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Aero-News provides daily newsletter summaries, RSS feeds, and numerous personal and professional syndication and news distribution options to insure that aviators, the world over, are kept up to date on information of critical concern. http://www.aero-news.net http://www.aero-news.net/images/rssimage.gif http://www.aero-news.net/ 136 27 So, The Person Who Brought Them To The Airport Abandoned 15, Causing A Bomb Scare A 44-year-old American man could face animal cruelty charges after he allegedly tried to check 19 cats on to his Lufthansa flights from Fiumicino Airport in Rome to New York, Italy's ANSAnews agency reports. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=e7b07aae-7d08-409c-bb98-5024dd1b4a76 Tue, May 15,2012 09:18:20PM Will Be Available For Use In Future Missions NASA has announced a modification of its NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract with Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, CA, to add an additional configuration of the Falcon 9 rocket to its fleet. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=d480bebc-33b4-42bf-bcf1-78d29e95f193 Tue, May 15,2012 09:18:00PM A Year Later, The American Space Program Seeks Definition After The Shuttle Era It was just a year ago... and the dream was nearly over. After decades of watching American ingenuity and perseverance launch hundreds of people into space, we were about to relegate our last manned launch system to the scrap heap of history... with no real way to know when that capability might someday be restored -- if ever. It was STS-134... the last flight of Endeavour. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=4ffb81ae-15f6-4aea-8816-d3402e6966c9 Tue, May 15,2012 09:17:04PM Hartzell Propeller Introduces New 3-Blade Conversion For The Popular Cessna Hartzell Propeller has received an FAA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for a 3-bladed propeller conversion kit for the Cessna 182S, 182T Skylane, T182T Skylane TC, up through models in current production. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=20d70403-c71d-4f8b-a157-50f56da10c56 Tue, May 15,2012 02:04:36PM BTS Releases Statistics For The First Three Months of 2012 Between January and March this year, the nation’s largest airlines posted their best on-time arrival rate for the first quarter of any year since the Department began collecting comparable flight delay data in 1995, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report released today. The 15 carriers reporting on-time performance posted an on-time arrival rate of 84.0 percent during the first quarter of 2012. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=32742a83-b325-4b75-a016-a5bc204caf58 Tue, May 15,2012 02:04:07PM The 2012 Model Year Version Of Daher-Socata’s Very Fast Turboprop Aircraft Is Introduced To European Customers Daher-Socata displayed the new TBM 850 Elite version of its very fast turboprop aircraft at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE), held May 14-16 at Geneva International Airport’s Palexpo exhibit center. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=73ebcded-2fc7-4408-9dc7-15fc22d0269b Tue, May 15,2012 02:03:02PM Will Enable More Widespread Charter Use Airbus’ ACJ318 and ACJ319 have gained EASA, FAA and GACA eligibility for Part 135 operations, while a variant of its ACJ319 has also gained CAAC eligibility, making it easier for operators to seek and obtain approval to carry fare-paying charter passengers. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=e3d0e19e-75ab-4123-a3a6-fbd13eb1b53a Tue, May 15,2012 02:02:38PM Carbon Dust Was Found In Raptor Air Filtration System Air Force officials have instituted measures designed to protect its pilots, ensure mission completion and assess the possible physiological effects of flying the F-22 Raptor, the command surgeon for Air Combat Command said May 9. "The health and safety of our pilots -- all of our pilots -- is the utmost priority," said Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Daniel O. Wyman. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=4ab358bf-fa6c-4ccb-b1d1-234fc3671880 Tue, May 15,2012 02:02:19PM Award Recipients Lauded For Making Safety Part Of Organizational Culture At the 12th Annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition, four companies were honored as recipients of the 2012 EBAA Safety of Flight Awards, given their outstanding safety records. The awards were presented in conjunction with the 2012 European Business Aviation Safety Workshop, which has become a traditional component of EBACE. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=93c92f4c-ad09-451c-b8ad-0aa95274c7a0 Tue, May 15,2012 02:02:03PM Honors Presented At EBACE In Geneva The European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) and NBAA have announced that David McMillan, director general of Eurocontrol, and Don Spruston, director general of the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC), are the recipients of the 2012 European Business Aviation Awards. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=2163844b-5fe4-4d7f-97f8-863ce61b6768 Tue, May 15,2012 02:01:39PM Expands Capacity To 48 Planes Annually To Meet Demand Nextant Aerospace announced at EBACE Monday that it has acquired a new manufacturing facility for the Nextant 400XT, the world’s only FAA-certified remanufactured business jet. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=50d4b955-5db4-4e72-87a5-e704f8b064bf Tue, May 15,2012 02:01:12PM Had Fallen In And Was Treading Water Near His Circling Boat A boater who had fallen from his 14 foot fishing boat into the 45-degree water of Pokegama Lake near Grand Rapids Michigan last Monday was rescued by a trio of floatplane pilots who happened to notice his boat in a "death circle" on the lake below ... one rotation every six to eight seconds. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=516b7fc1-cabd-4e1a-9aaf-e7681ac559b4 Tue, May 15,2012 02:00:42PM She Had Snapped A Pic Of A Helicopter Display A Kodak moment went seriously awry recently when a mother of three was arrested for taking a picture of an object that was intended as public art and in plain public view. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=c0312d83-ed01-4df2-b515-e89f9282f27a Tue, May 15,2012 02:00:22PM AD NUMBER: 2012-09-08 PRODUCT: Certain Boeing Model 767-200 and -300 series airplanes http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=94bf952b-ab04-43ea-a3e3-8f239aedb3b5 Tue, May 15,2012 01:59:47PM FAA Warned That It Was Too Close To Fulton County Airport The planned expansion of a waste-transfer station in Cobb County, GA, appears to be dead in the water following an FAA assessment that the facility would draw birds, increasing the risk of a bird strike at nearby Charlie Brown Airport (KFTY) in Fulton County. http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=39eadae6-978c-4365-b1db-1f2a549550a0 Tue, May 15,2012 01:59:12PM