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• What's This?

  Created: Sunday, 23 May 2010 12:16 Author:

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• X51A "WaveRider" Test Flight Set

  Created: Sunday, 23 May 2010 11:17 Author:

   X51A "WaveRider" Test Flight SetOnly Hypersonic Test Flight Planned For This Fiscal Year The X-51A WaveRider will make its first hypersonic flight test attempt from Edwards Air Force Base on Tuesday, May 25. The unmanned aerial vehicle will be rele...

• FAA Brass Pushes NextGen

  Created: Sunday, 23 May 2010 11:09 Author:

  FAA Brass Pushes NextGenFAA’s biggest guns -- current and past -- turned out to urged the swift implementation and funding of NextGen, the satellite-based air traffic management system, at Aviation Week’s “NextGen ahead” symposium now under way in...

• Shuttle Program prepared to shut down

  Created: Sunday, 23 May 2010 11:00 Author:

  Shuttle Program Prepares to Shut Down   The shuttle Atlantis is poised for its final scheduled mission—the delivery of a compact Russian docking and laboratory module to the International Space Station.Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center is set for...

• UPS Begins Pilot Furloughs this Weekend

  Created: Friday, 21 May 2010 21:42 Author:

   UPS Begins Pilot Furloughs this WeekendUPS Airlines will furlough 54 pilots Sunday and may cut around 250 additional pilots by year end, according to both the company and the Independent Pilots Assn. representing the cargo carrier's 2,800 pilots.UPS sai...

• Traffic Demand Recovering Faster than Expected

  Created: Tuesday, 18 May 2010 23:20 Author:

   Traffic Demand Recovering Faster than ExpectedThe growth in demand on international routes continues to be “much faster than anybody would have expected even six months ago,” IATA Director General and CEO Giovanni Bisignani said this week, as IATA r...

• Bigelow Marketing Inflatable Space Stations

  Created: Tuesday, 18 May 2010 23:15 Author:

  Bigelow Marketing Inflatable Space StationsLAS VEGAS — Bigelow Aerospace is kicking off a marketing campaign to attract national space agencies and corporations to its privately funded inflatable space station.Space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, 65, who ...

• Boeing may replace rather than Re-Engine, the 737

  Created: Saturday, 08 May 2010 11:39 Author:

  Boeing may replace rather than Re-Engine, the 737Analysts Say Boeing May Be Looking At A New Airplane A report from an aviation analyst indicates that Boeing may be leaning towards a wholesale replacement of its workhorse 737, rather than the re-engi...

• SpaceX feels pressure as rocket launch nears

  Created: Saturday, 08 May 2010 11:34 Author:

  SpaceX feels pressure as rocket launch nearsRocket Being Touted As Space Shuttle ReplacementIt's an entirely new concept. Not the rocket its self, that works like most rockets do. But in the case of the Falcon 9, a rocket designed and financed by a privat...

• Skyonic to capture carbon from coal in baking soda

  Created: Thursday, 06 May 2010 14:05 Author:

   Skyonic to capture carbon from coal in baking soda Rather than pump smokestack gases underground to keep them out of the air, Skyonic wants to turn them into something else and sell them.The Austin, Texas-based company this week started a pilot pro...

• Scientists edge closer to printing human tissue

  Created: Thursday, 06 May 2010 13:57 Author:

  Scientists edge closer to printing human tissue An Organovo scientist working on a bioprinting test. The technology, which is still early in clinical trials, is intended to eventually make it possible to use a special 3D printer to craft human tissue...

• Japan wants MoonWalking Humanoids by 2015!

  Created: Wednesday, 05 May 2010 15:52 Author:

   Japan wants MoonWalking Humanoids by 2015!  Just as the Obama administration ditches NASA plans to return to the moon, a group in Japan is vowing to send humanoid robots there by 2015. Call it a giant leap for droidkind.The Space Oriented Higashio...

• Steve Jobs Letter explaining Apple's Flash Distaste

  Created: Wednesday, 05 May 2010 15:46 Author:

  Steve Jobs Letter explaining Apple's Flash Distaste Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe's founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our ne...

• Apple has sold 1 Million Ipads

  Created: Wednesday, 05 May 2010 15:40 Author:

  Apple has sold 1 Million Ipads Apple on Monday said it sold its 1 millionth iPad last Friday with the introduction of the iPad 3G model.(Credit: Apple)The company didn't say how many iPads of each model were sold, but we do know that on April 8 during ...

• What will NASA do with the Retired Space Shuttles

  Created: Monday, 03 May 2010 15:21 Author:

  What will NASA do with the Retired Space Shuttles  Discovery, the oldest of NASA's shuttles, has already been promised to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., leaving Atlantis and Endeavour available for other institutions. Discover...

• It's Official Continental and United tie the knot

  Created: Monday, 03 May 2010 10:24 Author:

  It's Official Continental and United tie the knotIn what they described as "a merger of equals," Continental Airlines and United Airlines today announced the two companies will combine in an all-stock transaction in which Continental shareholders will rec...

• GulfStream Reports Sales Rebound

  Created: Monday, 03 May 2010 10:14 Author:

  GulfStream Reports Sales Rebound   While defaults continued to chip away at Gulfstream Aerospace’s backlog, parent company General Dynamics (GD) provided hope that the business jet market is reviving, announcing that Gulfstream’s first quarter ...

• FAA May Tighten VLJ Requirements

  Created: Thursday, 29 April 2010 21:17 Author:

  FAA May Tighten VLJ Requirements  The FAR Part 21.35 function and reliability flight testing would include turbine-powered airplanes with maximum takeoff weights of 6,000 lb. or less under a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) released by FAA on April ...

• Feds look to End Distractions in the Cockpit.

  Created: Thursday, 29 April 2010 21:10 Author:

     Feds look to End Distractions in the Cockpit.   US Dept. of Transportation and FAA yesterday called on airlines "to create and enforce policies that will limit distractions in the cockpit [including use of PEDs] and keep pilots focused on transpor...

• IPad pushes Apple Revenue Up Almost 50%

  Created: Monday, 26 April 2010 17:55 Author:

  IPad pushes Apple Revenue Up Almost 50%   Thanks in part to the increasing momentum of the iPhone, Apple has bested Wall Street's predictions again, this time for its second quarter 2010 earnings.Apple on Tuesday reported revenue of $13.5 billion and ...