Model Airplanes

The ARJ21, China’s first commericial regional aircraft, is parked at the Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Nov. 29, 2015. The passenger plane, ARJ21, is produced by the Shanghai-headquartered Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC). (Xinhua/Pei Xin)

LOS ANGELES, March 25 (Xinhua) — With a global focus on how to reduce safety risks caused by anomalous human behavior and how to fully recover data crucial for analyzing an air crash, a Chinese aircraft manufacturer is using big data and cloud technology to build safer airplanes.

“The time for revolution in aviation safety has come,” Wei Ye, executive director and president of the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) America Corporation told Xinhua on Friday.

The Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety of France (BEA) recently confirmed that the crash of a plane of German budget airline Germanwings a year ago was caused deliberately by its co-pilot, who had been suffering from depression.

The Airbus 320 crashed in southern France on March 24, 2015, while en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, killing 150 people on board.

To minimize such risks caused by human factors, COMAC America Corporation is studying the concept of “unmanned flight with human supervision” using a big data-based computer, which operates in an entirely closed environment without influence from outside.

“Without the influence of pilots’ ’emotions’ and mishandling, a computer-piloted plane is safer than a manned one,” Ye said.

In a computer-piloted plane, a hard-drive with big data, which include flight routes, weather

Article source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-03/27/c_135226035.htm

Turkish border patrol have detained a Daesh terrorist of foreign national on suspicion that he may have been planning to carry out a terror attack in Turkey using a bomb-laden model airplane, according to the military.

General Staff said that border patrol held a foreigner suspected of being a Daesh terrorist, in Karkamış town, Gaziantep, on March 24. He was attempting to cross into Turkish territory from the border with Syria.

Security forces found parts of a model airplane when they searched his bag. The detainee was taken to a gendarmerie station with his materials.

Article source: http://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/daesh-terrorist-detained-over-model-plane-attack-plot-2439923

Law360, New York (March 21, 2016, 12:54 PM ET) — Mark N. Lessard

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Last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld the bankruptcy court and U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida determination that the authorized swapping of parts among aircraft to maximize efficiency “did not and could not commingle the participants’ ownership interests.” In re Avantair Inc., No. 15-10303, slip op. (Eleventh Circuit, Feb. 3, 2016). The ruling helps to clarify uncertainties regarding the legal status of fractional-ownership arrangements.

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Avantair Inc. ran a…

Article source: http://www.law360.com/articles/774123/is-my-airplane-now-yours-clarifying-fractional-ownership

by Janet Reitman | March 26th, 2016 12:40:PM EST

The 9/11 trial will, if it happens at all, take place on a patch of dust in the Caribbean, within a high-security facility you can enter only with a notebook and pen (and just one pen), and observe from behind a wall of triple-thick glass. Anyone who wishes to attend will have to first be approved by the Pentagon’s Office of Military Commissions, the entity in charge of the offshore war court at Guantanamo Bay. It takes three hours and 20 minutes to fly to Guantanamo via military charter from Andrews Air Force Base. A 20-minute ferry ride then takes visitors from Gitmo’s airport across the bay to Camp Justice, an almost $12 million tent city built on an abandoned airstrip and housing the heavily fortified maze of trailers, fences and concertina wire known as the “Expeditionary Legal Complex”, or ELC, where proceedings are held in a prefab building known as Courtroom II. During proceedings, every word that is spoken is heard in the visitor’s gallery after being filtered through speakers on a 40-second delay, which enables a judge to ensure nothing classified slips out. There are no laptops, phones or recording devices allowed in the ELC, and no cameras. Also: no sleeveless shirts or open-toed shoes.

This fortress, which will be disassembled and shipped back stateside if and when Guantanamo ever closes, was constructed in 2008 to try the military’s “high-­value prisoners”, of which there are currently 14, only five of

Article source: http://rollingstoneaus.com/culture/post/inside-gitmo-americas-shame/3460