I have always felt I’d be doing my flight students a disservice not to mention that while soaring aloft is an unmatched experience, it can and will snuff out a life in a moment if the pilot becomes too complacent … no matter how sophisticated Read More...
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Jetwhine
on Mon, Oct 17 2011
Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Blogging, Flight Training, pilots, airline pilots, Aviation Marketing, glass cockpits, Air France 447, CNN, france, a330, bonin, climb, colgan crash, david, dubois, Jean-Pierre Ortelli
(Update at the bottom of this post.) So the selection announcement for the long running, never dull KC-X tanker competition may come as soon as Thursday. As I write this, media reports indicate that the odds would appear to favor the EADS bid of an A330-based KC-45 tanker over Boeing’s KC-767 bid...
http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/media/bigbirds/airbus-a330-200f-38462.aspx http://www.pictaero.com/fr/pictures/picture,62336
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Curufinwe - Airbusland Amateur Photographer
by
Curufinwe
on Wed, Dec 2 2009
Filed under: a330-200f, airbus a330, airbus, a330f, freighter, a330, airbus a330f, france, airbus a330-200f, toulouse, pictaero
The multi-year, multi-billion dollar, multi-role KC-X Tanker contract could be awarded as early as today , following a meeting of the Pentagon's Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) responsible for signing off on the plan for the United States Air Force's Read More...
Posted to
Flightblogger
on Tue, Feb 26 2008
Filed under: Boeing, Airbus, KC-30, A330, KC-X, 767, Northrop Grumman
On the heels of this morning’s A330-200F announcement in Mobile, AL, I had an opportunity to sit down with Airbus North America Chairman Allan McArtor and Chairman and CEO of EADS North America, Ralph Crosby . We discussed a number of topics during the Read More...
Posted to
Flightblogger
on Mon, Jan 14 2008
Filed under: Airbus, KC-30, A330, A320