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February 23, 2009

Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Monday 02.23.09

Knowing Your Electrical System, With CFII Bob Miller

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 02.23.09 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 02.23.09 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- Know Your Electrical System: 02.23.09 (ANN Special Report, with CFII Bob Miller of "Over The Airwaves.")

Aero-TV Chats With Joe Leader, President, Air-Taxi Association

With the economy heading for the deck like a plugged mallard, we had to wonder if this presents some opportunities or obstacles for the ever-burgeoning Air-Taxi market.

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Klyde Morris (02.23.09)

So Much For THAT Stimulus Plan...

Aero-Linx!

Welcome to the homepage of the Popular Rotorcraft Association. Based in Mentone, Indiana, USA at the PRA Mentone Airport, PRA was started in 1962 by Igor Bensen, the inventor of the famous Bensen Gyrocopter.

Aero-Terms!

A vortex ring, also called a toroidal vortex, is a region of rotating fluid moving through the same or different fluid where the flow pattern takes on a doughnut shape. The movement of the fluid is about the poloidal or circular axis of the doughnut, in a twisting vortex motion. An example of a this phenomenon is a smoke ring.

"There is so much more to building a new helicopter than just producing the aircraft."

Source: Danny Maldanado, senior VP of Customer Support and Chief Support Officer at Bell Helicopter, speaking of the ongoing effort to certify Bell's upcoming 429 helicopter.