The News Review:
- Goodyear salutes its aviation centennial with calendar 2 new tire …
- Aviation Lobbyists Want Air-Traffic Funds From Govt
- Airlines fear failure of global climate talks
- Community college partners with SIUC aviation programs
- Kongsberg Automotive Holding ASA – Sale of Aviation business completed
Goodyear salutes its aviation centennial with calendar 2 new tire …
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He enjoyed it thoroughly. ”First in flight producing a steady line of failsafe aircraft tires has long been a dead-serious endeavor for Goodyear based on the tragedies that can occur when a wheel goes awry. “Nobody could have envisioned that Goodyear’s aviation business would last at least 100 years” notes Pierre Jambon the company’s general manager of global aviation. “But we’ve prospered by doing the same things that we did at the beginning: Develop innovative new products to fulfill the changing needs of the aviation industry. ”The company introduced the first retreadable aircraft tire in 1927 opening an era of lower cost operation that is still a vital part of today’s industry. The Goodyear Airwheel in 1928 was the first low pressure aviation tire virtually eliminating the need for a wheel by mounting directly to the hub. In 1939 Goodyear extended its tire expertise into other areas of aeronautics producing wheels brakes fuselages and other critical components for military aircraft.
Aviation Lobbyists Want Air-Traffic Funds From Govt
Wall Street Journal
) By Darrell A. Hughes f DW JNES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTN (Dow Jones)–Aviation advocates are aggressively lobbying Congress to supply funding that will help airlines in revamping the U. air traffic control system but they decline to say how much the airline industry would contribute to the aeronautic overhaul. “It’s premature to make any commitments one way or the other as to exactly where the money is going to come from and in what proportion” Air Transport Association President Jim May said. The head of the trade group comprising the principal U.
Airlines fear failure of global climate talks
AFP
“Airlines have long complained about the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme into which carriers operating in and out of the bloc would be included from 2012 saying it will hamper their operations in the region. Swiss International Airlines chief executive Christoph Franz said that such a piecemeal regional or national approach could actually lead to more greenhouse gas emissions as airlines sought to fly around EU airspace. “It is urgently necessary to create a global scheme” he told the two-day Aviation and Environment summit here. The aviation industry’s contribution to Copenhagen is meant to be distilled by the 190 government representatives in the International Civil Aviation rganisation (ICA) a UN body. However the ICA’s talks are riven by divisions between developing and wealthy nations that broadly mirror the rift that has marred attempts in recent years to reach a global agreement to cap emissions officials said. Many airlines fear they will be cast as the villains if Copenhagen fails even though they are trying to cut emissions from air travel. “International aviation is ready and willing to be included as part of the next global climate deal and we need ICA?s leadership to drive the industry forward” said Paul Steele head of the Air Transport Action Group a lobby encompassing airlines airports and aircraft makers.
Community college partners with SIUC aviation programs
SIU – Daily Egyptian
John Cotter interim director of aviation technologies at SIUC said $4. 5 billion would be used to build a facility that would add a new hangar classrooms and labs to the Cairo Airport. Cotter said the idea was hatched a year and a half ago when Larry Peterson president of SCC and his staff came to view SIUC’s Aviation Technologies program. SIUC students and SCC students would use the proposed extension center for aviation coursework. Peterson said the program would be a two-plus-two program meaning a student would take two years of classes at Shawnee and continue on to earn a bachelor’s degree at SIUC.
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Kongsberg Automotive Holding ASA – Sale of Aviation business completed
FXBusiness
The transaction consists of cable control systems for military and civil aircrafts and is located in Basildon (UK) and Heiligenhaus (Germany). Completion of the transaction was inter alia contingent upon approval from the UK and German Aviation regulatory bodies relevant customer and employee consents and transitional service agreements. All conditions precedent for the closing have been fulfilled and the transaction was closed today. ### Kongsberg Automotive is headquartered in Kongsberg Norway and has approx. 50 facilities in 20 countries on all continents. Kongsberg Automotive with over 8000 employees provides system solutions to vehicle makers around the world.