All North America articles – Page 263
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NewsUnited pilots agree to belt-tightening measures to avoid furloughs
United Airlines’ pilots have agreed to measures, including a reduction in flight hours, that would avoid 2,850 furloughs that had been scheduled to begin later this week.
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NewsTouchdown normal before Omni 767’s main-gear collapse
Romanian investigators have disclosed that the Boeing 767-300ER which suffered a landing-gear collapse at Bucharest Baneasa airport did not touch down abnormally before the accident. It had been inbound from Kabul on 28 August, and the ILS approach to runway 07 was stable, with checklists and call-outs performed as normal, ...
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NewsFAA certificates 777X’s GE9X powerplants
The Federal Aviation Administration has certificated GE Aviation’s 105,000lb-thrust (467kN) GE9X turbofan, a milestone coming as Boeing continues working toward achieving certification for its GE9X-powered 777-9.
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NewsDash 8-400 service update aims to stem cowl-door losses
Operators of De Havilland Aircraft Dash 8-400 turboprops are being urged to pay attention to a new maintenance task intended to avoid incidents of engine cowl doors separating from the aircraft on take-off. De Havilland Aircraft has taken over the production of the aircraft, which was formerly known as the ...
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NewsFirst FWSAR C295 touches down in Canada
Canada’s first Airbus Defence & Space C295 search and rescue (SAR) aircraft has arrived at Canadian Force’s Base Comox, in British Columbia.
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NewsDelta to retire aircraft and take up to $2.5b charge
Delta Air Lines will retire more aircraft earlier than planned in an effort to streamline its fleet and cut costs as the air travel industry recovers from the shock of the coronavirus pandemic.
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NewsDreamlifter pilots did not cross-check navigation before wrong-airport landing
Seven years after the incident, US investigators have disclosed the awkward radio exchange which underlined that a Boeing ‘Dreamlifter’ crew had unintentionally landed at the wrong Wichita airport. Just over a minute after the pilots had landed at Colonel James Jabara airport, the local controller for McConnell air force base ...
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In depthAlphabet’s Wing division advances unmanned air traffic system
Various companies have in recent years been working to develop underlying air traffic technologies intended to support the expected rapid expansion of the commercial unmanned urban air mobility (UAM) industry.
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NewsBoeing intends software update to address 787 localiser capture failures
Boeing is developing updated software for 787s to correct an erroneous localiser mode behaviour during ILS approaches. The US FAA is advising operators of the three 787 variants to notify crews about potential failure by the autopilot flight-director system to capture the localiser, notably during intercept of the localiser at ...
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NewsVaccine key to airline recovery: United’s Munoz
United Airlines executive chairman Oscar Munoz says that a vaccine which will protect travellers against the coronavirus will be key to the industry’s recovery.
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NewsSecond US airline aid package faces ‘tough, tough road’: JetBlue exec
A second tranche of financial aid for US airlines is integral for the health of the industry, New York-based JetBlue Airways president and chief operations officer Joanna Geraghty says.
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NewsUnited introduces coronavirus testing for Hawaii-bound customers
United Airlines will introduce coronavirus testing for passengers in an effort to get customers back in aircraft as the global coronavirus crisis drags on.
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NewsNeste and Shell team up to produce sustainable aviation fuel
Finnish sustainable aviation fuel supplier Neste is teaming up with petroleum heavyweight Royal Dutch Shell to “significantly increase” the supply and availability of the lower-emissions fuel for the commercial aviation industry starting in October.
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NewsUK pilots seek assurance on sensor and trim aspects of 737 Max redesign
UK cockpit crew representatives are seeking assurances on several aspects of the Boeing 737 Max’s redesign, including scenarios relating to the angle-of-attack sensors and the potential need for two pilots to turn the trim wheel if the jet is out of trim. Pilots union BALPA has formally responded to a ...
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Airline BusinessWhere the airline industry was when the music stopped
Another year of strong profit and traffic growth in 2019 for leading carriers illustrates the highs the industry had reached before the coronavirus pandemic, but offered no warning of the crisis to come that has pushed airlines to the brink.
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NewsCDB Aviation agrees Max and Dreamliner SLBs with United Airlines
CDB Aviation has agreed to purchase and lease back 12 new aircraft from US carrier United Airlines. The transaction comprises two Boeing 787-9s and 10 737 Max 8s, a 22 September filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange shows. Source: United Airlines CDB Aviation’s sale and leaseback transaction ...
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NewsAmerican Airlines pilots to begin 737 Max training in November
American Airlines’ pilots will begin 737 Max “special training” in November in preparation for the jet’s return to service, with the company’s entire complement of 737 pilots expected to complete the reviews by January 2021.
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NewsUS Army flies CH-47 with GE Aviation T408 engine
GE’s T408 produces 7,500hp (5,593kW), about 56% more than the Honeywell T55 now used on the CH-47.
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NewsUS Army researches running the MQ-1C Gray Eagle on ‘any type of fuel’
The US Army Research Laboratory awarded the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign an $8 million, four-year contract to help develop new diesel-engine ignition technologies intended to allow unmanned air vehicles, including General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagles, to run on “any type of fuel”.
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NewsHydrogen-powered airliners unlikely in near term: Boeing exec
Boeing’s top product developer doubts hydrogen-powered airliners will be viable in the near future due to technical and regulatory hurdles and remaining technological uncertainty.