Also: Boeing, Bell, Sikorsky, Red Tails, Eurocopter, Enstrom, NBAA, EAA, A4A, AEA, And A Few More A380 Cracks...

Airborne 02.17.12 is chock full of info about the week ending Friday, February 17th, 2012... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Ashley Hale, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton and Paul Plack, this episode covers:

Klyde Keeps Lobbying For That Falcon 7X....

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Be A Part of ANN's Fight To Keep Telling It Like It Is...

Aero-Update 01.09.12: Hi Folks... We've held up on this for the last several weeks due to some legal confusion, but we're sorry to say that the Cirrus war against our Constitutionally-protected responsibility to tell the truth about the ills this industry faces, continues on... especially when those stories are about Cirrus. We'll have a LOT more to say about this shortly... including an interesting documentary project that not only tells you what went wrong... but shows Cirrus and its ilk caught in fib after fib, time after time... in glorious living color. The sad fact about this story is that there is actually MUCH more to tell and that the real reason for the problems we face is that Cirrus s

Polar Jet Marked by a concentration of isotherms and strong vertical shear, this jet is the boundary between the polar air and the subtropical air. It often divides into two branches, the north and the south, and marks the high speed core of the prevailing westerlies. It is associated with the location and motion of the high and low pressure areas of the middle latitudes, and therefore, is variable in position, elevation, and wind speed. Its position tends to migrate south in the Northern Hemispheric winter and north in the summer, and its core winds increase during the winter and become less strong in the summer.

Aero Linx: (NASA) How Does A Jet Engine Work? Jet engines move the airplane forward with a great force that is produced by a tremendous thrust and causes the plane to fly very fast. All jet engines, which are also called gas turbines, work on the same principle. The engine sucks air in at the front with a fan. A compressor raises the pressure of the air. The compressor is made up of fans with many blades and attached to a shaft. The blades compress the air. The compressed air is then sprayed with fuel and an electric spark lights the mixture. The burning gases expand and blast out through the nozzle, at the back of the engine. As the jets of gas shoot backward, the engine and the aircraft are thrust forward.

"The city’s refusal to comply with the FAA’s finding, and discrimination against skydiving, has nearly put me out of business. Now that I’m calling them out for their wrongdoing, they’re making threats..." Source: Urban Moore, who owns Eugene Skydiving, who is currently in the seventh year of a dispute with Hobby Field Airport (77S) -- which has attempted to curtail skydiving via a number of actions, putting one operation out of business and Moore's in jeopardy.