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"Sorry, Goose, It's Time to Buzz the Tower"  
3/11/2010 4:07 PM     Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) Commander Eric Mitchell takes a test hop, with graduate Bret Davenport as wingman. Photo: Liz Goettee/ Navy Photo Lab The 31 members of Class 136, U.S. Navy Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland, which graduated last December, pitched in on a deluxe jet plane kiddie ride, wearing Test...


(SMART SUMMARY) The FAA says there will be 50,000 more GA airplanes and 52,000 more active pilots 20 years from now.


Airline Saves Guitar  
3/11/2010 6:10 AM     Read   Share  
(SMART SUMMARY) A Canadian man says an extraordinarily generous charter airline not only saved the holidays of 900 stranded tourists, it also delivered his prized Takamine D Series guitar home after it went astray in the confusion.


WASP Receive Congressional Gold Medal  
3/11/2010 2:09 AM     Read   Share  
(SMART SUMMARY) Wednesday, March 10, 2010, roughly 300 former Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) attended a ceremony on Capitol Hill to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for service to their country during World War II.


(SMART SUMMARY) The Department of Transportation's new rule limiting the time passengers can be held on closed aircraft away from the gate goes into effect April 29, but Delta and JetBlue think construction at JFK may give them good reason to be excused from potential fines.


(SUMMARY) EFD1000H Available For Installation In Bell 206, 407 Aircraft Aspen Avionics announced the approval of a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for installation of the Aspen EFD1000H into the Bell 206 and Bell 407 model helicopters on Tuesday. This STC was developed in partnership with Keystone Helicop...


(SUMMARY) Entered An Airport Secure Area To Kiss His Girlfriend Goodbye A New Jersey man who ducked under a security rope at Newark Liberty Airport to give his girlfriend a goodbye kiss has pleaded guilty to defiant trespass. 28-year-old Haisong Jiang will be fined $500, plus $158 in court costs, and will be...


(SUMMARY) Can Now Reach International Customers More Quickly With On-Site Airworthiness Approvals Mid-Continent Instruments - West's Chief Inspector Bryan Miner has been named the latest member of the company's Organizational Designation Authorization (ODA). The move gives the company the capability to reach...


(SUMMARY) FAA OK's Higher Weight Limits Four months after getting approval from the Scottsdale City Council, the FAA agreed on February 4th to allow some of the largest business jets to take on enough fuel at Scottsdale to fly nonstop to Europe or Asia ... but so far none has....


(SUMMARY) List Now Numbers Near 6,000 People The No-Fly list ... one of the federal government's best-known counterterrorism tools, has nearly doubled in size since Farouk Abdulmuttalab allegedly attempted to bring down a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas day last year....


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