28 Wednesday, September 9, 2015 1,000 flights, 140,000 passengers to be affected LUFTHANSA CANCELS FLIGHTS Frankfurt early yesterday into a second day loss of earnings a first strike had in the French Alps. Lufthansa erman airline Lufthansa has today. caused back in April 2014, when complained that it was announced it will cancel Out of a total 1,520 Lufthansa the wage agreement with pilots “currently not possible to hold G1,000 short- and medium-term flights that should have flown at the time was still in force. constructive negotiations” with flights in and out of Germany today, only just over 500 would In the past 18 months, pilots the union. today, on the second day of a go ahead, the carrier said. have staged repeated walkouts, Union and management two-day walkout by its pilots. Only Lufthansa services but suspended industrial have been locked in a bitter At the same time, the would be hit, while flights by carrier said yesterday it had the group’s other airlines, filed a court injunction in a Germanwings, Swiss, Austrian The carrier said it apologised bid to prevent the industrial Airlines and Brussels Airlines to passengers for any action - the 13th walkout in would operate normally. 18 months - as the company The carrier said it apologised inconvenience caused and struggles to end a long-running to passengers for any dispute over early retirement inconvenience caused and added Lufthansa has cancelled flights due to a pilots’ strike added they would be able to provisions. they would be able to rebook rebook their flights free of “One thousand Lufthansa their flights free of charge. long-haul flights, and but there court in Frankfurt to prevent flights are cancelled, Passengers on domestic, would also be knock-on effects the extension, arguing it was charge 140,000 passengers will be inner-Germany flights would again today, meaning that 52 illegal. affected,” Lufthansa said in be able to swap their tickets for of the scheduled 176 long-haul At the same time, a statement after the pilots’ a ticket on the German national flights would be grounded, management upped the ante, action in March in the wake dispute since April 2014 over union, Vereinigung Cockpit railway, Deutsche Bahn. Lufthansa said. announcing it would seek of the horrific crash of a jet management plans to change (VC), announced that it was The first day of the walkout Lufthansa filed an damages of 60 million euros belonging to Lufthansa’s low- the pilots’ early retirement extending a strike that began yesterday had affected only injunction with the labour ($67m) from Cockpit for the cost subsidiary Germanwings arrangements. Egypt in ‘major operation’ Coalition raids pound Yemen rebels in Sinai, 56 militants killed Sanaa Medical officials said at least Cairo IS’s Egyptian affiliate said audi-led air raids on rebels seven “civilians” and three gypt’s army said yesterday it killed the two soldiers with in Yemen killed at least 31 guards of leading Huthi officer it had launched a “major a roadside bomb that targeted Speople yesterday, officials said, Khaled al Anduli were killed in militaryE operation” against the their vehicle as it left a military as the coalition intensified its the overnight strikes. Islamic State group in the Sinai base with a large convoy. attacks in the wake of a deadly Peninsula, killing 56 jihadists The government says strike. At least twenty Indian and losing two soldiers. hundreds of police and soldiers At least 10 people were nationals killed in Yemen The army said it launched have been killed, many of killed in Sanaa, where coalition the operation on Monday them in attacks claimed by IS’s warplanes targeted the police Sanaa morning to “eliminate Sinai Province affiliate. academy and the headquarters At least 20 Indian nation- terrorist elements” around the The operation came days of the security services, both in als were killed by Saudi- North Sinai towns of Rafah, after the Sinai Province the heart of the rebel-controlled led coalition air strikes on Sheikh Zuweid and El Arish. released a video documenting capital, witnesses said. It said in an initial statement its attacks on the military in Smoke billows from buildings after reported air-strikes by the fuel smugglers at Yemen’s And at least another 21 were that 29 jihadists were killed in Sinai, including footage of a Saudi-led coalition Hodeidah port yesterday, killed in a wave of air strikes Monday’s fighting. An army wire-guided missile strike that residents and fishermen in the evening in Bayhan, a Yesterday, plumes of their targets with precision”, said officer and a soldier were also destroyed a navy vessel. town south of Marea where 60 smoke rose from the security the UAE’s official WAM news said. killed, and four wounded, Six peacekeepers, coalition soldiers died in the headquarters in Sanaa while agency. They said two boats were when their vehicle was blown including four Americans, missile attack by the Shia Huthi flying glass caused by blasts The rebel-controlled hit in the attack on an up by a bomb. with a multinational force rebels on Friday. wounded many people near the sabanews.net website reported area called al Khokha near A subsequent statement monitoring Egypt’s peace Overnight strikes also targeted police academy, others said. 15 dead and 77 wounded in Hodeidah port. said another 27 jihadists had treaty with Israel were the Sanaa residences of Huthi Emirati aircraft took part yesterday’s raids on the Yemeni been killed and 154 arrested wounded in two roadside leaders, witnesses said. in the raids on Sanaa, “hitting capital. yesterday. bombings last week.

Secret Treasures Hitler made weapons of the future during WWII

Berlin bomb. The was of 600mph. First flown in and attack heavy vehicles itler’s Nazi engineers radio guided and carried over 1944, the Horten Ho 229 was and fortifications. This Nazi made technological 700lbs of explosives. the world’s premiere stealth innovation paved the way Hdevelopments, which were It was capable of hitting aircraft, equipped with twin for today’s radio-controlled innovative and far ahead of strongly protected targets turbojet engines, two cannons, weapons. their time, manufacturing such as battleships and heavy and rockets. The Messerschmitt Me 163 weapons such as sonic cruisers. The Nazis allocated half Komet, a rocket-powered jet cannons, x-ray guns and land It could penetrate 28in of a million Reich Marks to with speeds of up to 700mph, cruisers. armour and could be deployed manufacturing the plane, was the fastest jet in the War by The magazine Weapons of from 20,000ft, meaning it could which has inspired modern a difference of over 250mph. WWII has exhibited some of be out of reach for antiaircraft stealth aircrafts such as The plane’s immense Hitler’s secret Nazi weapons in equipment at the time. the Northrop Gruman B-2 speed was so far ahead of its its Autumn 2015 issue. The “flying wing” bomber bomber. competitors, in fact, that it was The Fritz X, one of Hitler’s was designed to carry 2,000lbs The miniature tanks could fast enough to avoid Allied most secret bombs, is of armaments while flying at carry between 133 and 220lbs gunners but it was too fast to widely considered to be the 49,000ft above ground level of high explosives and were hit Allied aircraft. Horten Ho 229 bomber, pictured at The Smithsonian, was one grandfather of today’s smart and travelling at speeds north used to navigate minefields (The Independent) of Hitler’s most deadly weapons