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2 hrs ago | PSFK

Zipcar For Airplanes Helps Pilots Get In The Air Faster

Established in May of last year, OpenAirplane makes renting an aircraft as easy as renting a car.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, US News, Federal Aviation Administration

6 hrs ago | The Times Bulletin

Van Wert pilot competing for Cessna internship

Ryan Todd, a young college student who was born and raised in Van Wert, has been selected as one of six pilots competing for an internship in Cessna's Discover Flying Challenge.

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Related Topix: Civil Aircraft, Aircraft, Cessna 172, Cessna Aircraft, Van Wert, OH, Life, Hobbies, Van Wert County, OH, Eastern Michigan University

10 hrs ago | Basingstoke Gazette

Food charity displays new aircraft at Popham

A CHARITY that flies in medical equipment and food to some of the poorest parts of the world displayed the latest addition to its fleet at Popham.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Africa, South Sudan, World News

14 hrs ago | RIA Novosti

Austrian-Russian Utility Plane Deal Flies to Rescue Regions

Russia is to build a new light utility aircraft in cooperation with an Austrian plane-maker in response to a need to revive Russia's flagging local air services in remote areas.

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Tue Jun 18, 2013

Airport Business

Chattanooga Airport, TAC Air Spar Over Aviation Center

Chattanooga Airport and TAC Air officials skirmished Monday after airport officials said their general aviation center will lose about $450,000 in the budget year that ends June 30. June 18--Chattanooga Airport and TAC Air officials skirmished Monday after airport officials said their general aviation center will lose about $450,000 in the budget ... (more)

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Texarkana, TX

Business Wire

Unison Industries Air Cooled Fuel Cooler

More composite aircraft, efficient engines, and higher energy loads are making fuel less available for cooling purposes, and in some cases return-to-tank is not possible.

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Airport Business

Dallas Airmotive Asia Pacific RTC Completes First TFE731 Major Periodic Inspection

Dallas Airmotive's Regional Turbine Center based at Singapore's Seletar Airport has completed its first Major Periodic Inspection on a Honeywell TFE731 engine.

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Rome News

Aerobatic flight competition coming to airport on June 28

The International Aerobatic Club, Chapter 3, will host the Bear Creek Bash Aerobatic Competition at Rome's Richard B. Russell Regional Airport on June 28-29.

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Iol.co.za

Lofty aspirations for Google balloons

Google revealed top-secret plans to send ballons to the edge of space with the lofty aim of bringing Internet to the two-thirds of the global population currently without web access.

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Surrey Advertiser

'Loophole' fears over Fairoaks Airport hangar plan

Fairoaks Operations Ltd has submitted plans for a 6,000sq-m building to house helicopters and light aircraft owned by existing tenants, Gama Engineering Ltd and Heli Air.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Town and Country, MO, Surrey County, England, United Kingdom

Journal Gazette

Fresh start at Smith Field

Fort Wayne-Allen County Airport Authority officials cut the ribbon on a new terminal building at Smith Field airport Monday.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Fort Wayne, IN, Allen County, IN

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Airport Business

GE Aviation to Create a New Composites Facility at its Hamble, U.K. Aerostructures Manufacturing Site

It is part of a five-year, $50 million-plus investment at the site to support the company's manufacture of wing components for the Airbus A350 XWB jetliner family.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Hampshire County, England, United Kingdom, Airbus A350, Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Commercial Aircraft

The Brooks Bulletin

Local pilots talk about flying career in agriculture

ALLISON DECLERCQ Brooks Bulletin Kelly DubA© and Pat Stinnissen, two spray plane pilots who own Quikway Air Services Inc. in Brooks, said it all started with an interest in a flying career.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Agriculture, Science, Canada,

Customer Interaction Solutions

Unison's New EBU for the LEAP-1A Engine for A320neo

Industries has a newly designed Engine Build-Up for the LEAP-1A engine application on the A320neo.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies

SooToday

UGLY has never been so much fun

It's a bird, it's superman, no . . . it's a remote control airplane show Join the Sault Ste.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Sault Ste. Marie, MI

Nova News Now

Would move to 14 Wing work?

Businesses must be able to continue operating in order to stay in business. That was the message from Waterville Airport Co-operative Limited board member Brian Goldie during a presentation to Kings County council June 11 regarding the province's Waterville Municipal Airport Relocation Study final report.

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This is Wiltshire

Tickets for a charity raffle, organised by the Rotary Club of Calne, are now on sale.

Among the top prizes are A 500 in cash, a six-month membership to St Mary's sports centre, dinner for two at the Foxham Inn and a light aircraft flight from Yatesbury Airfield.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Wiltshire County, England, Life, Hobbies

Sun Jun 16, 2013

WTVG-TV Toledo

Father's Day flight show a family tradition

The annual flight event at Toledo Executive Airport has been a Father's Day Weekend tradition for Phil and Benjamin Jacks.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Ohio

AlertNet

Solar plane lands at Washington on journey across U.S.

An airplane entirely powered by the sun landed in Washington on Sunday after a flight from St. Louis, the next-to-last leg of a journey across the United States intended to boost support for clean energy technologies.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

WOZZ-FM Appleton

EAA Airventure to pay $450,000 for air traffic con...

An air traffic controller monitors aircraft movement from the control tower at Manchester Airport, northern England, February 3, 2011.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Oshkosh, WI, US News, Federal Aviation Administration