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July 12, 2012

Twice-Weekly Airborne 07.10.12: HBC Learns Chinese, Farnborough, Boeing Bucks

Also: XCOR Moves, Earhart Search, US Airways/AA Merger Info, Heli-Noise Meetings, Sailplane Grand Prix!

Twice is definitely NOT enough... Another Aero-Week means TWICE AS MUCH Aero-News! Airborne now comes to you TWICE a week, Tuesday and Fridays, (with occasional exceptions for special event weeks and associated coverage). Each week, you’ll get your dose of Airborne on Tuesday as well as Friday, allowing us to make the news more timely for you. A Chinese concern, Superior Aviation Beijing, has bought into Hawker Beech in a big way... but NOT the defense side of the company, which will remain separate. Boeing opened the Farnborough Air Show today

"Any merger between US Airways and American Airlines that could cost our city thousands of jobs and divert travel to other locations should not be completed until it is assured that Philadelphia International Airport remains a hub and major international gateway." Source: Philadelphia City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown (D), on merger discussions between American and US Airways.

The wavelike effect, characterized by severe updrafts and downdrafts, that occurs in the lee of a mountain range when rapidly flowing air is lifted up the steep front of a mountain range. Compare mountain wave.