Airbus plans to give a flight demonstration of the A380 at the next air show to be held here, in 2005.
Unable to raise MH17, Dnipropetrovsk asked the next air traffic control centre along the route, at Rostov, if it could see the plane on its screens.
Each centre is responsible for a defined geographic area; as an aircraft continues on a flight, crossing these areas, the responsibility for monitoring the plane is transferred ("handed off") to the next air route centre.
I think back to the eight-year war with Iraq, a time when days and nights seemed indistinguishable, and were reduced to the sound of the siren, warning us of the next air attack.
Much later, after the Taliban had fallen, Britain regained centre-stage as the lead-nation in a small peacekeeping force.But does this mean that America's next air war will be constrained by British political influence, as the war against Serbia was restrained by France?
As airline stocks plunged and the airline industry worked feverishly behind the scenes yesterday to secure a financial rescue package from Washington, executives and industry consultants agreed that no matter what happened next, air travel had changed for at least the near term.
