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December 03, 2015

Airborne 12.03.15: CAP's 74th, Winston-Salem AirShow Grounded, XCOR Founders

Also: Seaplane Rescue, XPrize, FAA Safety Ratings, EC120B Emergency AD, Lynx Sim, Atlas V, Webb Space Telescope

The U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol turned 74 Tuesday with its 58,000 members celebrating their rich heritage of volunteer service. CAP was founded on December 1, 1941. Its members quickly proved their worth by conducting aerial patrols on their own, heroism that discouraged and eventually stopped deadly German U-boat attacks along U.S. coastlines and waterways. The Winston-Salem Air Show has been cancelled for 2016, but the reason is not falling revenues or poor attendance. Rather, the Forsyth County, North Carolina Airport Commission decided to cancel the show when it was awarded a $1.8 million airport improvement grant to repave an

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