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  • by Brett Patterson Thursday, July 3, 2008 @ 7:35PMGraduation celebrations at Culture Bière on the Champs Elysees. Click for larger images Strate Collège in central Paris held its annual Degree Show June 18-19, displaying works from students graduating from the Industrial Design programs.
  • Flag has flown over last century Thursday, July 3, 2008 @ 6:36PMWhen the stars and stripes of the Bollman family’s flag were bright and new the America represented by its 46 stars was a vastly different place. Theodore Roosevelt was president of the United States. The Titanic had not yet been built.
  • Flights vanish Thursday, July 3, 2008 @ 1:13AMWhile the number of airline flights serving Wichita Falls will drop from seven to three, the city is faring better than many smaller cities across the U.S.
  • FAA decison may send the Orioles to Vero Beach Wednesday, July 2, 2008 @ 11:12PMThe prospect of the Baltimore Orioles relocating their spring training headquarters to Vero Beach may be growing brighter as Federal Aviation Administration officials continue to ask for a huge rental increase for land the team uses in Fort Lauderdale. Indian River County has a draft agreement outlining future plans for a team, who sources say is the Baltimore Orioles, to replace the Los ...
  • 1st ID set to celebrate Victory Week - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 6:35PMTOPEKA, Kan. — First Infantry Division alumni and past commanders will converge on Fort Riley later this month for “Victory Week,” celebrating the division’s history and lineage.
  • Lhasa, Tibet, China Initiates Night Flights Using Naverus RNP Flight Paths Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 5:25PMLhasa, Tibet, China (July 1, 2008) – Air China successfully tested night flight service at Lhasa, Tibet, China’s Gongga Airport on June 27, the first night operations in the airport’s 43 year history.
  • Voyant Management Increases Stake in Company by Exchanging More Debt for Equity Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 3:15PM Voyant International Corporation, a diversified media and technology holding company dedicated to improving the quality of the digital world for both businesses and consumers, announced that the members of its senior management team have once again agreed to convert all of the deferred pay owed to them by the company into convertible preferred stock.
  • Candidate hopes to save Uiver Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 1:19PMALBURY Council candidate John Emmery says he would keep the Uiver. He says the replica of the plane that made an emergency landing at Albury on the last leg of the 1934 London to Melbourne air race was too important to the city and history to be raffled off.
  • VIDEO: Mid-Air Crash Update Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 11:36AMNTSB combs the wreckage of a mid-air medical helicoper crash. Stephanie Stanton reports. more
  • Grant would provide for Evelyn Johnson Flight Garden Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 11:22AMThose eager to further honor Morristown aviation legend Evelyn Bryan Johnson, begin a legacy of public art or just help cut city government’s expenses by $25,000 can do so starting Tuesday.
  • 2 medical helicopters collide near Flagstaff, killing 6 Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 1:07PM2 medical helicopters collide near Flagstaff, killing 6
  • 6 die as medical helicopters collide over Arizona Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 1:06PMInvestigators headed Monday to the scene of two helicopters that crashed killing six people and critically injuring a nurse.
  • Civil Air Patrol holds mission training Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 11:11AMDURANT— The Civil Air Patrol held training missions at Eaker Airport in Durant over the weekend. The training consisted of one day of classroom training and two days of flying search and rescue practice.
  • One of the First Tuskegee Airmen Dies at 87 Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 10:51AMATLANTA - (AP) Lt. Col. Charles "Chuck" Dryden, one of the first of the pioneering black World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 87.
  • Baby boomers snatch up fighter planes of dad’s era Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 8:43AMIn the world of warbird collecting, Glacier Girl was a rare prize. The World War II-era P-38 fighter made an emergency landing on a Greenland ice cap in July 1942 while on a flight from Maine to England. The aircraft eventually was buried under a layer of ice and snow more than 200 feet thick. In 1992, Glacier Girl was excavated and later restored to flying condition— one of a handful of ...
  • Renew mandate with NPP and Ghana in December Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 7:30AMIn the 2000 general elections, the New Patriotic Party led by the then Presidential candidate, John Agyekum Kuffour presented a programme of hope and change to Ghanaians and vigorously pursued those to sign a social contract with the Party to take over the then badly damaged country which desperately needed rescue.
  • Museum at Paine Field showcases WWII-era flight Sunday, June 29, 2008 @ 1:51AMEVERETT, Wash. — When people walk by the P-51D Mustang fighter plane at the new Flying Heritage Museum at Paine Field, they get to see more than just the restored plane.
  • Museums Sunday, June 29, 2008 @ 1:49AM"Song of the Towers" is part of "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist," closing Aug. 24 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. (State Of Wisconsin)
  • June 28 in Merced history Saturday, June 28, 2008 @ 5:14AMJune 28, 1958
  • Metro Communities Saturday, June 28, 2008 @ 4:15AMA roundup of news from across the metro
  • Radical Plans for the ADF Saturday, June 28, 2008 @ 2:08AMOn Strategy Page Australia we often discuss replacing one type of fighter aircraft with another, or the merits of one class frigate over another.
  • Yar’Adua Set for Historic Visit to UK Saturday, June 28, 2008 @ 1:14AMPresident Umaru Yar’Adua will in July pay a historic visit to the United Kingdom in pursuit of his administration’s desire to strengthen Nigeria’s bilateral ties with its major trading partners.
  • Jet servicer continues airport fight Saturday, June 28, 2008 @ 12:16AMMONTROSE — JetAway Aviation filed a court motion this week to reopen a case with Montrose County over private jet service at the county airport.
  • Ontario licence bureaucracy puts brakes on veteran drivers Thursday, June 26, 2008 @ 8:20PMLike many, Mick Rice likes to walk to work each morning, to his job as a meteorologist with the Ministry of Natural Resources’ Aviation and Forest Fire Management Branch in Sault Ste. Marie. Unlike many, however, if Rice drove he’d be in breach of the law. That’s because Mick, [...]
  • Pioneering Tuskegee airman dies at 87 Thursday, June 26, 2008 @ 5:37PMATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Lt. Col. Charles "Chuck" Dryden, one of the first of the pioneering black World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, died Tuesday. He was 87.
  • Pioneering member of Tuskegee Airman dies at 87 Thursday, June 26, 2008 @ 5:09PMLt.
  • Pioneering member of Tuskegee Airman dies at 87 Thursday, June 26, 2008 @ 4:36PMThu, Jun 26, 2008 (2:33 p.m.) Lt. Col. Charles "Chuck" Dryden, one of the first of the pioneering black World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was 87.
  • Famed WWII Tuskegee Airman dies in Atlanta Thursday, June 26, 2008 @ 2:11AMA vital link to a celebrated past has been lost. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Charles "Chuck" Dryden, 87, a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, the legendary black pilots of World War II, died Tuesday morning in Atlanta.
  • Winds determine air race team pace Thursday, June 26, 2008 @ 1:10AMThe Purdue University Air Race Classic team completed two legs of the race Tuesday, the first day, and stayed in Aberdeen, S.D. overnight.
  • Airman Warner lives high-pressure life Thursday, June 26, 2008 @ 1:04AM The first opportunity Airman Justine Warner had to set foot on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. John C. Stennis came just moments after her first carrier landing.
  • Articles for Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Thursday, June 26, 2008 @ 12:15AMSmall dogs could get their own playground in Aspen. Aspen City Council asked for more information Tuesday on the possibility of establishing an area in a city park that would be given over exclusively to the run of small dogs.
  • ATW Daily News Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 11:51PMBiman Bangladesh Airlines placed an order yesterday for four 737-800s valued at about $320 million plus two options, bringing to 12 the number of Boeing aircraft it has ordered this year as it attempts to modernize its aging fleet.
  • Restored Wright brothers memorial makes its debut Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 10:07PMKILL DEVIL HILLS Restoration of the monument at the Wright Brothers National Memorial was celebrated Wednesday with a rare invitation to climb to the top to see the vista. Many of the estimated 250 people who attended the brief ceremony at the base of the 61-foot-high monument stood in line aft ...
  • Passenger shipping industry drowns while budget airlines fly high Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 9:34PMWhile overloading used to be an easy culprit in most sea mishaps in the Philippines involving passenger liners, the case...
  • More pain for Midwest Airlines Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 1:07PMWith chief executive officer Timothy Hoeksema saying the company is facing "the most difficult time in the history of aviation," Midwest Airlines plans to tell its pilots and flight attendants to take significant pay cuts today.
  • Associated Air Center Celebrates 60th Anniversary Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 1:03PMDALLAS, Tex. – June 25, 2008 – Associated Air Center, a DAE company, celebrated its 60th anniversary in style at a gala event at the Westin City Center in Dallas, Tex. the evening of June 14, 2008. Attendees enjoyed an evening of dinner and entertainment themed to “An Evening with the Oscars” including celebrity impersonators.
  • IAHL Corporation Announces Cancellation of the Thrush Acquisition Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 12:32PM IAHL Corporation today announced a mutual cancellation of the Thrush Aircraft acquisition.
  • India clinches first foreign deal to sell Dhruv Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 12:12PMTo read the biggest stories of the day on your mobile, type mobile.ndtv.com on your phone browser.
  • URS to help upgrade military medical school at Fort Sam Houston Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 11:32AMURS Corp. will design and build two teaching facilities for military medics and technicians at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. (URS)
  • Book: Midwest flight nearly collided with jet on Sept. 11 Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 11:23AMMILWAUKEE Midwest Airlines pilot Gerald Earwood was flying about 100 miles west of New York when he first noticed what seemed like wisps of smoke coming off the World Trade Center.
  • The New P5+1 Package of Incentives to Iran: Neither New nor Improved Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 10:14AMThe latest proposal by the P5+1 group that calls on Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program in return for a package of incentives is not nearly enough to entice Iran to suspend the program. The proposal is long on vague promises, and needless "reaffirmation" of the rights that Iran already enjoys, but falls far short in providing the specifics of the incentives that are supposedly being ...
  • Ghana: Renewing the Mandate. Some Manifesto Ideas Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 10:08AMIn the 2000 general elections, the New Patriotic Party led by the then presidential candidate, John Agyekum Kufuor, presented a programme of hope and change to Ghanaians and vigorously pursued those to sign a social contract with the Party to take over the then badly damaged country, which desperately needed rescue.
  • Newry crash prompts lawsuit Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 4:07AMAUBURN - The parents of two Lewiston High School students who died in a plane crash along with another ROTC cadet two years ago are suing the school system and the city where they lived.
  • news in brief Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 3:51AMWASHINGTON - For the first time in American history, a woman has been chosen for promotion to four-star general.
  • Abundant Canada geese a menace Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 2:36AM A Canada goose population explosion is sweeping across North America.
  • Articles for Monday, June 23, 2008 Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 12:45AMBuilding a chairlift into town on the Lift 1A side of Aspen Mountain is a notion ridden with constraints, but is not completely out of the cards, Aspen Skiing Co. brass told the Lift One COWOP task force.
  • Area calendar Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 12:36AMJune 22-25 SUNDAY Community -- Streator R/C Flyers’ 20th annual Radio Controlled Air Show; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Club Field, two miles west of Streator on Illinois 18 and half mile south on East 15th Road.
  • Soaring Fuel Costs Carry Risk Of Airline Collapse Monday, June 23, 2008 @ 11:13PMThe impact of skyrocketing aviation fuel prices could result in massive job losses, declining business activity and reduced tourism as early as the second half of 2008, the Business Travel Coalition, a Radnor, Pa.,-based business consumer group, warned Monday.
  • Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups Monday, June 23, 2008 @ 10:26PMThomas Parkes, acting director of communication services for the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, writes : Re. "
  • Kenya: Minister Summoned Over Plane Crash Monday, June 23, 2008 @ 8:24AMTransport minister Chirau Mwakwere is on Tuesday expected to shed more light on the plane crash in which Roads minister Kipkalya Kones, and Home Affairs assistant minister Lorna Laboso were killed.