Planenews Aviation News PortalYour aviation news and services.Continental Airlines Announces Flight Cuts.- June 12, 2008 A week after Houston-based Continental Airlines announced it would lay off 3,000 employees and cut flights by 11 percent, the company announced Thursday which destinations travelers would no longer be able to fly directly between, KPRC Local 2 reported. The carrier said it is slashing 13 percent of available seats in Cleveland and nearly 8 percent in Houston, its second biggest hub.Beginning Sept. 3, Continental Airlines will discontinue the following flights:From George Bush Intercontinental...http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9519 Pentagon Wants Kill Switch for Planes.- June 12, 2008 The Pentagon’’s non-lethal weapons division is looking for technologies that could "disable" aircraft, before they can take off from a runway, or block the planes from flying over a given city of stretch of land. In a request for proposals, issued earlier this week, the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate announced that it would like arms-makers to come up with a way to "safely divert an aircraft in the air or stop andor disable an aircraft on the ground."..http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9518 Eurocopter Engineer Confessed to Spying for Russia- June 12, 2008 Ex-engineer of the German company Eurocopter has confessed to industrial spying for Russia. The 44-year-old German citizen acknowledged the facts of selling technical information about civil Eurocopter helicopters to Russian special services. Full Storyhttp://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9517 Air Traffic Controllers to Congress: Lack of Training, Poor Work Conditions Make- June 12, 2008 Government officials and air traffic controllers told Congress in a hearing yesterday that the greater proportion of trainee controllers, along with the wave of experienced controllers retiring, is leading to a rise in error rates at critical air traffic control facilities. Full story.http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9516 Google Founder Books Space Flight.- June 12, 2008 Google co-founder Sergey Brin has made a $5m (£2.5m) down payment to book a seat on a future orbital space flight, a US space tourism company has said. Space Adventures says it is planning the first private space flight to the International Space Station in 2011 in a deal with the Russian space agency...http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9515 |