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• Sea Sitter

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 438
  Bill Sweetman’s Ares Blog at Aviation Week shows an illustration of a seaplane taken from a 2006 paper written by two Lockheed guys and one Boeing guy. The seaplane design is unusual… but not terribly new. Wander over to the Ares blog and take a look… then compare it to the Lockheed Sea Sitter concept from the ...
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• First “naval” JSF lands at NAS Patuxent River

  
  David Cenciotti's weblog - the most visited Italian Aviation Blog — Authority: 420
  During my visit to the USS Nimitz in the Indian Ocean last month, I had the opportunity to see the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets in action. The Super Hornet is a 4.5+ generation naval multirole aircraft that was delivered to the US Navy in 1999 to replace the F-14, the S-3 and, in the long term, the F/A-18C and D ...
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• Prescient commentary on F-35

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 437
  In a column  posted on Huffington Post, Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information, reprises a long ago commentary on the political finagling that led to the Joint Strike Fighter. The August 2000 commentary  (The JSF: One More Card In The House) by ...
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• Bell D-323 Tiltrotor

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 438
  A predecessor to the V-22, the D-323 was quite similar in both design and function. Equipped with four engines rather than two, it still drove two tilt rotors; the tail was a V-tail rather than the V-22’s H-tail. A gun turret was fitted under the nose. The date is uncertain, but probably late 1970’s. Other ...
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• Planes ready to leave Brunswick, Maine Navy base (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 517
  AP – The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station. Go here to see the original: (AP)"> (AP)">Planes ready to leave Brunswick, Maine Navy base (AP)
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• Defence ministry approves purchase of Boeing transport plane

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The defence ministry has in principle approved the purchase of US firm Boeing’s C-17 heavy lift aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF), which is hoping to replace its ageing fleet of Russian IL-76 transport aircraft, an official said Friday.“The IAF had shortlisted the aircraft on the ...
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• Polar bears plummet from the sky in brutal and bloody cinema advert

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 562
  A new TV advert showing polar bears hurtling from the sky and smacking the ground in bloody heaps is expected to generate plenty of controversy for climate change activist group Plane Stupid.According to The Telegraph newspaper, Plane Stupid hopes that the advert, which is to be flighted in UK cinemas from Friday ...
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• Will Ares be part of the flexible path?

  
  Hyperbola — Authority: 511
  No, not that Ares but the Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Surveyor , a 6.71m (22ft) wingspan aircraft that would fly through the Martian atmosphere to study its surface chemistry   credit: NASA / caption: This is a NASA Destination Tomorrow Techwatch video Ares is to be the subject of a NASA Langley ...
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• Pro-Boeing Legislators Want Air Force To Penalize EADS

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 441
  Several Representatives and Senators from states where Boeing (BA) would do much of the work if they won the KC-X tanker contract are pushing the Air Force to either exclude outright EADS (EADS.P) or place a cost factor on their bid . This is all due to the World Trade Organization (WTO) draft ruling that the ...
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• Aircraft Carrier News -- November 19, 2009

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 504
  The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter destroyer JS Hyuga (DDH 181) leads a formation of U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships during Annual Exercise (ANNUALEX 21G). Carrier Alternative Weekly -- New Wars Calcutta’s Carrier Conundrum It’s official now. None of the 2 new ...
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• First women navigators commissioned in Indian Navy (With Images)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Kochi, Nov 20 (IANS) Another glass ceiling was broken Friday as two women were commissioned into the Indian Navy as navigators in the flying branch, in a way also becoming the first women combatants in the armed forces.Sub Lieutenants Ambica Hooda of Haryana and Seema Rani Sharma of Uttar Pradesh were awarded their ...
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• Thematic Photographic 76: "Orange" v.3.0 - Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies

  
  Why? What Have You Heard? — Authority: 148
  "Shiny, Happy Airplane" Winston Salem, NC - September 2009 (Click to embiggen)  Hosted by Written Inc. I dont think Ill get any argument about the color of this airplane (if youre wondering WTF? see yesterdays post) captured at the Winston Salem Air Show in September. What I would get an argument on is ...
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• Pakistan: 8 militants killed in reported US strike (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 517
  AP – Missiles fired from a reported U.S. drone killed at least eight suspected militants Friday in Pakistan’s lawless tribal area along the Afghan border, intelligence officials said. It was the fourth such attack since the Pakistani military began an offensive in a nearby area in mid-October Go here to see ...
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• Buzzed by a Parrot

  
  W-wa Jeziorki — Authority: 124
  Living under the flightpath to Warsaw Okęcies Runway 33, I rarely get excited by the planes that fly over us one after the other. This morning was different - no fewer than eight times did this garishly painted LET L-410 fly over our house, and at low altitude. This plane, SP-TPA, belongs to Polska Agencja ...
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• Another Beauty Of The Dhruv At Leh

  
  LiveFist - The Best of Indian Defence — Authority: 432
  [IMG: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_o_no4M2xEPY/SwZEYqfmL5I/AAAAAAAAI5s/u7XW4i9EigE/s400/n1051674367_1604842_8104408.jpg]
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• PHOTOS: The Indian Navys First Women Aviators

  
  LiveFist - The Best of Indian Defence — Authority: 432
  Sub Lieutenant Seema Rani Sharma and Sub Lieutenant Ambica Hooda , the Indian Navys first female aviators, with their Dornier-228, and receiving their wings from Rear Adm Sudhir Pillai, Flag Officer Naval Aviation. Heres to many more. Congratulations and Fairwinds!
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• Beam weapons reach a new milestone

  
  Bayou Renaissance Man — Authority: 510
  Ive written before, in Weekend Wings articles and elsewhere, about the imminent advent of battlefield laser weapons (or, rather, we should call them directed energy weapons, since theyll probably involve more than lasers, but all will direct a high-energy beam onto a target). Boeing and the US Air Force Research ...
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• My Diecast Collection Travels Around the World

  
  Tamerlane's Thoughts — Authority: 137
  All the backgrounds are from Lonely Planets big, glossy, and wonderful The Travel Book . Matchbox Air France Airbus A300B flying over Peru. Matchbox Ferrari 308 GTB at Venices Piazza San Marco. Hot Wheels VW Sunagon at Yosemite. Tomica VW Microbus in Botswana. Matchbox Audi ...
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• Aircraft Mechanic Cover Letter

  
  Top of Job Board — Authority: 128
  Aircraft Mechanic Job ApplicationAlberto Aquilani7687 Liverpool AvenueMartinsburg, PA 16662772-286-1844aquilani@yahud.comNovember 20th, 2009Rafa BenitezHuman Resources & Development ManagerSheetz, Inc2093 AS Roma AvenueMartinsburg, PA 16662Dear Mr. BenitezI was excited to read about Aircraft Mechanic job opening ...
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• Do Not Fly Zenair CH601XL and CH650!

  
  Stephen T. Wilson — Authority: 100
  Thats what AOPAs Air Safety Foundation President, Bruce Landsberg, had to say today: http://blog.aopa.org/asfblog/?p=551 When does AOPA write something critical about an airplane?  Almost never that Ive seen, until now. A little late, yet Im impressed.  I brought this to your attention seven months ago: ...
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