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October 27, 2008

Aero-TV: Next-Gen Airplanes Require Next-Gen Training (Part 2)

Just How Will They Train All Those Eclipse Pilots, Anyway?

E-I-C Note: One of the wonders of the computer world is the gamut of amazing capabilities we have at our possession... but the curse of it all is revealed when these new-fangled wonder go "Tango-Uniform." Part one of this program was presented October 14th and as we were preparing to upload Part 2, a so-called redundant drive array signaled that it was having problems... and it did. That's all fixed now, and so we're pleased to (belatedly) present Part Two of "Next-Gen Airplanes Require Next-Gen Training." We think you'll see it was worth waiting for.

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