ANN Daily Touch-And-Go:
06.09.09 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News
Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 06.09.09 (ANN's
Long-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature: Ed Downs - ELSA Gyroplanes? -
06.09.09 (ANN Special Report, with ASTM
Compliance Consultant Ed Downs)
Tornado Alley
A geographic corridor in the United States which stretches north
from Texas to Nebraska and Iowa. In terms of sheer numbers, this
section of the United States receives more tornadoes than any
other.
Aero-Linx: Tornado Alley
Turbo
Shameless plug time -- The "Other" Tornado Alley is actually a
company doing some truly magnificent work with retrofit
turbo-normalized engine installations that are easy to use, as
powerful as you generally need them to be, and just plain rugged in
overall operating temperament.
"Starting in May 2008 Air France experienced incidents
involving a loss of airspeed data in flight, in cruise phase on
A340s and A330s. These incidents were analysed with Airbus as
resulting from pitot probe icing for a few minutes, after which the
phenomenon disappeared. Discussions subsequently took place with
the manufacturer. Air France asked for a solution which would
reduce or eliminate the occurrence of these
incidents...
Source: From an Air France statement
issued in order to clarify questions about issues involving their
Airbus A330 Pitot probes.
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