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Anonymous ID: 481428 Aug. 18, 2018, 6:25 a.m. No.2655436   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5480

Did we see this - the WEIGHTS of the planes are inaccurate?

 

Southwest Airlines suddenly grounds scores of planes due to aircraft weight issues

8/13/18

 

Southwest Airlines abruptly grounded 66 Boeing 737 aircraft in its fleet last Wednesday after issues with the carrier’s aircraft weight records were discovered. In an internal memo to employees on the matter that was obtained by the Chicago Business Journal, Southwest said: “Today (Wednesday) we discovered the weights being sent to our Dispatch Operation did not match our other weight records for a number of aircraft in the fleet. As a result, and out of an abundance of caution, we have stopped flying those aircraft to recalculate the weights of the aircraft in question and reset the program.”

 

Aircraft weight is important because dispatch personnel and pilots need the correct information to determine the amount of fuel to load and other data needed to safely operate a flight.

 

The memo on the sudden airplane groundings also informed Southwest employees what to tell customers should they ask what was going on or what might have caused flight delays or cancellations.

 

The internal memo told employees to respond to customers thusly: “This aircraft is temporarily out of service while we work on its paperwork. The system that calculates and reports the aircraft’s weight is not working properly.”

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2018/08/13/southwest-airlines-suddenly-grounds-scores-of.html

 

https://flightaware.com/squawks/

Anonymous ID: 481428 Aug. 18, 2018, 6:43 a.m. No.2655524   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5531 >>5637

>>2655504

One Belt, One Road

The New Silk Road

 

China is building the world’s greatest economic development and construction project ever undertaken: The New Silk Road. The project aims at no less than a revolutionary change in the economic map of the world. It is also seen by many as the first shot in a battle between east and west for dominance in Eurasia.

 

The ambitious vision is to resurrect the ancient Silk Road as a modern transit, trade, and economic corridor that runs from Shanghai to Berlin. The ‘Road’ will traverse China, Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and Germany, extending more than 8,000 miles, creating an economic zone that extends over one third the circumference of the earth.

 

The plan envisions building high-speed railroads, roads and highways, energy transmission and distributions networks, and fiber optic networks. Cities and ports along the route will be targeted for economic development.

 

An equally essential part of the plan is a sea-based “Maritime Silk Road” (MSR) component, as ambitious as its land-based project, linking China with the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea through Central Asia and the Indian Ocean.

 

When completed, like the ancient Silk Road, it will connect three continents: Asia, Europe, and Africa. The chain of infrastructure projects will create the world’s largest economic corridor, covering a population of 4.4 billion and an economic output of $21 trillion.

 

https://time.com/3893977/new-silk-road-global-economics/

Anonymous ID: 481428 Aug. 18, 2018, 6:52 a.m. No.2655562   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Former Learjet boss Brian Barents retiring as CEO from Aerion

 

Aerion Corp. this week announced that executive chairman and CEO Brian Barents is retiring.

 

The supersonic business jet company said that Barents will be succeeded immediately by Tom Vice, former president of Northrop Grumman’s Aerospace Systems sector, who was appointed president and COO of the company in March.

 

Barents will remain a member of Aerion’s board of directors.

 

He is a former CEO of Learjet in Wichita, as well as a former senior executive with Cessna Aircraft Co. and the head of Galaxy Aerospace.

 

Aerion’s chairman Robert Bass said in a press release that Barents had been instrumental in the company’s efforts to make supersonic business jet travel a reality since the business’ inception in 2003, including recruiting talent and industry partners that have proved vital to the program.

 

The Nevada-based company continues to work to bring its AS2 jet to the market.

 

The $120 million, 11-passenger aircraft, which has a maximum operating speed of Mach 1.4, is expected to fly for the first time in 2023 and enter service in 2025.

 

Aerial is now working with GE Aviation on the engines for the aircraft and Lockheed Martin for engineering and production.

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/news/2018/08/17/former-learjet-boss-retiring-as-ceo-from-aerion.html

 

https://www.aerionsupersonic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Barents-Retires-Tom-Vice-CEO.pdf