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November 01, 2010

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ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 11.01.10 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 11.01.10 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature: Why Student Pilots Drop Out - 11.01.10 (ANN Special Report, with CFI Bob Miller)

Membership Includes Individuals, Elected Officials, Industry Organizations

The Alliance for Aviation Across America announced last week that it reached 5,500 members.

MMT Says Spacecraft Is Ready To Fly Its Final Mission

The Space Shuttle Program Mission Management Team voted unanimously to proceed toward Discovery's targeted liftoff at 1552 ET Wednesday. The launch was originally scheduled for Monday, but a leak in a critical system had to be repaired before the shuttle was cleared for launch.

ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 11.01.10

The final launch of Discovery is now set for Wednesday.
A Yemeni woman is detained, then released In Thursday's al Qaeda bomb threat.
And TSA's Secure Flight takes full effect today.<

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ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 11.01.10

The final launch of Discovery is now set for Wednesday.
A Yemeni woman is detained, then released In Thursday's al Qaeda bomb threat.
And TSA's Secure Flight takes full effect today.<

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ANN Special Feature: Why Student Pilots Drop Out - 11.01.10

ANN's Paul Plack talks with CFI Bob Miller of Over The Airwaves about the biggest problem causing a declining pilot population, and what needs to happen if we're to turn it around.

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New Radar Begins Test Flights Aboard Predator B 'MQ-9'

First Flight Of A Penetrating Synthetic Aperture Radar On A Fixed Wing UAS

A Predator B MQ-9 UAS has been flown for the first time using Lockheed Martin's Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar (TRACER).

Recognized By President Obama And Administrator Bolden For Their Efforts

NASA usually goes the other way ... that is to say ... up. But when 33 miners were trapped nearly a half mile below the surface of the earth, a team of the space agency's employees was called on to assist in the rescue.

Two Hour Flight Completed October 26

The second A330 MRTT Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) for the UK Royal Air Force has successfully completed its maiden flight from the Airbus Military facility at Getafe, Madrid following its conversion.

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Aero-TV: Jump Takeoff Gyros -- Dick Degraw's Homemade Masterpieces

Gyros That Jump... Who'da Thunk It?

Dick Degraw is an aircraft builder whose creations attract serious onlookers. Not many self-taught engineers and machinists branch out from racing and servicing motorcycles to building and flying their own deep-intermeshed, twin rotor helicopters, but that's just one of Dick's novel creations. "Gyrhino," his scratch-built vertical takeoff gyroplane, has a transparent fuselage for ease of inspection, but that also puts everything he's built for the machine in clear view.

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Aero-TV: Jump Takeoff Gyros -- Dick Degraw's Homemade Masterpieces

Gyros That Jump... Who'da Thunk It?

Klyde Pokes A Little Fun At Recent SecTrans Comments

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Negotiations Have Reached An Impasse

AirTran flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), filed for mediation Thursday with the National Mediation Board (NMB) after negotiations with the company broke down.

Spirit Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water

The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis.

Sky Tractor Supply Company Picks Up "Authorized Service Center" Designation

Sky Tractor Supply Company of Hillsboro, ND, has signed an agreement with GE Aviation to become an Authorized Service Center for the M601 and H80 turboprop engines.

Two NASA Spacecraft Begin New Exploration Assignments

Satellites Have Completed Original Missions, On To New Tasks

Two NASA spacecraft have been assigned a new mission after successfully completing their original science objectives earlier this year.

International Certifications Pending

The FAA has granted an STC to Bell Helicopter affiliate company Aeronautical Accessories for its Bell 429 accessory package. Approvals are in process for other countries, including Japan.

Supply Network Expands To Cover Two Continents

DART Helicopter Services (DHS) has completed an exclusive agreement with aerospace company Hawker Pacific to establish a stronger DHS presence in the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Thunder The sound emitted by rapidly expanding gases along the channel of a lightning discharge. Over three-quarters of lightning's electrical discharge is used in heating the gases in the atmosphere in and immediately around the visible channel. Temperatures can rise to over 10,000 Â°C in microseconds, resulting in a violent pressure wave, composed of compression and rarefaction. The rumble of thunder is created as one's ear catches other parts of the discharge, the part of the lightning flash nearest registering first, then the parts further away.

Aero-Linx: The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age --Smithsonian Removed temporarily from its place of honor in Smithsonian's Milestones of Flight, the 1903 Wright Flyer, the world's first successful airplane, serves as the centerpiece of this exhibition, which celebrates the centennial of the Wright brothers' historic flights. For the first time, the airplane is being displayed on the floor, so you can get a close-up, eye-level look at the historic craft that ushered in the age of flight.

"I'm sure they would be the first to tell you they were just doing their jobs and nothing out of the ordinary, but the men and women of NASA do extraordinary things each and every day." Source: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden after the presentation of NASA's Exceptional Achievement Medal to five agency employees who supported the rescue effort of 33 Chilean miners.