Aviation calender 2012 , Airshows 2012 , worldwide Airshows 2012

January :

19-21 Bahrain International Air Show 2012, Sakhir Air Base, Bahrain.


February :

11-14 Heli-Expo 2012, Dallas Convention Center, Dallas.

14-19 Singapore Airshow 2012, Changi Exhibition Centre, Singapore.

28-March 1 Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE), Shanghai Hawker

Pacific Business Aviation Centre, Shanghai.

March :

6-8 ATC Global 2012, Amsterdam RAI Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

12-15 Satellite 2012, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.

April :

1-4 Quad A Annual Convention, Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center, Nashville, Tenn.

15-18 Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition, Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center,

National Harbor, Md.

30-May 3 AMC/AEEC Joint Meetings, Hilton Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska.

May :

14-16 European Business Aviation Association Convention and Exhibition (EBACE), Geneva PALEXPO and Geneva International Airport, Geneva, Switzerland.

June :

9-15 Farnborough International Airshow, Farnborough Airport, England.

11-14 Airborne Law Enforcement Association Conference and Exposition, Reno, Nevada.

23-29 EAA AirVenture, Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wis.

August :

7-10 Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Unmanned Systems North America, Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Las Vegas.

September :

10-13 Autotestcon 2012, Disneyland Resort, Anaheim, Calif.

11-16 Berlin Air Show, Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Germany.

17-20 Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) Expo, Long Beach, Calif.

October :

14-18 Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Crowne Plaza Williamsburg at Fort Magruder, Williamsburg, Va.

Cocorde retires after 30 years of luxury life

The Concorde only faster-than-sound airliner in the universe is being retired from service, thereby plunging the world back into the pre-1969 dark ages when the minimum theoretical travel time across the Atlantic for civilians was six hours, rather than three


The beauty of the Concorde, We can realize immediately upon entering the hangar, is visible in photographs, but what does not show up on film is how little that beauty has to do with human aesthetics, and how much it has to do with the pure math of aerodynamics




Concorde being ended after 30 years of luxury life .

It cruises at around 1350 mph at an altitude of up to 60,000ft it means a crossing from Europe to New York takes less than three and a half hours


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A330 Qantas pinned on Data spike effect

Three years ago mysterious in-flight upset to a Qantas Airbus A330, in which injured 119 of the 315 occupants, have resulted in improvement of flight-computer algorithms processing angle-of-attack data


In cruise at flight level 370, one of the A330's three air data inertial reference units began transmitting incorrect data spikes, including spurious information on angle of attack, which prompted the flight-control computer to command a pitch-down response.


it examined several possibilities for the cause of the failure in the Northrop Grumman air-data unit - even considering a cosmic particle strike - the inquiry could not establish a reason. It said the failure was "probably not triggered" by a software or hardware fault, environmental factors, or electromagnetic interference.




The A330's flight-control computer normally compares the angle-of-attack values received from all three air-data units, to check for validity and consistency.


This limitation of the algorithm effectively meant a spike occurring after the memorisation period expired was treated as valid data, and the flight-control system responded by suddenly pitching the aircraft nose-down.