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The Royal Air Force’s Aerobatic Team or Red Arrows' visit to Singapore that was scheduled for Thursday, 13 October 2016 is now postponed to Saturday, 15 October 2016.
The rescheduling was caused by an unexpected weather system in the South Asian region.
Please be aware that the Red Arrows’ Flypast over the vicinity of Marina Bay, Gardens by the Bay and Sentosa will now take place from around 12.30pm to about 1.00pm on Saturday, 15 October 2016.
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The Red Arrows will be flying past the Petronas Twin Towers and KLCC twice.
https://www.facebook.com/bhckl/photos/p.1095224190553193/1095224190553193/?type=3&theater
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Red Arrows display at Epsom College, near KLIA, Oct 17
SHAH ALAM: The Red Arrows display in Malaysia will be held over the Epsom College, Bandar Enstek, near KLIA on Oct 17.
The display will be held from 1230pm to 230pm. Exact time is TBA.
Only invited guests will be allowed into the college grounds, however.
The flypast at KLCC remains the same.
More Later.
–Malaysian Defence
http://www.malaysiandefence.com/red-arrows-display-at-epsom-college-bandar-enstek-oct-17/
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Jordan
30 September: Amman (Flypast)Pakistan
3 October:Karachi (Flypast)India
8 October: Hindon: Indian Air Force Day (Display)Bangladesh
11 October: Dhaka (Flypast)Singapore
13 October: Singapore (Flypast)Malaysia
14 October: Kuala Lumpur (Flypast with Typhoon aircraft)
17 October: Kuala Lumpur (Display)Vietnam
20 October: Da Nang (Overnight stop)China
23-25 October: Shanghai (Ground events)28-29 October: Hong Kong (Ground events)
1-6 November: Zhuhai airshow (Displays)Thailand
11 November: Hua Hin (Displays and flypasts)India
16 November: Hyderabad (Display)
17 November: Bangalore (Flypast)Oman
20 November: Muscat (Display)Bahrain
23 November: Bahrain (Flypast)UAE
24 November: Abu Dhabi The Corniche (Display)
27 November: Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix (Display or flypast)Kuwait
28 November: Kuwait (Flypast)UK
1 December: RAF Scampton (Return home) -
From Marhalim
If you happen to be around #KLCC on Oct 14, 2016, 3pm, look up, you might just see this guys.... https://t.co/aTiGpIsQ5e
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Red Arrows to promote prosperity with major Asia tour
26 July 2016 Tuesday
The Red Arrows will support Britain’s prosperity by performing in up to 20 locations from the Middle East to the Asia-Pacific.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has announced that the RAF’s display team will perform their world-famous aerobatics with displays and flypasts for the first time ever in China, and are due to perform in countries including India, Malaysia and Singapore.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/red-arrows-to-promote-prosperity-with-major-asia-tour
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Where Did the Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Go So Wrong?
It's been nearly two and a half years since a 777 disappeared over the Indian Ocean. Investigators assured us they'd find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. How were they so wrong?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a21992/mh370-search-what-went-wrong/
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MH370 search team raises prospect plane could lie elsewhere
SYDNEY | BY JONATHAN BARRETT AND SWATI PANDEY
Business | Thu Jul 21, 2016 5:49am EDT
Top searchers at the Dutch company leading the underwater hunt for Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 say they believe the plane may have glided down rather than dived in the final moments, meaning they have been scouring the wrong patch of ocean for two years.
Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew onboard en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. Searchers led by engineering group Fugro (FUGRc.AS) have been combing an area roughly the size of Greece for two years.
That search, over 120,000 square kilometers of the southern Indian Ocean off Western Australia, is expected to end in three months and could be called off after that following a meeting of key countries Malaysia, China and Australia on Friday.
The three countries agreed in April 2015 that should the aircraft not be located within the search area, and in the absence of any new credible evidence, the search area would not be extended. So far, nothing has been found.
"If it's not there, it means it's somewhere else," Fugro project director Paul Kennedy told Reuters.
Kennedy does not exclude extreme possibilities that could have made the plane impossible to spot in the search zone, and still hopes to find the craft. But he and his team argue another option is the plane glided down - meaning it was manned at the end - and made it beyond the area marked out by calculations from satellite images.
"If it was manned it could glide for a long way," Kennedy said. "You could glide it for further than our search area is, so I believe the logical conclusion will be well maybe that is the other scenario."
Doubts that the search teams are looking in the right place will likely fuel calls for all data to be made publicly available so that academics and rival companies can pursue an "open source" solution - a collaborative public answer to the airline industry's greatest mystery.
Fugro's controlled glide hypothesis is also the first time officials have leant some support to contested theories that someone was in control during the flight's final moments.
Since the crash there have been competing theories over whether one, both or no pilots were in control, whether it was hijacked - or whether all aboard perished and the plane was not controlled at all when it hit the water. Adding to the mystery, investigators believe someone may have deliberately switched off the plane's transponder before diverting it thousands of miles.
The glide view is not supported by the investigating agencies: America's Boeing Co (BA.N), France's Thales SA (TCFP.PA), U.S. investigator the National Transportation Safety Board, British satellite company Inmarsat PLC(ISA.L), the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation.
CARRY ON
The meeting between officials from China, Australia and Malaysia is expected to discuss the future of the search. The three governments have previously agreed that unless any new credible evidence arises the search would not be extended, despite calls from victims' families.
Any further search would require a fresh round of funding from the three governments on top of the almost A$180 million ($137 million) that has already been spent, making it the most expensive in aviation history.
Deciding the search area in 2014, authorities assumed the plane had no "inputs" during its final descent, meaning there was no pilot or no conscious pilot. They believe it was on auto-pilot and spiraled when it ran out of fuel.
But Kennedy said a skilled pilot could glide the plane approximately 120 miles (193 km) from its cruising altitude after running out of fuel. One pilot told Reuters it would be slightly less than that.
For the aircraft to continue gliding after fuel has run out, someone must manually put the aircraft into a glide – nose down with controlled speed.
"If you lose all power, the auto-pilot kicks out. If there is nobody at the controls, the aircraft will plummet down," said a captain with experience flying Boeing 777s - the same as MH370.
Like all pilots interviewed for this story, he declined to be named given the controversy around the lost jet.
Fugro works on a "confidence level" of 95 percent, a statistical measurement used, in Fugro's case, to indicate how certain the plane debris was not in the area they have already combed, a seabed peppered with steep cliffs and underwater volcanoes.
"The end-of-flight scenarios are absolutely endless," Fugro managing director Steve Duffield said. "Which wing ran out of fuel first, did it roll this way or did it tip that way?"
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), the agency coordinating the search, has consistently defended the defined search zone. It did not immediately respond to questions over whether it was assessing the controlled glide theory.
Authorities used data provided by Inmarsat to locate the likely plunge point through communication between the plane and satellite ground station.
"All survey data collected from the search for missing flight MH370 will be released," an ATSB spokesman said.
(Additional reporting by Siva Govindasamy in SINGAPORE; Editing by Clara Ferreira Marques and Ryan Woo)
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From Alert5
Track the RMAF’s 3rd A400M on its homeward journey
The Royal Malaysian Air Force’s third A400M cargo plane is now on its journey home from Spain and the aircraft just went feet dry south of Mumbai, India. You can follow the flight live on Flightradar24 using the source below.
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JUST IN: interim report on #MH370 to be released at 3pm tomorrow, 2nd anniversary of disappearance,on RTM & at http://www.mh370.gov.my
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Singapore air operators to track planes’ location under new CAAS rulesUnder tougher flight tracking rules announced by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, air operators in Singapore will be required to track the position of their aircraft at least every 15 minutes.
Posted 04 Mar 2016 11:57
SINGAPORE: In a bid to bolster aviation safety, airlines in Singapore will soon be required to track the location of their aircraft at least every 15 minutes throughout the entire duration of the flight.
The new rules, announced by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) on Friday (Mar 4), will apply to all Singapore air operators operating passenger aircraft of more than 27,000kg and carrying more than 19 passengers, as well as cargo aircraft of more than 45,500kg.
These include Singapore Airlines, Tiger Airways, SCOOT, Jetstar as well as SilkAir.
Starting Jul 1, these airlines will be required to track their aircraft either manually or automatically. From Nov 8, 2018 onwards, only automatic tracking will be permitted.
This move is consistent with the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) plans to require a 15-minute standard for normal flight tracking by November 2018, CAAS said.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) had proposed that by November 2018, all large aircraft carrying passengers report their position at least once every 15 minutes, as part of a broader plan meant to avoid a repeat of the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
MH370 disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board, and has not been found.
The CAAS requirement will cover Singapore air operators flying over any area, which is more comprehensive than the ICAO requirement, which is only for aircraft flying over oceanic areas.
“The safety of the travelling public is always our priority. CAAS has worked closely with the industry to advance the implementation of the latest rules on enhanced aircraft tracking. When fully implemented, our airlines will have added assurance of the whereabouts and safety of their aircraft operations throughout their network,” said Director-General of CAAS Kevin Shum.
Captain CE Quay, Senior Vice-President of Flight Operations at Singapore Airlines, said the airline supports the move. “Singapore Airlines is already in compliance with CAAS' new rules, as we have enhanced flight tracking capabilities that give us detailed oversight of our global flight operations,” he said.
Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Tigerair Singapore, Mr Ho Yuen Sang, said the carrier is working with CAAS on implementing the tracking capabilities. “We are confident that these industry-leading regulations represent a significant step forward in aviation safety which is our top priority,” he added.
CAAS will work closely with Singapore air operators to manage the transition to the new rules, it said.
- CNA/cy
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/singapore-air-operators/2572218.html
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Emirates A380 from Dubai to NZ makes longest non-stop flight
An Emirates Airbus A380 jet has made what is believed to be the current longest non-stop scheduled commercial flight by distance.
The plane covered about 14,200km (8,824 miles) when it touched down in Auckland, New Zealand on Wednesday.
It was expected to be the world's longest non-stop commercial flight by duration as well, but landed too early.
The return flight to Dubai left around 22:20 local time (15:20 GMT), according to New Zealand media.
The Auckland-Dubai portion was estimated to take around 17 hours and 15 minutes, but in the end took only 16 hours and 24 minutes, according to the New Zealand Herald.
The new route reportedly reduces the current travel time by three hours.
The inaugural flight was made by an A380, but the route will normally be operated by a Boeing 777-200LR.
Emirates said it expects "high demand" for the new route.
Long flights
The new route has beaten the Dallas-Sydney flight operated by Qantas, previously the longest flight by distance in activity, covering 13,800km (8,578 miles).
The Qantas service, however, remains the world's longest flight in duration - 16 hours and 55 minutes.
But this is set to be short-lived, as Emirates plans to launch a Dubai-Panama City service later in March that will take 17 hours and 35 minutes.
The new service, however, will cover about 13,820km (8,588 miles), falling short of the new Dubai-Auckland route.
Qatar Airways has also announced plans to launch even longer flights - from its hub in Doha to Santiago, in Chile, and also to Auckland, Bloomberg reported.
But again, all of this is expected to change, as Singapore Airlines revealed plans last year to bring back its Singapore-New Jersey service in 2018. The flight will cover some 15,300km (9,500 miles) in 19 hours.
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Missing MH370: Possible Boeing 777 Part Found Off Mozambique, Sources Say
by TOM COSTELLO and ALASTAIR JAMIESON
MAR 2 2016, 9:10 AM ET
An object that could be debris from a Boeing 777 has been found off Mozambique and is being examined by investigators searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, sources told NBC News.
Early photographic analysis of the object suggests it could have come from the doomed jet, which vanished almost exactly 2 years ago.
It was found on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel — the body of water between Mozambique in eastern Africa and Madagascar — and in the same corner of the southern Indian Ocean where the only confirmed piece of debris, a flaperon, was found last July.
Investigators in Malaysia, Australia and the U.S. have seen photographs of the latest object and sources say there is a good chance it comes from a Boeing 777.
Boeing engineers are looking at the photos, according to sources, but the company has declined to comment.
The object has the words "NO STEP" on it and could be from the plane's horizontal stabilizer — the wing-like parts attached to the tail, sources say. It was discovered by an American who has been blogging about the search for MH370.
Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Center said it was aware of the discovery and arranging for a thorough examination. Malaysia Airlines said it was "too speculative at this point" to comment.
The development comes days ahead of the second anniversary of the jet's disappearance en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board.
No trace has been found of Flight MH370 except for the single barnacle-encrusted flaperon that washed up on the eastern shore of Reunion, east of Madagascar, last July. French aviation experts verified it as part of aircraft 9M-MRO after more than one month of forensic analysis at a laboratory near Toulouse.
There have been false hopes over the course of the investigation: In January, aviation officials ruled that two objects recovered from Malaysia's east coast were not from the missing airliner.
One of them, a six-foot-long metal item found in the eastern state of Terengganu, was examined by officials from the transport ministry, the Department of Civil Aviation and Malaysia Airlines.
However, the sonar search operation has turned up a 19th-century shipwreck.
Almost three-quarters of internationally-agreed 46,000 square mile search zone has been covered so far in the hunt for the missing airliner — an area of ocean floor larger than the state of South Carolina.
The operation is due to be completed by the middle of this year. The Joint Agency Coordination Center says that if no "credible new information" about the jet's location emerges, the search will end.
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Looks like a total write off for the RMAF CN235 M44-07.
https://twitter.com/bernamadotcom/status/703172958143934466?s=09
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DCA dismisses rumour KL-Melbourne MAS flight went missing
Wednesday, 24 February 2016 | MYT 11:34 AM
KUALA LUMPUR: The Department of Civil Aviation Wednesday dismissed a rumour that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH149 went missing Tuesday night en route from Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne, Australia.
DCA director-general Datuk Seri Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said the flight landed safely in Melbourne at 5.21am (8.21am Australian time) Wednesday. The flight had taken off from KL International Airport at 10.07pm Tuesday.
The rumour circulated on social media was a false report disseminated by irresponsible people that could spark anxiety among the public, he told reporters.
The report had said that Flight MH149 had gone off radar. - Bernama
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2016/02/24/dca-dismiss-rumour-kl-melbourne-flight/
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Tomorrow, Trade Day 4, most of the vendors will close shop.
It is also a National Education day where selected schools will be bus in to see the airshow.
Anyway, no aerobatic display for tomorrow.
AFAIK, the RMAF A400M still not operational certified, even during the 2015 LIMA, we were not allowed into the aircraft.
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Scoot aircraft only on display on the first trade day.
HTH.
I was there today (17th), didnt see scoot 789 but got A350 MSN002.
TUDM sent in Su30MKI for aerobatic display, very impressive. While other demo fighter jet are zooming past at breakneck speed, Su30 was doing slow-stll-fall-recover stunt... Seriously scary movement, but very much unique.
And the A350 aerobatic display... soooo quiet, can hardly hear the engine sound.
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Some photos to share, 2016 Singapore Airshow Trade Day 1.
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2016 Singapore Airshow Preview with RMAF SU30MKM performance.
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First photo of RMAF SU30MKM training at the 2016 S'pore Airshow.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/2016SGAirshow?src=hash
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Thanks for the update.