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September 12, 2012

Gone West: Air Race Organizer Erik Anderson

AirVenture Cup Co-founder And Aviation Educator Lived To Help Others, Some Into The Air

Kjell Erik "Da Swede" Anderson, suffered a massive heart attack Monday September 10, 2012 and passed away while at work in Madison, Wisconsin. He was 51. Erik taught Aviation and Band at East High School and Sherman Middle school, carrying on the proud tradition of educating area youth in joy of aviation.

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ACI-NA Commissioners Award Scholarships To Aviation Students

Two Students Receive Scholarships Worth $2,500 Each

Airports Council International - North America’s (ACI-NA) Commissioners’ Committee accepted the Scholarship Review Committee's recommendation to award scholarships of $2,500 each to two aviation students, at the ACI-NA Commissioners’ Committee meeting in Calgary. Recipients include Deanna K. Stoddard, a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and Nicholas A. Keller, a graduate student at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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Eurocopter Opens ILA Berlin Air Show Focusing On Helicopter Product Line

Showcasing Innovation With X3 Hybrid Demonstrator, Other Aircraft

Eurocopter is presenting its latest civil and military helicopters at the 2012 ILA Berlin Air Show, including the X3 high-speed hybrid demonstrator, the newly-developed EC145 T2, and the enhanced CH-53GA for the German Army – all of which underscore the company’s technological leadership and the capability to meet quality and performance demands of international customers.

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Single-Engine Bellanca Floatplane Hit And Severed A Power Line

One Of Seven Light Airplane Accidents During One Week In Alaska

NTSB officials are investigating a fatal accident that took place on the McKeon Flats near China Poot and Alaska’s Neptune Bay on August  31, that fatally injured a Girdwood AK, pilot. George Vonderheide, 66, was killed when his single-engine Bellanca 7GCBC floatplane collided with a power line crossing the Wosnesenski River. He was the sole occupant.

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Frequent Flyers Give TSA Failing Grade At Performing Security Screenings

Over Three Quarters Say Screening Is 'Not Effective' At Preventing Terrorism

Ninety percent of frequent flyers think that the TSA is doing either a poor or fair job in performing security screenings at the nation's airports, according to a new survey of frequent flyers conducted by Frequent Business Traveler magazine.

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Airbus Says Tests Confirm Fuel Savings For 'Sharklets'

AirAsia To Become First Airbus A320 Operator Equipped With The Devices

Flight testing of A320s outfitted with “Sharklets” has confirmed the fuel savings expectations for these Airbus wingtip devices, the planemaker said Tuesday. The comments were made at the 2012 ILA Berlin Air Show during an announcement that AirAsia will become the first operator of a Sharklet-equipped A320.

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Embry-Riddle Reduces Airplane Noise With New Mufflers, Props

Working To Be Good Neighbors And Maintain More Than 250 Training Flights Per Day

After an investment of $250,000 and five years of research, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has found a way to address local residents’ concerns about noise from its training aircraft. The university has installed new noise reduction exhaust systems and is continuing to conduct research on new quieter propellers in its Daytona Beach campus fleet of Cessna 172 training aircraft.

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AA Receives FAA Approval For EFB Use In All Phases Of Flight

Program Critical Part Of American's Efforts To Improve Operational Efficiency For Pilots, Reduce Carbon Footprint

Furthering its efforts to advance airspace modernization, American Airlines is expanding its iPad Electronic Flight Bag program after becoming the first commercial carrier to receive FAA approval to use the Apple iPad in the cockpit during all phases of flight. American's pilots will be using iPad, the only FAA-approved tablet as an Electronic Flight Bag in approved aircraft.

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Research Shows Unmanned Air Vehicles Market Worth $22 Billion

Figure Includes Aircraft, Ground Equipment, And Payloads

In a new report titled "Unmanned Vehicles: The Market for UAV Reconnaissance Systems," MarketResearch.com says the market for unmanned air vehicles is worth an estimated $21.9 billion over the next 10 years.

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Suspected Somali Pirates Wound Italian Navy Pilot

Fired On A Helicopter Patrolling East Of Somalia

A helicopter pilot with the Italian navy was slightly wounded Friday when suspected Somali pirates opened fire on his aircraft in flight, breaking out one of the helo's windows.

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AD: The Boeing Company Airplanes

AD NUMBER: 2012-17-13

PRODUCT: Certain The Boeing Company Model 707-100 long body, -200, -100B long body, and -100B short body series airplanes; Model 707-300, -300B, -300C, and -400 series airplanes; and Model 720 and 720B series airplanes.

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Airborne 09.11.12: 9/11 Remembered, G650 Cert, Tough Weekend For GA

Also: Lear 75 Powers Up!, Airbus Futures, FAA Inspector Scandal, Skip Stewart, NASA

Our program today is being posted on nine-eleven … eleven years after al-Qaeda terrorists took control of four airplanes with little more than boxcutters and brought down the World Trade Center, crashed another into the Pentagon, and would have done more had not brave passengers put up a fight aboard flight 93 over Pennsylvania. In those eleven years, aviation has changed, and many would say not for the better....

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Transportation Security Subcommittee Chair Releases Report On Reforming TSA

GAMA Welcomes Committee's Leadership On Key GA Issues

Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Transportation Security, has released a Majority Staff report entitled “Rebuilding TSA into a Smarter, Leaner Organization,” detailing the Subcommittee’s findings and recommendations to help the TSA evolve to become a more effective and more efficient agency.

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Phenom 300 Added to Melbourne, FL, Assembly Line

Fuselage And Wings Ready For Assembly

With the arrival of the first wing and fuselage in late August, Embraer Executive Jets’ assembly facility in Melbourne, FL, has added production of the Phenom 300 light aircraft to the two-shift assembly operation. Full development of the assembly line, including the addition of the Phenom 300, will be completed in the first quarter 2013.

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AMPA Pilots Vote ‘No Confidence’ In Boeing Training & Flight Services Management

Union Says Some Temporary Training Pilots Not Qualified To Fly The Dreamliner

Members of the Airplane Manufacturing Pilots Association (AMPA) have unanimously voted ‘No Confidence’ in their management at The Boeing Company’s Training & Flight Services.

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Kotzebue, Alaska Airport Gets $15.5 Million Safety Grant

Will Provide For Improved Safety Areas On Main Runway

Ralph Wien Memorial Airport in Kotzebue, Alaska (OTZ), has received a $15.5 million federal grant to expand runway safety areas (RSAs). The grant, announced late last week by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood and Acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, will help improve RSAs at both ends of Runway 9/27, which is the longer of the airport’s two runways.

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Airbus Foresees 20-Year Demand For More Than 1,000 New Aircraft In Germany

Traffic With Emerging Markets Driving The Forecast

Airlines in Germany will require more than 1,000 new passenger aircraft (100 seats and above) and freighters (above 10 tons of payload) over the next 20 years, according to the latest Airbus Global Market Forecast (GMF).

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Air Nigeria Collapses, About 800 Employees Let Go

Many Staff Had Not Been Paid Since April

Air Nigeria had been the African country's second-largest airline, but on Monday, it collapsed entirely, with about 800 people being let go from their jobs. Airline officials said the collapse was due to "disloyalty" and "dishonestly" on the part of many of its employees ... who had reportedly not received any pay for several months.

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NASA's Global Hawk Investigating Atlantic Tropical Depression 14

Storm Expected To Strengthen Into A Tropical Storm Soon

NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) airborne mission sent an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft Tuesday morning to study newborn Tropical Depression 14 in the central Atlantic Ocean that seems primed for further development. The Global Hawk left NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, VA, for a planned 26-hour flight to investigate the depression.

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JAL Year's Second Largest IPO

Pricing At $48 Per Share Expected To Raise $8.5 Billion

What a difference a couple of years makes. After working through bankruptcy in 2010, Japan Airlines is poised to hit the Tokyo stock market with an IPO that is expected to raise some $8.5 billion, which would make it second only to Facebook as an initial public offering in 2012.

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Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (09.12.12)

"Since TSA's creation after the devastating terrorist attacks of 9/11, the agency has gone down a troubling path of overspending, limiting private sector engagement, and failing to sufficiently protect passenger privacy." Source: Congressman Mike Rogers (R-AL), chair of the House Subcommittee on Transportation Security.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (09.12.12): Rated Maximum Continuous Power

With respect to reciprocating, turbopropeller, and turboshaft engines, means the approved brake horsepower that is developed statically or in flight.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (09.12.12)

Airships: The Hindenburg and other Zeppelins

Airships.net is a non-commercial educational resource for the public.

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