August 2010 - Posts

• Two Men Removed From A UAL Flight Charged With Preparing A Terrorist Attack

  One Was Allegedly Carrying Mock Bombs In A Suitcase Two men who flew aboard a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Amsterdam were arrested when they arrived in the Netherlands and charged with "Preparation of a Terrorist Attack." One of the... Posted Aug 31 2010, 11:50 PM by Aero-News Network

• Kings Speak Out On Possible Solutions To Armed Takedowns of GA

  Rather Than Just Complain, The Kings Have Some Ideas About Aviation Security The Ever-GA-Minded John King has just fired off a note to ANN about their latest blog entries with additional info about that happened to them last Saturday -- and what they... Posted Aug 31 2010, 11:46 PM by Aero-News Network

• CAP Cadet's Flag Raising Ceremony Kicks Off Runway Cafe's Grand Opening

  Flying Through South Carolina? Here's A New Place To Take A Break Wednesday afternoon a 1730, the Cadet Color Guard from the Greenville Civil Air Patrol will do a flag raising ceremony at the new Runway Cafe at South Carolina's Greenville Downtown... Posted Aug 31 2010, 11:09 PM by Aero-News Network

• Gulfstream Becomes First Part 91 Operator To Use New FAA Authorization Platform

  WebOPSS Streamlines Approval Process; Beneficial To Company, Customers The Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. Flight Operations department has reduced the time it takes to receive a reduced vertical separation minimum (RVSM) Letter of Authorization (LOA) from... Posted Aug 31 2010, 04:43 PM by Aero-News Network

• King Incident Update: Santa Barbara Police Chief Apologizes

  'Cordial Conversation' Takes Place King Schools' Martha King just dropped ANN a note to apprise us of the latest info concerning her (and John's) errant detention, at gunpoint, last Saturday, by the Santa Barbara Police Department. Read... Posted Aug 31 2010, 04:38 PM by Aero-News Network

• Report: Airliner Braking Standards May Be Revisited

  NTSB Reported To Have Concerns Following American Airlines Incident In Jamaica An American Airlines jet which slid off a wet runway during heavy rain in Kingston, Jamaica in December has the NTSB reviewing wet braking standards for airliners, according... Posted Aug 31 2010, 04:28 PM by Aero-News Network

• IndUS Aviation Closer To Moving Thorpedo Operations To China

  Plans To Manufacture And Distribute Aircraft World Wide From Weinan Dallas-based IndUS Aviation continues to move forward with Dr. Yuanyang Gao, representing the Chinese city of Weinan and Mr. Ning An, president of China's IPI Information Technology... Posted Aug 31 2010, 04:26 PM by Aero-News Network

• Additional Predator Mission Aircrew Training Systems Delivered To USAF, ANG

  L-3 Link Package Simulates Complex Urban Environments, Intelligent Behaviors Six additional Predator Mission Aircrew Training Systems (PMATS) and associated support equipment were delivered by L-3 Link late last week to two U.S. Air Force installations... Posted Aug 31 2010, 04:26 PM by Aero-News Network

• FAA's Commercial Space Transportation Center Adds Wyle To The Team

  Brings Long Track Record Of Human Spaceflight Support To The Effort The academic-industry team that has been selected to support a new FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation includes a company with a long history of supporting manned... Posted Aug 31 2010, 04:25 PM by Aero-News Network

• Stéphane Mayer Tapped As Chief Executive Officer Of Daher-Socata

  New Company CEO Is Just 47 Years Old Stephane Mayer has joined Daher-Socata as its Chief Executive Officer, bringing an experienced industry executive into the management team responsible for further developing DAHER's Aerospace sector activity -... Posted Aug 31 2010, 04:24 PM by Aero-News Network

• NASA, ATK Successfully Test Second Five-Segment Ares Development Motor (DM-2)

  Data Will Provide Valuable Information For The Development Of Future Launch Vehicles A successful ground test of the second Ares five-segment Development Motor (DM-2) was successfully carried out by NASA and Alliant Techsystems Tuesday. The successful... Posted Aug 31 2010, 04:22 PM by Aero-News Network

• Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue Keynotes NBAA Opening Session In Atlanta

  Association To Honor Perdue With American Spirit Award Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue (R-GA) will be featured as a keynote speaker for the Opening General Session at NBAA's 63rd Annual Meeting & Convention (NBAA2010) in Atlanta, GA, and will be... Posted Aug 31 2010, 04:21 PM by Aero-News Network

• Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Tuesday 08.31.10

  ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 08.31.10 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 08.31.10 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature: Part I: John & Martha at Gunpoint - 08.31.10 (ANN Special Report, with John... Posted Aug 31 2010, 02:17 PM by Aero-News Network

• Three Fatally Injured In Medical Helo Accident

  Helicopter Down In Arkansas Early Tuesday Morning A medical helicopter belonging to Air Evac Lifeteam went down at about 0430 Tuesday morning in central Arkansas, fatally injuring all three members of the aircrew. The accident occurred near the town of... Posted Aug 31 2010, 10:23 AM by Aero-News Network

• Aero-TV: All Things Old May Be New Again -- The Ultimate 'Classic' Kitfox

  Coolest Kitfox EVER Gets Serious Attention At Oshkosh 2010 There's something about the Kitfox... an aircraft series that was a true pioneer in the sport aviation arena for quite a number of years... and through good times and bad. It was the aircraft... Posted Aug 31 2010, 04:06 AM by Aero-News Network