BMI Regional stopt met verbinding Antwerpen-Manchester

De Britse luchtvaartmaatschappij BMI Regional stopt eind november met zijn vluchten tussen de steden Antwerpen en Manchester. De beslissing van de maatschappij zou onder meer te maken hebben met de start van de werken aan de ondertunneling van de landingsbaan op Antwerp Airport, waardoor BMI Regional voor de verbinding tussen Antwerpen en Manchester een ander toestel zou dienen in te zetten. De directie van Antwerp Airport zegt de situatie met BMI Regional te bestuderen en op zoek te zullen gaan naar mogelijke alternatieven. Daarbij zou ook overleg worden gepleegd met Egis, de toekomstige exploitant van de Antwerpse luchthaven. BMI Regional had de verbinding tussen Antwerpen en Manchester in oktober vorig jaar opgestart, nadat CityJet de service om organisatorische redenen had stopgezet. BMI Regional vliegt op dit ogenblik twee keer per dag tussen Antwerpen en Manchester. (MH)  Source: Express.be

BAPA Belgian Aviation Preservation Association Newsletter October 2013

*	* October 2013
	10 ! Last October 14th, the 10th aircraft joined the BAPA in Gembloux. This is a magnificent Austria Glider offered to us by Willy Marrot thanks to the help of Bob. After the arrival of the machine, she was quickly cleaned by the enthusiastic  team. This is not the only news at our workshop. Eric put on display  USAAF pilot equipment near the P-38 display. Our future visitors will have so the possibility to learn about flight gears. Laurent continue to work on his front undercarriage but now he can simulate retraction and extension of the device. This is the first time in many years of active restoration  we make an aeronautical device back in functional state. Unusually, we restored parts for static display only. This achievement was completed in just 3 months. Yves and Thierry started to work on the front fuselage. Taking advantage of their long experience, they first concentrate on the documentation. Thierry setup a professional logbook of all the operations performed on the airframe. They started to work on the airframe but any task if first carefully planned to cope with the manuals. Eric also dismantled damaged parts on the central section of the wings to secure future operations and study what need to be done for repairs. It was a long and painstaking task. Thanks to the results of the inauguration party (Thanks again Alex) . We started to buy the missing equipment for our restorations.  A dummy for Eric USAAF flight gear and others first necessity tools were purchased hunting the internet to find the best cost effective solutions. We are still looking for some missing tools, if ever you can help please find the list of what we search at http://www.bapa.be/how-to-help-us    All together we cumulated much more than 100 years  of experience. In this long time, we succeed in avoiding accidents during our restoration activities.  Safety is for us mandatory and critical. Aviation and specially the Belgian Air Force has a very long tradition of promoting safety by the use of posters.  We will use vintage safety poster at the workshop as a reminder of good practices and put a copy of these posters at http://www.bapa.be/safety   On  the archiving from, we restarted to publish the already scanned documents of the Veys collection. More than 140 documents are now available at http://www.bapa.be/our-projects/07-collection-michel-veys   Our collection of digital aircraft manuals is now of 808 items (https://sites.google.com/site/bapabe2/our-projects/archives) . Robert provided to us some extra cabinets very helpful to store the documents we collected or we received. André Dillien offered to us his Belgian registration files. The last update is available from www.bapa.be Thanks again to all those we support us. Our finance status is healthy for the end of this year but we need to increase our capabilities in 2014. Any support, financial as well in gift of tools, archive or aircraft is still welcome. See more at http://www.bapa.be/how-to-help-us Many happy landings All pictures available from our picture album
*	Visit us on www.bapa.be To join the Bastards : +32 477931671 or +32 48536686 Email : contact@bapa.be Who is the BAPA ? see http://www.bapa.be/about-our-organization Help us ? see : http://www.bapa.be/how-to-help-us We do it because we did not know it is supposed to be impossible

Video playlist: "Luchtcomponent"

28 videos Luchtcomponent PLAYLIST  by belgiandefence ©2013 YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066

Video playlist: "Composante Air"

12 videos Composante Air PLAYLIST  by belgiandefence ©2013 YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066

Photo Report "Hahnweide Oldtimer Treffen" 6-8 September 2013 by Jef Pets

Please have a look at the photo report by Jef Pets on the "Hahnweide Oldtimer Treffen" on 6-8 September 2013.
Click the pic to discover:

 Best regards,

Daniel Brackx

Belgian Wings Website Update: 28 October 2013

Regards,

Daniel Brackx

Video: "live demonstration of Belgian medevac helicopter Agusta A-109 visit Peter de Crem Gao Mali"

live demonstration of Belgian medevac helicopter Agusta A-109 visit Peter de Crem Gao Mali by armyreco Tuesday, February 26, 2013, French troops from operation Serval based in Gao has received the visit of Defence Minister of Belgium, Mister Peter De Crem (Read more http://www.armyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6661 ). He was accompanied by the Belgian Chief of Army Staff and a military delegation. Mister Peter Crem has visited the Belgian helicopter crews involved in the French operation Serval in Mali. Belgium has supplied two Agusta 109 helicopters which have been modified for MEDEVAC operations. Army Recognition Global Defence News Online military magazine for defence and security industry Worldwide Defense & Security News Marketing and advertising for Defense & Security Industry and Exhibition Land Forces equipment, weapons and vehicles http://www.armyrecognition.com ©2013 YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066

Le Soir : Number one on the army’s list of concerns, Belgium has no choice but to replace its F-16 fighters

Posted on 26 October 2013 by elanlanguages

General Caelenberge deems that it's no longer possible to update the current fighters.
The budgetary and industrial impact of this upgrade alone will extend beyond the defense sector.

Even if Belgium replaced only half of its present F-16 fleet of 64 fighters at €75 million each, the expense would reach the €2.4 billion mark, almost the entire army budget. What if over the period of one year, all the police officers, firefighter and magistrate salaries, all the Interior and Justice departments expenses were absorbed by a single military purchase such as around thirty F-35 Lightning II fighters?

Read more at http://blog.lesoir.be/lesoirinenglish/2013/10/26/number-one-on-the-armys-list-of-concerns-belgium-has-no-choice-but-to-replace-its-f-16-fighters/

November Dispersals 2nd Tactical Air Force Medium Bombers Association Newsletter

Dispersal  11/2013 (2 Mb)

http://www.bamf.be/Dispersals/

André Dillien OO registration lists updated

André Dillien OO registration lists

Here are the lists of André. You will find lists about aircraft registers for Belgium, Luxembourg and Congo as well Belgian pilots brevets. Please use the file index00.doc which contains the description of the files. If you want to communicate to André some corrections, please contact him at André DILLIEN Rue des Cyclamens, 6 1170 Bruxelles 02/673.36.32 (Tel & Fax) Update October, 27,, 2013 On September 1st, 2013, André offered his lists to the Belgian Aviation Preservation Association (BAPA) http://www.bapa.be

http://www.bapa.be/andre_dillien_lists