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January 18, 2012

NTSB Prelim Out In Lauren Scruggs Accident

Model Walked Into The Moving Prop Of An Airplane

Its no understatement to say that a moving propeller is one of the most dangerous things at an airport. An accident in December in McKinney, TX, bore that out as Lauren Scruggs, a young woman who had been a model and fashion blogger was struck exiting an airplane in which she had just been for a ride. She was badly injured, but survived, and is still recovering.

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Hollywood Comes To Spirit Of Flight Center

BD-5 Micro Joins The Museum's Collection

A BD-5 Micro aircraft has joined the Spirit of Flight Center air museum collection. The single-seat homebuilt aircraft, created in the late 1960’s by US aircraft designer Jim Bede, was introduced to the aviation market primarily in “kit” form by the now-defunct Bede Aircraft Corporation in the early 1970s.

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Groundbreaking Wednesday For New Tower At KFXE

Officials Say New Tower Needed Despite Lower Traffic

The slowing of the economy and downward political pressure on general aviation are among factors cited for a 25 percent drop in traffic at Florida's Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (KFXE) since 2008. But the FAA is still providing a $9 million grant to build a new control tower there, in the expectation that better times will bring resumed growth.

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New Comm Radio Fits In 2.25-Inch Cutout

Radio And Four-Place Stereo Intercom From MGL

A new comm radio from MGL is targeted directly at the sport and experimental aircraft market, and boasts a variety of popular features in a small package. The V6 fits in a small 2 1/4" round standard instrument hole and has many of the same great features of its older brother the V10.

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GAMA Responds To 'Perfunctory' Statement By White House On User Fees

Bunce: Obama Policies Will Hinder Economic Recovery

The White House has responded to a request from over 8000 petitioners to review their policy of imposing general aviation user fees. The petitioners requested this policy review through an online petition system set up by the Obama Administration called “We the People.”

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GPS Coalition Supports PNT Committee Position On LightSquared

No Credible Independent Research Backs Up Company's Claim Of Non-Interference

A statement issued Jan. 13, 2012 by the Department of Defense and the Department of Transportation, on behalf of the nine government departments and agencies that use and benefit from GPS in performing critical functions for the public, represents the culmination of a year of unprecedented technical effort to evaluate LightSquared’s proposal to repurpose satellite spectrum adjacent to GPS for a nationwide wireless network providing terrestrial-only services.

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New Jeppesen Terrain Data Available For Aspen

Existing Subscribers Will Get Free One-Time Upgrade

Aspen Avionics announced Tuesday the availability of a new terrain database from Jeppesen for Aspen’s Evolution Flight Display product line. This new database improves the resolution of the terrain data used in the Evolution System and offers an improved customer experience for the Evolution MFD, notably in markets outside of the United States.

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