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November 07, 2011

Aero-TV/Airborne News Bulletin: GAMA 3Q Numbers Show Industry Struggling To Stay Aloft

$4.8B and 436 Airplanes, Worldwide, Shows Improvement But With Some Soft Spots

It has been a brutal year for the General and Business Aviation industry... and this, after a number of equally brutal quarters across 2009 and 2010.

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ANN Special Feature: Safety Culture Needs Regulatory Help - 11.07.11

ANN's Paul Plack talks with CFI Bob Miller of Over The Airwaves about why improving general aviation's safety record will require a change in culture AND a change in the regs.

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It's What LoPresti Does... Go Faster

At Oshkosh this summer, the folks at LoPresti called a news conference to introduce a new cowling for the SR20 that company CEO RJ Siegel said has been about three years in the making. The company says it will be flying "later this year." Seigel said that the new cowling represents three new technologies ... and an "Apple" look. He said the technologies lower the total drag of cooling by almost two thirds.