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Feb 01 Wed

Website Aims To Rally Support For American Airlines Workers

(SUMMARY) Transport Workers Union Launches Site As Lobbying Tool Representatives of the Transport Workers Union, Local 514, have launched a website it hopes will rally support for unionized American Airlines workers by emphasizing how jobs could be affected by...
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Feb 01 Wed

Prop Strike Claims Life In California

(SUMMARY) Victim Was Hand-Propping 1974 Cherokee A resident of Lakeside, California was reportedly killed when the propeller of a Piper PA-28R-200 he was hand-propping struck him in the head at Gillespie Field in El Cajon. The accident happened Monday at about...
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Feb 01 Wed

Former Southwest CEO Speaks At Naval Academy Leadership Conference

(SUMMARY) Tells Attendees 'Turbulence Is Inevitable, But Misery Is Optional' Howard Putnam, former CEO of Southwest and Braniff Airlines, presented his views on leadership Tuesdays as the keynote speaker for the second day of the Naval Academy Leadership...
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Feb 01 Wed

100LL Lawsuit Called 'Legal Abuse' By NATA

(SUMMARY) Coyne Warns GA Threatened In California At a time when deficit spending and a business exodus in California threatens the state with a fiscal crisis next month, aviation business advocates are warning a lawsuit against the leaded avgas supply chain...
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Feb 01 Wed

AMR Under Federal Pressure Over Pensions

(SUMMARY) PBGC Files $91 Million In Liens Against The Airline As part of it bankruptcy reorganization strategy, AMR corp has discussed the possibility of shedding its pension obligations to bring the company back to solvency. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp....
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Feb 01 Wed

Aviation Unites To Challenge EASA Fees

(SUMMARY) Letter Sent To EASA Board Of Management "Expressing Concern" Over GA Fee Structure The entire aviation world has mounted a concerted challenge to EASA over its scale of fees and charges, which are characterised as inexplicably high and are acting as...
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Feb 01 Wed

Flight Training Adelaide Orders DA40 Fleet

(SUMMARY) Agreement Is For As Many As 26 Of The Aircraft Flight Training Adelaide (FTA) has contracted with Diamond Aircraft, in conjunction with their Australian distributor Hawker Pacific, for the purchase of up to 26 DA40 aircraft, to be based at Parafield,...
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Feb 01 Wed

Universal Avionics Partners With ATI To Provide FANS Training

(SUMMARY) New Datalink System Interfaces Between Pilot And ATC Universal Avionics Systems Corporation has partnered with Air Training International Ltd. (ATI) to provide Future Air Navigation System (FANS) operational training for UniLink UL-800/801 Airborne...
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Jan 31 Tue

I Won... No, I Won: Bell, Eurocopter Disagree On Canadian Federal Court Ruling

(SUMMARY) Both Companies Say Court Ruled In Their Favor In Landing Skid Dispute Bell Helicopter and Eurocopter have very different interpretations of a Canadian Federal Court's ruling over a patent infringement case brought by Eurocopter. The two companies...
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Jan 31 Tue

New Book Goes Beyond Stick And Rudder Skills For Tailwheel Pilots

(SUMMARY) 'Flying The Tail Wheel Airplane' A Detailed Course In Conventional Gear Flying Whether its the low, slow flight of a Cub or Champ, or the high-performance of a P-51, flying an airplane with conventional gear requires a different skill set. A new book...
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Jan 31 Tue

Flight Crews Now Qualify For Family Medical Leave

(SUMMARY) Had Not Previously Been Included Under The Provisions Of The Law Nearly two decades after the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was signed into law, Flight Attendants and other flight crews have been granted the same access to coverage that has long...
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Jan 31 Tue

Aero-TV: Loading An Approach -- Discovering Avidyne's DFC100 (Part 1)

(SUMMARY) Avidyne's R9: So Simple, Even A Pilot In IMC Can Do It! So... a few months ago, we had the chance to sit back in awe at the expertise already displayed by one of the Avidyne R9 glass panel's most passionate advocates... and users. There are few more...
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Jan 31 Tue

Legendary Astronaut Shannon Lucid Retires From NASA

(SUMMARY) Veteran Of Five Spaceflights Logged 223 Days In Space Shannon Lucid, a member of NASA's first astronaut class to include women, has retired after more than three decades of service to the agency. A veteran of five spaceflights, Lucid logged more than...
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Jan 31 Tue

Wichita Aero Club Trophy For 2011 Presented To Jeff Turner

(SUMMARY) Kansas Fourth District Congressman Mike Pompeo Presents Award To Spirit AeroSystems CEO At Annual Gala Kansas Fourth District Congressman Mike Pompeo and officials of the Wichita Aero Club presented the organization's second WAC Trophy Saturday to...
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Jan 31 Tue

AD: Bombardier, Inc. Airplanes

(SUMMARY) AD NUMBER: 2012-02-12 PRODUCT: Certain Bombardier, Inc. Model DHC-8-400, -401, and -402 airplanes
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