Britain is rushing to help more than 100,000 travelers get back to the country after it suffered its largest ever airline collapse.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/01/news/monarch-airlines-administration/index.html
Airbus Defence and Space today delivered the 50th A400M new generation airlifter to the German Air Force marking a key milestone for an aircraft which is transforming the world of air mobility.
The aircraft, known as MSN59, is the twelfth to be delivered this year at the Final Assembly Line in Seville and the thirteenth to be accepted by Germany.
The A400M is steadily becoming the backbone of the European transport fleet and in recent weeks began to demonstrate its full potential as aircraft from Germany, France and the UK undertook intensive hurricane relief missions in the Caribbean.
MSN59 will shortly be ferried to Wunstorf, Lower Saxony which is home to Germany’s A400M unit – Air Transport Wing 62.
Winning Australian start-up to visit Toulouse to meet European space experts
Adelaide, September 28 2017 - Airbus and other industry players yesterday held a New Space and Innovation competition at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2017 in Adelaide. The initiative demonstrates the commitment of Airbus and its partners to support the development of Australia’s space sector.
The event was organised in conjunction with Australian space start-up accelerator Delta-V, French space agency CNES and the Government of South Australia. The participating teams pitched their ideas on future space ecosystems to judges from Airbus and its partners.
First prize went to start-up Arlula, which presented a proposal for an online marketplace for people to buy, sell and rent assets already in orbit. This can potentially help to reduce the costs and risks associated with the development of space infrastructure and projects.
Arlula’s founder and CEO Sebastian Chaoui received the prize from H.E. Christophe Penot, Ambassador of France to Australia. He will travel to the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, France, to meet space experts from Airbus, Aerospace Valley BizLab and CNES to discuss his ideas, receive mentoring and learn more about their space projects.
Sebastian Chaoui said: “The company is on a mission to make it easier for scientists, entrepreneurs and hobbyists to access space in new and innovative ways. Winning the Airbus competition will open doors for me to take my business to the next level.”
Valentin Merino, Head of Airbus Defence and Space, Australasia, said that engaging the next generation is important for Airbus as the company grows its space footprint in Australia.
“Airbus takes a long term view in supporting Australia’s emerging space industry. We have proactively engaged with start-ups to explore, scout and partner them in developing an innovative Australian space ecosystem,” added Mr Merino. “We have also responded to the review of Australia’s space industry capability and support the government’s proposed national space agency.”
About Airbus
Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2016, it generated revenues of € 67 billion and employed a workforce of around 134,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, and is one of the world’s leading space companies. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.
Malgré les commandes et les premiers essais en vol effectués ces derniers mois, le programme C919 du chinois Comac est à la peine. De nombreux indicateurs prouvent que cet appareil qui se pose en concurrent des Airbus A320 et des Boeing 737 ne serait pas en aussi bonne forme qu’il n’y paraît, selon Jean-François Dufour, analyste au sein du cabinet Montsalvy Consulting, Responsable Stratégie. https://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/tribune-le-c919-de-comac-en-difficulte-malgre-les-commandes.N593993
IAG chief executive Willie Walsh is lukewarm to the prospect of Boeing’s proposed all-new middle-of-the-market aircraft, which he believes is coming late given the availability of Airbus’s A321LR variant of the A320neo family. https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/boeings-nma-could-be-a-bit-late-to-market-walsh-441667/
Airbus flew its “Blade” laminar flow research aircraft for the first time ithis week. It’s a project in the European Clean Sky research program.
The “Blade” aircraft is a modified Airbus A340-300, where the outer wings have been replaced with special laminar flow wing sections. We will spend a couple of Corners to understand why this research is done and why it’s important. Continue reading https://leehamnews.com/2017/09/29/bjorns-corner-laminar-flow-aircraft/
Within the next few decades, armed forces could be using unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) with adaptable aircraft technologies that alternate
between fixed-wing flight and rotary-wing flight. Engineers from BAE
Systems together with students from Cranfield University, have revealed a
new technology concept – named Adaptable UAVs – which can alternate
between the two different flight modes in the same mission. When in
rotary wing mode the UAVs can be launched and recovered from
battlefields and docked on a special pole.
Find out more at: http://www.baesystems.com/en/article/engineers-unveil-futuristic-unmanned-aircraft-concept-that-uses-both-fixed-and-rotary-wing-flight
https://youtu.be/APkjRzXBvK0
An Air France Airbus A380-800, registration F-HPJE performing flight AF-66 from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Los Angeles,CA (USA) with 497 passengers and 23 crew, was enroute at FL370 about 200nm southeast of Nuuk (Greenland) when the fan and inlet of the #4 engine (GP7270, outboard right hand) separated from the engine. The crew descended the aircraft to FL310 and diverted to Goose Bay,NL (Canada) for a safe landing about 2 hours later at 12:41L (15:41Z). Emergency services reported hydraulic fluid leaking from the engine.Continue reading http://avherald.com/h?article=4af15205&opt=0
An unexpectedly strong blast from the Sun hit Mars this month, observed by NASA missions in orbit and on the surface.
"NASA's distributed set of science missions is in the right place to detect activity on the Sun and examine the effects of such solar events at Mars as never possible before," said MAVEN Program Scientist Elsayed Talaat, program scientist at NASA Headquarters, Washington, for NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, mission.
The solar event on Sept. 11, 2017 sparked a global aurora at Mars more than 25 times brighter than any previously seen by the MAVEN orbiter, which has been studying the Martian atmosphere's interaction with the solar wind since 2014. Continue reading:
NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/large-solar-storm-sparks-global-aurora-and-doubles-radiation-levels-on-the-martian-surface
New Atlas: http://newatlas.com/nasa-mars-solar-storm-aurora-radiation/51566/
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