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October 17, 2008

ANN Special Feature: NBAA VLJ Panel IV - Training, Insurance - 10.17.08

NBAA Moderator Mike Nichols asks VLJ panelists about their plans and progress in training and safety, and how the insurance industry is responding.

Panelists include Eclipse Aviation's Mike

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Aero-TV Joins In The Discussion Over The Latin American VLJ Market

Oscar Garcia Expresses Optimism Despite Current Economic Challenges

ANN and Aero-TV are pleased to announce that we have agreed to be the principal media partner for MIU Events upcoming roster of aviation events and seminars. MIU Events run aviation events and training seminars, specializing in executive flight infrastructure, business aviation and finance solutions for aviation as a whole. They run a number of events focusing on the development of the Very Light Jet in regional markets and cater their events to the needs of senior managers, charter/air taxi operators, high net worth individuals/entrepreneurs, owner pilots and those who shape the future of the aviation and aerospace industries. MIU Events concentrate on providing hard to access information and the exchange of id

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FAA Creates 'Lessons Learned' Online Database

Pilots, Others Encouraged To Review Lessons From The Past

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has established a one-of-a-kind online safety library that teaches "lessons learned" from some of the world's most historically significant transport airplane accidents... especially how that knowledge can help maintain today's aviation safety record.

Another Airline Prognostification, Courtesy Of Klyde Fans!

Aero-Terms!

A manual backup for the automatic cabin pressure outflow valve. If the automatic valve should malfunction, the cabin pressure can be controlled with the manual depressurization valve.

"In practical terms, lacking any US-created alternative, retiring the shuttle would mean relying on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to carry American astronauts to the space station for at least four years. NASA Administrator Mike Griffin has described US dependence on Russia for transportation to space as "unseemly." Indeed it is, but it is preferable to continuing to fly the shuttle past 2010."

Source: Space historian John Logsdon, former director of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute, in an op-ed piece that ran this week in the Washington Post. In it, Logsdon says NASA needs to stop wasting money on the space shuttle and devote its full resources to the Constellation program... even if it means America will not have a homegr