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It could mean valuable warning time for aircraft, whose engines can stall when clogged with volcanic ash A USGS analysis found 94 verified airplane-ash encounters since 1953.

None led to crashes, but aircraft damage was severe in several cases.

The lightning network now is continuously monitoring more than 1,500 volcanoes worldwide
A University of Washington-based network th

New Delhi: A few hours of peaceful sleep for Delhiites comes at a huge price for the rest of the country, not to mention the airlines that are suffering because of it. The connection: Residents of Vasant Kunj filed a case in court against loud aircraft noise due to planes passing overhead in final approach.

Kalpana Pathak & Vishal Chhabria / Mumbai December 8, 2010, 0:53 IST

Less than two weeks after the Union ministry of environment and forests announced a nod to setting up an international airport in Navi Mumbai, the Mukesh Ambani-promoted Navi Mumbai Special Economic Zone (NMSEZ) has begun lease of plots at its Dronagiri node there.

There are four nodes and each of these, like Dronagiri, is

Mumbai The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) has approached the Forest Department in Alibag to obtain clearances under the Indian Forests Act for the Navi Mumbai airport project.

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Villagers, mainly farmers, have raised a banner of revolt

SALEM: The land acquisition for the expansion of Salem Airport has hit a roadblock.

Though Deputy Chief Minister M. K.

MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena has accused Union minister for environment Jairam Ramesh of clearing the Navi Mumbai international airport to please the business-hospitality lobby in Mumbai.

"Nearly 3,000 local inhabitants will be displaced and 98 hectares of mangroves will be destroyed, while a 90-metre hill will have to be levelled," said Saamna, the Sena mouthpiece, in an editorial.

"The Navi Mumba

The Navi Mumbai airport has been cleared for take-off and everyone is rejoicing except the farmers who gave away their land to the City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) to develop the town in 1970.

Washington: Airplanes may soon start looking like birds as scientists are pondering over redesigning the current airplanes to make them more fuel-efficient.
Geoffrey Spedding, an engineer at the University of Southern California, and Joachim Huyssen at Northwest University in South Africa have made a simple modular aircraft in three configurations: a flying wing alone, then wings plus body, a

The Navi Mumbai airport has finally got the green signal, with a compromise being worked out after one and a half years of tussling between the Environment Ministry on the one hand, and the Civil Aviation Ministry and the Maharashtra government on the other.

The decision was announced jointly on Monday by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, his Civil Aviation counterpart Praful Patel and the ne

The environment ministry on Monday cleared the site for second airport in the financial capital at Navi Mumbai following a long tussle with civil aviation ministry over the proposed site.