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December 06, 2005

Harrier Down Off FL Coast, Pilot Rescued By Coast Guard

Also, Fatality In Indian Sea Harrier Accident

The pilot of a Marine AV-8B Harrier is safe after ejecting from his disabled aircraft off the coast of St. Augustine, FL Tuesday morning, and being plucked from the water by a Coast Guard vessel about four hours later.

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Pratt & Whitney Completes First Flight Test F135 Engine for JSF

Pratt & Whitney's F135 team has completed the engine that will power the first flight of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The milestone, marked with the turning of a ceremonial last bolt Monday, was celebrated at Pratt & Whitney's Engine Center in Middletown, Conn.

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Iranian C-130 Down In Tehran

Hits 10-Story Building, All Aboard Dead

An aging C-130 belonging to the Iranian military (file photo of type, below) went down Tuesday morning shortly after takeoff, impacting a 10-story building in Tehran's Yaftabad district. All 94 onboard the aircraft are dead, as are at least 25 people in the building, according to state radio reports.

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A-10 Pilot Aids GA Plane During Electrical Failure

Helps Pilot Who Lost Electrical System Land

It's the one word all pilots hope they never have to use: "Mayday." When it is made for real, it can make a pilot’s mouth go dry and his stomach cramp. That is the feeling pilot Naim Fazlija said he when he had to make the distress call to German radar controllers when his Piper Chieftain twin lost its electrical system on a flight from the Netherlands to Geneva last month. The charter plane was flying at 11,000 feet over a hazy Germany.

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PA Governor Makes His Case For Saving Joint Reserve Base

Guv Says BRAC Plan Might Leave Two Air Units Without An Air Field

Representatives of Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell and the Pennsylvania National Guard briefed local officials in Horsham, PA Monday about ideas for the future use of Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove.

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Gone West: John Stewart Detlie

Architect Helped Camouflage Boeing Plant During WWII

John Stewart Detlie didn't design or build aircraft, but he did ensure others could at a time when America needed those planes the most. The architect who designed the effective camouflage used to disguise the Boeing aircraft factory during WWII, passed away last week after battling lung cancer, just a few weeks shy of his 97th birthday.

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Mysterious Twin Otter Causes Canadian Curiosity

'I Suggest You Don't Pursue This Any Further'

Ontario residents would like to know just what, exactly, a DHC-6 Twin Otter owned by a company suspected of being a CIA front was doing there this fall. The October visit of the mysterious aircraft, registry N6161Q, is causing concern, curiosity, and raised eyebrows among those in Sault Ste. Marie. According to the FAA N-Number registry, the aircraft is registered to Washington, DC-based Aviation Specialties Inc. -- one of seven companies identified by the New York Times as CIA proprietaries.

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Second X-50A Dragonfly Prototype Completes Hover Flight

Program Will End With Transition To Forward Flight

Aero-News has learned the second X-50A Dragonfly -- Boeing's second canard rotor/wing (CRW) technology demonstrator –- has successfully completed a four-minute hover flight at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in southwest Arizona. The aircraft reached an altitude of about 20 feet above ground.

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