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May 14, 2008

Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Wednesday 05.14.08

Revisting The Silver State Helicopters Debacle

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 05.14.08 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 05.14.08 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- Revisting The SSH Debacle: 05.14.08 (ANN Special Report, with aviation law attorneys Ed Booth and Don Maciejewski.)

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NYC Heliport Contract Award Draws Protests, Lawsuit

FirstFlight Has Never Operated Heliport In Big City

The decision by officials in New York City to award a Wall Street heliport to an upstate company has drawn the ire of other helicopter operators in the city, and resulted in a lawsuit.

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Silver State Helicopters Students Sue Lender

Claim Key Bank Enabled 'Ponzi Scheme'

On February 3, when Silver State Helicopters went tango-uniform, many of its more than 2,400 students were left with incomplete training... but owing student loans of $50,000 or more. Comparisons to a ponzi scheme were common, especially after Silver State's official press release said it's Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing resulted from "a sharp and sudden downturn in new student enrollment."

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'Savvy Aviator' Forms Aircraft Maintenance Company

Will Specialize In High-Performance Aircraft, VLJs

Well-known aviation maintenance expert Mike Busch hopes his "Savvy Aviator" acumen will translate into an equally-savvy business model.

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Two Killed In Stevens Point PA-28 Accident

Plane Was Circling To Land After Takeoff

Investigators are working to determine why a Piper PA-28-140 crashed shortly after takeoff Monday from Stevens Point Municipal Airport (STE) in Wisconsin.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (05.14.08)

Aero-Linx!

The CG-4A glider, (C-for cargo, G-for glider) was the mainstay of the US Army Air Forces glider arsenal. It was designed by the Waco Aircraft Company of Troy, Ohio, whose personnel followed specifications given to them by the US Army Air Corps.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (05.14.08): Chromosphere

Aero-Terms!

The lower level of the solar atmosphere between the photosphere and the corona.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (05.14.08)

"[T]he plaintiff had no seat to return to, sitting on a toilet stool with no seat belts."

Source: From a lawsuit filed last week by Gokhan Mutlu, claiming JetBlue Airways forced him to give up his seat on a February flight, forcing him to sit in the plane's lav during part of the five-hour flight from California. Mutlu is seeking over $2 million in damages.

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