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• Pierre de Fermor May 18 2012

  Nepal plane crash kills 15 including Bollywood child actress

  By Joel Siegfried on Examiner.com  -  Fifteen people have died on Monday, May 14, 2012 at about 9:30 a.m. local time in the crash of a 1997 German-built Dornier Do 228-212, passenger plane ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 16 2012

  Five killed as two planes collide over Saskatchewan, Canada

  By Joel Siegfried on Examiner.com  -  Five people were killed when the two small planes in which they were traveling collided in mid-air on Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 8:50 a.m. local time ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 16 2012

  The Miraculous Phenomenon That is Sully

  A standing ovation when he entered the stage. Softball questions from hardball New Yorkers. Heartfelt coos and ooos and ahhs and a second standing round of applause - Three years after his heroics on the Hudson ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 16 2012

  Video shows how jets survive lightning strikes

  An Emirates Airlines plane is hit by lightning en route from Dubai to London.   By Natalie Wolchover on MSNBC.com  -   When an Airbus 380 from Dubai came in for landing at Heathrow Airport on a ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 13 2012

  Vintage Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk fighter found in Sahara desert of Egypt

  By Joel Siegfried on Examiner.com  -  The well preserved remains of a World War II RAF Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk war plane was found by Polish oil company worker Jakub Perka while exploring a remote region ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 11 2012

  Russian Sukhoi Superjet on demo flight with 44 aboard missing over Indonesia

  By Joel Siegfried on Examiner.com  -   A Russian built Sukhoi Superjet 100-95 next generation commercial aircraft carrying 44 invited guests on a demonstration flight to potential buyers has disappeared from rader over a mountainous region ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 9 2012

  "Girls With Wings" is holding an Aviation Inspiration Day in S. St. Paul, MN, on May 26th

  Contact: Lynda MeeksExecutive Director, Girls With Wings, Inc.216.577.6131Director@GirlsWithWings.comSecond Annual Aviation Inspiration Day Cleared For TakeoffNon-Profit Girls With Wings, Inc. Aims To Inspire Young Girls Through Flight(South St. Paul, MN ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 8 2012

  Dubai’s Emirates eyes further US expansion - chairman

  ArabianBusiness.com  -  Dubai’s Emirates Airline is planning to expand its US operations, with Chicago and Florida on its radar for new routes, the airline’s chairman said. “The bilateral (agreements) between the UAE and ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 6 2012

  WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Selling Emirates Airline could “make sense”

  ArabianBusiness.com  -  Sir Maurice Flanagan, executive vice chairman and one of the founders of Emirates Airline, has revealed that “it would make sense” to sell the airline in the future, in order to help service ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 6 2012

  Oxygen problems are making some pilots decline to fly F-22 Raptor jet fighters

  By Joel Siegfried on Examiner.com  -  An ongoing problem with the emergency oxygen system of the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor has repeatedly grounded the stealth fighter aircraft, and prompted some pilots to opt out ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 5 2012

  Free E-invitation to Cannes Air Show June 2012

  To get your free entry to the 2012 Cannes Air Show, simply preregister on www.cannesairshow.com under the "Visitor" page, typing code EXHCAS12 Aviation Club International will have a boot there, and we are ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 4 2012

  Delta Passenger Tries Channeling Alec Baldwin

  Well, well, well, theFederal Aviation Administration has gone and done something the flight attendants on one of my recent flights would not do. It's gone and talked tough to a iPad wielding air traveler ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 2 2012

  Air France Flight 447: 'Damn it, we’re going to crash’

  With the report into the tragedy of Air France 447 due next month, Airbus’s 'brilliant’ aircraft design may have contributed to one of the world’s worst aviation disasters and the deaths of all ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 1 2012

  Airplanes Give Rise to a State of Accomplishment

  At the risk of sounding as if I'd been sucked into the enthusiasm generated by the marching band, the fireworks, the laser show and the smoke machine, let me just say that the roll ...

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• Pierre de Fermor May 1 2012

  787 Dreamliner launch to create new aviation jobs in UK

  Aviationmatch.com on April 30, 2012  -     The launch of the 787 Dreamliner in the UK is set to create aviation jobs.Although most of the 787 assembly takes place in America, 25 per cent of ...

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