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November 28, 2011

Aero-TV: NBAA 2011 Opening Session -- Senator Joe Manchin Defends BizAv

Plane Talk At NBAA 2011... The Kind That You Wished The rest Of the World Could Hear

NBAA 2011 was an interesting year for the world's largest gathering of all things BizAv... it also signaled a far more aggressive shift in what and how the BizAv world decided to explain itself. Starting with HBC's Bill Boisture, on the day before the official opening of the event, the 'Plane-Speaking" commended and never stopped as one flyer after another decried the nonsense the aviation world had been forced to deal with... at the hands of a public, media and government that fails to understand or appreciate the immense contributions this industry makes, day after day, flight after flight.

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Airborne 11.25.11: Gulfstream, Hawker-Beech and Boeing Lead the News!

Airborne's Informative Second Episode, 11.25.11 -- Holiday Style!

We're getting seriously RAVE reviews over the debut of Airborne... but here we are whole week later and its time to DO IT AGAIN... and before a holiday, no less... but this is ANN, where we take the news gig VERY seriously and even the prospect of a most welcome Turkey coma can't keep us from delivering the goods! Episode Two continues the weekly series of Aero-News programs that will quickly evolve into something even more amazing over the next few weeks. Keep in mind that this is early in an evolving program of news offerings -- and that we at ANN don't pla

Klyde Pulls The Ol' Hydrogen Oxide Trick

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Aero Linx: NASA Deep Space Network The NASA Deep Space Network - or DSN - is an international network of antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe. The network also supports selected Earth-orbiting missions.

Equinox The equinoxes are times at which the center of the Sun is directly above the Earth's equator. The day and night would be of equal length at that time, if the Sun were a point and not a disc, and if there were no atmospheric refraction. Given the apparent disc of the Sun, and the Earth's atmospheric refraction, day and night actually become equal at a point within a few days of each equinox. The vernal equinox marks the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere, and the autumnal equinox marks the beginning of autumn in the northern hemisphere.

"We decided about eight years ago how do we remain competitive in the future, 30 or 40 years? We want to do everything that the helicopter provides us, but we think the customer is going to desire speed... We put a small team of engineers, about 20 to 30 of them (on the project) and said, 'Go figure this problem out. Keep a helicopter, but add the higher speed to it.'" Source: Sikorsky spokesman Mike Mudd, describing that, in 2004, just about the time the Pentagon was canceling Sikorsky's contract to develop the Comanche helicopter for delays and budget overruns, the company looked at long-term strategy.