The Vickers Vimy is scheduled to depart from the IMP Hangar, off
Torbay Road, St. John's International Airport at 1900 Newfoundland
time, Saturday, bound for Clifden Ireland.
A 48-year old Florida lawyer was killed Friday when his Comp Air
7SXL stalled just after lifting into the air on take-off and
impacted the ground. Witnesses said he gained virtually no altitude
at all.
On Capitol Hill Thursday, the US House blocked efforts by the
FAA to outsource Flight Service Stations around the country, a move
that would have closed a number of them and threatened the pensions
of more than 1,000 specialists.
Machinists working at the New Piper plant in Vero Beach, FL,
approved a new contract Thursday night, averting the possibility of
a strike at the recovering GA airplane maker.
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft continues to sail through its
final checkout, as it hurtles toward comet Tempel 1. Impact with
the comet is scheduled for 1:52 a.m. EDT, July 4 (10:52 p.m. PDT,
July 3).
The US-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs concluded a series of
meetings Wednesday in Moscow as part of a worldwide effort to
account for more than 88,000 Americans missing from past
conflicts.
This is an interesting item from Shenyang, China, where that
country's Department of International Cooperation Science and
Technology wants to come up with a home-made commercial aircraft
design.
Dr. George H. Ebbs Jr., president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University, will receive the 2005 Gen. Lewis H. Brereton Award from
the Florida state organization of the Air Force Association on July
23 at the group's convention in Cocoa Beach.
In a ceremony at Marignane, Eurocopter officially handed over
the keys of two Panther helicopters to Commander General and Staff
College Graduate (CG. DEM) Admiral Armando S�nchez Moreno,
who is Under Secretary of the Mexican Navy. The helicopters will be
operated by the Navy of the United Mexican States.
Cessna Aircraft Company and Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp
(P&WC) have come up with a new program designed to control
costs for Citation owners. It's called PowerAdvantage Plus
(PA+) -- a new guaranteed engine maintenance cost
program.
Boeing and Japan Airlines (JAL) Thursday confirmed an order by
JAL for six new Boeing 767-300ER airplanes, valued at approximately
$800 million at list prices.
"I am tired and exhausted. We did the best we could and it's
something we can build a future on."
Source: New Piper paint shop worker Jim Long, in a
statement to the Vero Beach Press Journal after his machinists'
union voted to ratify a contract deal with the general aviation
manufacturer. Long is the union's chief negotiator.