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Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Monday 12.27.10

ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 12.27.10 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 12.27.10 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature: When "All Available Info" Isn't Enough - 12.27.10 (ANN Special Report, with CFI Bob Miller)

Classic Aero-TV: Coming Home To Roost -- The 'Last Time' For The DC-3 Community

An Extraordinary Gathering That May Truly Be The Last Of Its Kind

What a concept... An historic event, billed as “The Last Time”, was organized to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the DC-3 type aircraft. Designed as an airliner in 1935, the DC-3 was pressed into military service in WWII as the C-47 and served in every theater of the war.

Klyde Morris (12.27.10)

Klyde Speaks For The Record...

FMI: www.klydemorris.com

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (12.27.10)

Aero-Linx: Vintage Sailplane Association The purpose of the Vintage Sailplane Association (VSA) is to promote the acquision, restoration and flying of vintage sailplanes by its members, and to assist the National Soaring Museum in the preservation of soaring history and the promotion of vintage sailplane activity. A Vintage Sailplane is any glider out of production since 1958, or a more recently built glider with appearance, performance and construction characteristics similar or comparable to gliders manufactured before 1958.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (12.27.10): Maximum Authorized Altitude

Maximum Authorized Altitude A published altitude representing the maximum usable altitude or flight level for an airspace structure or route segment. It is the highest altitude on a Federal airway, jet route, area navigation low or high route, or other direct route for which an MEA is designated in 14 CFR Part 95 at which adequate reception of navigation aid signals is assured.

Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (12.27.10)

"This new work package will enable us to expand our unique RTI advanced composite process for aircraft wings, as well as build on our abilities in the composites field... Given the success we have had to date with our CSeries aircraft demonstrator wing using the RTI technology, we are confident that this process can be further developed, adapted and applied to our Learjet 85 business jet." Source: Michael Ryan, Vice President and General Manager, Bombardier Aerospace, Belfast...