Not exact matches
Over the past year, capital spending rose by more than 17 per cent,
with the main categories of investment — machinery and equipment investment (abstracting from
civil aircraft deliveries), buildings and structures, and spending on computer software — all recording robust growth in the quarter and over the year.
Imports of consumption goods continue to grow rapidly,
with imports of motor vehicles the main contributor to the strength, while capital imports remain volatile, owing to the periodic importation of
civil aircraft.
The pace of growth moderated in early 2003, however, in line
with the easing in the rate of growth of domestic spending and the dropping - out of one - off factors such as large purchases of
civil aircraft.
Following the disruption of the operations of Airline, by three aviation unions comprising of United Labour Congress (ULC), National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE), Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) and National Association of
Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), the management of Arik Air said it has resolved the lingering impasse
with labour unions in a meeting mediated by the Nigerian
Civil Aviation Authority.
Meanwhile, the Ghana
Civil Aviation Authority has pledged to create an air corridor for drones to prevent collisions
with aeroplanes and other larger
aircraft.
To apply his theories to airplane design, Bejan teamed up
with Jordan Charles, a researcher and development engineer, and Sylvie Lorente, a professor of
civil engineering at the University of Toulouse, to mine the historical databases of successful commercial
aircraft.
Even in an era of advanced computer modeling, the decade - old test is deemed essential for producing
aircraft engines that can withstand the impact (pdf) of collisions
with birds, which cause more than a billion dollars» worth of damage worldwide to
civil aircraft every year, according to the Bird Strike Committee USA.
Every day, up to 500
civil aircraft in the corridor burst out of the troposphere and up into the stratosphere,
with its fragile ozone layer.
Faced
with looming climate regulations now under negotiation at the International
Civil Aviation Organization,
aircraft makers and operators around the world are also looking for incremental solutions for improving the environmental performance of their fleet.
Viral stories like that of an easyJet engineer allegedly patching up a plane's engine
with duct tape don't hold up: According to the
Civil Aviation Authority, the tape seen being used in the photos is actually aluminum tape (also known as speed tape or metallic tape) which is very durable, expensive, and regularly used on
aircrafts (budget or not) to make minor repairs.
This is consistent
with ICAO's push to cap global emissions of
civil aircraft at 2020 levels, as specified in its Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), that requires offsets for every year that an airline operator exceeds emissions from 2019 - 2020 levels.
Rapid estimation of global
civil aircraft emissions
with uncertainty quantification.
An
aircraft accident is defined, pursuant to the Convention on International
Civil Aviation Annex 13, as any event associated
with the operation or use of an
aircraft in which any person is fatally or seriously injured, the
aircraft sustains damage or incurs some structural failure, or the
aircraft is missing or rendered inaccessible.
and
with intent to escape
civil or criminal liability fails to stop the vehicle, vessel or, if possible, the
aircraft, give his or her name and address and, where any person has been injured or appears to require assistance, offer assistance.
Along
with the 11 basic home perils (fire or lightning, windstorm or hail, explosions, riot or
civil commotion, damage from
aircraft, damage from vehicles, smoke damage, vandalism, theft, volcanic eruption, glass or safety - glazing material damage), you might want to make sure your home insurance policy covers ice dams, frozen pipes, snow damage.
(2) The captain, owner or charterer of an
aircraft or vessel, or the agent of the owner of an
aircraft or vessel, is not liable in any
civil or criminal proceedings in respect of anything done in good faith for the purpose of complying
with section 65ZA or 65ZB.