The Tar Heel State suits Honda just fine. Building on news
earlier this year the Honda Aircraft Company selected Piedmont Triad International
Airport (KGSO) near Greensboro as the site for
production of its HondaJet VLJ (shown at center), on Tuesday Honda
Aero, Inc., announced it will establish its corporate headquarters
and a jet engine manufacturing plant in Burlington, NC adjacent to
the Burlington-Alamance Regional Airport (KBUY).
AD NUMBER: 2007-14-02
MANUFACTURER: Bombardier
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2007-14-02
SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive
(AD) for certain Bombardier Model CL-600-1A11 (CL-600), CL-600-2A12
(CL-601), and CL-600-2B16 (CL-601-3A, CL-601-3R, and CL-604)
airplanes.
AD NUMBER: 2007-14-07
MANUFACTURER: Rolls Royce
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2007-14-07
SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive
(AD) for certain Rolls-Royce plc (RR) RB211-524 and -535 series
turbofan engines.
Additional Testing Planned, But Initial Results Promising
Sometimes, good ideas do grow on trees... so to speak. Boeing
recently partnered with Weyerhaeuser Co. to test a new technology
that will, hopefully, make aerial firefighting more effective and
much safer.
A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report
released Sunday confirmed a DC-10 firebomber, operated for the
California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention (CalFire) was
damaged last month during a retardant drop on a brush fire near
Tehachapi.
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