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Parachute Altitude Record Challenged |
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Monday, 01 February 2010 |
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 Extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner, of Austria, announced last week he will try to break the world record jump by skydiving from a balloon from an altitude of 120,000 ft. The record jump has been held by United States Air Force Colonel (Ret.) Joseph Kittinger’s for nearly 50 years. In 1960 Kittinger made his record-setting parachute jump from a balloon from an altitude of 102,800 feet. During the five-minute freefall Baumgartner will become the first person to exceed the speed of sound with his own body. Kittinger along with sponsor Red Bull will be assisting Baumgartner in breaking his own record. “People have been trying to break my records for 50 years, and many have died in the attempt,” Kittinger said. “But I believe that with our unique assets, an extraordinary mission team, the dedication of Red Bull, and Felix Baumgartner’s outstanding skills, Red Bull Stratos will succeed.” Baumgartner is a BASE jumper—one who parachutes to the ground from fixed structures. He is perhaps best known for being the first person to fly across the English Channel with a carbon wing in 2003. |
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Ethiopian B-737 Crashes off Coast |
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Monday, 25 January 2010 |
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 An Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying 90 people caught fire and crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from Beirut International Airport. The Boeing 737-800 took off around 2:30 a.m. local time and disappeared from radar 2 miles off the coast. Terrorism was not suspected in the crash of Flight 409, which was headed for the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
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Sunday, 24 January 2010 |
 Professional pilots are required to track their duty times in an effort to reduce the risk of errors that may be brought on due to pilot fatigue. No such mechanism formally exists for private pilots but then again, seldom do most private pilots fly long enough to warrant one. But that’s not to say that there isn’t a point where the skills and attentiveness of a non-professional pilot, not used to a long and taxing day of flying, might begin to suffer. On any given day, how much flying is too much? |
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Bendix/King Database Problem |
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Sunday, 17 January 2010 |
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Bendix/King has issued an “Urgent Safety Bulletin” regarding certain Bendix/King KLN and KLX products that have been compromised by their latest database updates. |
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LORAN-C Termination Information |
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 |
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 The Coast Guard published a Federal Register notice on Jan. 7, 2010, regarding its intention to terminate transmission of the LORAN-C signal Feb. 8, 2010. A LORAN Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Record of Decision stating that the environmentally preferred alternative is to decommission the LORAN-C Program and terminate the North American LORAN-C signal was published in the Federal Register on Jan. 7, 2010.
The Homeland Security Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010 allowed for termination of the LORAN-C signal on January 4, 2010, after certification from the Commandant of the Coast Guard that it was not needed for maritime navigation and from the Secretary of DHS that it is not needed as a backup for GPS. Full details are contained in Section 559 of this act which can be found at the Government Printing Office website.
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010 |
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 Plans are under way to construct the highest airport in the world in Nagqu, Tibet. Construction is scheduled to start in 2011 at Nagqu about 186 miles from the Tibetan capital of Lhasa.
The altitude of the airport is approximately 4,436 metres (14,500ft). The airport will be just 764 metres lower than the Mount Everest base camp on the Chinese side, which is located 5,200 metres above sea level.
Construction is expected to take three years. |
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PIPER AIRCRAFT SELECTS AVIALL AS WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTER |
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 |
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 Piper Aircraft announced the selection of Aviall Services, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, to be its global parts distributor, providing supply chain support for the company’s global dealer network and individual customers.
“One of Piper’s primary goals is to enhance every facet of our customer service experience,” said Piper President & CEO Kevin J. Gould. “Aviall’s extensive experience and excellent reputation in parts management and distribution will give our customers world-class service that is fundamental to the total Piper experience.” |
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Bendix/King has issued an “Urgent Safety Bulletin” regarding certain Bendix/King KLN and KLX products that have been compromised by their latest database updates. |
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American Airlines Flight 331 carrying 148 passengers plus 6 crew skidded off the runway in Kingston Jamaica during a landing in heavy rain last night. The aircraft stopped just short of the Caribbean Sea and all passengers and crew were able to evacuate safely. |
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The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy are searching for survivors from a collision between a C-130 plane carrying seven people and a Marine Corps helicopter carrying two others 80 kilometres off the San Diego coast and 24 kilometres east of San Clemente Island. The mid-air crash was reported at 7:10 p.m. local time on Thursday. |
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Several days after the world watched a homemade balloon fly through the air with the thought that a six year old boy was trapped inside authorities announced that the whole thing was a hoax planned by the boy’s parents. |
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Space shuttle Endeavour landed at Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Friday with a touchdown at 10:48 a.m. EDT, capping the 16-day STS-127 mission to the International Space Station. 
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Space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 launch today was officially scrubbed at 1:55 a.m. EDT when the same type of gaseous hydrogen leak was detected at the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate, or GUCP. This is the same location where a similar leak resulted in a launch scrub on June 13. |
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Hawker Beechcraft has cut another 150 jobs which are part of the 2,300 job eliminations it announced in February. |
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Despite recommendations from the National Transport Safety Board the FAA has yet to ground the Zenair Zodiac CH-601XL. |
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A 12-seat Pilatus PC-12 aircraft crashed and exploded in a cemetery in Butte, Montana on Sunday killing all seventeen on board. |
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The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) announced that 2008 year-end worldwide shipments of general aviation airplanes decreased for the first time in five years.
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