Air Travel Delays (Washington Post)
Del Quentin Wilber, The Post's national aviation reporter, will be online to discuss summer flight delays. ...more...Successful Jules Verne rendezvous simulation at ATV Control Centre (SpaceRef)
For the first time, three human spaceflight mission control centres - located in three countries - have this week successfully simulated the critical rendezvous of the Automated Transfer Vehicle, the largest and most complex automatic spacecraft, with the International Space Station....more... NASA Delays Space Shuttle Endeavour's Launch to Wednesday (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL ? NASA mission managers at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) delayed the planned Aug. 7 launch of the space shuttle Endeavour by 24 hours Friday after being overwhelmed by preflight checks, agency officials said....more... Las Vegas Selects Era for Flight Tracking Solution (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Las Vegas McCarran International Airport has selected Era's MSS multilateration system to provide real-time, accurate flight arrival and tracking information for the airport's Flight Information Display System. McCarran International Airport is the fifth busiest airport in the United States and is ranked first in customer satisfaction according to JD Power and Associates....more... Missing: Deonna Shipman, 3 (CBS News)
Look here for numbers to call with tips on the possible whereabouts of missing people profiled on Without A Trace , and shown on The Early Show . The latest: three-year-old Deonna Shipman....more... Around the nation (Houston Chronicle)
The pilots union said Wednesday it had reached an agreement with Northwest Airlines on issues that led to a total of 4,000 flight cancellations in June and July. ...more... New technology at Fort Lauderdale airport to track planes on ground (Sun-Sentinel)
A high-tech set of eyes to help air traffic controllers keep better track of planes on the ground is scheduled to be installed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, where two airliners nearly collided on a runway three weeks ago. ...more... For sale at auction: your lost luggage (Daily Telegraph)
The Heathrow baggage handling crisis has seen hundreds of lost bags left dumped in the rain and in corridors - or else sold off by the airlines....more... Air Travel Delays: Bad, Getting Worse (Washington Post)
Douglas Stone's summer has felt like an endless flight delay. ...more... |