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All News

July 21, 2019

Welcome Back To Sloshkosh: AirVenture Grounds Status

Heavy Rains Have Brought Flooding To Some Areas Of The Airport

EAA is under a temporary alternate camping and aircraft parking plan after the thunderstorms of July 19-20 brought five inches of rain within 24 hours and left many areas of the AirVenture grounds saturated. EAA is continually assessing conditions and will continue to provide the best possible and safest solutions as the situation improves.

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Boeing To Provide $50 Million For Family Relief Related To Recent Accidents

Total Commitment To The Effort Is $100 Million For Families Of Those Aboard Lion Air Flight 610 And Ethiopian Flight 302

Boeing has dedicated $50 million of a previously announced $100 million fund to provide near-term financial assistance to families of the victims of the Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Flight 302 accidents. Boeing also announced that it has retained Kenneth Feinberg and Camille Biros, renowned experts in establishing and overseeing victims' compensation funds, to design and administer the fund.

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American Eagle Carrier PSA Airlines Flight Attendants Ratify New Contract

Provides Immediate Pay Raises And Increases Incentives

PSA Airlines flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), today voted to ratify a new contract. The four-year agreement provides improvements for over 1,300 PSA Flight Attendants. In addition to immediate pay raises, the new contract includes increased vacation, improved work rules and increased scheduling flexibility.

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Teamsters Reach Agreement In Principle With Air Canada

New Agreement Will Go To Membership For Ratification Vote

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has reached an agreement in principle with Air Canada, the largest passenger carrier in Canada. The agreement covers over 700 customer service representatives, reservation assistants, air cargo workers and other employees at the company's U.S. base of operations.

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ESA Confirms Asteroid Will Miss Earth In 2019

Any Chance Of Future Impact Is 'Extremely Remote', Agency Says

Asteroid 2006 QV89, a small object 20 to 50 metres (approx. 65-165 feet) in diameter, was in the news lately because of a very small, 1-in-7000 chance of impact with Earth on September 9, 2019.

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NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 Gets First Data

Captures Sunlight Being Reflected By The Earth's Surface

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3), the agency's newest carbon dioxide-measuring mission to launch into space, has seen the light. From its perch on the International Space Station, OCO-3 captured its first glimpses of sunlight reflected by Earth's surface on June 25, 2019. Just weeks later, the OCO-3 team was able to make its first determinations of carbon dioxide and solar-induced fluorescence - the "glow" that plants emit from photosynthesis, a process that includes the capture of carbon from the atmosphere.

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Northrop Grumman And Leonardo To Update Italian Airspace

Awarded A Radio Replacement Contract For ENAV, The Italian Provider Of Civil Air Traffic Services

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s U.K.-based air traffic communications subsidiary, Park Air Systems Limited, in partnership with Leonardo, through its subsidiary Vitrociset, has been awarded a radio replacement contract for ENAV, the Italian provider of civil air traffic services. The agreement is a five year contract to replace ground-to-air communications equipment for 46 airports and the supporting en-route infrastructure.

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Navy Awards $390 Million Drone Contract To Boeing

Will Acquire Up To 63 RQ-21A Aircraft

Boeing subsidiary Insitu of Bingen, WA has been awarded a $390,390,785 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for up to 63 RQ-21A attrition air vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy.

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Lufthansa Consulting, German Aerospace Center Form Innovation Partnership

Will Promote Technology Transfer And Innovation For Joint Projects

Lufthansa Consulting (LCG) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have agreed to work more closely together in the future and have formed a strategic partnership. The aim of the cooperation is to translate new technologies and promising innovations developed by DLR into marketable and practical solutions, products and services, and to make them available to LCG clients in joint projects.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (07.21.19)

"The tragic loss of life in both accidents continues to weigh heavily on all of us at Boeing, and we have the utmost sympathy for the loved ones of those on board." Source: Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing chairman, president and CEO.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (07.21.19): Poor Judgment Chain

A series of mistakes that may lead to an accident or incident. There are two basic principles generally associated with the creation of a poor judgment chain.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (07.21.19)

The Retired F-117A Nighthawk Is Doing...Something...in the Desert

From Popular Mechanics, an F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter, the world’s first purpose-designed stealth aircraft, was recently sighted high in the skies over Death Valley, CA.

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