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July 20, 2006

ANN Special Feature: Inside an ANG MAFFS C-130 07.21.06

It's jungle-hot on the flightline at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina... as two C-130 H-models spool up... getting ready to head west.

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NATCA Paints Dark Picture Of SoCal Power Outage

Says Controllers Used Cell Phones To Keep Tabs On Planes

A massive power and communications failure late Tuesday at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center left scrambling air traffic controllers to deal with a nightmare scenario, says NATCA.

Did you get a headache the last time you flew commercially?

Hedging Pays... But For How Much Longer?

Executives at Dallas-based Southwest Airlines executives are seeing dollar signs, as the airline says its second-quarter profits more than doubled despite rising jet fuel costs.

After ordering 20 Aviation Partners Boeing 757-200 Blended Winglet Systems in September 2005 -- of which eight are currently retrofitted and in service -- American Airlines has ordered an additional 104 shipsets.

Sure Enough... It Ain't Over Yet!

Almost immediately after typing the last sentence of our report on Boeing's seeming domination of aircraft sales to date at Farnborough 2006... Airbus revealed a few orders of its own.