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May 23, 2007

FAA Expands Airspace Flow Program To Combat Summer Delays

Program Allows Airlines To Fly Around Storms

Airline delays were bad enough this past winter, as hundreds of passengers were forced to become intimately acquainted with the interiors of MD-80s, 737s, A320s, and other aircraft for hours on end, waiting out storms on tarmacs at airports throughout the country. Now imagine the same scenario, but also with summertime temperatures to contend with.

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Rolls-Royce Celebrates 25 Million Flight Hours On AE Engine Family

Includes Turboprop, Turbofan Variants

Rolls-Royce announced this week the enginemaker has exceeded 25 million hours of service on corporate and regional aircraft with its AE family of turboprop and turbofan engines.

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'America's Ryanair' Begins Service

Skybus Takes Flight

It's been called "America's Ryanair" -- by its proponents AND detractors -- and so far, it's been mostly clear skies for Columbus, OH-based Skybus Airlines.

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DOT Reaches Agreement With China To Double Number Of Flights

Will Also Ease Some Restrictions On Cargo Runs

The US Department of Transportation reports the number of daily passenger flights between the United States and China will more than double by 2012, and air cargo companies will have greatly expanded commercial freedom by 2011, as part of a new civil aviation agreement reached Wednesday by Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters and Chinese Minister of Civil Aviation Yang Yuanyuan.

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Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Wednesday 05.23.07

Are Recently-Hired Controllers Resigned To Resigning?

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 05.23.07 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 05.23.07 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- Another Public Resignation Of An Air Traffic Controller: 05.23.07 (ANN Special Feature, with Doug Pincock, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association's Facilities Representative for Salt Lake Center.)

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Legislation Criminalizes Laser Pointers Aimed At Aircraft

$12 Item Can Impair Pilot Vision

It doesn't matter if you are a terrorist or a prankster -- if you shine laser pointers at airplanes, you could now face up to five years in prison.

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Argentine Study Gives New Hope For Jet-Lag Sufferers

But There COULD Be Side Effects...

There may be new hope for chronic jet-lag sufferers. Argentine researchers say they've seen encouraging results from test conducted on hamsters, that were given mild doses of an increasingly common prescription drug: Viagra.

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