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August 17, 2011

ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 08.18.11

GA gets a black eye in North Carolina.
JetBlue will continue to have a non-union workforce.
And that mini-AHRS you saw at Oshkosh will ship September 15th.

ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 08.17.11

US Airways and its pilots will go to court Friday.
Airlines are looking at further capacity cuts.
And Angel Flight Australia mourns its first fatalities.

Plane Lands Gear Up At ND Air Show

Incident Delayed Blue Angels Performance While Runway Was Cleared

A pilot flying a Nanchang CJ-6 Chinese-made trainer at AirSho Fargo in North Dakota Sunday apparently forgot the "undercarriage" portion of his "GUMP" checklist, and landed the airplane gear up. The accident reportedly delayed the start of the Blue Angels exhibition by about 30 minutes as the runway was cleared.

The Gang That Can't Get Their Facts Straight, Also Can't Fly An Air Race

It may rank as one of the weirdest series of stories we've done in quite the while (though the Cirrus/COPA mess is promising to beat it by a fair amount... shameful details to come), but the bizarre saga of the Ultimate Air Race Challenge appears to have been based on little more than hot air... and quite a lot of people either did, or should have, known it.

Federal Judge Rules In Favor Of Air Strips At The Remote National Monument

A Federal Judge last week ruled in favor of both the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Recreational Aviation Foundation (RAF) in response to a 2009 lawsuit brought against the agency by the Montana Wilderness Society and Western Watersheds Project.