New Zealand Aviation NEWS

Love Is In The Air For Kiwi Stars Temperature's not the only thing heating up this Spring  the love lives of some of our favourite celebrities are also sizzling. TV One's Greg Boyed will be pleased his long distance love affair is over he is brought his new bride, gorgeous Swiss singer songwriter Caroline Chevin, home to live. Boyed, an accomplished muso, surprised his TVNZ colleagues by secretly marrying Chevin in Switzerland earlier this year. The new Mrs Boyed is delighted to be here, telling: Me and my suitcase full of Toblerone have just hit New Zealand ground and I am really excited to start my new life Downunder. I want to discover more of this beautiful country, learn about Kiwi culture and hopefully get inspired to make more music." We hope the pair enjoy a long, hot summer. There is plenty of other talk around town about actors, politicians and sports stars hooking up, though many of them were not keen to share their romantic good fortune wit...

Alert As Light Plane Flips At Airport Three men on board a light plane escaped serious injury when it Flipped as it came into land at Hawke's Bay Airport yesterday. The crash landing, just after noon, disrupted Flights into and out of the Airport for about two hours. Witnesses said the Cessna 206 appeared to make an abrupt last minute change of direction as it prepared to touch down on the Airport's secondary east west runway. The plane appeared to lose power and nose dived, ending up resting upside down on grass near the northern end of the main north south runway used by commercial Aircraft. Police said the Pilot and two passengers on board managed to get out of the plane and were not injured. Several fire appliances, police and St John ambulance crews responded to the crash. St John staff assessed all three of the men who were on the Cessna but none of them needed to be transported to hospital. One of the men had very minor injuries to his arm, distri...

Virgin Yet To Join Etihad's New Alliance Club Etihad has unveiled plans to form its own Airline alliance with its partner Airlines to improve network, service and Frequent Flyer points for a more consistent experience, but local partner Virgin Australia has yet to join the group. Etihad Airway Partners founding members will include Airberlin, Air Serbia, Air Seychelles, India's Jet Airways and Darwin Airline. Those are the carriers with which Etihad has the closest relationship. Etihad owns 21.2 per cent of Virgin and the Abu Dhabi based carrier's Australian born chief executive James Hogan sits on the board. However, Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines also have equity stakes in Virgin, making for a more complicated structure. Mr Hogan said Etihad Airways Partners was open to any airline, regardless of whether it was part of an existing alliance. Airberlin is a member of the oneworld alliance and there has been speculation Etihad could expand its existin...

Air strikes help Syria town curb IS The US led coalition has carried out its most sustained Air attacks so far on Islamic State Fighters attacking the Turkey Syria border town of Kobane. Kurdish  Kurdish people watch Air strikes at the Syrian town of Kobane, as seen from the Turkish Syrian border. Syrian Kurdis Fighters said the strikes were the most effective yet but should have come much earlier, the BBC reported. Correspondents said the surge of IS appeared to have been halted. Earlier Turkey's president warned Kobane was about to fall and faced widening protests from Kurds over his refusal to allow military support. At least nine people were killed in protests in Turkey. At least 400 people have died in three weeks of Fighting for Kobane, monitors say, and 180,000 Syrians have fled across the border to Turkey. More robust The latest media release from the US military confirmed five Air strikes around Kobane, saying they were earlier this week, but no...

Kiwi T 6s Transit Australia On Ferry Two more Beechcraft T-6C advanced Trainers have transited Australian skies on their ferry Flights on their way to the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The Aircraft, build numbers 4 and 5 of 11 the RNZAF have on order, arrived in Darwin from Bali on October 5 and, after overnighting in Brisbane, paid a visit to the BAE Systems Australia run ADF Basic Flying Training School at Tamworth on October 7. The Aircraft are nearing the end of their epic ferry Flight from Wichita in Kansas to Ohakea near Auckland, which has travelled via Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the UK, Italy, Greece, Jordan, the UAE, India, Indonesia, and Singapore. Beechcraft Chief Pilot JD O’Malley said the Aircraft have had no Technical issues on route. He said after arriving in New Zealand, these aircraft and the two which were delivered in late August will complete a series of final acceptance Flights before being formally handed over to the RNZAF on October 31. Aircraft nu...

Try Before You Buy, as Air New Zealand Shows Off New Seats in San Francisco The folks over at Air New Zealand are pretty darn excited to offer up some cool seats on their newest non stop 777-300 service between Auckland and San Francisco, and they are about to brag all over the Bay City. Service between the cities is not actually new, but the Airline used to fly Boeing 747s on it. Now that those big birds have been retired from their fleet, the 777 is doing the heavy lifting. With this Aircraft switch comes a new and improved cabin for the 12 hour Flight, finally including those futuristic SpaceSeats in premium economy and the comfy SkyCouch in economy. We know the Airline is no stranger to doing things a little different when it comes to upgrades, in Flight safety vids and cheap Flights, so don't be shocked when you see those seats taking a tour of San Fran in a glass sided truck for the city to sample. With a few stops around SF and San Jose, the truck will be giving ...

Dramatic Drop In Cancer Risk From Air Pollution The danger of malignancy from Air toxins in Southern California is short of what half what it was in 2005, albeit a few regions including the inland valleys of San Bernardino County remain excessively high, as indicated by a report issued Friday by the South Coast Air Quality Management District. Of the four districts that are some piece of the South Coast Air Basin Orange and parts of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino provinces the second biggest disease hazard and the slowest reduction desired San Bernardino County, as indicated by a computer model focused around air tests and different variables. That is for the parcel of San Bernardino County in the South Coast Air Basin, the 1.5 million individuals who live in the southwest piece of the district. Computer modeling recommends that Air toxins around there would result in 339 disease cases for every million individuals presented to that level for 70 years, as in...