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Jet contrails above Britain can block sunshine over 20,000 square miles
Vapour trails caused by jet aircraft over Britain can cause clouds covering 20,000 square miles, according to Met Office research, reducing sunshine by up to 10 per cent. Analysis of contrails from one large military aircraft circling over the...
Tags: Patrick Minnis, Met Office&rsquo, cirrus clouds, Britain, vapour trails, allnews, United Kingdom, Lowestoft, Contrail, The Office, Cirrus cloud, Aviation, Cloud, square miles, Jim Haywood
Clouds created by jets cut out Britain’s sunshine
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
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The Met Office used satellites to watch the vapour trail of an aircraft flying over the North Sea on a sunny day earlier this year. Researchers had expected high-level winds to rip the trail apart and disperse it, but the opposite happened. The vapour...
Tags: vapour trails, Britain, cirrus clouds, Jim Haywood, clouds covering, England, Met Office, United Kingdom, London, Environment, Clouds, Ice crystals, Aviation, Cloud, Contrail, Weather modification, Climate change, Cirrus cloud
Airline safety: The next generation of smart planes
Overland Park :: KS :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Spotts | Staff Writer for The Christian Science Monitor/ November 23, 2009 edition The holidays are coming. You’ve decided to buck the economy and head over the river and through the clouds to Grandmother’s house. Airline boarding pass in hand, you...
Tags: FAA, flight crews, air traffic, GPS, airline safety, visualization tools, Overland Park, Air safety, Airport, Aviation, Runway, Air Traffic Organization, Air traffic control, Next Generation Air Transportation System, Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast
RAF's wartime reconnaissance photos go online in new archive
Mainz :: Germany | 9 days ago
Credibility Bombs, bullets and rockets were the usual weapons on aircraft flying over Europe during the Second World War but it was often the camera that proved the most deadly. Photographs provided the generals and intelligence officers with vital information that...
Tags: world war, Germany, Mainz, Geograph British Isles, Aerial reconnaissance, Aerial photography, Aviation, Cartography, World War II, Surveillance aircraft, Strategic bombing, War Conflict, Signals intelligence, MI4, RAF Medmenham, Stereoscopy, Supermarine Spitfire, Medmenham, Surveillance, Carrier-based aircraft, Human Interest
The Saturday Quiz
Santo Domingo :: Dominican Republic | 11 days ago
Credibility A former Olympic boxer born Ardashes Saginian had a son who became a star of another sport...The island that comprises Haiti and the Dominican Republic is called what?...How does the name of the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803...
Tags: Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, aviation, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Obiang, Bellerophon, Charles Lindbergh, Navigation, Race and intelligence controversy, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest
Flight service timeline
Bourbonnais :: IL :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility Federal Aviation Administration Automated Flight Service Station constructed for $875,000 from Kankakee Valley Airport Authority; $150,000 from state for parking lot...December 2002 -- The 45 Kankakee employees fear a federal outsourcing study could bring...
Tags: flight service, service stations, Debbie Halvorson, Lockheed-Martin Corp., Bourbonnais, Halvorson, Greater Kankakee Airport, Flight plan, Aviation, Air traffic control, Air traffic controller, Flight service station, Labor, Business Finance
Prep Football | Liberty refocused for quarterfinals
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility When trying to get his team to refocus after its 38-35 come-from-behind victory over O'Dea last week, Liberty coach Steve Valach looked to Steve Sarkisian. The Huskies' first-year head coach has a "24-hour rule" for celebrating wins and, even after Friday's...
Tags: Steve Valach, Lindbergh Eagles, Seattle, aviation, Steve Sarkisian, Charles Lindbergh, Navigation, Race and intelligence controversy, allnews
USFS urged to allow night aerial firefighting
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility Forest Service should allow helicopters to fight fires during darkness, a tactic that could have been used in the critical first hours of the summer's gigantic and deadly wildfire in the Angeles National Forest, a Los Angeles County Fire Department report...
Tags: U.S. Forest Service, fight fire, allow helicopters, Los Angeles, Environment, Aerial firefighting, Disaster Accident, United States Forest Service, Firefighter, Los Angeles County Fire Department, Occupational safety and health, Wildfire, Firefighting, Wildland fire suppression, Helicopters, Desiree Horton, Aviation, Angeles National Forest, Greek forest fires
Lucrative jobs leaving Kankakee Airport
Kankakee :: IL :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility After nearly 23 years, the federal automated flight service station at Greater Kankakee Airport will close Feb. 1, throwing 28 employees out of jobs that pay $80,000 to $120,000 per year. It's one of seven regional stations to be closed by Lockheed-Martin,...
Tags: Greater Kankakee Airport, service stations, flight service, Kankakee, Airport, Flight watch, Air traffic control, Flight service station, Aviation, Disaster Accident, Lockheed, Business Finance, Lockheed Martin, Miami International Airport
Delta offers $1 billion to JAL to jump ship
Jal :: NM :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility Delta Air Lines Inc. and its alliance partners have prepared a $1 billion package for Japan Airlines Corp. to lure the carrier away from an alliance with American Airlines, the company said Wednesday. JAL shares meanwhile plunged the same day after it...
Tags: Delta Air Lines Inc., Delta and American, Japan Airlines Corp., Delta Airlines, American Airlines, JAL, SkyTeam, TPG, alliances partnering, skyteam alliances, WOW Alliance, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, Japan Airlines, Airline, Oneworld, Airline alliances, Open Travel Alliance, Business Finance, aviation, Delta Air Lines, TPG Capital, Continental Airlines, Air France-KLM
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