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(SUMMARY) Agency Continues To Find New Planets And 'Planet Objects', But None In The Habitable Zone NASA says its Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified...

(SUMMARY) Exchange Income Corporation Adds Helo Service To A Growing Aviation Portfolio Exchange Income Corporation has signed a letter of intent to acquire the operations and assets of Custom Helicopters, a privately-owned provider of helicopter-based...

(SUMMARY) Winner To Receive Award At EBACE 2012 In May The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) and European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), the co-organizers of the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE), are calling for...

(SUMMARY) Cargo Carrier Has Options For Five Additional Aircraft The delivery of the first of five new Boeing 747-8 Freighters to AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), part of Volga-Dnepr Group was made Thursday. "The introduction of the Boeing 747-8F represents a...

(SUMMARY) First Aircraft With The Intercom Flying For Mississippi National Guard Becker Avionics' Digital Voice Communication System (DVCS 6100) is being included in the avionics package on the U.S. Army's new UH-72A Lakota Mission Equipment Package (MEP)...

(SUMMARY) A330 Production Hits An All Time High Airbus says it has firmed up its largest-ever Latin-American order, while it continues to increase production of its A330 airliner.

(SUMMARY) Units Conducting Four Weeks Of Operational Analysis Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 1 combined forces with Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 120 to bring a joint detachment to Naval Air Station Jacksonville Jan. 16, to help meet its...

(SUMMARY) Helicopter Substantially Damaged, But No One Was Injured Cold weather flight testing on a Polish-registered PZL Swidnik SW-4 helicopter resulted in an accident but fortunately no injuries. The testing proceeded to plan, but developed problems with...

(SUMMARY) BTS Reports 12th Consecutive Increase In Airline FTEs U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.6 percent more workers in November 2011 than they did in November 2010, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics...

(SUMMARY) "Valuable parts and components were identified, removed and tagged for our inventory; the client was happy, the job site was clean, and our relationship with Precision solidified... We expect to generate more business from Fort Lauderdale Executive...

(SUMMARY) Aero Linx: History of the Helicopter -- Igor Sikorsky And Other Early Pioneers During the mid 1500's, Italian inventor Leonardo Da Vinci made drawings of an ornithopter flying machine that some experts say inspired the modern day helicopter. In 1784,...

(SUMMARY) Translational Lift The additional lift obtained through airspeed because of increased efficiency of the rotor system, whether it be when transitioning from a hover into horizontal flight or when hovering in a wind.

(SUMMARY) Parts And Systems From A Lear Jet 24 Will Find New Life Following Salvage No one likes to think about where old jets go to die, but even airplanes sometimes need to be ... recycled ... for lack of a better term. Such a process was recenly completed...

(SUMMARY) Nationwide Robotics Competition Brings Together Young Aerospace Engineers On Earth Twenty seven teams of high school students from across the United States competed in the Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge which took place at MIT in Cambridge, MA and...

(SUMMARY) Early Start Predicted For The 2012 Wildland Fire Season Neptune Aviation is gearing up for the 2012 fire season through an accelerated maintenance and training program, given predictions of earlier than normal wildland fire out-breaks--particularly...