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• Space Station 98% Complete with 4 Shuttle Flights Remaining

  Created: Tuesday, 02 March 2010 16:52 Author:

  Space Station 98% Complete with 4 Shuttle Flights Remaining By Tariq Malik  With the successful landing of the space shuttle Endeavour, the International Space Station is on the verge of completion after $100 billion and 11 years of construction. NASA...

• Galactic Lenses Confirm Universe's Age, Size

  Created: Tuesday, 02 March 2010 16:10 Author:

  Galactic Lenses Confirm Universe's Age, Size By SPACE.com Staffposted: 02 March 2010The size and age of the universe, as well as how fast it is expanding, has been confirmed with a new, precise method that uses galaxies as lenses to look at other galaxie...

• Boeing says it will again be Number One

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2010 20:33 Author:

  Boeing says it will again be Number OneAlbaugh Outlines Four-Year Timeline For Return To Lead StatusThe head of Boeing's Commercial Airline Division says the U.S. plane-maker will overtake rival Airbus to be the world's largest civilian aircraft manufactu...

• WestJet to grow capacity 9% to 10% despite Recession.

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2010 20:26 Author:

  WestJet to grow capacity 9% to 10% despite Recession.WestJet reported 2009 net income of C$98.2 million ($94 million), down 45% from C$178.5 million in 2008, and said it plans to reaccelerate growth this year after slowing annual capacity expansion to jus...

• Can IE compete on a level playing field?

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2010 20:21 Author:

  Can IE compete on a level playing field? by Matt Asay Mozilla may have problems with its Firefox browser, but they pale in comparison to the specter now haunting Microsoft's Internet Explorer:A level playing field.For years, Microsoft has been shelte...

• FAA probes how much pilots sleep

  Created: Saturday, 27 February 2010 21:22 Author:

  FAA probes how much pilots sleep Chicago Sun-Times Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:30 AM PST The Federal Aviation Administration will seek data from airlines on how many pilots skip sleep the night before a flight, after a crash near Buffalo, N.Y., raised fatigue c...

• Research findings causing a stir

  Created: Saturday, 27 February 2010 18:19 Author:

  Research findings causing a stir   Prof. Dietrich Nies at work in his lab, photo: Maike Glöckner Research groups led by Prof. Dietrich Nies at the Institute of Biology discovered a while ago how “clever” bacteria are able to deactivate the toxins...

• Virgin Media plans to Introduce 100 Mbps Speeds to Customers

  Created: Saturday, 27 February 2010 01:34 Author:

  Virgin Media plans to Introduce 100 Mbps Speeds to Customers Virgin Media plans to roll out a broadband service that tops out at 100 megabits per second to residential customers by the end of the year.The company said Thursday that it will use its fibe...

• Apple to give next-gen iPhone the finger?

  Created: Saturday, 27 February 2010 01:27 Author:

   February 26, 2010 3:01 PM PSTApple to give next-gen iPhone the finger?by John Paczkowski, AllThingsD     Now that rumors of an Apple tablet have manifested themselves in the iPad, speculation about the next iteration of the iPhone can begin in earn...

• Cessna now sole owner of CitationAir (Formally CitationShares)

  Created: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 07:51 Author:

  Cessna now sole owner of CitationAir (Formally CitationShares) February 23, /2010  Cessna Aircraft Company has completed its acquisition of CitationAir, a business aviation solutions company originally called CitationShares.The original company was...

• Business jet market could rebound this year

  Created: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 16:21 Author:

  Business jet market could rebound this yearAlthough some corporations are still wary of using business jets due to public sentiment, the business jet market could rebound in 2010. Fred Reid, president of fractional ownership company Flexjet, said the mark...

• LAX Slated To Get Full Runway Safety Warning System

  Created: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 03:06 Author:

  LAX Slated To Get Full Runway Safety Warning SystemThu, 18 Feb '10Prototype System Installed Last JuneLos Angeles World Airports (LAWA) and the FAA entered into a Memorandum of Agreement Tuesday for the installation of a Runway Safety Status Lights (RWSL)...

• Conklin and de Decker Celebrate 25 Years in Business

  Created: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 03:00 Author:

  Conklin and de Decker Celebrate 25 Years in BusinessTue, 23 Feb '10Donates To HFI Scholarship FundConklin & de Decker is celebrating 25 years of providing aircraft operating cost data and educational programs at this year's Heli-Expo in Houston, Texas on ...

• STS 130 Returns for Night Landing!

  Created: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:48 Author:

  SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR - STS-130 - CREW RETURNS TO EARTH  Feb. 21, 2010 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Endeavour and six astronauts ended a 14-day journey of more than 5.7 million miles with a 10:20 p.m. EST landing Sunday at NASA's Kennedy S...

• NTSB Seeks Better Pilot Skills Oversight

  Created: Saturday, 20 February 2010 21:35 Author:

  NTSB Seeks Better Pilot Skills Oversight By Frances Fiorino - fiorino@aviationweek.com  Feb 19, 2010    The NTSB has identified improved oversight of pilot proficiency as one of the most important aviation safety measures requiring FAA action.The sa...

• NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun

  Created: Friday, 19 February 2010 01:04 Author:

  NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the SunSun, 14 Feb '10Mission Is To Help Understand The Sun's Dynamic Processes NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 on a first-of...

• Japanese Astronaut Tweets Images back to Earth

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 21:50 Author:

  Japanese Astronaut Tweets Images back to Earth A Japanese astronaut aboard the International Space Station since December has been shooting some incredible images and sending them back to Earth.Souichi Noguchi, a member of the Soyuz TMA-17 crew and Exped...

• General Atomics Chief Forsees Advances In UAS

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 21:31 Author:

  General Atomics Chief Forsees Advances In UASBy Joseph C. Anselmo   POWAY, Calif. — Technological advances could enable unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to deliver radically improved situational awareness within five years, according to the top executiv...

• Embry-Riddle to Train Unmanned Aircraft Pilots

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 21:25 Author:

  Embry-Riddle to Train Unmanned Aircraft Pilots Anticipates Increasing Demand For UAV Pilots In The U.S. In Two YearsAs early as 2012, thousands of civilian unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) could take to the sky, if the FAA allows them to share U.S. airspace ...

• Boeing Sees Sales Drop Maintains B737 Output

  Created: Sunday, 14 February 2010 22:34 Author:

  Boeing Sees Sales Drop Maintains B737 Output By Joseph C. Anselmo and Michael MechamWASHINGTON February 2010 Boeing expects its sales to decline as much as 6% this year as the impact of lower 777 production rates and cuts to military programs sink...