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June 22, 2006

FAA Reverses Stewart Tower Radar Decision

Can Move Into New Tower... With Old Radar

One week after a Florida congresswoman wrote to FAA Administrator Marion Blakey to protest the agency's decision to delay opening the new control tower at New York's Stewart International Airport (SWF) due to a delay in transferring new radar equipment, the agency reversed its decision and told airport officials they can have their new tower... with the old radar.

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NTSB Hearings End On SWA Midway Overrun Accident

"We Never Talk About Any Of That Stuff..."

They're over: two days of hearings into a deadly mishap at Midway airport, where a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 ran off the end of the runway and onto a busy Chicago street.

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Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Thursday 06.22.06

NTSB Acting Chairman Mark Rosenker On Southwest Flight 1248

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 06.22.06 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 06.22.06 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- NTSB Acting Chairman Mark Rosenker: 06.22.06 (ANN Special Feature, with the NTSB's Mark Rosenker on the hearing into last December's runway overrun at Midway Air

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Analysts Expect Boeing To Profit From Airbus's Woes

Qantas Reportedly Considering 747-8i

No one's saying who picked up the check a recent dinner between Qantas Airways CEO Geoff Dixon and Boeing's Alan Mulally... but odds are the head of Boeing's commercial planes division at least bought the drinks, as Mulally is hoping to sell Qantas on Boeing's 747-8 Intercontinental passenger plane.

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AD: Airbus

AD NUMBER: 2006-13-04 MANUFACTURER: Airbus SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2006-13-04 SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Airbus airplanes as listed above.

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AD: Rolls-Royce

AD NUMBER: 2006-13-06 MANUFACTURER: Rolls Royce SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2006-13-06 SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Rolls-Royce Corporation 250-B and 250-C series turboprop and turboshaft engines with certain part numbers (P/Ns) of gas producer rotor assembly tie bolts manufactured by EXTEX Ltd., Pacific Sky Supply Inc., Rolls-Royce Corporation (RRC), and Superior Air Parts Inc.

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ILFC Hints It May Cancel A380 Orders

Others Say They'll Stick It Out

That scratching sound you hear coming from Toulouse may very well be Airbus sales managers scrambling to hold onto a $3 billion order for the manufacturer's upcoming A380 superjumbo jet.

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Wall Street Suddenly Bullish On Airlines

Or, When Being "Overweight" Is A Good Thing

Could the toughest days for the US airline industry behind us? The guys with the money seem to think so.

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Is The End Near For Varig?

Not If It Can Raise $75 Million By... Now

The good news for Brazil's Varig Airlines is that a bankruptcy judge has approved its purchase by the company's employees and two foreign investors. The bad news... those buyers have until Friday to come up with $75 million.

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Meteorologists Indicted In Taiwanese Accident

Failed To Warn Of Bad Weather

When the weather's bad... who do you blame? The weatherman? That's apparently the case in Taiwan... where five meteorologists for the Civil Aeronautics Administration have been indicted for failing to issue warnings just before a cargo plane crashed in the Taiwan Strait in December 2002.

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Southwest Confirms It Will Soon Experiment With Assigned Seating

An End To Tradition?

Could this be the end of an era? Ever since the very beginning, passengers flying Dallas-based Southwest Airlines have waited for the starting gun -- then rushed the gate in hopes of grabbing their favorite seat onboard the aircraft.

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