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September 17, 2013

Google And Solar Impulse Enter Into A High Level Partnership

Companies Tout 'Shared Values' In Announcing The Agreement

Google has become the official Internet Technology Partner for Solar Impulse. It is hoped that this formal partnership will be an important step in bringing Solar Impulse closer to its ultimate goal of flying around the world using only solar energy (2015).

Also: Google Fuel Goof, New Bird From Belite, Restored Cobra, SAFE Going To Redbird, Another TSA Agent Busted, NASA's Flaming Frog....

The CSeries Flight Test Vehicle has completed its first flight. “During its maiden flight, CSeries FTV1 reached an altitude of 12,500 feet and an air speed of 230 knots," said Rob Dewar, Vice President and General Manager of the CSeries Program. Jonathan Trappe’s dream of floating across the Atlantic Ocean beneath of cluster of helium balloons ended in a safe landing, but on the wrong side of the ocean. Trappe landed his cluster balloon in a remote area of Newfoundland at approximately 1830 EDT Thursday, September 12, 2013. He had launched at about 0800 EDT from Caribou, Maine and had been airborne for only about 12 hours on a fl

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Cessna Announces Major Order For Skyhawk Aircraft

Seventy-Nine Airplanes To Be Delivered In Western Russia Over The Next 12 Months

Cessna has received an order for 79 Cessna 172 Skyhawk aircraft, one of the largest orders on record for the aircraft, at Moscow’s JetExpo 2013.

Ribbon-Cutting Held Friday At $2.5 Million Plant

More than 100 people attended an event Friday to unveil two facilities in Greater Lafayette that could bolster the process to commercialize an unleaded high-octane gasoline called 100SF. Officials from Swift Fuels LLC, based in the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open their new aviation fuel blending facility in Lafayette, IN. They also broke ground on their new pilot plant operations.