There, you can witness the Embraer, Brazil’s ultimate product and its national pride, or Bombardier, the Canadian aviation industries, US’s Boeing and European Airbus, or Russian mighty industry, the Sukhoi. I really like to see them competing each other to attract customers and audience, I like to see em promoting their cutting-edge designs and technology. I LIKE AVIATION INDUSTRY, I LIKE PLANES… enough said!

Well, I will write more about that in other entries (well, to be honest, I’ve posted many entries about aviation).

Airbus A330-200s

So far, the aircraft orders in the airshow has reached $25 billion , and airlines from Indonesia contributed 8% to that after Kartika airlines inked the purchase orders for 30 Sukhoi SSJ Superjet 100, and Garuda Indonesia secured 6 Airbus A330-200s.  Planes is scheduled to be delivered next year until 2014. Garuda is so serious in penetrating long-haul markets, as well as strengthening regional position.

Well, a good step to lead to world’s 5-star airline, just like Singapore Airlines. I hope it’s gonna be in 2014.

Kartika Airlines is the first airline the region to take the offer, and you..traveller bug who wanna grab first time experience onboard of special aircraft, get onboard of Kartika Airlines. It’s not Airbus, it’s not Boeing, it’s SUKHOI!

The aircraft will be shipped between 2012 and 2015.

The Superjet-100 is a family of medium-haul passenger aircraft developed by Sukhoi in cooperation with the US and European aviation corporations, including Boeing, Snecma, Thales, Messier Dowty, Liebherr Aerospace and Honeywell.

source : RIA NOVOSTI

Team Keris and Team Pasoepati, both representing University of Indonesia (UI), along with another team from Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) won the Combustion Grand Prize for Urban Concept car with their car, Sapu Angin, which we have written about before. The team from ITS also won the Gasoline Fuel Award while another team from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Team Exia won People’s Choice Award.

“We are surprised. We didn’t think we could have won. We submitted a design that focus on simplicity; while other teams have more complicated designs,” Pasoepati manager Rizky Arif Hidayat, who is a third year engineering student at UI, told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.

The award recognizes innovative choice of material and technical feasibility design research in terms of, among others, ergonomics, and aesthetics.

The Indonesian teams took home a cash prize of US$200 (Rp 1.8 million) each from Autodesk Inc, a US-based software company – official sponsor of the Shell Eco-marathon Asia race.

The three teams are among nine teams representing Indonesia at the fuel-save racing, competing against more than 70 other teams from Asian countries.

Here is the full list of winners for the Shell Eco Marathon Asia 2010:

SHELL ECO-MARATHON ASIA 2010
Final Trophies, Prizes and Awards

Prototype

Combustion Grand Prize
1 Thailand Kong Thabbok Upatham Changkol Kho So Tho Bo School
2 Japan Hyogo Prefectural Tajima Technical Institute
3 China Tongji University

Fuel Cell Grand Prize
1 Malaysia Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
2 Singapore Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Solar Grand Prize
1 Singapore Nanyang Technological University

Gasoline Fuel Award
1 Thailand Kong Thabbok Upatham Changkol Kho So Tho Bo School

Diesel Fuel Award
1 Singapore Institute of Technical Education

Alternative Gasoline Fuel Award
1 Malaysia Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Alternative Diesel Fuel
1 Japan Hyogo Prefectural Tajima Technical Institute

Urban Concept

Combustion Grand Prize
1 Indonesia Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology
2 Indonesia University of Indonesia
3 Indonesia University of Indonesia

Fuel Cell Grand Prize
1 Singapore National University of Singapore

Gasoline Fuel Award
1 Indonesia Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology

Congratulations! We’re proud of you!
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In a statement on Tuesday, Turkey’s civil aviation authority said that the deal was signed on June 18 in the Turkish capital Ankara.

The agreement revises former deal between the two countries, the statement said.

The new agreement allows flights of multiple airlines companies from both countries. Under the new agreement, Turkish carriers will be able to start flights to two new destinations, Bali and another spot later to be announced, in addition to Indonesian capital of Jakarta.

Indonesian airlines companies will also be able to fly to Ankara and Antalya along with existing destination of Istanbul.

Moreover, the number of weekly scheduled flights between the two countries rose from 4 to 14.

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“Not later than in 2012 Garuda will be flying to London, Frankfurt, Rome and Paris,” Minister of State Enterprises Mustafa Abubakar said after a hearing with House`s Commission VI in Jakarta Monday.

Garuda has also signed a cooperation agreement with the producer of Airbus, and with a subsidiary Garuda Maintenance Facility (GMF).

Garuda Indonesia has been offered to buy an 800-seat AirBus 380, which would be very useful to fly haj pilgrims to the holy land, he said.

Mustafa said however, the offer was still being considered comprehensively. (*)

Source: Antara.co.id

PT Garuda Indonesia confirmed that it would equip its aircraft with in-flight information technology facilities in 2011 to improve its service to passengers. Passengers can then communicate through an internet service and also send short text messages.

All new Garuda planes would be equipped with mobile technology and later all Garuda planes will also be given the capability. The technology will allow passengers to communicate using the short text message service (SMS) and operate laptops on board aircraft.

The technology has been developed abroad and does not disrupt the air navigation system. However, it will not include phone calls.

Source: Antara.co.id