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onsdag 30. november 2022
Ukraina - Russland truer med å ødelegge sivile satellitter som gir informasjon til Ukriana - DefenseMirror
Russian Threatens to Take
Down Civilian Satellites used by Ukraine for Intel Gathering
- Defensemirror.com Bureau
- 07:28 AM, November 30, 2022
Starlink satellite
terminal @Ukraine MoD
The Russian armed forces have threatened to
destroy Civilian satellites if they are used for Intel gathering about Russian
troop movements by Ukraine.
“We confirm that such a
quasi-civilian infrastructure, if used in military operations against Russia,
can quite logically become a legitimate target for retaliatory defeat,” Vladimir Yermakov, the director of the
department of the Russian Foreign Ministry for non-proliferation and arms
control said in an interview with Russia’s state-owned RIA Novosti.
Yermakov added that the Ukrainians often use
low-orbit satellites to reveal the places of deployment and routes of movement
of Russian troops. These satellites are also suspected to be used for guidance.
David Gauthier, director of commercial operations
at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, was quoted as saying
by Breaking Defense back
in April that his team at NGA “started to facilitate and coordinate independent
private efforts to directly provide their products and services to Ukraine”
even before the conflict began. NGA assisted the flow commercial imagery — from
companies like Planet, Maxar, BlackSky and Capella — not only to Ukraine, but
to European Command and NATO, he said.
His remarks echoed those of Stacey Dixon,
principal deputy director of national intelligence, here on Tuesday, who said
the Intelligence Community had “asked a few commercial companies” to make
imagery of what Russia was doing both in the run up to its invasion of Ukraine
and during the war “rapidly available.”
Ukrainian officials claimed to have stepped up
intelligence sharing with their American allies in order to plan the
counteroffensive that allowed them to take back territories in the country’s
north-eastern region, New York Times reported
in September.
Yermakov
also commented on the U.S. testing the concept of a command and control system
anywhere in the world. Ukrainian officials have also gone on record to
state that Israel is providing Kyiv with intelligence on Iranian kamikaze
drones that Russia is reportedly using to strike Ukrainian cities.
MANPADS - Forsvarsmateriell kjøper missiler for 350 millioner - @FMateriell Twitter
Det er et veldig viktig og riktig kjøp for Hæren. Man Portable Air Defence System integreres lett og kvikt hos eksisterende hæroppsettinger, og hos HV dersom ønskelig. (Red.)
SAS med nytt gigantunderskudd - Har tapt 23 milliarder på tre år - Dagens Næringsliv
Enda et gigantisk årsunderskudd i SAS: Tapte åtte mrd. på ett år
For tredje år på rad er tapene i SAS på uhåndterlige nivåer. Samtidig drar konkursprosessen i USA ut i tid.
2 MINPUBLISERT: 30.11.22 — 08.01 OPPDATERT: NOEN SEKUNDER SIDEN
SAS-sjef Anko van der Werff legger frem regnskapet for et år preget av pilotstreik og en konkursprosess i USA.
Jacob Trumpy og Kimmo Risbakken
SAS legger onsdag morgen frem et årsregnskap med solid underskudd for perioden november i fjor til utgangen av oktober i år.
Tapene på knappe åtte milliarder svenske kroner inkluderer den dramatiske pilotstreiken i sommer og følger etter to år med med tunge tap for flyselskapet.
De to foregående årene var de svært krevende koronaårene for SAS: I 2020/21 ble underskuddet på 6,4 milliarder svenske kroner, og i 2019/20 ble det 8,6 milliarder svenske kroner.
Samlet har de tre regnskapsårene gitt et underskudd på 22,9 milliarder svenske kroner.
Omsetningen i det ferske årsregnskapet endte på 31,8 milliarder svenske kroner, som er en kraftig økning fra det forrige årsregnskapet, da inntektene endte tett oppunder 14 milliarder.
– I fjerde kvartal hadde vi det høyeste antall passasjerer siden pandemien startet, uttaler konsernsjef Anko van der Werff i rapporten.
tirsdag 29. november 2022
IATA klager over danske- og islandske økinger av underveisavgifter - AIN
Det burde være unødvendig å øke disse avgiftene før en er sikker på at transatlantiske flyginger generelt er i stand til å overleve. (Red.)
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IATA Slams
30% Increase in North Atlantic Airspace Fees
- November 29, 2022, 8:16 AM
Air
navigation service providers in Iceland and Denmark are responsible for managing
some sections of airspace over the North Atlantic. (Image: NATS)
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has demanded that
Danish and Icelandic air navigation service providers (ANSPs) scrap increases
averaging 30 percent for fees paid by airlines to use routes across the North
Atlantic. On Tuesday, the industry group complained that the increases due to
take effect on Jan. 1, 2023, were announced by the two air traffic
management agencies without any user consultation.
“This is a cash grab by two monopoly suppliers with no justification.
It must be stopped,” said Peter Cerda, IATA’s regional v-p for the Americas.
“Why should airlines pay a higher price for a service by a monopoly supplier
that has not changed and with nothing to justify the higher cost? Rather than
ramping up charges, the providers should be looking to achieve efficiencies
that will keep costs under control. And if efficiencies cannot be found, then
it is time for these suppliers to sit in consultation with their customers to
review proposals.”
IATA called for a consultation in accordance with ICAO guidelines. It
said that a transparent process for reviewing airspace fees should include an
analysis of differences in the ANSP cost structures, traffic data for the past
five years, and a forecast for traffic in 2023.
The group said it has lodged a formal complaint with both the Danish
Transport, Construction, and Housing Authority and Iceland's Isavia ANS agency.
Denmark oversees the management of airspace around Greenland.
During a Royal Aeronautical Society conference in London on November
29, IATA head of economics Andrew Matters said factors such as reduced
disposable income and rising airline ticket prices are making it challenging to
predict future traffic growth. Nonetheless, the association expects the overall
number of passenger journeys to double by 2040 to 7.8 billion.
Matters told conference attendees that the Asia-Pacific region will see
the strongest annual growth rate over that period at an average of 4.5 percent,
compared with just 2.3 percent in Europe. As the air transport industry strives
to meet its net-zero carbon objective by 2050, IATA sees the adoption of
sustainable aviation fuel as making the biggest contribution (65 percent of the
total emissions reduction), followed by offsetting or carbon capture (19
percent), the introduction of new technology (13 percent), and changes to
infrastructure and operations (3 percent).
Canadisk Twin Otter havarert etter på ha sluppet opp for fuel - FlightGlobal
Twin
Otter force-landed in swamp after crews failed to notice insufficient fuel
Source: TSB via Air
Air Tindi is an airline based in Yellowknife, Northwest
Territories, Canada. It operates scheduled and on demand charter services.
Lack of checklist discipline left the pilots of a De Havilland
Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter unware that the aircraft was carrying insufficient
fuel, before it carried out a forced landing in a swamp while diverting.
Lack of checklist discipline left the pilots of a De Havilland
Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter unware that the aircraft was carrying insufficient
fuel, before it carried out a forced landing in a swamp while diverting.
Avinor rapporter på engelsk - Passasjertall 20% lavere enn i 2019 - Aviation24.be
Increasing passenger numbers in Norwegian airports, but still a
challenging financial situation
By
28 November
2022
Air traffic measured in passenger numbers for the year to date amounted to 33.2
million. This is almost two and a half times the volume of traffic for the
corresponding period in 2021. Nonetheless, passenger figures for this year to
date remain 20 per cent lower than for the same period in 2019.
The number of commercial air transport movements over the first
nine months of 2022 increased by 47 per cent compared with the corresponding
period in 2021. Domestic
air transport movements increased by 27 per cent, while the figure
for international air transport movements increased by 221 per cent.
The number of commercial air transport movements over
the first nine months of 2022 increased by 47 per cent
compared with the corresponding period in 2021. Domestic air transport
movements increased by 27 per cent, while the figure for
international air transport movements increased by 221 per cent.
Increased air traffic over the summer
The summer season entailed an increase in traffic, which saw Avinor scale
up operations at its airports to match
the increased traffic volume.
“Following the strong uptick in traffic during the
previous quarter, we are now seeing air traffic levelling off somewhat. There
have also been challenges, especially in Europe, which have meant that air
traffic has not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels,” says Abraham
Foss, CEO of Avinor.
Avinor continues to face a
challenging financial situation
Avinor’sequity ratio now stands at 40.4 per cent. The Group’s cash
flow before changes in debt was NOK -450 million over
the period January – September 2022.
“Scaling up operations to meet
increased traffic volumes was carefully balanced against increased operating costs. In
addition, the project portfolio is
being continuously assessed and prioritised. An
extraordinarily strong increase in prices for building and
construction projects represents an increased risk in
Avinor’s project portfolio,” says Foss,
Revenue and expenses
Traffic revenues increased by NOK 494 million,
while commercial revenues increased by NOK 826 million.
Avinor received a public subsidy of NOK 1,300 million from the
government during the third quarter of 2021. This explains the modest total increase in overall
operating income during the third quarter when compared with the corresponding
quarter in the previous year, despite the large increases in traffic-related
and commercial revenues.
The Group’s operating
income totalled NOK 2,967 million in the third quarter of 2022, which was an
increase of 0.7 per cent compared with the corresponding period in 2021.
Operating income in the first months of the year 2022 amounted to NOK 7,564
million, an increase of 4.6 percent compared to the corresponding period in
2021. Excluding the state operating subsidy of NOK 3,800 million in the
reporting period for 2021, operating income increased by NOK 4,135 million.
Total operating
expenses in the first nine months of 2022 comprised NOK 5,135 million, compared
to NOK 4,325 million in the equivalent period in 2021, which represents an
increase of 18.7 per cent. Cost developments must be viewed in the context of a
significantly higher traffic volume, both in terms of airport operations and
air navigation services.
Total depreciation and
impairments during the period January-September 2022 amounted to NOK 1,647
million, which is at the same level as during the corresponding period in 2021.
For the first nine
months of 2022, the Group recorded a profit after tax of NOK 614, compared with
NOK 648 during the corresponding period in 2021. The results for 2021 included
a state subsidy of NOK 3,800 million before tax.
The Group’s balance
sheet has increased by NOK 123 million during the first nine months of the year
to NOK 46.5 billion as at 30 September 2022. The Group’s equity ratio as at 30
September 2022 amounted to 29.8 per cent, compared with 26.9 per cent at the
end of 2021.
During the first nine
months of 2022, the Group’s cash flow before changes for liabilities was NOK
-450 million. With a net reduction in liabilities of NOK 481 million, the Group
ended up with a reduction in cash holding of NOK 931 million.
Changes to tax-free quotas will
result in a loss of income for Avinor
The government’s draft
state budget for 2023 contains a proposal to half the allowance for tax-free
purchases of tobacco. This will result in an estimated annual loss of income
for Avinor of around NOK 270 million.
Progress in new airports Mo i
Rana and Bodø
The government’s draft
state budget for 2023 as presented in early October includes the financing of
new airports in Bodø and Mo i Rana. The proposals see a total grant in 2023 to
Avinor in the amount of NOK 1.66 billion for the construction of a new airport
in Mo i Rana, and in respect of further planning for the new airport in Bodø,
including funding to allow for the purchase of the current airport site from
the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency.
“The first physical preparatory works
at the new airport in Mo i Rana began in September. Avinor has not yet gained
full access to the construction site, and work is currently underway with the
local authorities and rightsholders to facilitate this prior to the completion
of the initial works in the first quarter of 2023,” concludes Foss.
28.11.2022 16:28:13 | The Avinor Group
Space - Ingenuity testet oppdatert programvare - AVweb
Mars Helicopter Completes 34th Flight
NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, logged its 34th successful flight last week, staying in the air for 18 seconds and reaching a maximum altitude of 5 meters. The brief flight was the helicopter’s first with its latest software update, which is expected to add capabilities including hazard avoidance during landing and the use of digital elevation maps to assist with navigation. Further flights to test Ingenuity’s upgraded capabilities are planned.
Ingenuity, a technology demonstrator sent to test powered, controlled flight on Mars, was launched with the Perseverance rover in July 2020. The 1.8-kilogram helicopter’s mission was officially extended last March to include supporting the rover as it explores the Jezero Crater. According to NASA, Ingenuity was originally designed to fly over flat terrain, necessitating the software update as it begins to move into rockier areas with fewer safe landing sites.
Since its first flight on April 19, 2021, Ingenuity has logged almost 59 minutes in the air and travelled a total distance of 7,392 meters (4.6 miles). Its highest flight to date reached 12 meters above the surface and its longest lasted 169.5 seconds. As previously reported by AVweb, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team was awarded the 2021 Collier trophy for accomplishing “the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet, thereby opening the skies of Mars and other worlds for future scientific discovery and exploration.”
mandag 28. november 2022
Seattle - Hotel Edgewater
Grunnen til dette innlegget var forsiden av siste nr av AW&ST. Hotel Edgewater kan sees nederst i høyre bildekant, en gulaktig bygning med en rød mursteinsbygning midt i mot.
Første gang jeg bodde der var sammen med en norsk delegasjon som skulle til Vancouver. Det gjalder IFALPA Annual Conference i 1987. Vi koste oss på hotellet et snaut døgn før vi tok en Westamarantype båt, norskbygget hos Fjellstrand Aluminium, opp til hovedstaden i B.C., Victoria på Vancouver Island og videre til Vancouver.
I 2011 var jeg og min kone Åshild, tilbake sammen med Eirik Walle. Vi var invitert av Boeing for å se på byggingen av B787 på Everett nord av Seattle. Deretter ned til Renton sør for byen hvor vi fikk se på klargjøring av den første P-8A solgt utenlands, nemlig til India. Så 7 km. nordvest igjen til Boeing Field og The Red Barn, Boeings orginale fabrikk og tilstøtende flymuseum. Great stuff! Det var også Hotel Edgewater. Seattle er en flott by, og det var en gang utgangspunktet for The Gold Rush.
Havari i kraftspenn - USA - YahooNews /ASN
Crews rescue 2 from plane caught in power lines in Maryland
APTOPIX Maryland Small Plane Crash
A small plane rests on live power lines after crashing, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, in Montgomery Village, a northern suburb of Gaithersburg, Md. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mon, November 28, 2022 at 1:30 AM·1 min read
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — Two people were rescued
early Monday more than six hours after their small plane crashed into live
power lines, causing widespread outages in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said
the plane got stuck in the lines about 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground at
around 5:40 p.m. Sunday. Responders secured it to the tower at 12:16 a.m.
Monday, and the first occupant was removed from the plane at 12:25 a.m. The
second occupant was out at 12:36 a.m.
Maryland State Police identified them as pilot
Patrick Merkle, 65, of Washington, D.C., and passenger Janet Williams, 66, of
Marrero, Louisiana. Both suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries and
that hypothermia had set in while they waited to be pulled from the plane,
Goldstein said.
The single-engine Mooney M20J hMad departed White
Plains, New York, and crashed into a power line tower near Montgomery County
Airpark in Gaithersburg, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a
statement. The FAA, National Transportation Safety Board and Maryland State
Police are investigating.
Utility contractors had to disconnect the
high-tension wires to make it safe for rescuers to stabilize the plane.
The utility Pepco had reported that about 120,000
customers were without power in Montgomery County, but most of them, outside of
the crash site, had their electricity restored before the people were pulled
from the plane.
The Montgomery County Public School system decided
late Sunday night to close its schools and offices Monday due to the outage's
impact on safety and school operations. The closures extended to child care
programs, the system tweeted Monday morning.
| Date: | 27-NOV-2022 |
| Time: | c. 17:28 LT |
| Type: |  Mooney M20J 201 |
| Owner/operator: | MFC Corp |
| Registration: | N201RF |
| MSN: | 24-0135 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Gaithersburg-Montgomery County Airport (GAI/KGAI), MD -  United States of America |
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | White Plains-Westchester County Airport, NY (HPN/KHPN) |
| Gaithersburg-Montgomery County Airport, MD (GAI/KGAI) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:
A Mooney M20J 201 crashed into a powerline pole while on approach to runway 14 at Gaithersburg-Montgomery County Airport, (GAI/KGAI), Maryland.
Both occupants are reportedly uninjured but were trapped in the aircraft.
Rolls-Royce tester hydrogendrevet turbinmotor - AirInsightGroup
Rolls-Royce completes first test with hydrogen engine
It’s just the first of many tests, but Rolls-Royce has successfully completed testing direct-burn of hydrogen in a modified aircraft engine. A number of tests were done in early November as part of a joint program with easyJet. Rolls-Royce completes first test with hydrogen engine.
The test was run on an AE 2100-A, an engine of which more than 1.800 have been built for use on regional aircraft such as the SAAB 2000 and currently on the Lockheed C-130J Hercules and Alenia C-27J Spartan. The engine was installed on an outdoor facility of the UK Ministry of Defense at Boscombe Down. No details were shared about the duration of the test, although the BBC shared video footage of the engine operating at full thrust.
Chief Technology Officer Grazia Vittadini said in September at a sustainability event of easyJet that Rolls-Royce had already purchased the hydrogen for the test. This is green hydrogen produced from a tidal test facility of the European Marine Energy Center on the Orkney Islands to make sure that the fuel was made from renewable sources.
Rolls-Royce plans more rig tests with the AE 2100 to get a full understanding of the characteristics of hydrogen as it is directly burnt in an engine. Hydrogen burns less stable than conventional jet fuel and there is a risk of flashback, in which the hydrogen that is ignited during combustion seeks its way back through the piping system to the storage tanks. Which is not something you want… Storage itself is another major challenge, as the liquid hydrogen needs to be kept at super cold temperatures of -253 Celsius before it is gasified for combustion in the engine.
Once the rig tests have been completed, Rolls-Royce will progress toward full-scale ground tests on a Pearl 15 business jet engine. It is too early now to tell when the UK engine maker will have an engine available for flight testing. General Electric and Safran will begin ground testing with a hydrogen-powered Passport engine before commencing flight tests on an Airbus A380 test bed in 2026.
Exciting milestone
Vittadini hailed the first ground test as “an exciting milestone”. easyJet CEO Johan Lundgren said: “This is a real success for our partnership team. We are committed to continuing to support this ground-breaking research because hydrogen offers great possibilities for a range of aircraft, including easyJet-sized aircraft. That will be a huge step forward in meeting the challenge of net zero by 2050.” The airline and Rolls-Royce publicly announced a partnership in July at the Farnborough Airshow, with easyJet making an undisclosed investment in the project.
Chief Operating Officer David Morgan told AirInsight in April that easyJet is fully committed to hydrogen and wants to be one of the launch customers of a hydrogen airliner that Airbus is developing. The airframer will be presenting the latest updates on the program on Wednesday during the second Airbus Summit in Toulouse. Rolls-Royce is also putting its full force behind hydrogen, but at the same time is keen on developing more efficient turbofan engines through its UltraFan program as well as investing in hybrid-electric propulsion.
UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, Grant Shapps, said the hydrogen project demonstrates that “the UK is leading the global shift to guilt-free flying, and today’s test by Rolls-Royce and easyJet is an exciting demonstration of how business innovation can transform the way we live our lives.”