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• FAA Expected To Add Photos To Pilot Certificates

  Created: Thursday, 21 October 2010 11:43 Author:

  FAA Expected To Add Photos To Pilot Certificates By Mary Grady, Contributing editorThe FAA will publish a new proposed rule in the next few months that would require pilot certificates to include a photo, an FAA spokesperson said this week. Currently, p...

• World's First Commercial Space Station Planned in Russia

  Created: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 09:45 Author:

  World's First Commercial Space Station Planned in Russia Two Russian aerospace companies are teaming up to build what they say will be the "world's first commercial space station" – an orbiting outpost open to private citizens, professional astronauts ...

• Intel ramps up home energy push with control-panel design

  Created: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 09:28 Author:

  Intel ramps up home energy push with control-panel design Intel has announced a reference design for a home energy-management device, an attempt to get a foothold in the smart grid business and bring Intel's chips to your kitchen table. ...

• FAA Claims Major gains in Runway Safety

  Created: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 09:22 Author:

  FAA Claims Major gains in Runway Safety "Serious" Incursions Reported Down 50 Percent Compared To 2009 U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt say that the number of serious runway incursions at the nation's airports...

• FAA to Reassess Medical Certification Rules

  Created: Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:57 Author:

  FAA to Reassess Medical Certification Rules The requirement for pilots to be certified fit to fly by a medical doctor is a universal feature of aviation regulatory bodies. The International Civil Aviation Organization sets the standard, which individu...

• Study: Huge Wind Energy Potential off East Coast

  Created: Friday, 08 October 2010 01:52 Author:

  Study: Huge Wind Energy Potential off East Coast The densely populated U.S. East Coast could meet close to half its current electric demand by relying on offshore wind turbines, a study by an ocean conservation group found. North Carolina, South ...

• Bizav manufacturing jobs continue to move south

  Created: Thursday, 07 October 2010 07:16 Author:

  Bizav manufacturing jobs continue to move south from AIN: Business Aviation by Kirby J. Harrison Eighteen years ago, Presidential candidate Ross Perot referred to “a giant sucking sound” of U.S. jobs moving south to Mexico. According to union off...

• Business Jet Market Weakening, Says UBS

  Created: Thursday, 07 October 2010 07:05 Author:

  Business Jet Market Weakening, Says UBS from AIN: Business Aviation by Chad Trautvetter The latest business jet market index from UBS Investment Research fell a further 8 percent, to 37, the second consecutive decrease and below the threshold...

• 3G MacBook could use Iphone 4 Antenna

  Created: Tuesday, 05 October 2010 06:35 Author:

  3G MacBook could use Iphone 4 Antenna Apple is working on a 3G MacBook, according to patents revealed this week. The plans indicate that Apple is developing laptops that incorporate 3G antenna technology similar to that found in the iPhone 4--and we...

• Robot marching 300 miles from Tokyo to Kyoto

  Created: Tuesday, 05 October 2010 04:18 Author:

  Robot marching 300 miles from Tokyo to Kyoto Highway star: The Evolta robot strides by Mt. Fuji in this artist's rendition. (Credit: Panasonic) Panasonic's mascot robot Mr. Evolta is known for amazing stunts like climbing out of the Grand C...

• Astronomers find first 'Habitable' Planet

  Created: Friday, 01 October 2010 01:08 Author:

  Astronomers find first 'Habitable' Planet - Astronomers have identified more than 400 planets orbiting around stars beyond our solar system in the past 15 years. The longtime quest to find a planet habitable for life has led to the discove...

• Cessna ‘Readjusting’ Citation Deliveries, Layoffs Loom

  Created: Friday, 01 October 2010 01:02 Author:

  Cessna ‘Readjusting’ Citation Deliveries, Layoffs Loom from AIN: Business Aviation by Chad Trautvetter Just days after union production-line workers at Cessna Aircraft were forced by default to accept a new contract, the Wichita-based airc...

• Southwest will acquire Air Tran for $1.4 Billion

  Created: Friday, 01 October 2010 00:56 Author:

  Southwest will acquire Air Tran for $1.4 Billion Southwest Airlines on Monday morning announced an agreement to acquire Orlando-based AirTran Airways for $1.4 billion in cash and Southwest common stock in a deal that brings together the world's largest...

• RIM introduces the BlackBerry Playbook

  Created: Wednesday, 29 September 2010 04:06 Author:

  RIM introduces the BlackBerry Playbook                                 RIM President and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis holds up the company's new tablet, the "PlayBook." (Credit: James Martin)   Research in Motion today ...

• Biofuels could be cleared for Aircraft use

  Created: Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:26 Author:

  Biofuels could be cleared for Aircraft use   By Graham WarwickWashington         In just five years, the aviation industry’s decades-long reliance on petroleum-based fuels has been turned on its head. The future lies in fuels from s...

• Mesa Airlines files for Chapter 11 Reorganization

  Created: Monday, 27 September 2010 02:30 Author:

  Mesa Airlines files for Chapter 11 Reorganization Mesa in US Airways livery. Photo: Courtesy, Mesa Air. Mesa Air Group’s proposed Chapter 11 reorganization plan filed Sept. 17 would see unsecured creditors receive most of the stock in the reorgani...

• Panasonic's New 3D camera is coming!

  Created: Monday, 27 September 2010 02:22 Author:

  Panasonic's New 3D camera is coming! Here it is the first 3D Digital Camera! Panasonic unveiled a $250 3D camera at Photokina show here. The lens fits onto its Micro Four Thirds-based compact cameras, showing stereo images that with proper equipm...

• FltPlan.com sees improved Bizav Flying Climate

  Created: Wednesday, 22 September 2010 02:03 Author:

  FltPlan.com sees improved Bizav Flying Climate FltPlan.com, an online flight-planning company that caters to business aviation operators, said it set new records for the number of flight plans filed with the FAA this summer. According to FltPlan.co...

• New Flight Duty Time Regs coming to Part 135 Opearations

  Created: Wednesday, 22 September 2010 01:56 Author:

  New Flight Duty Time Regs coming to Part 135 Opearations The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) is “deeply concerned” that language the FAA uses in the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for Part 121 airline hour-of-service (fatigue) ...

• Pan Am International Flight Academy Acquires Aeroservice Aviation Center

  Created: Thursday, 16 September 2010 02:25 Author:

  Pan Am International Flight Academy Acquires Aeroservice Aviation Center Thu, 16 Sep '10 Integration Of Training Classes And Events Already Underway Pan Am International Flight Academy ("Pan Am") announced Wednesday that it has acquired Miami-based A...