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| 11.01.2009 |
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Aviationtoday.com: Beyond the Slogans
It’s not just corporate sloganeering: the aviation industry is truly in the forefront of "green" solutions to reduce air pollution. At the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) conference in October in Orlando, Fla., the business jet...
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| 10.01.2009 |
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Aviationtoday.com: High-Flying Troubles
In 1965, a then-unknown lawyer named Ralph Nader came out with a blockbuster expose of the automobile industry’s systematic disregard for safety. Called "Unsafe at Any Speed," the book sparked a revolution in transportation regulation...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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Aviationtoday.com: Bonding Experience
The rising use of composites in aircraft manufacturing also is giving rise to unexpected maintenance predicaments. Not all mechanics are adequately trained to repair these leading edge materials, which makes training of paramount importance. This issue is...
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| 08.01.2009 |
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Aviationtoday.com: In Flux in France
The deal making has officially concluded; the order books are closed. The upshot of this year’s Paris Air Show: a shockingly small number of big sales, with airlines too worried by recession and too deeply in the red to pony up billions of dollars for...
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| 07.01.2009 |
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Aviationtoday.com
Required Navigation Performance (RNP) is an underlying capability of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). You might think, because NextGen seems to be languishing in bureaucratic limbo, RNP is of no practical use today. Think again. RNP...
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| 06.01.2009 |
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Aviationtoday.com: Miracle Materials
The adoption of composites represents a revolution in aircraft manufacturing — a change as significant as the switch from wood to aluminum in the 1920s. However, aviation is still grappling with how this historic trend will change conventional ways of...
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| 05.01.2009 |
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Aviationtoday.com: Supply Chain Brain
As the global economy extends into once unthinkably remote regions, supply chains are becoming more attenuated. Aviation parts are moving at lightning speed from Xinjiang to Singapore to Seattle, and they need to be tracked with precision. To help solve the...
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| 04.01.2009 |
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Aviationtoday.com: Sun Peeks Through
Making the journalistic rounds at February’s Heli-Expo 2009 in Anaheim, Calif., I encountered spirited debate about an issue that surfaces every year at this show: the lack of adequate infrastructure (in the form of heliports) and the related need to...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Aviationtoday.com
A Future Too Soon? Not that you asked, but I work out of my home office in Barrington, R.I., a quintessentially New England town by the sea. It’s a pleasant enough place — except during winter, when temperatures drop into the teens and snow snarls...
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| 02.01.2009 |
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Emerging From Shell Shock
As we stagger out of our bunkers and sort through the rubble of 2008, the indicators for the coming year don’t auger well. It’s entirely possible that we’ll continue to endure economic bombardment well into 2009. Let’s first examine...
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| 01.01.2009 |
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Speed of Innovation
I once saw an amusing bumper sticker that read: "It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law: 186,287 miles per second." The message, of course, refers to the speed of light in space. Probably at the wheel of the car was a Trekkie or MIT...
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| 12.01.2008 |
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Aviationtoday.com: Masters No More
The interrelated dangers now facing aviation are unprecedented in scope, as the global financial system grapples with its worst crisis since the Great Depression. In the context of the wider economy, aviation is a lagging indicator, a fact that begs the...
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| 11.01.2008 |
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Aviationtoday.com: NextGen Internet
The next major war won’t be fought on land, sea or air; it will be fought in cyberspace. The rapid flow of information over the Internet is an integral component of Network-Centric Operations, particularly the U.S. Army’s Future Combat System...
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| 10.01.2008 |
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Aviationtoday.com: Seeing the Weather
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. That was the famous weather forecast uttered by the "Hippy Dippy Weatherman," an indelible character created by the late comedian, George Carlin...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Aviationtoday.Com: Ruing Britannia
Most aviation journalists dread the rigors and indignities of the Farnborough Airshow, but it’s undoubtedly Europe’s biggest aviation event of the year. So, in mid-July, that’s exactly where I went. During the previous Farnborough that I...
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| 08.01.2008 |
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Aviationtoday.com: The Final Frontier
Aerospace activity beyond the stratosphere is often given short shrift by the media at international air shows, but according to analyst briefings at both the Berlin and Farnborough air shows this year, space will afford continued growth for aerospace...
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| 07.01.2008 |
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Aviationtoday.Com: Dateline: Berlin
You don’t have to possess the perceptiveness of the famous correspondent William L. Shirer, who covered Berlin during the 1930s and 1940s, to recognize that Berlin is a modern miracle. A mere 63 years ago, Allied bombers reduced the city to little more...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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Aviationtoday.Com: Of Flying Robots
The headline to this column seems like the title of a bad science fiction movie from the 1950s, but it actually describes the new reality of warfare. Unpiloted drones are the darlings of reformers in the Pentagon who promote net-centric, transformational...
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| 03.01.2008 |
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Aviationtoday.com: Of Man and Machine
The editorial Muse strikes at odd hours. Around midnight on a Saturday, after massive infusions of caffeine (Jamaican Blue Mountain, freshly ground), I finally faced my nagging deadline and booted up my laptop. With synapses firing at a frenetic clip, it was...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Aviationtoday.com: Flightplan to Where?
Aviation is in the throes of transition. Witness ADS-B, NextGen and composite construction. At the Web site Aviation Today and its affiliated publications, we don’t just cover these and other important trends — we try to anticipate and decipher...
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