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May 11, 2012

Gregory Schneider Of Tuscon Wins Space Needle's Space Race 2012

Trip To Space Is The Prize As A Celebration Of The Needle's 50th Anniversary

Earlier this week, five finalists traveled to Seattle for the last leg of the Space Needle's Space Race 2012 program. After three days of physical and mental challenges, Gregory Schneider, 28, was crowned the winner of the grand prize – a trip into space. Famed astronaut Buzz Aldrin announced Schneider's win at a Space Needle ceremony Wednesday morning.

Also: NTSB, Kyle Franklin, Aspen/Microsoft, SpaceX, OSH2012, Akoya, Cessna/AVIC, Raptor Woes, and WATCH OUT Over Chicago!!!

Yep... another busy week... so let's get on with Airborne! Pipistrel is proving itself to be an amazing company... again and again. Just a couple of weeks after introducing its new four-place hybrid “Panthera” airplane, Pipistrel has taken the wraps off of its brand new Alpha Trainer ... which as the name suggests, is designed as a primary training airplane. Hawker Beechcraft has announced that it has reached an agreement with a significant number of its senior secured lenders and senior bondholders on the terms of a financial restructuring plan that will strengthen the company for the future and eliminate approximately $2.5 billion in debt and

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ATK Announces Complete Liberty System to Provide Commercial Crew Access

Liberty System Includes Spacecraft, Launch Vehicle, Ground and Mission Ops

ATK announced today it has developed its Liberty concept into a complete commercial crew transportation system, including the spacecraft, abort system, launch vehicle, and ground and mission operations, designed from inception to meet NASA’s human-rating requirements with a potential for the first test flight in 2014 and Liberty crewed flight in 2015.