NOTAM Number: FDC 7/0753
Issue Date: January 12, 2007 at 2029 UTC
Location: Albany, Georgia
Beginning Date and Time: January 19, 2007 at 2200 UTC
Ending Date and Time: January 21, 2007 at 2000 UTC
Reason for NOTAM: Temporary flight restrictions for VIP (Very
Important Person) Movement
Type: VIP
Replaced NOTAM(s): N/A
Equipment Development Has Taken Too Long Says Officials
A spokesperson for Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
said today it wants to scrap its planned moon mission -- called
Lunar-A -- after delays put it nearly a decade behind schedule.
Companies Say Things Should Be 'Business As Usual'
Smiths Aerospace, the aerospace division of British consortium
Smiths Group, has seen its business surge in recent years on orders
from Boeing, Airbus, and Lockheed Martin. That has not gone
unnoticed by American conglomerate General Electric.
With an almost unprecedented majority for such a dispute, 96% of
British Airways' (BA) cabin crews voted to strike earlier today
citing disputes over sick pay and pensions.
Planemaker To Shuffle Production Between Hamburg And
Toulouse
As part of its restructuring plan to save money and deal
with production delays, European aircraft manufacturing giant
Airbus is to build its next-generation A320 aircraft in Hamburg,
Germany, while production for A350 and A380 will move to
Toulouse, France.
Daily Touch N Go: 01.15.07 (ANN's Short-Form
Daily News Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 01.15.07 (ANN's
Long-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature -- Vulcan Aircraft Engines' Kevin
Sweeney: 01.15.07 (ANN Special Feature, with Kevin Sweeney
of Vulcan Aircraft Engines on a potential new engine for the
emerging LSA market.)
The Air Transport Association of America (ATA) has issued the
following statement in response to the Los Angeles City Council's
decision to allow LAX to raise airport rental rates:
"We are extremely disappointed that LAX today
was given authority to arbitrarily raise airline terminal rates and
we question the legality of this unjustified action...
AD NUMBER: 2007-01-07
MANUFACTURER: Bombardier
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2007-01-07
SUMMARY: The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness
directive (AD), that applies to certain Bombardier Model
CL-600-2B19 (Regional Jet Series 100 & 440) airplanes.
AD NUMBER: 2007-01-15
MANUFACTURER: Boeing
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2007-01-15
SUMMARY: The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness
directive (AD) that applies to certain Boeing Model 747-100,
747-100B, 747-100B SUD, 747-200B, 747-200C, 747-200F, 747- 300,
747SR, and 747SP series airplanes.
Today, ANN's Paul Plack talks with Kevin Sweeney, president of Vulcan Aircraft Engines, which debuted a new 105 HP diesel LSA engine at the US Sport Aviation Expo.
Weather delays are stifling air travel once again... as ANN
knows only too well. ANN personnel who were in Florida this week to
attend the Sebring Sport Aviation Expo as well as ANN's final
planning meeting for our upcoming "ANN 10.0" upgrades wound up
sweating out the weather. Some ANN staffers joined the hundreds who
had flights -- requiring whole day delays in getting home.
Aero-News learned this weekend the first Red Flag exercise this
year, dubbed "Colonial Flag," is scheduled to begin January 16 at
Nellis AFB, marking the 32nd year for Red Flag operations.
The FAA has proposed a set of special conditions the Aviation
Technology Group's upcoming Javelin 100 will have to meet prior to
the issuance of a Type Certification, due to the placement of the
aircraft's twin turbofan engines.
Enduring temperatures of -76 degrees Fahrenheit and fighting off
a mild bout of hypoxia, David Hempleman-Adams recently broke the
world altitude record in a hot air balloon. The British explorer
flew to 32,500 feet -- higher than the cruising altitude
for many passenger jets.
Can Fly A Prince Around... But Can't Drive To The Airport
Contrary to its reputation as a fundamentalist Islamic
stronghold in the Middle East, changes ARE coming to Saudia Arabia
-- a series of reforms meant to bring it more in-line with modern
times and mores. One sign of that progress is the fact the kingdom
will soon see its first female pilot.
Source: A stranded ANN reader (currently
living of the vending machines at a local FBO while waiting for
less threatening conditions) commenting on the state of the weather
he was experiencing while waiting for difficult IFR conditions to
dissipate to allow continued flight.
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