The 38th AEI Annual Congress will this year kindly be hosted by the German Affiliates:
Vereinigung Luftfahrt e.V and Berufsverband Prufer von Luftfahrtgerat e.V.
 
Congress will take place in Hamburg, Germany from 22nd to 25th of September 2010.

Find the invitation on the next page, and detailed programme and list of guest speakers will be announced shortly.

A United 757 en route from New York to Los Angeles Monday made an emergency landing at Dulles following a cockpit fire that may have been more serious than initially reported. Passengers told the Associated Press Monday afternoon that shortly after take off, they smelled smoke and a flight crew member opened the cockpit door requesting a fire extinguisher. The passenger told the AP that open flames were visible and at least one windshield was cracked.

Shifting winds gave North America a taste of what Europeans have been enduring for five days as volcanic ash reached the easternmost point of the continent, canceling flights from the Newfoundland and Labrador capital of St. John's. At least nine flights were cancelled in a precautionary move by airlines.

AMFA National Director Louie Key and Assistant National Director Floyd Looney attended a ceremony commemorating Charles E. Taylor at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs on March 2, 2010. Ken MacTiernan, Director of the Aircraft Maintenance Technicians Association (AMTA), sponsored the presentation of a bust of Charles E. Taylor, the Wright Brother’s mechanic, for display in the Academy’s library. 
 

Information to all AEI affiliates and other interested parties about the ongoing Industrial dispute between the Union of Icelandic Aircraft Maintenance Technicians (FVFI) and Icelandair.