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As SpaceX’s Elon Musk pushes ahead on his development of rocket and delivery systems to supply the International Space Station, he is also looking at finding a way to provide high-speed Internet communications for the entire world. If that sounds like an ambitious plan… it is…and it’s reported that Google and Fidelity seem to agree to the tune of $1 billion. General aviation comes to the rescue. More than 200 dogs and cats were flown from Greenville Airport in Alabama

Initial Mission Systems Testing Completed

The Boeing Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) program is ready for customer demonstration flights, having completed the baseline ground and flight testing of the aircraft mission systems.

Nine Million Dollar Program Starting In 2018 Will Eventually Represent Annual Revenues Of Up To $500,000

McMurdo Group has been selected by Embraer to provide complete Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) shipsets for its E-Jets second generation of aircraft, the E-Jets E2. The contract will include McMurdo Group’s Kannad Integra ELTs with its new ARINC GPS Interface fitted on the aircraft, and Kannad 406 MHz Survival ELTs for use by crew members in the cabin.

Meridian Employee Honored At 25th Annual Gala

David Schuster, a Quality Assurance Inspector with Meridian Jet Center based in Teterboro, NJ, has been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Teterboro Chapter of the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA). He joins a short list of distinguished recipients who have received this honor.

First JSF Arrived At Nellis January 15

A new era began at the U.S. Air Force Weapons School when its first F-35A Lightning II touched-down on the flightline at Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base Jan. 15, flown straight from the Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth, Texas.

Nearly 130,000 Pages Of Documents Posted On The Internet

The storied USAF Project Blue Book has been published online ... including nearly 130,000 pages of declassified UFO records amassed by the U.S. government.

Large End Product Mosaics Can Be Rendered In Two Or Three Dimensions

A new aerial mapping system has been released by FalconScan that allows uses to create large end product mosaics that can be rendered in two or three dimensions. The system, which the company says has been in development for several years, includes flight planning, guidance and data capture software, a spectrally calibrated digital high spatial resolution camera system, and cloud based software to geo-spatially locate, orthorectify, and create its images.

High Speed Taxiway A long radius taxiway designed and provided with lighting or marking to define the path of aircraft, traveling at high speed (up to 60 knots), from the runway center to a point on the center of a taxiway. Also referred to as long radius exit or turn-off taxiway. The high speed taxiway is designed to expedite aircraft turning off the runway after landing, thus reducing runway occupancy time.

Aero Linx: A-4 Skyhawk Association An affiliation of individuals who have flown, maintained, (or who simply love) the "A-4 Skyhawk"; and who are dedicated to the perpetuation of the legend, history, traditions, and camaraderie associated with the greatest attack aircraft ever built. The Skyhawk Association is a non-profit organization founded by former Skyhawk Pilots which is open to anyone with an affinity for the A-4 Skyhawk. We welcome all ages, male and female, pilots, maintenance personnel, modelers and photographers, aviation historians, aviation enthusiasts; anyone with a love for "Heinemann's Hot-Rod". Join those that flew and repaired her in recognizing the Skyhawk's contribution to freedom.

"That's going to be the initial focus over the next year. Certainly in the next year-and-a-half or so, we will be far enough along in continuing (tactics development) to develop a weapons school syllabus for the F-35. ... In the next two years, we'll be transitioning pilots in the short term to get F-35 experience, but we'll also be developing the (combat air forces) syllabus." Source: Col. Adrian Spain, U.S. Air Force Warfare Center and 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron commandant, who will be developing a weapons curriculum for the first F-35 course. 

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