Aero-Linx!

Scouring the information super airways can sometimes be a tough, if educational, task for the Aero-News staff... but it also allows us to check out some truly neat and exciting sites, so it's not that bad a gig. On any given day, we may check dozens (and often hundreds) of different sources for story ideas, and facts confirmation. And, as is the nature of our business, much of this is done on the Internet.

The ANN gang decided we probably shouldn't keep some of the neat sites, info resources, and organizations we've discovered to ourselves... so we decided to bring you Aero-Linx. These are the sites that WE check out -- when we need added perspective, a new spin on a day's topic... or just want to escape into cyber-aero-space for awhile.

Look for some of our favorite sites, coming each day to ANN via Aero-Linx. Suggestions for future Aero-Linx segments are always welcome, as well.

Aero Linx: FAA Fact Sheet: The Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions, and Noise (CLEEN) Program

CLEEN is the FAA’s principal environmental effort to accelerate development of new aircraft and engine technologies and advance alternative jet fuels. The program is a key element of the NextGen strategy to achieve environmental protection that allows for sustained aviation growth. The FAA launched the initial CLEEN I in 2010. Over the five-year course of the program several technologies have been tested and are in use today. Based on that success, the FAA is currently in a second phase, CLEEN II, which runs from 2015 through 2020.

FMI: www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=22534