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Discussion in 'Jet Aviation Discussion' started by Jet News, Sep 7, 2012.

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    International Dog...

    A Springer Spaniel dog should have bee shipped from Newark to Arizona but instead ended up in Ireland. Obvivously the dog was put on the wrong aircraft and took a 5,000 nautical mile detour. Hendrix, the dog's name, took a little over a day to reach his intended destination of Arizona. At least he can now say he's an international travler.

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    Man sentenced for 30-months in jail for pointing laser at aircraft

    A man has been sentenced to 30-months in jail for pointing lasers at passing aircraft. This has been a practice by ordinary people in the past thinking that it is harmless fun but since last year that random act has actually become a Federal crime. Anyone knows that having a laser pointed at your eyes causes you not to be able to see. Think what it may do to pilots who are trying to safely land and take off their respective aircraft.

    Adam Gardenhire has been listed as the man who allegedly commited these acts in March of last year and his jail sentencing is only the second to have been handed out for shining a laser beam towards an aircraft in flight. One of the aircraft that was beamed upon by Gardenhire was a Cessna Citation Jet.

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    Member of the Elite SEAL team 6 was killed in a parachute incident in Arizona according to the U.S Military.
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    That was in our local news of course. Mid-air collision between 2 sky divers, both Seals. The 2nd guy is still in a hospital.
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    It is a sad thing for anyone to pass, yet it is inevitable but I guess how it happened, they didn't plan to depart in that manner.
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    The Pipistrel Panthera makes its first flight in Slovenia. It took off on its maiden flight from the Airport of Cerklje ob Krki. This airport is the country's military airport but incidently this also serves civilian traffic.

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    Researchers have recently found and uncovered the remains of a WWII aircraft that was thought to have been lost. It is a Bristol Beaufighter Mk X aircraft that has been found in Northern Italy. They didnt find the whole plane but they did find parts of the fuselage and the propeller. This type of aircraft was used in WWII as a torpedo bomber, horrifyingly known to the Japanese as the 'whispering death'.

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    WWII saw lots of twin engine fighters. But not many of them used radials.

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    Worldwide cargo freighter Fedex has donated one of its old Boeing 727 aircraft to the Sun 'n Fun Campus. The campus is used by the Central Florida Aerospace Academy and its partner Polk State College. The main cargo compartment will be transformed into a classroom and the tail end of the airplane will be used as a boardroom. The plane is expected to remain operational just not fly. Students will be able to power-up the aircraft's APU (Auxillary Power Unit), engines and so on.

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    Literally thousands of flight attendants from airlines have rallied against U.S security officials' decision to allow certain types of knives back onboard aircraft. Being introduced on 25 April, the measure lets passengers carry pocketknives through airport security and onto departing flights once their blades do not exceed 2.26 inches in length. This will be the first time that these kinds of 'blades' are allowed back on aircraft since 9/11.
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    More markings on the exterior, this time a smiley.

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    Wow, check this out guys and gals. Russian authorities have ordered the country's carriers to avoid overflying Syrian territory following an apparent attack on a Nordwind Airlines Airbus A320.
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    An Airbus aircraft had to make an emergency landing in Bermuda after reports of a fire on board, British island territory officials said. The pilot decided to avert the Manchester-bound flight when flying above the Atlantic Ocean, prompted by smoke allegedly seen in the cabin. Flight 149 by Thomas Cook Airlines landed safely without incident with 338 UK holidaymakers on board.
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    A SouthWest Airlines' Boeing 737-700 and a small Skyhawk narrowly missed crashing into each other in mid-air. This apparently happened on April 19 when the Boeing aircraft was coming into land at the Burbank airport in California to Runway 08 while the Skyhawk was performing touch-and-go maneuvers on Runway 15. The Boeing passed 200-feet below and 10-feet laterally from the small Skyhawk. No one was injured.
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    An ammonia leak aboard the International Space Station threatens to disrupt an electrical channel that may require a spacewalk to repair. The ammonia leak was spotted on 9 May in the form of frozen ammonia flakes drifting away from the P6 Truss. Ammonia is used as a heat exchanger in the ISS. It basically dissipates the heat that is generated by the solar arrays and machines running on the ISS.