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March 17, 2012

Airborne 03.16.12: Cessna's Meltdown, Fuel-Injected Rotax, Boeing v Airbus v WTO

Also: Tecnam, WingX, HBC Furloughs, Online Medicals, Collier Trophy, FAA Forecast, Vicki Cruse Scholarships... and MORE!

First of all, let's offer up an apology for being a few hours late with this edition of Airborne. As we were in the midst of producing this program, Airborne Host Ashley Hale got an early morning call with the news that she was in the processing of becoming an Aunt... and let's face it, that was important stuff, indeed, and worth a little extra time so that she could be part of that amazing event. In the meantime, though, there's lots of pretty cool news on the aviation front as well... some good and some bad. We're not sure what's going on at Cessna

"This is an outcome that is the result of many hours of hard work on EAA's insistence that ADs do not apply to experimental aircraft." Source: Sean Elliott, EAA vice president of safety and advocacy.

An inherent quality of rotating bodies, which causes an applied force to be manifested 90 in the direction of rotation from the point where the force is applied.