Swiss Air CEO resigns

 

Thomas Klühr, CEO of Swiss Air, a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group, has decided to resign.

Klühr, who has been in this post since 2016, announced that he will be leaving the post for personal reasons. It was announced that Kühr, who submitted his resignation to the company management, would leave his job at the end of the year and Swiss Air welcomed this decision with great sorrow.

It was announced that Klühr, who made this decision in the first quarter of the year, postponed his resignation due to the pandemic, but would quit at the end of the year.

Two planes collided in the air!

 

The navy version of the US F-35 fighter collided with the KC-130J tanker aircraft while refueling in the air. While the KC-130 landed in a field, the F-35B crashed as a result of the collision. It was stated that the pilot jumped with the ejection seat and was in good condition.

According to the statement made by the Marine Corps within the US Department of Defense; US tanker KC-130J collided with F-35B fighter jet while refueling in air.

In the statement, it was stated that the KC-130J tanker plane made an emergency niche to a field, while the B version of the F-35 fighter plane, the navy version, fell.

In the statement that the F-35 broke its wing by touching the KC-130J while approaching the tanker plane to refuel, it was stated that the pilot jumped with the ejection seat and was in good condition.

It was stated that an investigation was initiated to clarify the details of the incident.

2 fighter jets crashed in Armenia

 

Azerbaijani President Consultant Hikmet Hajiyev reported that 2 Su-25 fighter jets belonging to Armenia crashed into the mountain yesterday.

In a statement he made to the local press, Hacıyev stated that both of the planes that took off yesterday hit the mountain and exploded, and the Yerevan administration did not provide accurate information to its own people.

Emphasizing that it would be better for the Armenian side to give information about the second plane and its pilot instead of blaming others, Hacıyev said, "The allegations regarding the downing of one of the aircraft by the F-16 aircraft belonging to the Turkish Armed Forces are completely absurd and are the disinformation of Armenia." used the expression.

They blocked the landing of Afriqiyah plane

 

A civilian plane belonging to Libya's Afriqiyah Airways failed to land at Sebha Airport due to the interference of Khalifa Haftar militias, the leader of the illegitimate armed forces in the east of the country.

Haftar militias prevented the landing of the civilian passenger plane at the airport in the southern city of Sebha by placing an armed military vehicle on the runway, according to a source from Afriqiyah Airlines, Libya's local Al-Ahrar canal.

It was stated that the plane departs from the capital Tripoli's Mitiga Airport and carries passengers to Sebha with its 100 passengers.

Local authorities announced that flights from Tripoli to Sebha Airport started for the first time in 6 years in the middle of the month.

Unemployed flight attendant arrested for drug trafficking

 

A flight attendant who was unemployed after the Covid-19 pandemic after working in various airlines was arrested for drug trafficking.

Finally, Romanian flight attendant AD, who served at Wizz Air, was recently unemployed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The flight attendant, who reportedly settled in London after his job, was caught in police custody.

Cocaine was found during searches in the car and home of a Romanian stewardess suspected of drug trafficking.

Although the detained stewardess said in her first statement that she only used and did not sell, she was sentenced to 28 months for drug trafficking.

B737 MAX Test flight with FAA President

 

Steve Dickson, head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), expressed his satisfaction with the Boeing 737 MAX test flight yesterday.

It is wondered what will happen to Boeing's 737 MAX type aircraft, which were lowered to the ground after two fatal accidents at short intervals. Steve Dickson, the head of the US Federal Aviation Office, announced that he would test it himself after the necessary arrangements were made on the plane. Dickson made that flight yesterday. Stating that he is satisfied with the test flight with the B737MAX, the FAA President said that the certification process has not yet been completed.

Steve Dickson, who spent about two hours in the sky with a plane taking off from Boeing's Seattle facilities, then returned to the facilities where he took off safely.

South African airline launched a competition to pick its name!

The new airline to be established will determine the name with the competition

 

A new South African airline launched a competition, inviting the public to choose the name of the company.

In addition to the prestige of his proposal to adorn the company's aircraft, the winner will receive an estimated one-year free flight worth Rs 480,000.

However, the competition often may not be suitable for international flying passengers: when the new airline launches the Johannesburg - Cape Town route in December 2020, it will only be offering domestic flights.

The following statements are used on the website of the contest:

Help us find a name that is unique, aspirational and cool.

If your proposal is chosen, you may be the lucky winner of a year of free travel worth Rs 480,000 on the airline company.

Participants are required to submit their ideas on the contest website along with their name, e-mail address and passport or ID number, and the winner will be announced within the next two weeks.

This airline was founded in partnership with Gidon Novick, the founder of South Africa's low-cost airline company Kulula, and Global Aviation, which mainly leased planes and crews to other airlines.

While the global pandemic may not seem like the best time to open a new airline, Novick is confident that the business can survive in these troubled times.

In a statement to Business Tech, Novick said:

The pandemic has created a unique opportunity to build a creative and innovative airline that is not only significantly more efficient, but also benefits from the unique capabilities offered by our country.

Jonathan Ayache, former Uber Africa manager involved in the project, said the new venture has the opportunity to mark "customer obsession" as the hallmark.

“This can be achieved by bringing together industry experts, technology and new perspectives and strategic approaches from other sectors,” said Ayache.

The airline's fleet will mainly consist of approximately 180-seat narrow-body, single-aisle jets.

Work continues for the fastest electric aircraft in the world

 

Rolls-Royce has completed its tests on groundbreaking technology that will power the world's fastest fully electric aircraft. Tests on all technology to power the aircraft, including the 500-horsepower electric powertrain that could break the world-wide speed record, and the battery that can power 250 homes, were carried out on a full-scale aircraft replica called 'ionBird'.

The aircraft in question is part of the Rolls-Royce program called 'Accelerating the Electrification of Flight' or ACCEL for short. The ACCEL project team consists of one of the main partners, electric motor and controller manufacturer YASA, and an aviation initiative named Electroflight. The project team continues its technology development efforts in compliance with the UK Government's social distance and other health regulations. The developed systems will soon be integrated into the aircraft named 'Spirit of Innovation'. In aviation, iron-bird (iron-bird) has been used for many years to test pre-flight propulsion systems, but this time Rolls-Royce named the aircraft body 'ionBird', based on the zero carbon emission energy source that will power the aircraft.

UK Trade and Industry Minister Nadhim Zahawi said: “In the future, transportation will be done with clean electricity sources in all means of transport from trains to planes. In this context, companies such as Rolls-Royce help us to achieve our net zero carbon emission targets by developing appropriate technologies. The completion of the ground tests under the ACCEL project, which is also supported by our government, is not only a step towards an exciting world record initiative, but also a move towards the development of fully electric and hybrid-electric aircraft that will one day carry large numbers of passengers around the world. ”

Propeller speed of about 2,400 revolutions per minute

Each of the system components was tested by the project team, including:

The propeller was operated at full speed (approximately 2,400 rpm) using the most powerful battery pack ever assembled for an aircraft propulsion system. While operating at full capacity during the flight test phase, it will activate the aircraft with a thrust of over 482.8032 km / h (300mph) and set a new world record speed in electric flights. There are over 6,000 cells in the battery to ensure maximum safety, minimum weight and full thermal protection.

Since January, Rolls-Royce's engineering team and test pilots have been working hard to optimize the system and develop electric flight operating procedures.

In order to improve performance in every possible way, gigabytes of data were created for each hour of operation analyzed by the project team.

“Rolls-Royce is committed to leading the way in achieving the net zero carbon emission target by 2050,” said Rob Watson, Director of Rolls-Royce Electric Systems. The completion of ground tests within the framework of the ACCEL project, besides being a very important achievement for the project team, is another critical step towards breaking the world record. This project also helps us to maintain our leadership in developing Rolls-Royce's capabilities and ensuring flight electrification, which is an important part of its sustainability strategy. ”

Bremont will act as the official timing partner in the all-electric speed record initiative. The British luxury watch brand designed the cockpit, which will have a stopwatch, while also producing canopy drop parts at its production center in Henley-on-Thames.

The first flight of the plane is planned for a later date this year. It is aimed to break the full electric flight record at the beginning of next year. Half of the project funding is provided by the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI), in partnership with the government's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Innovate UK Council.

Mark Scully, Head of Advanced Systems & Propulsion Systems at the Institute of Aviation Technology, said: “Achieving such a milestone is of paramount importance. The ACCEL team pioneers the integration of the high-performance battery, engine and propulsion elements required to obtain an electric propulsion system within the framework of an ambitious flight test program. These technologies and the system integration required to use them have great potential for sustainable aviation in the future and therefore ATI is proud to support this project. ”

British Airways continues to retire its B747s

 

British Airways retired two more aircraft from its Boeing 747 fleet.

While the continuation of the pandemic causes the airline companies to shrink in their fleets, high-cost wide-body aircraft are at the forefront during retirement.

Boeing 747 and Airbus 380 type aircrafts had already begun to be removed from the fleets of giant airlines due to cost.

 

British Airways retired the tenth G-CIVK tail registered aircraft and the eleventh Boeing 747-400 aircraft with the G-BYGE tail registered in this context.

The date of B737 MAX return announced!

 

The end of the B737 Max type planes, which were taken from the flight after two fatal accidents, was approaching.

The head of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency EASA, Patrick Ky, stated that the B737 Max planes could resume flights in November.

It was stated that B737 MAX planes, on which FAA and EASA have been working for a long time, may take time to obtain the necessary permits and begin to be used by airline companies, despite the lifting of the ban.

On the other hand, it was among the information that it may take a longer time for China to lift the ban.