Actualité aéronautique

Teledyne Technologies to Hold Investor Meetings

transmise le 6 septembre 2011 par Business Wire

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated today announced that Robert Mehrabian, chairman, president and chief executive officer, and Jason VanWees, vice president, corporate development and investor relations, will be holding investor meetings on Wednesday, September 7, in Boston, Mass.

Cathay Pacific Offers 10 Free Trips to Hong Kong in SCVNGR Sweepstakes

transmise le 6 septembre 2011 par Business Wire

Who says flying can’t be fun? Cathay Pacific is teaming up with SCVNGR to make its next sweepstakes even more interactive. Ten lucky participants will each win a roundtrip flight to Hong Kong from Chicago, Cathay Pacific’s newest destination.

US Airways Dividend Miles Members Enter the Big League with the Grand Slam Promotion

transmise le 6 septembre 2011 par Business Wire

US Airways Dividend Miles members will score big with the 2011 Dividend Miles Grand Slam promotion. The airline’s annual promotion is bigger and better this year, with Dividend Miles members earning up to 110,000 bonus miles (10,000 are Preferred-qualifying miles). Beginning Sept. 14 and running through Nov. 14, frequent flyers who register for the Grand Slam at www.usairways.com/gs11 will score bonus miles when doing business with more than 170 Dividend Miles partners.

Innovaro, Inc. Enters Fourth Phase Projects with Asian Telecom Leader

transmise le 6 septembre 2011 par Business Wire

Innovaro, Inc. , a leading innovation services and IP licensing company, announces that it has reached three new agreements with a major Asian communications company to provide additional consulting services through Strategos, their consulting services division.

BAE Systems Conjures Up Invisibility Cloak

transmise le 6 septembre 2011 par Business Wire

BAE Systems has tested an ‘invisibility cloak’ that allows a vehicle to blend into its surroundings. The system, which can work over infra-red and other frequencies, will be displayed in infra-red mode on a BAE Systems CV90 armoured vehicle at the UK Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition in September.

NMI at 53.3%; August Non-Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®; Business Activity Index at 55.6%; New Orders Index at 52.8%; Employment Index at 51.6%

transmise le 6 septembre 2011 par Business Wire

Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector grew in August for the 21st consecutive month, say the nation’s purchasing and supply executives in the latest Non-Manufacturing ISM Report On Business^®.

Conductive Plastics Leader ElectriPlast Enters Wireless

transmise le 6 septembre 2011 par Business Wire

ElectriPlast Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Technologies, Inc. , and makers of the ElectriPlast™ line of electrically conductive resins, announced today Think Wireless, Inc., a leader in wireless technologies and antenna solutions, has purchased next generation antenna components engineered from ElectriPlast™ conductive resins for use in a new series of SiriusXM Satellite Radio receivers. The two companies will also work together to jointly develop future technologies incorporating ElectriPlast™ composites into next-generation Think Wireless products and devices.

NCR Appoints Tyler Craig to Lead NCR Travel

transmise le 6 septembre 2011 par Business Wire

NCR Corporation today announced that Tyler Craig has joined the company as vice president and general manager of NCR Travel, responsible for driving the innovation and global adoption of next-generation travel self-service solutions among airports, airlines, hotels and other travel segments.

US Airways Reports Record August Load Factor

transmise le 6 septembre 2011 par Business Wire

US Airways Group, Inc. today announced August and year-to-date 2011 traffic results. Mainline revenue passenger miles (RPMs) for the month were 5.6 billion, up 1.2 percent versus August 2010. Mainline capacity was 6.4 billion available seat miles (ASMs), down 1.3 percent versus August 2010. Mainline passenger load factor was a record 87.4 percent for the month of August, up 2.2 points versus August 2010.

NRL Robotic Loader System Achieves Composite Material Testing Milestone

transmise le 6 septembre 2011 par Business Wire

The Naval Research Laboratory robotic materials testing system, NRL66.3, has achieved, to date, the highest industrial rates of fully-automated production mode functionality known to NRL researchers, yielding a total of 216 specimen tests at a rate of 26 per hour under six-degrees of freedom (6-DoF - three translations and three rotations) multiaxiality conditions.