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MOSCOW, September 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —

September 10-12, Vnukovo Airport

Dassault Aviation will present its expanding line of large-cabin long range Falcon business jets at Jet Expo Moscow 2015, which opens on September 10 at the Vnukovo 3 Business Aviation Complex.

The exhibit will feature the very popular Falcon 7X, the ultra versatile Falcon 2000LXS and a cabin mockup of the all-new Falcon 5X very large body twinjet, due to begin flying this fall. Also expected to be high on customer’s agenda at the show is Dassault’s big new ultra-long range Falcon 8X trijet, set to begin deliveries next year. Dassault anticipates strong demand for this latest model, introduced last year as the new flagship of the Falcon family. The 6,450 nm/11,945 km 8X will offer the greatest range and the longest cabin of any Falcon, allowing it to take passengers from Moscow to Los Angeles, Cape Town or Rio de Janeiro non-stop. The new aircraft will also offer the largest selection of cabin configurations in business aviation and the same low operating economics and remarkable operating flexibility for which all Falcons are known.

Dassault is one of the leading suppliers of high-end business jets in Russia and the CIS, with one third of the large cabin market. More than 50 Falcons have been delivered to customers in the region over the last decade, most of them long range Falcon 7X and 900 trijets. The three-engine design ensures additional safety and operating margin, making it possible to fly direct routes over water and inhospitable terrain,

Article source: http://www.aviationpros.com/news/12112273/dassault-to-highlight-new-models-aog-support-service-at-jet-expo-2015

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Passengers saw flames, heard blasts and smelled burning rubber on the runway. Some were already settled in for the long flight to London and didn’t wait to grab their shoes before dashing toward the inflatable slides.

They fled the plane and rushed across the hard, hot tarmac, unsure if they were fleeing a bomb or a blown tire.

“Everyone was screaming, ‘Just keep on running!'” said British Airways Flight 2276 passenger Karen Bravo, a 60-year-old Las Vegas resident who abandoned her flip-flops on the aircraft.

One of the plane’s engines had caught fire as it accelerated for takeoff Tuesday, forcing its 157 passengers and 13 crew members to flee down emergency slides.

When passengers finally stopped running and turned around, they saw black smoke and flames. “It was like a scene out of ‘Die Hard,'” Bravo said.

As bad as it looked, it could have been much worse. The Boeing 777 came to a screeching halt during takeoff, firefighters responded quickly, and the flames didn’t reach the plane’s full fuel tank or breach the cabin.

The passengers and crew escaped, and any injuries were minor, a result

Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/london-bound-plane-catches-fire-las-vegas-runway-072304062.html

By KEN RITTER and SALLY HO, Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jet engine parts found on the Las Vegas runway where a British Airways flight aborted takeoff as the engine burst into flames indicate a rare catastrophic failure, experts said Thursday as investigators released preliminary findings and began analyzing flight data and cockpit recordings.

Early findings show the failure occurred where the engine was under the highest pressure, though there was no immediate indication of what caused it or the fire that forced 170 people to evacuate Tuesday at McCarran International Airport as smoke poured from the aircraft.

“You really don’t see catastrophic or uncontained engine failure like this very often,” said John Cox, an aviation safety consultant who spent 23 years as a U.S. Airways pilot. He said the failure indicates parts sliced through the engine casing.

The National Transportation Safety Board said there was damage to the armored shell around the left engine’s high-pressure compressor, and several 7- to 8-inch fragments of the compressor were found on the tarmac.

No one was seriously injured when British Airways Flight 2276 screeched to a halt and the 157 passengers and 13 crew members escaped down evacuation slides as firefighters doused flames spewing from the engine beneath the wing of the Boeing 777.

The pilot who halted the takeoff and calmly called “mayday, mayday” said he will retire one flight shy of the day he had planned to hang up his wings.

Chris Henkey of Padworth, England, told NBC News he’d never had such a close call

Article source: http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/09/10/investigators-in-las-vegas-seek-cause-of-planes-engine-fire

BY REBECCA ISENHART
Gazette Reporter

NISKAYUNA — Aditya Srinivasan sits in the garage of his family’s home in Niskayuna, building a remote-controlled airplane while his brother, 7-year-old Niyanth, tapes cardboard boxes together to make a boat — always trying to be more like his big brother. Their mom, Sudharsana, makes snacks.

Aditya, who just started his freshman year at Niskayuna High School, often relaxes this way: surrounded by a pile of drill bits and plastic propellers, using a special heated tool to sear pieces of foam.

“This is an RC airplane that I’m building,” he said. “I love things that fly, and I love building. Right now I’m fixing it from a crash.”

This is Aditya’s first RC airplane from scratch. He’s played with boxed ones and assembled them based on the instructions, but it’s just not much of a challenge for the teen, who loves to create. For the plane he’s building now, which is about 3 feet long and made of foam, he watched an instructional video on YouTube and went from there.

Aditya has always loved science, but he first fell in love with airplanes while waiting at JFK Airport for a flight to India, which his family visits about every other year to see relatives.

“This huge Boeing 747 was taking off,” he said. “I’m like, ‘Wait, how much does that weigh?’ ”

Aditya Srinivasan works on his RC airplane in

Article source: http://yourniskayuna.com/blog/2015/09/09/freshman-raises-funds/

Posted Sep. 9, 2015 at 5:00 AM

Galesburg, Ill.

Article source: http://www.galesburg.com/article/20150909/NEWS/150909769

Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan

NATIONAL PRESS CLUB: The good news for the Pentagon’s largest program is that the difficult early days are almost over. The bad news: now it’s time for the next hard part.

“We are beyond slow and steady progress on the F-35 program now. We are into the phase of rapidly accelerating and growing,” said Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, program executive officer (PEO) for the F-35. After two decades of often-troubled development of ambitious technology, the F-35 will complete its roughly $50 billion development phase in 2017. Now the challenge is to build the stealth fighter in bulk and sustain the global fleet — a different but by no means easy problem.

“We’re going to triple the production ramp and the fielding rate on this airplane in just three years,” said Bogdan, from 40-odd new planes a year to over 120. “That gives me some pause.”

“What I most worry about and what we most have to concentrate on is the supply base,” Bogdan said. As production accelerates, suppliers must build more components for new planes — but as the fleet in service grows, the same suppliers must also build more components for spare parts. Both demands will increase at once: The more new planes produced

Article source: http://breakingdefense.com/2015/09/f-35-now-for-the-next-hard-part-says-bogdan/