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• Flying in the Portland area

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 642
  AviationFilter: Is anyone here a private / GA pilot in the Portland, OR area by chance? If so, I have a few questions for you ... Im new to the world of flying but plan to work toward my private pilot license this year, preferably training in a Diamond DA20 or Cessna 172. Do you fly out of one of the airports in ...
  5 hours ago

• FReeper Canteen ~ Its Finally Friday!! ~ 08 January 10

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 178
  ~ It’s Finally Friday!! ~ TIGHT SQUEEZE 100105-N-4236E-028 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Jan. 5, 2010) Aircraft handlers fit aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 7 in the hangar bay of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Dwight D. Eisenhower is on a six-month deployment as a part of the on-going rotation ...
  7 hours ago

• CH-53K Helicopter Program Sustains Progress with Successful Integration Design Review — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  CH-53K Helicopter Program Sustains Progress with Successful Integration Design Review STRATFORD, Conn., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced that an Integration Design Review (IDR) of the CH-53K Heavy Lift Helicopter program has charted a course for a successful Critical Design ...
  8 hours ago

• F-35 program begins vertical flight test process

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 439
    Flight testing of the F-35 Lightning II took a step forward earlier today when test pilot Graham Tomlinson piloted an F-35B on the first of a series of tests that will eventually lead to hovering and vertical landings of the combat jet aircraft. Tomlinson took off from the Navys Patuxent River flight test center ...
  10 hours ago

• Nut-free zone ordered on Air Canada

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  Airline must provide a special ‘buffer zone on aircraft for people who are allergic to nuts, transportation agency rules
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• Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority preliminary report on American Airlines Flight 331 accident in Kingston

  
  Aircrew Buzz — Authority: 419
  by B. N. Sullivan The Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA) has released preliminary information regarding the investigation into the American Airlines Flight 331 accident at Kingston, Jamaica. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-800 (registration N977AN), overran the runway at Kingstons Norman Manley International ...
  11 hours ago

• Patrol Reconnaissance Airplane, Single Float

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 494
  The archives of the San Diego Aerospace Museum has a number of “brochures” of Consolidated Vultee/Convair aircraft projects from well before WWII to just after. Here, for example, is a design for a patrol seaplane/bomber dated 12-2-1944. Note the two jet engines in the wing pylon. This has to be one of the ...
  12 hours ago

• Carrier Alternative Weekly

  
  New Wars — Authority: 487
  Hope is Not a Shipbuilding StrategyHow much like the USN’s own future procurement program, which has been dubbed pure “fantasy” by Congress and naval strategists, is Britain ambitious plans to build her first large deck carrier wings since World War 2. More excellent commentary from Think Defence:As soon as ...
  16 hours ago

• Boeing delivers 481 airplanes in 2009

  
  Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed — Authority: 567
  Boeing delivered 481 commercial airplanes last year, the company said today. That’s up about 28 percent from a year ago, when the a strike delayed production. Boeing has 3,375 commercial airliners in its backlog. The company took 263 gross and 142 net orders for the year as air travel and freight declined and ...
  17 hours ago

• Chapter closes as Boeing finally delivers last of original 747s

  
  Flight Image of the Day — Authority: 436
  Boeing has finally - and quietly - delivered the last of the original 747 family off the line, a -400ER Freighter (MSN 37304). Read more..   (Photo: Matt Cawby)
  19 hours ago

• Return of the Small Carriers

  
  New Wars — Authority: 487
  Capt. Wayne Hughes, USN (ret.) author of the influential work Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat, has released a study online detailing how the Navy might embrace a true Green Water strategy for a new era of conflict at sea. We hope to be discussing portions of this exciting proposal which closely aligns with our own ...
  22 hours ago

• Will the next Underwear Bomber succeed? Posted by Alan M. Dershowitz

  
  The Jerusalem Post BlogCentral — Authority: 141
  My dire New Year prediction is that Islamic terrorists may well succeed this year in blowing up a civilian airliner. They have already twice proved that suicide bombers can get through security. And those are only the successful security bypasses that we know about. Who knows how many other potential terrorists, who ...
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• U.S. drone strikes kill 13 suspected Taliban militants in Pakistan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Miranshah (Pakistan), Jan 7(ANI): At least 13 militants were killed following back-to-back U.S. missile strikes on a Taliban training camp in Sumzalai, Pakistan on Wednesday.According to reports, two of the three missiles fired hit a house in lawless tribal region, 50 kilometers west of Miranshah, at around 4 pm, ...
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• Brazilian government to decide on fighter jets: minister

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 557
  Geneva: Brazils government will decide which company is awarded a seven-billion-dollar contract for 36 high-tech fighter jets, a minister said Wednesday, after the air force backed a different supplier. "The final decision is still political," Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said in Geneva. "Obviously we will study ...
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• Bear vs. plane

  
  Bayou Renaissance Man — Authority: 494
  Theres been a story and some photographs circulating on the Internet for some time about a bear attack on a light aircraft in Alaska. I hesitated to blog about it, because there was no verification of the story - until now. The Alaska Dispatch reports : When bush pilot Luke Miller, 28, made an overnight stop at a ...
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• Slovakian airport security - or the lack thereof . . .

  
  Bayou Renaissance Man — Authority: 494
  There are red faces (and, one hopes, some empty desks) in Slovakia tonight. The Daily Mail reports : A Slovakian man unwittingly carried hidden explosives on board a flight to Dublin after a botched security exercise, Irish officials revealed. A furious Irish Government demanded that Slovakia explain its actions ...
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• France wants to save Airbus military transport project

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 557
  PARIS: France on Wednesday insisted that the building of high-tech Airbus A400M military transport planes must go ahead but Germany looked unwilling to plough more money into the much-delayed project. French Defence Minister Herve Morin said the programme must be completed, responding to a report that the Airbus head ...
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• Damocles XF Targeting Pod with Enhanced Communications and ID Systems

  
  DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News - Forums - Pictures - Weapons — Authority: 557
  NEWTOWN, Conn: Thales is Europes most important player in the targeting pod market with its Damocles multifunction pod for day/night laser-guided weapon capability. Though the Dassault Aviation Rafale is its primary platform, Damocles has been purchased for the Dassault Mirage 2000, Dassault Super Étendard ...
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• AIRCRAFT WALLPAPERS (PART 44)

  
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  Aircraft Wallapers (part 44) 45 St. | 1024x768 | JPEG | 8 MB
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• Report says DOD to delay F-35 purchases to fund development work

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 439
  Bloomberg News reporter Tony Capaccio just filed a story which would seem to indicate that top Pentagon officials have now accepted the idea that Lockheed Martin is way behind schedule on development of the F-35 joint strike fighter and will need more money to finish the work and get airplanes into and through flight ...
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