New jet for Kerry Stokes, Forrest next in queue
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Kerry Stokes has upgraded his wings.
We must however concede our original mail was slightly off: the Seven Group chairman hasn’t taken delivery of a new Global Express 6000 (the preferred runabout of Visy chairman
Anthony Pratt), he’s lashed out on the 7500!
Kerry Stokes took delivery of his new Bombardier Global Express 7500 on Monday.
Grahame Hutchison
As far as we know, Stokes is only the second Australian to own the new Bombardier varietal (list price: $94 million), the first from the Canadian manufacturer that can fly between Australia’s eastern capitals and the contiguous United States without a refuelling stop. Billionaire Melbourne landlord
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Credit: Transportation Safety Board of Canada
This is a follow-on article to
Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) does not publish CVR transcripts, so we don’t have a word-for-word record of what exactly was said by the pilots of the Bombardier Global Express involved in the landing incident at Montreal/Saint-Hubert Airport on May 15, 2017. The TSB also does not provide probable cause statements of the kind issued by the NTSB, but it does provide findings. In its analysis, the TSB addressed crew situational awareness, flight planning, approach and landing preparation, marking of runways under construction, and conciseness and clarity of notices to airmen (NOTAMs).
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Credit: Transportation Safety Board of Canada
When a Bombardier Global Express struck objects on the runway while landing at a Montreal airport, no one was more surprised than the business jet’s captain. The fact that half the runway was closed longitudinally and that temporary runway edge lights were installed along the centerline of the full-width runway was unknown to him. How that came to happen is a tale of serial miscommunication involving the NOTAMs (Notice to Airmen), the ATIS (Automated Terminal Information Service) and the unquestioning acceptance of an unusual landing clearance by both pilots. I think it is also an example of how the dysfunctional NOTAM system can start a chain of errors that results in an accident.
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Theresa Hitchens on January 26, 2021 at 5:01 PM
EQ-4 Global Hawk modified to carry the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN)
WASHINGTON: Northrop Grumman’s new IDIQ contract, worth up to $3.6 billion, to support the Air Force’s Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) E-11A and EQ-4B aircraft guarantees operations through 2026. While the Air Force is already moving to field new capabilities developed under the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) to replace BACN, the award suggests that this won’t be completed until 2027 at the earliest.
BACN is a gateway and relay system that allows tactical communications beyond line-of-sight and in areas where satellite communications are blocked or unreliable, such as in mountainous areas. The system, which first flew in 2005, also ‘translates’ between different radio frequencies, allowing the linkage of incompatible platforms and radios. Air Combat Command (ACC) currently operates three E-11As, varia