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August 15, 2006

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ANN's Daily Aero-Tips (08.15.06): First Flight

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My shoes were wet with dew as I climbed into the back seat of the white-and-red Piper Super Cub. Morning twilight ceded to a yellowish haze as the summer sun sprang from behind a line of trees.

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Minimum Obstacle Clearance Altitude -- The lowest published altitude in effect between radio fixes on VOR airways, off-airway routes, or route segments which meets obstacle clearance requirements for the entire route segment and which assures acceptable navigational signal coverage only within 25 statute (22 nautical) miles of a VOR.

"So far it looks like a stalemate. One half wants Pluto to remain a planet, the other half says Pluto is not worth being called a planet."

Source: Pavel Suchan, one of 2,500 members of the International Astronomical Union who are now meeting in Prague in an attempt to determine a standard definition of what may be called a "planet".