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• Aviation Nation 2009 – Sunday – Picture(s) A Day 15 November 2009 – Part II

  
  Parrothead Jeff — Authority: 436
  As I said before, I had to cut this post into two parts.  So here’s part two for my readers to enjoy 15 November 2009 - PV-2 Harpoon 15 November 2009 - Nose art on PV-2 Harpoon 15 November 2009 - Rear gun on PV-2 Harpoon 15 November 2009 - Rear gun on PV-2 Harpoon These pics of the PV-2 ...
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• Aviation Nation 2009 – Sunday – Picture(s) A Day 15 November 2009 – Part I

  
  Parrothead Jeff — Authority: 436
  Yes, it was another wonderful day at Nellis Air Force Base and I’m again paying the price   I got to sleep last night very late and didn’t wake up this morning until about 1130 hours.  Yes, I knew this would be a heck of a weekend, so I took today off from work with a well thought out vacation request   ...
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• Helicopter Pilot Training – Be A Helicopter Pilot Quickly

  
  Romantic Travel — Authority: 448
  Becoming a Private Pilot is certainly an adventure but becoming a Helicopter Pilot is intriguing as well as exciting. In the case of this particular venture, you can make a career out of flying. Of course, it will entail professional training for flying and in particular the type of aircraft, you will be doing this ...
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• An Air-Traffic Upgrade to Improve Travel by Plane

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  TECHNOLOGY A computer specialist, Deepak Chauhan, with an onboard GPS navigation system for aircraft.
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• GOL airline joins Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 542
  Latin Americas GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA has joined the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group (SAFUG), which unites airlines and technology providers in a joint drive to accelerate the develo read more
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• Not as scary as today would have been

  
  The Daily Parker — Authority: 130
  Reader EB has passed along Travel & Leisures " WorldsScariest Runways ," including one of my favorites, PrincessJuliana Airport in Sint Maarten: Why It’s Harrowing : The length of the runway—just 2,180m —is perfectly fine for small or medium-size jets, but as the second-busiestairport in the Eastern ...
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• Space shuttle Atlantis blasts off

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  Cape Canaveral (Florida), Nov 17 (DPA) The space shuttle Atlantis thundered into the sky over Kennedy Space Centre Monday carrying six crew members on a mission to the International Space Station.The mission is part of the US space agency’s efforts to stock up the ISS reserves as the shuttle programme enters its ...
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• Airlines cut back on North Atlantic routes

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 176
  Airlines cut back on North Atlantic routes 16 November 2009 The decline in flights scheduled for key transatlantic routes between Europe and North America has been highlighted in a new report. Airlines have scheduled an eight per cent drop in capacity on the lucrative North Atlantic for this month against ...
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• BA cabin crew strike ballot starts

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 176
  BA cabin crew strike ballot starts 16 November 2009 Ballot papers have been issued to more than 12,000 British Airways cabin crew the day the carrier imposes cost cutting changes to working practices from today (Monday). The ballot for industrial action will close on December 14 the same day as the next mass ...
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• Carbon Trading in Aviation: Birth of a New Market – new report released

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 544
  | Sourced From PR-inside.com | Carbon Trading in Aviation: Birth of a New Market – a new market research report on companiesandmarkets.com www.companiesandmarkets.com/Summary-Market-Report/carbon-trading .. Carbon Trading in Aviation: Birth of a New Market Summary The aviation industry entering the ETS ...
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• Salem Airport in Service After 13 Years

  
  Stock Watch - Stock Specific News — Authority: 489
  On Sunday, Kingfisher kicked off its Chennai-Salem flight, a development which has put the Salem airport, in western Tamil Nadu, into operation after a wait of 13 years. The inaugural flight, with 68 passengers on board, arrived at Salem on Sunday after noon and was received by the State Agriculture Minister Veeapandi ...
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• Seat Pitch Comparison

  
  Principle of Uncertainty — Authority: 118
  source In my post, Firefly vs. AirAsia , I wrote: I hadn’t got a ruler with me, but my feeling is that Firefly’s planes have slightly larger legroom [as compared to AirAsia]. After doing some research over the Web, I finally got the figures for seat pitch of the two airlines. Seat pitch is ...
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• Dubai Air Show brings announcements

  
  Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed — Authority: 556
  As the Dubai Air Show opened on Sunday, Cessna Aircraft and Hawker Beechcraft had a number of announcements. Cessna said the company and its line of aircraft is well-positioned to meet the needs of the Middle East over the coming years. The Middle East has felt the impact of the financial crisis, but will ...
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• EU Presidency candidate Herman Van Rompuy calls for new taxes

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Herman Van Rompuy has called for new ecotaxes on fuel and aviation to fund a more powerful EU.
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• S. 2768: A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the National Transportation Safety Board for fiscal years 2010 through 2014, and for other purposes

  
  Res Communis — Authority: 138
  by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty S. 2768: A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the National Transportation Safety Board for fiscal years 2010 through 2014, and for other purposes was introduced on November 10, 2009 by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND): S 2768 IS 111th ...
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• Vote For Your Favorite Freshmen Video

  
  mtvU — Authority: 595
  The Aviation Orange, Izza Kizza, Lovehatehero, Orianthi, and The Swellers and are all vying for your vote that will get them into video rotation.
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• Airbus ‘Sharklet’ Wingtip Design Reduces Fuel Use 3.5%

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  Airbus is developing new “Sharklet” wingtip devices for its A320 aircraft that are expected to cut fuel burn by 3.5 percent and reduce 730 metric tons of CO2 emissions per plane annually, reports AIN. This also translates into a fuel savings of $220,000 annually per aircraft, according to the article.Air New ...
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• ATF Prices Hiked by 2.4% for Second Time in a Month

  
  Stock Watch - Stock Specific News — Authority: 489
  As confirmed by the company recently, PSU oil major Indian Oil Corp. will, for the second time this month, be increasing Aviation Turbine Fuel prices in Delhi by 2.4%, or Rs. 948 per kilo-liter, taking the new price of 1 kilo-liter to Rs. 40,423. The hike was made official by IOC on Sunday, and has come after a 9% ...
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• Over 1,400 aircraft needed by regional carriers over next 20 years

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 516
  Airliners in the Middle East will need 1,418 passenger planes valued at $243 billion between 2009 and 2028, a report by Airbus’s Global Market Forecast said on Monday. The region’s emerging economies, the growth of budget-carriers and the expansion of cities in commercial hubs, in addition to the region’s ...
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• People With Laser Pointers -- the Real Terrorists?

  
  Asylum — Authority: 732
  Filed under: Gear , Weird News , News , Weird Science On May 21, 2008 in Orange County, Calif., two Boeing airplanes came under attack as they attempted to land at John Wayne Airport. The culprit was a local man named Dana Christian Welch, who used a laser pointer to disrupt the vision of the pilots ... Read ...
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