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ALPA Prepares to Welcome AirTran Airways Pilots

NPA Votes Overwhelmingly To Merge With ALPA

The Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l said Friday the union is "extremely pleased" by the decision by AirTran pilots to vote in support of a merger with the pilots union.

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Untangling MCFI Semantics, With Master CFI Rich Stowell

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 04.10.09 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 04.10.09 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- Understanding MCFI Semantics: 04.10.09 (ANN Special Report, with Master CFI Rich Stowell.)

JSSI Names Lou Seno As President

Lou Seno Brings Three Decades of Aviation Expertise to JSSI

Jet Support Services, Inc. announced this week business aviation veteran Lou Seno has been appointed President of the aircraft support company. Seno is responsible for worldwide strategic planning, business development and global sales for JSSI, the world’s largest, independent provider of hourly cost maintenance programs.

Delta Pays Out $6 Million In Employee Incentive Pay

Performance-Based Bonuses Equal Around $100 Apiece

Delta Air Lines announced this week it will add $6 million to employees' paychecks for meeting February operational performance goals. Delta's monthly incentive payouts are based on US Department of Transportation (DOT) data, as well as the company's own internal goals.

Lockheed Martin SBIRS Team Advancing To Follow-On Production Phase

Will Add Three, Possibly Four More Satellites

Lockheed Martin's Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) team has submitted its proposal for the program's follow-on production phase and has completed a major Preliminary Design Review (PDR) milestone with the US Air Force. The SBIRS program is designed to provide early warning of missile launches, and simultaneously support other missions including missile defense, technical intelligence and battlespace awareness.

Alaska Airlines Unveils 50th Anniversary Livery

"We're All Pulling Together" Honors 50 Years Of Statehood

A specially painted Alaska Airlines jet adorned with a Sitka high school student's winning design touched down in Sitka, AK Thursday morning, to celebrate 50 years of Alaska statehood.

Report: Boeing Production Cutbacks Will Mean More Job Cuts

Suppliers Could Start Feeling Affects This Year

Boeing's announcement Thursday it would slash 2010 production rates on its largest -- and most profitable -- airliners didn't come as much of a surprise for industry watchers.. and its likely ramifications won't surprise many, either.

Unite Offers 'Lifeline' To British Airways

'Temporary Solutions To Temporary Problems'

In what it terms "a positive and significant effort to combat the serious impact of the deteriorating global economy on British Airways," on Thursday Unite, the UK's leading union, proposed to the airline a package of negotiated efficiencies, temporary cost savings and deferred payments worth millions over the next two years.

Emirates Expands African Service Into Angola

Oil Boom Fuels Need For More Flights

Emirates is set to increase connections to Africa with flights to Angola, its 17th African destination.

Air Tahiti Receives 25th ATR Turboprop

Also Launch Customer For -600 Series

French Polynesia-based Air Tahiti took delivery this week of its 25th ATR aircraft, an ATR 72-500, in a ceremony held at the Final Assembly Line of the European turboprop manufacturer in Toulouse.

Colorado Airport Official Calls TSA 'Out Of Control'

New Security Guidelines Affect 13 State Airports

The obvious cost/benefit questions surrounding the Transportation Security Administration's new "Security Directive 8F" are escaping the confines of aviation circles and finding their way into general media reporting.

Aero-TV: Building A Legacy -- The Lopresti Family Mission (Part 3)

A General Aviation Dynasty Continues To Grow (Part 3)

There are few families so uniquely identified with the world of general aviation as is the Lopresti clan. For those not familiar with the LoPresti legacy, the patriarch of the brood, Roy Lopresti, was the prolific and innovative aircraft designer was the creative force behind the Grumman Tiger, Cheetah, Cougar and the Mooney 201, 232, 252 and 301.

Boeing Scales Back Widebody Production Targets

Issues Early Caution On Q1 Earnings

Ahead of the release of its first-quarter results on April 22, Boeing announced Thursday it will scale back its twin-aisle airplane production plans for 2010 due to "significant deterioration in the business environment for airlines and cargo operators driven by unprecedented global economic conditions."

Three More Carriers Admit To Price Fixing

Cargolux, Asiana, Nippon Cargo Will Pay Fines

The US Department of Justice said Thursday three more global cargo airlines admitted to fixing prices, bringing the total number of airlines to plead guilty to collusion charges to 15.

Klyde Morris (04.10.09)

TSA Brings New Meaning To 'Take The Money And Run!'

AeroConversions Offers Nikasil Cylinder Upgrade For AeroVee 2.1

Cuts Nine Pounds Of Weight From Popular Engine Kits

Sonex Aircraft, LLC announced this week another new enhancement to the popular AeroConversions AeroVee Engine Kit, with the introduction of weight-saving Nikasil Cylinders. The upgrade package reduces AeroVee Engine weight by just over 9 lbs and is offered at significantly lower cost than Nikasil or comparable NiCom kits offered by competing VW conversion manufacturers.

White House Press Corps Grounded In Turkey

Reporters Learn Firsthand About Banes Of Airline Travel

Journalists covering Washington politics lately have heard plenty of indignant politicians condemning those who use private aircraft to meet deadlines the airlines can't handle. Some of that criticism comes from politicians who, themselves, use government-provided jets for personal travel.

Start Planning Now For 2009 Copperstate Fly-In!

Event In Casa Grande, AZ Coming October 22-24

Since its first event in 1973, the Copperstate Fly-In has been bringing together aviation enthusiasts in the southwest United States. The 2009 event, to be held in Casa Grande, AZ from Thursday, October 22 through Saturday, October 24 will be no exception.

EBAA Reorganizes Following Management Shakeup

CEO Mandemaker Out "By Mutual Consent"

The European Business Aviation Association announced recently that CEO Eric Mandemaker is leaving the organization "with immediate effect by mutual consent."

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (04.10.09)

Aero-Linx!

The Naval Air Station Wildwood Foundation is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to restore Hangar #1 at the Cape May Airport, Cape May County, New Jersey, into an aircraft museum honoring the Navy airmen who died while training during World War II.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (04.10.09): No Boundary Condition

Aero-Terms!

The idea that the universe is finite but has no boundary (in imaginary time). The no boundary proposal, proposed by Stephen Hawking, predicts that the universe would start at a single point, like the North Pole of the Earth.

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (04.10.09)

"It's out of control. We have a large maintenance operation here with 400 people. We have a large interagency fire-fighting operation here, with maintenance facilities."

Source: Rex Tippetts, Manager of Walker Field (GJT) in Grand Junction, CO. A recent story in The Denver Post outlined concerns about the new TSA requirement for each of Colorado's 13 commercial airports to develop its own, incompatible system of security badges and background checks for pilots entering secure areas. Tippetts alone estimates he'll need 2,000 additional security checks and badges for personnel, and pilots based at GJT.

AD: MD Helicopters

AD NUMBER: 2009-07-13 MANUFACTURER: MDHI SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2009-07-13 SUMMARY: This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD) for the specified MD Helicopters, Inc.(MDHI) model helicopters that requires, within 30 days, reducing the current gross weight limit to a maximum gross weight limit of 5,400 pounds and inserting a copy of this AD into the Limitations section of the Rotorcraft Flight Manual (RFM) or making certain optional modifications that constitute terminating actions.

AD: Boeing

AD NUMBER: 2009-07-11 MANUFACTURER: Boeing SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2009-07-11 SUMMARY: The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD), which applies to all Boeing Model 737-300, -400, and -500 series airplanes.

AD: Honeywell

AD NUMBER: 2009-08-01 MANUFACTURER: Flight Management System SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2009-08-01 SUMMARY: The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD), which applies to all Honeywell FMSs served by Honeywell NZ-2000 navigation computers and IC-800 integrated avionics computers.

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NPA Votes Overwhelmingly To Merge With ALPA

Untangling MCFI Semantics, With Master CFI Rich Stowell

Lou Seno Brings Three Decades of Aviation Expertise to JSSI

Performance-Based Bonuses Equal Around $100 Apiece

Will Add Three, Possibly Four More Satellites

"We're All Pulling Together" Honors 50 Years Of Statehood

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Suppliers Could Start Feeling Affects This Year

'Temporary Solutions To Temporary Problems'

Oil Boom Fuels Need For More Flights

Also Launch Customer For -600 Series

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New Security Guidelines Affect 13 State Airports

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Issues Early Caution On Q1 Earnings

Cargolux, Asiana, Nippon Cargo Will Pay Fines

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TSA Brings New Meaning To 'Take The Money And Run!'

Cuts Nine Pounds Of Weight From Popular Engine Kits

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CEO Mandemaker Out "By Mutual Consent"

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