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(SUMMARY) Spent More Than 1,400 Hours In Space Over Three Decades Jerry Ross, the first person to launch into space seven times, has retired from NASA. In a career that spanned more than three decades, Ross spent almost 1,400 hours in space and conducted nine...

(SUMMARY) Eurocopter s X3 (Photo: Patrick Penna) Helicopter speeds have traditionally been limited by a phenomenon called retreating blade stall, which describes what happens to the main rotor at high speed. The relative wind on the retreating blade is reduced...

(SMART SUMMARY) >>> AVWEB FUEL FINDERCURRENT PRICE FOR 100LL: $5.74 (up 2¢ from last week)CURRENT PRICE FOR JET A: $5.51 (up 3¢ from last week)Fuel prices provided weekly by AirNav, based on prices from the past 2 weeks.

(SMART SUMMARY) Heard this at John Wayne Airport recently. The airliners often like to take off from runway 1L if the wind is within their take-off limits to save fuel.United...

(SMART SUMMARY) "He is an accomplished pilot and a highly regarded and experienced marketing communications professional who understands our customers and can offer them valuable insights and creative solutions to meet their promotional needs."

(SMART SUMMARY) The practice has become a common sales tool (Google "aerial real estate photography") that occupies a gray area of airspace regulations in light of the low cost of increasingly capable and widely available remote-control aircraft.

(SMART SUMMARY) There's an airport where the symbol of inner peace and outer calm reigns and it's not in one of those little holding cages on the wrong side of the security lineup.

(SMART SUMMARY) Textron CEO Scott Donnelly says there are no plans to resurrect the Cessna Columbus wide-cabin business jet project even though big jets are selling well and the small-to-medium-sized business jet sector has struggled.

(SUMMARY) Friend Of "Aviation Criminal" Site Gets Turned In, Anonymously, For Alleged Medical Ailment News/Analysis by ANN Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell ANN is monitoring the complex and bewildering plight of an airman in California who was turned into the FAA...

(SUMMARY) Company Also Names Other Key Executive Positions Republic Airways announced Thursday that David Siegel will join the Company as CEO, President, and interim Chief Operating Officer of Frontier Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways...

(SUMMARY) "I think this story is very important and should be questioned and told. The FAA must, in no way, take an anonymous phone call and turn it into an inquisition on the pilot. A simple inquiry would have been the best first contact. The pilot is guilty...

(SUMMARY) Danish Aerotech Would Service Seahawk Helos For The Royal Danish Navy A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed Monday between Danish Aerotech A/S and Sikorsky to discuss the possibility of establishing a maritime helicopter logistic support...

(SUMMARY) Just In Time For Delays Caused By Runway Construction Pardon the California stereotype, but we didn't make this up. Four years of runway construction at San Francisco International Airport is coincidentally getting underway just as a new "Zen Room"...

(SUMMARY) Tom Enders To Take Over As CEO Following Louis Gallois The EADS Board of Directors has met Thursday for one of its regularly scheduled meetings in Amsterdam. During this meeting, it was determined that Tom Enders would be designated to take over the...

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