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• Qatar Airways start quickest scheduled flights between Melbourne and London

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 438
  Qatar Airways is celebrating the launch of scheduled services to Australia following the airline’s inaugural flight into Melbourne last night.
  6 hours ago

• December 7 - The Week Ahead Open Thread

  
  FlightBlogger - Aviation News, Commentary and Analysis — Authority: 516
  787 Pre-Flight While ZA001 and ZA002 are being readied for firstflight, Boeing is expected to deliver its verdict on the data collectedfrom the static tests conducted last weekend on ZY997. The results willserve as a go/no-go for Boeing to fly the 787 with the side-of-bodyreinforcement the week after next. ...
  6 hours ago

• USAF used criteria GAO rejected in new DRFP: KC-30 backers

  
  Leeham News and Comment — Authority: 119
  The USAF used criteria in the current Draft RFP for the KC-X competition that had been rejected by the Government Accountability Office’s review of the Boeing protest last year, an analysis by prepared by EADS North America and Northrop Grumman asserts. This unfairly tilts the current DRFP toward the Boeing KC-767 ...
  6 hours ago

• 3rd WGS Satellite Sends 1st Signals From Space

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (Boeing) — Boeing [NYSE: BA] has acquired the first on-orbit signals from the third of six Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites. The signals indicate that the spacecraft is healthy and ready to begin orbital maneuvers and operational testing. WGS is the latest U.S. Department of Defense ...
  7 hours ago

• Solar plane bidding to fly round the world makes maiden flight… and gets THREE FEET off the ground

  
  iPrissy.com — Authority: 122
  By Daily Mail Reporter The first manned flight of a solar-powered plane that will fly around the world was successful, its Swiss inventor said today. However, the maiden journey of the ‘Solar Impulse’ was more of a hop. The plane, which has a wingspan of a Boeing 747 but weighs less than a small car, flew 1,150 ...
  10 hours ago

• Boeing year ending on a small high as Korean Air place order for 747-8 Intercontinental

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 438
  Boeing  and Korean Air have announced an order for five 747-8 Intercontinental jetliners. Korean Air is the first Asian airline to order the passenger version of the new, fuel-efficient 747-8.
  11 hours ago

• What we’re reading: Binion’s to close Vegas hotel, Boeing urges 777 retrofit, planes nearly collide in mid-air

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 144
  Citing a downturn in hotel bookings, Binions in downton Las Vegas will be closing the hotel, original coffee shop, and the keno room. It will leave the casino open.
  12 hours ago

• Northrop Congressional Supporters Continue Harsh Words

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 439
  Last week Northrop Grumman (NOC) and its partner EADS (EADS.P) wrote a letter to the Defense Department stating that they are not interested in bidding on the KC-X contract if the current RFP language stands . Their argument is that it is currently biased towards a smaller aircraft which means that it is set ...
  13 hours ago

• Korean Air orders five Boeing 747-8 jets

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 542
  Boeing and Korean Air announced an order for five 747-8 Intercontinental jetliners. read more
  1 day ago

• United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches 36th Mission in 36 Months — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 439
  United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches 36th Mission in 36 Months CAPE CANAVERAL AFS, Fla., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Launching its 36th successful mission in 36 months, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket delivered the Air Force’s third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-3) satellite into orbit at 8:47 p.m. EST, ...
  1 day ago

• The Wideband Global SATCOM Program

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 565
  The WGS program is actually a set of 13-kilowatt spacecraft based upon Boeing’s model 702 commercial satellite . These satellites will support the USA’s warfighting bandwidth requirements, supporting tactical C4ISR ; battle management; and combat support needs. The program name has been changed for some reason ...
  1 day ago

• Korean Air orders 747-8 Intercontinental

  
  Flightstory.net - Aviation Blog — Authority: 416
  Boeing announced an order for five 747-8 Intercontinental jetliners by Korean Air. Korean Air is the first Asian airline to order the passenger version of the new 747-8. The airplanes have a total average list price value of $1.5 billion. Korean Air already has arrangements to operate seven 747-8 Freighters . Korean ...
  2 days ago

• Picture: Boeing AH-64D Apache Block III structures test aircraft makes 1st flight

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 438
  The Boeing AH-64D Apache Block III program has completed the first flight of its structures test aircraft. The test, conducted Nov. 23 in Mesa, demonstrated flight characteristics and handling maneuvers. Tests to continue to expand the helicopters flight envelope are expected to continue for the next several weeks.
  2 days ago

• Boeing breaks ground on second 787 line

  
  Flight Image of the Day — Authority: 469
  Boeing broke ground in North Charleston, South Carolina for the second 787 final assembly line today, marking the first all-new commercialjetliner assembly plant in the US since then-Lockheed built its L-1011final assembly line in Palmdale, California in 1968. Read more... Boeings depiction of what the Charleston ...
  2 days ago

• 22nd...14th...18th...15th...787 first flight is a moving target

  
  FlightBlogger - Aviation News, Commentary and Analysis — Authority: 516
  Like a slowing pendulum, the amplitude of the swings identifying 787s first flight date are narrowing...and changing daily. The Seattle Times reports today that ZA001 will take to the skies on December 18th, up four days from previous forecast of December 22nd. This page reported Tuesday that the 14th was the ...
  2 days ago

• (NOC) Northrop Grumman Bags Navy Contract

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 460
  Northrop Grumman Corp. ( NOC ) bagged a $171 million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy. The company will provide long lead materials for a continuation in the Aegis-class DDG 51 destroyer program. The funds will be used to purchase long lead time materials and major equipment in support of the new ship, ...
  2 days ago

• Korean gives 747-8I a new lease on life

  
  FlightBlogger - Aviation News, Commentary and Analysis — Authority: 516
  Almost exactly three years to the day, Boeing has earned its second firm order for the airline configured 747-8I. Korean Airlines placed a firm order for five of the jumbo jets for delivery between 2013 and 2015. Lufthansa launched the 747-8I program on December 6, 2006 with an order for 20 aircraft. Since then ...
  2 days ago

• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
  3 days ago

• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
  3 days ago

• December 4, 2009 - Aviation and Airport Development Updates

  
  Aviation and Airport Development Law — Authority: 408
  A summary review of Aviation and Airport Development related news and information that was made public during the past week.  These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber . Trisha Ton-Nu also contributed to this post. If you would like to receive this update in an e-mail delivered ...
  3 days ago

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