Also: Medevac Tragedy, HBC Sues, Waco Ditches,
2011 Safer, $$AeroNav$$, Buh-Bye VORs, NORAD/Santa (and SO Much
More)!!
Airborne 12.30.11 is chock full of info about the week ending
Friday, December 30th, 2011... Presented by Aero-TV veteran
videographer and Airborne Host Ashley Hale, and supported by ANN
CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan
Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton and Paul Plack, this
episode covers:
Bell 206 Medical Flight Crash
LightSquared Files with FCC, Releases Interference
Study
Hawker Beechcraft Files Suit Over LAS
Dism
Aero Linx: Aero-TV On
YouTube
While most ANN readers and viewers take advantage of the easy
way that they can access each of our Aero-TV programs from the ANN
site itself... there is an alternative -- and it works very
well on the iPhone and iPad devices so many of us are carting
around these days. Virtually every single on of our Aero-TV and
Airborne programs is posted there, in low and hi-rez... all the way
to (in many cases) glorious 1080P. Enjoy!!!
Gravity Assist
An effect through which an orbiting object,
such as a spacecraft or a comet, gains or loses speed by virtue of
the gravitational might of a planet or other celestial object that
it passes. For example, the Cassini spacecraft in its journey to
Saturn used a gravity assist from Earth to increase its velocity by
about 36,000 kilometers per hour (22,300 miles per hour).
Aero-News Quote of the
Day
"NASA greets the new year with a new mission of
exploration. The twin GRAIL spacecraft will vastly expand our
knowledge of our moon and the evolution of our own planet. We begin
this year reminding people around the world that NASA does big,
bold things in order to reach for new heights and reveal the
unknown."
Source: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, as the second GRAIL
lunar satellite took orbit to explore the Moon in greater detail
than ever before.
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