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AOPA President Phil Boyer made a special trip to give the keynote address at the Stick and Rudder Flying Club's sixtieth anniversary celebration at Waukegan Regional Airport in Illinois on Nov. 15, but the group ended up giving him a special honor. Read more...

You've already heard about changes to the way the FAA asks aviation medical applicants about their driving records, but new medical application forms arriving at your AME's office also feature new questions and terms. Read more...

As reported last month, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has proposed sweeping security rules for the operation of aircraft that weigh more than 12,500 pounds. Read more...

Want to get the inside scoop on the exciting transformation under way at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh convention grounds? Check out a new blog that was launched this week on the AirVenture website, featuring Steve Taylor, EAA's director of grounds and maintenance. Read more...

Filing Recaps Monthly Operating Reports Frontier Airlines filed its Quarterly Report Friday with the Securities Exchange Commission for the quarter ending in September 2008. Frontier states it already reported this information in Monthly Operating Reports (MOR) filed with the court for July, August and September of 2008 as a requirement under Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection. Read ...

Sterile Cockpits, With CFII Bob Miller ANN Daily Touch N Go: 11.17.08 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 11.17.08 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- Sterile Cockpits: 11.17.08 (ANN Special Report, with CFII Bob Miller of "Over The Airwaves".) Read more...

38 Persons On Board, No Injuries Reported A US Airways Express plane, operated by Piedmont Airlines, made a successful emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport Sunday morning. Read more...

But Seven Lost When Plane Crashes On Thormanby Island Seven persons onboard a Grumman Goose were lost Sunday when their amphibious plane crashed Sunday off the coast of British Columbia... but one passenger survived the fiery accident. Read more...

Updated Displays Vital In Case Of Launch Abort As Endeavour lifted off last Friday on the 124th Space Shuttle flight, a new software upgrade aimed at improving mission safety was also on board. Read more...

Accelerates To Mach 1.05 With Full Internal Payload Onboard Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter felt the need... the need for SPEED! The advanced fighter aircraft flew supersonic for the first time last week, accelerating to Mach 1.05 (about 680 miles per hour) in testing November 13. Read more...

Will Hire More Indian Pilots In Cost-Cutting Initiative Employing nearly 780 Indian and 260 foreign pilots, Jet Airways has developed a plan to reduce operational expenses by hiring more Indian pilots and gradually phasing out foreign pilots. Foreign pilots working for Jet currently earn almost twice as much as Indian pilots. Read more...

Non-Stop Flight From Anchorage To Buffalo Covers 2,694 NM JetBlue Airways recently reported a new world record for distance flown by an Embraer E190, after logging a 2,694 nautical mile non-stop flight from Anchorage, AK to Buffalo, NY. Read more...

AOPA, Boyer, Fuller: The Passing Of The Torch! Following Friday's general session at AOPA Expo 2008, ANN spoke with outgoing group president Phil Boyer, about what he thinks is the greatest challenge facing not only pilots, but Americans of all stripes... Read more...

"Flight 4500 took off from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport at 11:23 am (Alaska time) and landed some 6 hours and 11 minutes later, at 9:34 pm (ET), at Buffalo Niagara International Airport. This ultra-long segment was the first leg of the aircraft's return to JFK and its eventual return to scheduled service in the coming days." Source: From a JetBlue Airways intranet ...

Compliance With Landing Gear AD Causes Some Delays, Cancellations An internal audit by Northwest Airlines resulted in the grounding of 27 of its Boeing 757s the night of November 7, as NWA contacted the Federal Aviation Administration after discovering an airworthiness directive had not been fully complied with. Read more...

Right Arm Partly Severed, Woman Taken To Specialists A woman deplaning from a Cessna at Frederick Municipal Airport (FDK) in Maryland November 6 is lucky to be alive, after walking into the moving propeller of the airplane. Read more...

Negotiations For New Labor Contract Showing Progress After a two-hour session held Friday, negotiators from the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace and the Boeing Company reported "some progress" had been made toward hammering out a new labor contract. Read more...

Over 3,700 Claims For More Than $300 Million In Goods Since 2001 A recent sting operation conducted by the Los Angeles Police Department at Los Angeles International Airport resulted in the arrest of two baggage handlers and the recovery of 272 stolen items and over $10,000 in cash. Read more...

Aero-Linx! MaxAir2Air Pictures is an online magazine of photo essays about aviation. This site has some truly breathtaking shots featuring all facets of aviation. Read more...

Aero-Terms! A direct, circular, low inclination orbit about the Earth having a period of 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds. Read more...