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 | SpaceX Assembles New Rocket for Launch Debut. |
 Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) met its goal of having its first Falcon 9 rocket in place and fully integrated at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by the end of 2008. The Hawthorne, Calif.-based company mated the rocket’s 17-foot (5.2-meter) payload fairing to the Falcon 9 first stage by Dec. 30, completing integration a day earlier than planned. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Tuesday, January 06 @ 22:06:32 EST (72 reads)
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| Boeing to Sell Eight Reconnaissance Planes to India. |
 Boeing Co., the second-largest U.S. defense company, agreed to sell eight P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine planes to India’s navy, marking the company’s first military sale to the country. The P-8I is a variant of the P-8A Poseidon that Boeing is developing for the U.S. Navy and India is the first international customer for the aircraft, the Chicago-based company said today in a statement. Boeing declined to provide the contract’s value at the request of India. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Tuesday, January 06 @ 22:06:09 EST (78 reads)
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| Air Security Could Involve Private Jets. |
 One of the biggest convenience’s of private aviation is the speed with which passengers can get on the plane and off the ground. But that may be about to change. The Department of Homeland Security is proposing to extend to private aviation many of the security rules imposed on commercial airlines. Those include requiring fingerprint-based background checks on pilots, checking passenger names against a government watch list and restricting what items may be carried onto the airplane. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Tuesday, January 06 @ 22:05:35 EST (72 reads)
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| JetBlue, TSA Workers Settle in T-Shirt Case. |
 JetBlue Airways and two officials with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration have paid $240,000 to settle charges that they illegally discriminated against an Iraqi-born U.S. resident who was barred from a flight until he covered his T-shirt, which carried an Arabic phrase, his attorneys announced yesterday. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Tuesday, January 06 @ 22:05:09 EST (83 reads)
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| First Hearing Today on Ill-Advised TSA Proposal. |
 The first of five public hearings on the Transportation Security Administration’s proposed Large Aircraft Security Program (LASP) was held this morning in White Plains, N.Y., at the Winchester County Airport. Representatives of EAA and the Warbirds of America are on hand and will report on the proceedings. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Tuesday, January 06 @ 22:04:13 EST (61 reads)
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| NASA Forecasts Impact of Severe Space Weather on Communications, Power Grids. |
 coondoggie writes "It’s not Armageddon but a NASA-funded study is showing some of the first clear economic data that quantifies the risk extreme weather conditions in space have on communications and power grids on Earth. Full Story."
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Posted by gil on Tuesday, January 06 @ 13:07:40 EST (93 reads)
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| Airlines Sue FAA Over Crew Rest Rules. |
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Several of the nation’s largest airlines have joined in a lawsuit to block stronger federal rules on crew rest during the longest international flights. The airlines say that the Federal Aviation Administration bypassed usual rule-making procedures and denied them the right to comment before it notified American Airlines and Continental Airlines Inc. of the new rules in late October. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Monday, January 05 @ 15:27:23 EST (251 reads)
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| Indian Airline Sacks Overweight Stewardesses. |
 NEW DELHI (AFP): India’s state-run carrier Air India has dismissed 10 women flight attendants who were grounded last year for being overweight, a report said Monday. The sackings came after the cabin crew were warned about meeting minimum physical fitness standards and given sufficient time to lose weight, the Press Trust of India news agency reported quoting airline sources. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Monday, January 05 @ 15:26:41 EST (190 reads)
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| 8 Die in U.S. Oilfield Services Helicopter Crash. |
 HOUSTON (Reuters): Eight people died and one was injured in Sunday’s crash in Louisiana of a helicopter carrying oilfield workers, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The crash about 75 miles (121 km) southwest of New Orleans, involved an aircraft operated by Petroleum Helicopters Inc (PHII.O) of Lafayette, Louisiana, a news release said. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Monday, January 05 @ 15:26:18 EST (175 reads)
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| One Hundred Miles per Gallon. |
 Klaus Savier has altered his Vari-EZ and its Continental 0-200 engine by adding computerized fuel injection and ignition systems of his own design. He typically flies at 190 KTAS while getting a Prius-like 50 miles per gallon. If he slows to extend range, Savier’s mileage approaches 100 miles per gallon. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Friday, January 02 @ 15:28:07 EST (530 reads)
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| Tell TSA What Large Aircraft Security Program Means to You. |
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The Transportation Security Administration wants to impose new security regulations that would treat larger general aviation aircraft just like the airlines, and AOPA members are urged to file comments telling the TSA how the rules would affect them. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Friday, January 02 @ 15:27:18 EST (285 reads)
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| Future of Commercial Spaceflight Uncertain, But Promising. |
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This year closed with a volley of seemingly hopeful signs for what’s termed by some as "NewSpace," an entrepreneurial spaceflight trajectory markedly different than NASA and its cabal of mainstream aerospace contractors. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Friday, January 02 @ 15:18:42 EST (156 reads)
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| Serial Production of JF-17 Aircraft to Start Soon. |
 ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) would soon start serial production of JF-17 Thunder in collaboration with China, Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Defence Production was informed on Thursday. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Friday, January 02 @ 15:18:09 EST (311 reads)
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| Carrying Gunpowder Through Airport Security. |
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by Rhona Mahony. December 5, I brought five ounces (140 grams) of old-fashioned black gunpowder to San Francisco airport. I also brought along a boarding pass for United flight 720 to Denver that I had created at home, in an computer art program. TSA agents accepted the boarding pass. They also took no notice at all of the gunpowder. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Monday, December 29 @ 16:46:26 EST (627 reads)
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| Lockheed Martin Rolls Out F-35 CTOL. |
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FORT WORTH, Texas (UPI): U.S. company Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) announced the first of a new F-35 Lightning II aircraft redesigned under a weight-saving program will begin testing. Lockheed Martin says its first weight-optimized conventional takeoff and landing variant of the F-35 aircraft, an exact copy of what is expected to be delivered to the U.S. Air Force, has been rolled out to undergo testing. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Monday, December 29 @ 14:09:52 EST (525 reads)
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| Light Plane Crashes Claim 36. |
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FATALITIES from light plane crashes were 50 per cent higher this year than last, and 12 people died in the past three months alone, figures from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau show. A NSW farmer became the 36th person to die this year in a light plane accident when his cropduster crashed about midday yesterday at a property near Nyngan. Last year 23 people died in light plane incidents. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Monday, December 29 @ 14:09:26 EST (541 reads)
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| Japan Likely to Drop Plan to Buy F-22 Fighters. |
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Tokyo: Japan is likely to drop its attempts to buy state-of-the-art US F-22 Raptor stealth fighter planes since it expects the United States to stop producing them, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The Japanese government had been trying to persuade the United States to sell it F-22 Raptors to replace its own aging F-15 fleet, despite Washington’s reluctance. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Monday, December 29 @ 14:08:53 EST (672 reads)
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| The Quest for the 300-m.p.h. Helicopter. |
 This year marked the passing of Frank Piasecki, one of the pioneers of rotary aircraft. Piasecki was perhaps best known as the man who successfully developed the first tandem-rotor helicopter, paving the way for long-serving military aircraft like the CH-47 Chinook and the CH-46 Sea Knight. Full Story.
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Posted by gil on Saturday, December 27 @ 17:20:53 EST (461 reads)
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