NASA Shuttle Commander Tweets, Will Answer Questions from Space  

NASA astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the next space shuttle mission to the International Space Station this June, is sharing updates about his training and flight on Twitter and has invited followers to submit video questions via YouTube that he will answer from orbit.

Will Be On Display At EBACE 2009

After a not-so-good First Quarter, some good news still manages to leak out of the Embraer community with the first delivery of a Lineage 1000 executive jet, Thursday, in São José dos Campos, Brazil.

C17 Slid 4500 Feet With Gear Retracted

 The bigger they are, the longer they... skid. The Air Mobility Command has released the results of its investigation into the Jan. 30 mishap involving a C-17 Globemaster III that landed with retracted gear at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

ALPA Offers Massive Resources

Air Canada Jazz pilots tell ANN that they will receive a whopping $5 million grant from their international union, ALPA, to help them prepare for upcoming contract negotiations with their management.

The Sporty's Foundation Issues Annual Report

Chronicling its second year, The Sporty's Foundation Annual Report has just been released and the resulting stats are impressive. The Sporty's Foundation has as its mission funding aviation education and safety programs with an emphasis on youth.

Airbus is upgrading the A330-200's payload/range capabilities with a whopping 5 metric ton increase in maximum takeoff weight.

Commemorative Coin Will Fly on Space Shuttle Mission STS-125

Among the many intriguing contents in STS-125 will be a unique coin. The 2009 Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar, the first coin ever to feature readable Braille, will fly on Atlantis on May 11, 2009.

Naval Station (NAVSTA) Rota's last EA-3B (A-3) "Skywarrior" departed southern Spain with the help of the crew of multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) May 5.

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Aero-Linx: Twitter Site of STS-127 Astronaut/Commander Mark Polansky NASA astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the next space shuttle mission to the International Space Station this June, is sharing updates about his training and flight on Twitter and has invited followers to submit video questions via YouTube that he will answer from orbit.

  "The AIB president also found that aircrew distractions, task saturation, reduced cockpit visual cues, failure of the flight crew to cross-monitor each other's performance, the tower's failure to transmit a required reminder, and the crew's inadvertent disabling of the ground proximity warning system alerts contributed to the mishap." Source: From a USAF investigation into a gear-up landing at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The report's conclusions sound like many others we've heard who have "needed full power to taxi back to the ramp (grin)"... and for a wide variety of aircraft... and therefore we hope that all aviators will check this out and think about their own procedures before their next flight.