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Industry Round-up, April 19, 2019

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Blue airplane lighting has taken over Delta, JetBlue, and United

The travel journalist Paula Froelich remembers walking onto her first Virgin America flight and thinking, “What is this, a club?” When the airline launched in the US in 2007, industrial designer Adam Wells decided to avoid the sickly “yellow-green fluorescent … Continue reading

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FAA Grounds All Cirrus Vision Jets over Angle of Attack Issues

The FAA on Thursday issued an emergency airworthiness directive (2019-08-51) against the Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet that grounds the entire fleet until specified maintenance is performed on the aircraft’s angle of attack indicators. The AD was prompted by three incidents … Continue reading

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Wait for It: Why Boeing 737 Max software fix is taking so long

Caption Close Article source: https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Wait-for-It-Why-Boeing-737-Max-software-fix-is-13777415.php

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Saving aviation, through education and inspiration

By Richard L. GawStaff Writer  Against the serene motion of planes landing and taking off every day at the New Garden Flying Field in nearby Toughkenamon, there is the staggering reality of numbers and percentages that threaten the future of … Continue reading

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Air Force chief, crowd of 1,000 salute the last Doolittle Raider – San Antonio Express

The seas were heavy 77 years ago as the USS Hornet turned into the wind. Their B-25 Mitchell bomber shaking violently, Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle and his co-pilot, Lt. Dick Cole, revved up their engines with their feet hard against … Continue reading

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Boeing making ‘steady progress’ on path to 737 MAX software certification: CEO

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Boeing Co is making “steady progress” on the path to certifying a software update to the grounded 737 MAX and has made the final test flight before a certification flight, its chief executive said on Wednesday. Boeing’s … Continue reading

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