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(SMART SUMMARY) Northrop Grumman's X-47B drone may represent "a major qualitative change in the conduct of hostilities" according to the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which reports to the Geneva Conventions.

(SMART SUMMARY) Pilots have begun using small aircraft to smuggle illegal immigrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to inland airports, according to authorities who last week seized a Cessna from a Southern California airport and brought charges against one pilot.

(SUMMARY) Also: NTSB, Cubs, OMB Killing Towers, Atlantis' New Home, Rockwell Collins Optimism, Great Glider Vids, And Traveling Politicians!!! Airborne 01.27.12 is chock full of info about the week ending Friday, January 27th, 2012... Presented by Aero-TV...

(SUMMARY) Bipartisan Effort To Remind President Obama Of Benefits Of BizAv Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (R) and New Hampshire Governor John Lynch (D) have written to President Obama asking for his support for all of general aviation, including business...

(SUMMARY) Flight Appeared To Be Routine From Witness Reports, ATC Transcripts The NTSB's preliminary report for an accident involving an L39 Albatros indicates the flight appeared to be fairly routine. The pilot, who according to media reports was qualified...

(SUMMARY) Agreement Covers 6,700 Mainline FAs US Airways and the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) said Friday that they have reached a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement. AFA represents the airline's 6,700 mainline flight...

(SUMMARY) Tells Space Coast He Accepts 'Grandiose' label Certain places in America seem to trigger pandering by politicians more than others. In 2008, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney promised a crowd in Detroit a $20 billion bailout for the domestic...

(SUMMARY) Two Locked In A Legal Struggle Over Blended Winglet Design When Joe Clark and his business associates founded Aviation Partners, Inc. (API) in 1991, he had no idea that he'd be locked in a legal battle with European government-backed aviation giant...

(SUMMARY) NTSB Says Both Chose To Fly Into Dangerous Weather It's likely that medical helicopter transport will always remain a dark corner in accident statistics. A no-go call on these missions risks a patient death, and the calling of a helicopter usually...

(SUMMARY) "The proposal imposes Congressionally-mandated standards for union representation elections and oversight that have always been up to independent federal labor authorities to decide." Source: Sito Pantoja, General Vice President of Transportation for...

(SUMMARY) Calls The Compromise 'Crippling' To Labor Organizations As was to be expected, not everyone is happy with the compromise worked out between House and Senate leaders to move a long-term FAA funding bill forward in congress. Sito Pantoja, General Vice...

(SUMMARY) Letter Promises 'Appropriate Action' Against EU Should The Press Forward The NBAA is among the organizations applauding a strongly-worded letter from two high-ranking U.S. government officials to European Union President Jose Manuel Barroso, warning...

(SUMMARY) Oregon Republican To Question How Frequency Was Allocated With So Many Issues The chair of the House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee plans to hold a hearing to look into the FCC's allocation of spectrum of LightSquared...

(SUMMARY) It's For Real! ANN REALTIME NewsBug Released To ANN Readers, Worldwide For those of you using a windows PC (MAC version in the works... we promise), a new REALTIME News Service from the Aviation World's DAILY News Service, the Aero-News Network...

(SUMMARY) F86 Sabre Pilots Association An international association with members representing 7 countries. The stated goals of the association are to perpetuate the history of the F-86 Sabre.