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AA terminal at New York’s JFK opens as briefcase searched
American Airlines reopened the ticketing area and lower baggage claim of its terminal at New York City’s John F. Kennedy airport after a brief evacuation to investigate an unattended briefcase. The terminal was reopened at 9 a.m. local time after the bag was searched and found to contain papers and other normal business materials, said […]
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Airline to offer Louisville flight to Bahamas
An airline says it will begin a $99 nonstop flight from Louisville to a Caribbean island later this year. Vision Airlines says there will be two weekly departures from Louisville International Airport to Grand Bahama Island beginning Nov. 3. The flights on a 148-seat Boeing 737 will take off at 7 p.m. on Thursdays and […]
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Skydiving instructor dies in Polk county
Friends and co-workers say it was a “terrible accident…and a miscalculation” that caused the death of a metro-area skydiving instructor. It happened Saturday morning at “The Sky Dive Farm” in Polk County. Friends say 41-year old Rodrigo Bianchini was trying to land by “skimming” the water with his feet but instead, he made his final […]
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Local pilot offers free flights to promote aviation to youths
Lifting off the ground, Fred Wright wonders what goes through youngsters’ minds as they enter the atmosphere. “It’s a joy to take the kids up in an airplane and see their expressions and maybe what they’re thinking,” Wright said. For the past 19 years, the Zanesville pilot has been actively promoting aviation to the youth […]
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Plastic takes to skies
Air India has ordered 27 of them, Jet Airways another 10. Most of these aircraft should have begun commercial operations by now, but not one has yet been delivered. Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner has been inordinately delayed. The ambitious plan that called for 787 parts to be flown in from various places across the world […]
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Ball Aerospace develops flight computers for next-generation launch vehicles
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has completed development of prototype launch vehicle flight computers equipped to bring safety and reliability to future human spaceflight systems. These flight computers were financed by Ball Aerospace and are based on deployed units now being used by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in their simulation laboratories to develop software […]
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Three die in chopper crash
The Bell 212 transport helicopter crashed in the morning while on its way to pick up the bodies of the nine victims in the Black Hawk helicopter crash on Tuesday. The Black Hawk crashed in a Burmese forest opposite the Kaeng Krachan National Park during an operation to retrieve the bodies of five soldiers who […]
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Airlines taking savings from expired taxes
Airlines are tossing consumers aside and grabbing the benefit of lower federal taxes on travel tickets. By Saturday night, nearly all the major U.S. airlines had raised fares to offset taxes that expired the night before. That means instead of passing along the savings, the airlines are pocketing the money while customers pay the same […]
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U.S. airlines fight prospect of higher security fees
U.S. airlines are fighting the prospect of sharply higher passenger security fees that could be part of any deficit-reduction plan. The approach is among a handful involving aviation that have swirled around the ever-changing complexion of efforts by Congress and the White House to avert a debt default. While those proposals would cover only a […]
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Boeing CEO Statement about the death of Gen. John Shalikashvili
Boeing Chairman, President, and CEO Jim McNerney issued the following statement about the death, on July 23, of retired U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and former Boeing board member Gen. John Shalikashvili. “We at Boeing were saddened to learn of Gen. Shalikashvili’s death. We were able to see his exceptional leadership first hand during […]