A Roll  Call Of Those We Lost This Past Year

John Gillespie Magee, Jr wrote: "Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, --and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of --Wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence."

"This third MUOS launch is another major step toward achieving a fully operational MUOS end-to-end capability by 2016. The Navy, in close collaboration with the Army, Air Force and our industry partners, is bringing the future of worldwide mobile satellite communications into reality for the United States and potentially allied nations." Source: Navy Capt. Joseph Kan, the MUOS program manager, commenting as Navy and civilian engineers prep the latest military communications satellite for a planned Jan. 20 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The satellite is part of MUOS, or Mobile User Objective System, which operates like a smartphone network from space, vastly improving secure satellite communications fo

A lateral deviation from a cleared track, normally in excess of 25 Nautical Miles (NM).

Bureau Of Transportation Statistics

The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) tracks the on-time performance of domestic flights operated by large air carriers.