.
Now, you think the event will occur at Mirabel International Airport YMX? Nope… Where then?
The first Air Canada Airbus A220 (formerly known as the Bombardier CSeries before over 50% of the CSeries ownership was sold to Airbus for simply one Canadian $ i.e. about US$0.73…) delivery celebration will be held at Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport YUL on December 19, 2019.
Once again, you learned about this "First" on Fliegerfaust.com
Expect to see all invitations to be sent very shortly regarding this event. Air Canada will be pushing hard to get the maximum media coverage. It might be a good time to ask Air Canada how happy they are with their new Boeing 737 MAX?
According to what I understood the reason why the first flight of this aircraft was pushed by a week as previously reported (https://www.fliegerfaust.com/air-canada-2641455695.html) was due to some late discovered snags. But, on the positive side the first flight landed with a "Complete" status, i.e. no snag! Great news!
Remember, still remaining before the delivery of an aircraft is the client acceptance flight where representative of the client do a complete inspection of the aircraft on the ground (cabin seats and systems…) prior to the flight. Sometimes more than a single flight is required.
Air Canada should be taking delivery of 75 A220 aircraft. But more could also be ordered before the firm number (45) added with the number of options (30) are all delivered and depending when Airbus will officially introduce the longer A220-500. The A220-500 (formerly CSeries CS500) is already all designed (before Airbus acquired its portion of the CSeries) and it has been flying for a few years already in Bombardier special CSeries flight simulators. The CS500 basically use the same wing and landing gears of the CS300 aka A220-300, nothing complex to change at Mirabel to allow for its production and simply one or two aircraft would be necessary for its certification. Those could also be sold at a discounted price later.
As I reported before, the aircraft registration for this first Air Canada A220 has a special meaning. The aircraft will keep its current C-GROV registration when the ownership is transferred from Airbus to Air Canada. If you want to know why the letters "GROV" have been selected simply read about it here…
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Standard 737 Max planes are not equipped with a so-called angle of attack indicator or an angle ofattack disagree light. The indicator will continue to cost airlines extra, but the light won't.
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December 12, 2019 - for airinsight.com
A new round of Congressional Hearings about the Boeing 737 MAX got underway today.
Peter Defazio, the chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said an FAA analysis following the Lion Air accident but before the Ethiopian Airlines crash concluded there would be 15 fatal MAX accidents if there was no fix to MCAS.
DeFazio asked Dickson why wasn't airplane grounded then? He did not have an answer...
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December 11, 2019 - by Scott Hamilton for airinsight.com
With confirmation by the Federal Aviation Administration that recertification of the 737 MAX won't happen until 2020, Boeing is rapidly facing a decision whether to reduce or suspend MAX production.
With no end in sight, Boeing can't continue production of the MAX at the rate of 42/mo much longer.
Through Dec. 6, there were just under 400 MAXes that have been produced. Another 381 MAXes were in service when global regulators grounded the fleet March 11-13.
Boeing only a month ago thought the MAX would be recertified this month. The FAA administrator, Stephen Dickson, quickly shot that down. Today, he was specific in an interview with CNBC and in testimony before Congress.
Certification won't happen until...
Lockheed Martin F-35 Aircraft
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December 11, 2019 - by Lee Hudson for aviationweek.com
The U.S. government halted deliveries of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for 15 days because the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) discovered comingling of titanium and Inconel fasteners, a Defense Department official said.
The Pentagon temporarily suspended F-35 deliveries on Nov. 12 when DCMA noted that...
Read more https://aviationweek.com/defense/quality-control-issue-halted-f-35-deliveries-dod-official-says
Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft
The future is coming...
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December 11, 2019 - by by Kris Osborn for nationalinterest.org
Key point: The F-35 is only the beginning for high-tech stealth fighters.
It is also possible that the new 6th-generation fighter could use advanced, futuristic stealth technology able to enable newer, more capable air defenses.
The air defenses of potential adversaries are increasingly using faster computing processing power and are better networked together, more digital, able to detect a wider range of frequencies and able to detect stealthy aircraft at farther distances.
The Air Force has begun experimenting and conceptual planning for a 6th generation fighter aircraft to emerge in coming years as a technological step beyond the F-35, service leaders said.
"We have started experimentation, developmental planning and technology investment," Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, Military Deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Acquisition, told Scout Warrior in an interview.
The new aircraft, engineered to succeed the 5th-generation F-35 Joint StrikeFighter and explode onto the scene by the mid 2030s, is now in...
Read more https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-35-will-die-long-live-6th-generation-stealth-fighter-103717
Boeing Board of Directors Keeping the Same CEO / Management
The Max remains grounded after two deadly crashes
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December 11, 2019 - by David Koenig Associated Press for theprogress.com
The Max remains grounded after two deadly crashes
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration will face questions about whether the agency is too cozy with Boeing when he testifies this week before a congressional panel.
The chairman of the House Transportation Committee says he plans to ask FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson about Boeing's influence over the FAA's Seattle office and incidents in which FAA managers vetoed the concerns of the agency's own safety experts.
"We are having a hard time piercing the veil of how consistently and repeatedly Boeing is managing to pressure and overcome the objectives of the safety specialists," committee Chairman Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., said Monday in an interview.
The PM's plane is part of a fleet of five Airbus 310-300s and it is expected to cost from $1 billion to nearly $5 billion to replace all the aging planes
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December 11, 2019 - by Ryan Tumilty for nationalpost.com
The PM's plane is part of a fleet of five Airbus 310-300s and it is expected to cost from $1 billion to nearly $5 billion to replace all the aging planes
Government officials are considering speeding up plans to replace the aircraft the prime minister uses to fly around the world, after a week in which several problems hit the more than 30-year-old jets.
The prime minister's plane is part of a fleet of five Airbus 310-300s and it is expected to cost from $1 billion to nearly $5 billion to replace all the aging planes.
Of the five planes only one is typically used for the prime minister, with two others used mostly for troop transportation. Two of the planes have been converted into aerial refueling tankers.
The prime minister's usual plane, known as CC-15001 or Can Force One, was damaged in October when it was being moved out of a hangar at CFB Trenton.
Because of the hangar crash, another plane from the fleet was used to take Justin Trudeau to London for the NATO summit last week. But it was later found to have an engine problem.
The planes are not the government's only option when it comes to VIP transport. Canada also owns four smaller Bombardier Challenger jets that can transport VIPs and be used as air ambulance for the military, but those are also facing problems...
Read it all... https://nationalpost.com/news/trudeaus-new-plane-to-replace-damaged-can-force-one-could-be-fast-tracked-for-replacement-dnd
And no, it does not involve suffocating pilots or sci-fi line helmets.
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December 11, 2019 - by Robert Farley for nationalinterest.org
And no, it does not involve suffocating pilots or sci-fi line helmets
Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon are fighting over intellectual property (IP). If they can't resolve their dispute, it could result in delays to critical elements of the F-35 program. What's going on, and how can we solve it?
In Aviation Week, Steve Trimble, Lee Hudson and Michael Bruno describe the problem as one of ownership and contracting. LockMart claims to have developed the algorithms designed to sort and manage flight data on its own, independent of federal funding.
The government claims that the algorithms were produced as part of a government contract. Given that the data and the algorithms that massage the data are important to long-term production and sustainment of the F-35, this matters a great deal to both parties. LockMart has lost the first ruling, and is awaiting the result of an additional appeal.
Obviously, money is...
Read more https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-35-stealth-fighter-might-have-another-problem-103142
