Monthly Archives: February 2011
Small Airports Fear Being Left Behind as Costs Squeeze Carriers
By SUSAN STELLIN Residents of some of America’s smaller cities may face a tough choice in the future: pay increasingly high fares to board a plane close to home or drive farther to a bigger airport with lower ticket prices. While it is difficult to calculate how much fares are rising at places like [...]
XCOR Announces Global Network of Research and Educational Mission Payload Integrators for Lynx Suborbital Spaceplane
February 28th, 2011, Orlando, FL, USA: At the commencement of the 2011 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) being held in Orlando, Florida, XCOR Aerospace announced its initial team of suborbital payload integration specialists who will begin taking orders and facilitating experiment development and integration for commercial, educational and government suborbital research missions aboard XCOR’s Lynx [...]
New Mexico’s Bet on Space Tourism Hits a Snag
LC-Chamber-Luncheon-6-24-10 DASCC-Briefing-4-22-2010 New Mexico envisioned Spaceport America as the center of a fledgling industry where tourists would pay large sums to take suborbital flights. TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M — Somewhere off a dusty road in southern New Mexico sits a hulking horseshoe-crab-shaped structure and a two-mile-long slab of concrete flanked by mesas and mountains. It [...]
Space Tourism: One Giant Leap for Researchers
Space Tourism: One Giant Leap for Researchers If all goes as planned, within a couple of years, tourists will be rocketing into space aboard a Virgin Galactic space plane — paying $200,000 for about four minutes of weightlessness — before coming back down for a landing on a New Mexico runway. // Sitting in the [...]
As Predicted… Cirrus ‘Merges’ With China’s CAIGA
2/28/2011…from Aero-News network The End Of A Uniquely American GA Icon? After previous denials, Cirrus has admitted that the company will attempt to “merge” with the China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co., Ltd. (CAIGA). The scenario is described as a “definitive merger agreement pursuant to which CAIGA would acquire Cirrus.” The transaction is expected to [...]
NetJets Ascendant
NetJets, the original and by far the largest fractional aircraft operation, was founded by Richard Santulli in 1986 and acquired by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate in 1998 for $725 million. A decade later, the company operated some 800 business jets in the United States and Europe for thousands of share owners. However, once the [...]
How to Run a ‘Green’ Flight Operation
Regardless of your views on global warming, there are compelling reasons for running a so-called “green” operation — and perhaps the most important one is “greenbacks,” or the money that can be saved through fuel conservation. The combustion process being directly related to the production of carbon dioxide (CO2) — the gas most faulted [...]
Boeing The Clear Winner Of KC-X: Pentagon
Additional capabilities beyond the mandatory requirements were not a factor in the U.S. Air Force’s selection of Boeing’s 767-based tanker, now designated the KC-46A, as the service’s KC-X replacement aerial refueler, Pentagon officials said late Feb. 24. EADS North America’s larger Airbus A330-based KC-45A, winner of the previous KC-X competition, was the [...]
Boeing Tanker Win Keeps Alive 767 Jet, Eases Sting From Delays
Play Video Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — Robert Livingston, founder of the Livingston Group. and a former U.S. Representative from Louisiana, talks about Boeing Co.’s victory over European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. (EADS) in competition for a $35 billion contract to build 179 new aerial refueling tankers for the U.S. Air Force. Livingston talks [...]
Up to 250 JPL employees could face layoffs as NASA deals with budget uncertainties
By Beige Luciano-Adams, Staff Writer Posted: 02/23/2011 05:51:50 PM PST LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory plans to lay off an estimated 200 to 250 employees before the end of March as the space agency deals with evolving federal budget constraints, a JPL official said Wednesday. President Obama’s budget proposal calling for keeping NASA’s [...]
