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October 28, 2008

Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Tuesday 10.28.08

The NAFI Crisis, With Master Instructor And 2006 CFI Of The Year Rich Stowell

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 10.28.08 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 10.28.08 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- The NAFI Crisis: 10.28.08 (ANN Special Report, with 2006 National CFI of the Year Rich Stowell.)

XCOM Says "Production Issues" In Australia Spurred Decision

Australian avionics manufacturer XCOM Avionics announced recently the company has signed a "Joint Manufacturing Agreement" with Narco Avionics, under which the latter with manufacture and support the XCOM 2 1/4" COM Transceiver.

This Monster Dwarfed Virtually Everything At Oshkosh!

If you visited on the "right days" at Oshkosh 2008, you either saw this monster... or were under its shadow. You could hardly miss Boeing's huge Dreamlifter... a plane so big, it swallows 787 fuselage sections whole. The Boeing Dreamlifter is a modified 747-400 passenger airplane that can haul more cargo by volume than any airplane in the world. It is the primary means of transporting major assemblies of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from suppliers around the world to the 787 final assembly site in Everett, Wash. This reduces delivery times to as little as one day from as many as 30 days today.

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EADS Socata Hosts Australia's First TBM Fly-In

80 Percent Of Country's Fleet In Attendance

The first Australian fly-in of TBM owners, pilots, and industry partners was hosted by EADS Socata last weekend at Gold Coast Airport in Coolangatta, Queensland.