Monthly Archives: April 2014

Embry-Riddle spends $19M on new Cessna planes – Daytona Beach News

The Daytona Beach campus will receive 41 new Cessna Skyhawk single-engine planes over the next couple of years, replacing older training planes in the university’s fleet, said Ken Byrnes, the flight department chair of aeronautical science. An additional 16 planes … Continue reading

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Obama Administration Approves Boeing’s Sale of Airplane Parts to Iran…First …

Visit Havana and you might think you had gone back in time. American cars, all built before the United States halted trade with Cuba in the late 1950s, cruise the streets. A trip to an Iranian airport might give you … Continue reading

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Monitor Board of Contributors The best pictures are often the ones in your mind

Email Print Comments (1) Gladys was the white-haired lady who lived in the white house on the corner near where I grew up. She had no children, and her husband, Ray, died a couple years after they moved in. But … Continue reading

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CPI Aerostructures moves beyond defense work

Tweet Google Pin It Originally published: April 3, 2014 9:14 PM Updated: April 4, 2014 8:43 PM By KEN SCHACHTER  kenneth.schachter@newsday.com The new CPI Aero chief executive Douglas McCrosson stands on a manufacturing floor in Edgewood, where leading edges for … Continue reading

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Veterans and novices turn out for Kite Flying Day

Font Size: Default font size Larger font size Good weather helps keep kites airborne. Ryan Henriksen/Tribune Buy this photo Jermiah Lambert, 3, runs to get her kite airborne Saturday at Douglass Park during the annual Kite Flying Day sponsored by … Continue reading

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Lektro: Tugs bound for military can cost $200000

WARRENTON — Somewhat under the radar, a local, family-owned manufacturer at the Port of Astoria’s Astoria Regional Airport has become a global leader in towing the world’s aircraft with its electric tugs. And after recent certifications to tow Airbus and … Continue reading

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Southland landmarks re-created in miniature

There’s the miniature Watts Towers, an elaborate depiction of Newport Beach’s Balboa Pavilion and a proportionally correct model of Silver Lake’s Music Box Steps — all tucked in Kelly’s crowded Tustin hobby shop. Not bad for a man who had … Continue reading

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