Planenews Aviation News PortalYour aviation news and services.Indonesia Air Crash Bodies Found.- June 28, 2008 Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of 18 people killed in a plane which crashed into a mountain in Indonesia on Thursday. The military aircraft came down on Mount Salak 40km (60 miles) south of the capital, Jakarta...http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9588 Guatemala Minister Dies in Crash.- June 28, 2008 Guatemalan Interior Minister Vinicio Gomez has been killed in a helicopter crash north of the country’s capital, government officials have said. Deputy minister Edgar Hernandez, the pilot and one other person also died...http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9587 NASA Tests Hypersonic Blackswift.- June 27, 2008 Blackswift was previously rumored to be a super secret hypersonic scramjet-based aircraft co-named HTV-3X, essentially a 21st century version of the SR-71. Today NASA has unveiled the real Blackswift (video link), which uses pulse detonation engines (PDEs). A PDE is essentially a modern version of the old V-1 buzz bomb engine. This engine requires significantly fewer moving parts and achieves much higher efficiency than a turbofan, and is technically able to go hypersonic without any kind of...http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9586 Airlines' Cost Cutting Measures To Cut 11,850 Jobs, Ground 413 Aircraft.- June 27, 2008 New York, NY (AHN): More drastic measures are being put in place by U.S. airlines to cope with the soaring price of aviation fuel. U.S. Airways announced on Thursday the termination of its skycaps, who will be replaced with unionized employees by July 9 to ensure its newly imposed baggage fee policy will not violate its labor contract...http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9585 VASO Launches Production of An-148 Medium-Haul Jet.- June 27, 2008 VORONEZH (RIA Novosti): The Voronezh-based aircraft manufacturer VASO has launched production of an An-148 regional medium-haul plane, the United Aircraft Corporation chief executive said on Friday...http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9584 Five Killed in Plane Crash Near Moscow.- June 27, 2008 MOSCOW (RIA Novosti): A light cargo plane, making an aerial photography flight, crashed in the Moscow Region on Friday shortly after a take-off, killing all five people onboard, the emergencies ministry said...http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9583 Plane Goes Missing Over Indonesia.- June 27, 2008 An Indonesian military plane with 18 people on board, including three foreigners, has gone missing on a flight from Jakarta to West Java. It was flying from the capital to Bogor on Thursday, carrying 12 military personnel and six civilians...http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9582 Airline Passenger Rights Bill Introduced.- June 26, 2008 WASHINGTON: A new airline passengers’ bill of rights has been introduced in the U.S. House. House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Jim Oberstar of Minnesota and aviation subcommittee Chairman Jerry Costello of Illinois introduced the bill. It would provide airline passengers with rights to fair treatment for significant delays caused by weather or other extraordinary circumstances...http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9580 Air China Buys 20 Airbus 330-Series Aircrafts.- June 26, 2008 LONDON (Thomson Financial): Air China Ltd. said it has agreed to purchase 20 Airbus 330-Series aircraft from Airbus Co., and added the basic price of the Airbus aircraft in total is around $3.82 billion...http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9581 Pioneering Member of Tuskegee Airman Dies at 87.- June 26, 2008 ATLANTA (AP): Lt. Col. Charles "Chuck" Dryden, one of the first of the pioneering black World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 87. Dryden died Tuesday in Atlanta of natural causes, said Roger Neal, a spokesman for the National Museum of Patriotism in Atlanta. Dryden was on the museum’s board of directors...http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9579 |