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January 09, 2013

Airborne 01.08.13: NAFI Loses Boss, Boeing Sets Records, ANN Ready For Sebring

Also: EAA Doesn't Like 'Cliff', Gulfstream Hires, FAA Wings At Sebring, AIA Worries About Sequestration, Rescue Helo Gets Dunked

After several tough years which saw NAFI engaged in a number of scandals and the separation of a significant relationship with the EAA, the fortunes of the National Association of Flight Instructors continue to crash and burn. Boeing says it completed 2012 with a record setting performance. 1,203 net commercial airplane orders were booked in 2012, the second-largest number in company history. The company also delivered 601 airplanes, the most since 1999. Boeing's unfilled commercial airplane orders at the end of the year stoo

"We have made a lot of progress in our research toward very quiet aircraft with low carbon footprints. But the real challenge is to integrate ideas and pieces together to make an even larger improvement." Source: Fay Collier, ERA project manager based at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA.