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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is calling for new safety protocols, aimed at preventing instances of midair collisions. Currently, 10 to 12 small aircraft are involved in such events yearly, and the agency wants to put an end to this trend.They way it plans to go about doing this is to create a new and ... |
5 July 2011
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Two of the largest aeronautics corporations in the United States, the Boeing Company and American Airlines, have recently signed an agreement solidifying their cooperation for improving aviation.The two companies want to develop and test emerging technologies that would make flights safer, cheaper, and more environme... |
22 June 2011
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Jeppesen, a company that deals with navigational information for air, sea, and ground transportation, has announced that Executive Jet Management has received authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to use Jeppesen Mobile TC App for iPad as an alternative to paper charts.
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14 February 2011
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Even if the new development plans adopted at NASA state that the American space agency will begin supporting the private space industry, representatives of the latter say that the federal organization may in fact be trying hard to destroy it. Although they put up a somewhat united front in the public eye, NASA offici... |
24 November 2010
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Officials at the Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) are ecstatic to announce that the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently approved their spacecraft reentry license.What this means is that Dragon space capsule that the company is developing under an agreement ... |
23 November 2010
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On September 24, the FAA announced the opening of a new database for commercial spaceflight companies, which is meant to make this emerging field safer and moire reliable than ever.Market analysts say that this is a major step forward for the spaceflight industry, especially given that the federal government is to be... |
4 October 2010
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NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida announced that it will support the new Center of Excellence (COE) for Commercial Space Transportation, that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Wednesday.This university-led pool is a partnership between academia, industry and government with the purpose ... |
21 August 2010
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Just last week, the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) allowed Cecil Filed, a former naval air base, to become the seventh spaceport in the United States. The documents the airfield received ensure that, in the very near future, it will be used as a starting point for horizontal take-offs to suborbital flights. One goo... |
19 January 2010
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Over the past few years, lasers have become indispensable scientific instruments, which are used for a variety of tasks, ranging from measuring the distance from the Earth to the Moon and analyzing air composition, to offering a focal point for the active optics systems in modern telescopes. But, when firing a high-p... |
2 November 2009
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The highly controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), proposed as far back as 2001 by former president George W. Bush, has allowed the US National Security Agency (NSA) to collect extremely large amounts of data from American citizens, and centralize them into a massive database, which is constantly expanded. A... |
17 April 2009
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Apparently, there is no doubt about the winner of the Rocket Racing League's first race, since the competition that took place on Tuesday saw only one rocket plane in the sky, namely that of the XCOR Aerospace of Mojave. The Armadillo rocket plane did not receive the flight approval from the Federal Aviation Adm... |
30 July 2008
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According to a recently published survey made by TripAdvisor, a travel website, 78% of the plane travelers reject the idea of using a mobile phone during flights. Almost 2500 international travelers attended the survey and agreed to answer this question, which is more than enough to say that it's pretty relevant... |
31 October 2007
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I have recently told you about the Microsoft's Surface or the Rosie Coffee Table's capabilities of creating real interactivity with their users. I mentioned back then that the only difference between the two of them was given by the target customers.This time, it's Northrop Grumman's turn to launc... |
7 September 2007
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