Astronomers to check interstellar body for signs of alien technology

Green Bank telescope in West Virginia will listen for radio signals being broadcast from 'Oumuamua, an object from another solar system, from Wednesday Astronomers are to use one of the world's largest telescopes to check a mysterious object that is speeding through the solar system for signs of ...

http://flip.it/95TXqF

Read more...

Airbus may cut A380 production to six planes a year - sources

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-airbus-a380/airbus-may-cut-a380-production-to-six-planes-a-year-sources-idUKKBN1E51VH

Read more...

Musk Says Tesla Is Building Its Own Chip for Autopilot

Rockets, electric cars, solar panels, batteries—whirlwind industrialist Elon Musk has set about reinventing one after another. Thursday, he added another ambitious project to the list: Future Tesla vehicles will run their self-driving AI software on a chip designed by the automaker itself. "We ar...

http://flip.it/KPLDlv

Read more...

Curing the Airport's Terminal Identity Crisis

If you think you know how to complain about airports, just listen to Benjamin Bratton's beatnik spoken-word fugue of polysyllables. "The airport is where the birth pangs of the Stack, the armature of planetary computation, are felt most viscerally," the philosopher said at a fancy conference on …

http://flip.it/Ys7xbq

Read more...

Astronomers just discovered a supermassive black hole from the dawn of the universe

And it's much bigger than we expected. There was a bang. A big one. It was the beginning of everything, but for several hundred million years, all was darkness. Then, lights started flickering to life, stars and gases and galaxies all coming online. One of the brightest lights during that dawn ha...

http://flip.it/NMOeny

Read more...

HIV positive man unable to become a commercial pilot

Campaigners are calling for a change in regulations after a Glasgow man was unable to become a commercial airline pilot because he is HIV positive. The man, who wants to remain anonymous, had been offered a place on an airline's training programme. But the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) refused h...

http://flip.it/JHBHiy

Read more...

Ryanair pilots to strike before Christmas

Some Dublin-based Ryanair pilots are to strike before Christmas over a dispute about union recognition and better conditions. The 79 pilots, who are directly employed by Ryanair, will walk out for one day on 20 December. It involves mostly captains who are members of Irish Air Line Pilots' Associ...

http://flip.it/ektASp

Read more...

Ryanair Labor Issues Escalate As Irish Pilots Vote To Strike

----
Ryanair Labor Issues Escalate As Irish Pilots Vote To Strike // AviationWeek.com Commercial Aviation Channel
http://aviationweek.com/awincommercial/ryanair-labor-issues-escalate-irish-pilots-vote-strike

Conflict between Ryanair and its pilots is escalating in the run-up to the busy holiday travel period after Irish pilots voted for industrial action and a German union said negotiations were the only way to avert a strike.

read more

Read more...

US, S. Korea, Japan start missile-tracking drill, irking China

----
US, S. Korea, Japan start missile-tracking drill, irking China // Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_S_Korea_Japan_start_missile-tracking_drill_irking_China_999.html

Seoul (AFP) Dec 11, 2017
The US, South Korea and Japan carried out joint exercises Monday to track missiles from North Korea, as China warned that such manoeuvres fuel tensions following nuclear-armed Pyongyang's longest-range test launch to date. The trilateral drill comes less than two weeks after Pyongyang test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and declared it had achieved nuclear statehood, e
----

Read in my feedly.com

Read more...

EasyJet outlines 20 new summer UK routes

----
EasyJet outlines 20 new summer UK routes // Airlines news
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/easyjet-outlines-20-new-summer-uk-routes-444093/

EasyJet has detailed plans to add 20 new routes to its UK network next summer across seven different airports.
----

Read in my feedly.com

Read more...

Press Release: SITA’s airline IT study reveals inflight connectivity trends

----
Press Release: SITA's airline IT study reveals inflight connectivity trends // Runway Girl
https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2017/12/12/press-release-two-thirds-of-airlines-will-be-connected-by-2020/

More than 90% of airlines are set to ramp up investment in advancing wireless services for cabin crew and pilots over the three years to 2020 – an 18% increase since SITA's 2016 Airline IT Trends survey…

Read more...

Pontifications: Countdown to Delta’s single-aisle decision

----
Pontifications: Countdown to Delta's single-aisle decision // Leeham News
https://leehamnews.com/2017/12/11/pontifications-countdown-deltas-single-aisle-decision/

By Scott Hamilton

Read more...

Flying car racing could be coming to Australia

Much of the technology found in today's consumer automobiles was originally designed to give race cars a competitive edge. With that in mind, Australian entrepreneur Matt Pearson figured that if there's one way of accelerating the development of flying cars, it's to race the things. To that end, his company Alauda is now building what is essentially a human-capable racing drone.

.. Continue Reading Flying car racing could be coming to Australia 

http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/509461612/0/gizmag~Flying-car-racing-could-be-coming-to-Australia/

Read more...

Air Force Has Completed OA-X Evaluation Process

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=f849b035-dc93-41be-82bc-c8ddefce52e8

Read more...

German MoD favor the Eurofighter, Luftwaffe the F-35 | Bulgaria orders MiG overhaul as replacement effort stalls | Second JF-17B begins flight tests

https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/german-mod-favor-the-eurofighter-luftwaffe-the-f-35-bulgaria-orders-mig-overhaul-as-replacement-effort-stalls-second-jf-17b-undergoes-flight-tests-038673/

Read more...

​Airbus sees big data delivering 'zero-AOG' goal within 10 years

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/airbus-sees-big-data-delivering-zero-aog-goal-wit-444100/

Read more...

[Video] "First BelugaXL is getting its cargo door installed"

https://youtu.be/6w-dvros_rI

Read more...

MTorres aims to take carbon-fiber technology for jets to the next level | The Seattle Times

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/mtorres-aims-to-take-carbon-fiber-technology-for-jets-to-the-next-level/

Read more...