Daily Archives: 10 May 2012

Accident in Indonesia: found the wreck of the SuperJet 100

Found the SuperJet 100 with about 50 passengers on board.

The aircraft, has learned from military items, was found south of Jakarta in a mountainous region. It is not known when the number of survivors.

Il relitto è stato identificato da un elicottero Super Puma che ha ritrovato alcuni resti ad alta quota vicino al vulcano Salak, in an area easily accessible on foot (It takes several hours to walk).

Is not the first time that an aircraft loses control in that area. According to local media in recent 10 age, right in the area of ​​Jakarta, There have been several accidents due to the number and variability of the turbulence time.

Super Lands: a revolution by NASA

Here's some news that all expected: NASA for the first time failed to see a rocky extrasolar planet, The super-Earth 55 Cancers and.

The planet, discovered in 2004, is located in the constellation of the Crab, a 41 light years away, and is part of a system of 5 planets orbiting the star 55 Cancri.

The peculiarity of this planet is passing very close to its sun (about 26 times closer than Mercury). Astronomers pointed the infrared telescope on the star 55 Cancer for about six hours, waiting for the transit of the planet. At the passage of the planet was a slight drop in energy, ie the radiation characteristic of 55 Cancers and.

Capture solar radiation of a planet is now common for gas giants. This time, but, talk about a rocky body, and much harder to find. "Isolate the heat emitted by 55 cancers and that of its star is like that of picking up a single candle between 10 thousand other ", has in fact commented Brice-Olivier Demory, postdoc at the Department Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences del Mit. Thanks to this study, Researchers have already managed to precisely calculate the average temperature of super-Earth, of over 2 thousand degrees.

Airports: when the name does not make the monaco

aeroportoThe new airport Paris-Vatry Disney is about 150 kilometers from Paris. The airport of Pisa is however only 2 km from center.

Parigi-Vatry Disney è l’ultimo tra gli aeroporti ‘ambigui’ to be added to the list of destinations Ryanair, but the flight comparison website Skyscanner.it reveals that a stop French is far from the only airport among the so called more or less misleading.

Including both in the name Paris that Disney, travelers expect that the airport is in the vicinity of the capital or Euro Disney, but not quite so. The airport is, in fact, almost 150 kilometers from Paris and more than 110 kilometers from the famous kingdom of fun. A new record among the most misleading names of the airports.

Molte compagnie low cost utilizzano aeroporti ‘secondari’ to take advantage of lower operating costs compared to more central airports, factor that allows them to offer low-cost flights. However, Some airports have attracted attention because of the misleading name, given the fact that in some cases there are several miles away from the city who claim to serve.

The airport of Monaco, Memmingen, is located in 70 km from the center of Monaco of Bavaria, and Oslo Torp is 68 km from the center of Oslo and the new base for easyJet, London Southend, is more than 60 kilometers from the city center, the same distance applies to London Stansted.

Among the Italian airports, the most distant from the one that tells their names are those of Verona-Brescia and Milan Malpensa, both about 50 kilometers from the center of the city. Improved the situation with regard to the proximity, Pisa, for example, is practically reached by two steps! I'm not at all distant from the center also Bologna which is 7km, Linate Airport and Ciampino, respectively 10 and 14 km.

"According to their final destination, Regional airports can be very convenient, but travelers who want to reach the city center should take into account the resulting time and cost of transport, comparing everything with a more central airport ", Catherine said Toniolo, Country manager di Skyscanner per l’Italia.

"If you fly to an airport called Paris, We expect that this is somewhere near Paris, but according to 150 kilometers from the city is definitely not to be considered in the neighborhood. It would be like to fly to Milan and fly to Verona!".