What do airlines and banks have in common? Answer: They can go bust overnight. What are the airline equivalents of Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs? Will governments bail out failing carriers in a similar way? If not, what can I do if I have booked a ticket with an airline that collapses?..
In the Sept. 30 Metro story "Md. Copter Crash Scrutinized," about the crash of a Maryland State Police rescue helicopter around midnight Saturday, public health professor Susan P. Baker of Johns Hopkins University said that 15 to 20 percent of people who work regularly in helicopters for 20 years will die in helicopter crashes...
On Sept. 30, the very day that FAA funding was set to expire, President Bush signed the “Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2008,” which means the FAA has the money to continue operating until March 31, 2009...
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti): Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) is optimistic about MiG-35 Fulcrum’s chances of winning a lucrative tender to supply 126 multirole fighters to the Indian air force, the company’s president said on Friday...
Moller International (OTC-BB: MLER) is offering its M200X for sale. The M200X volantor[1] was the first VTOL aircraft of its kind (flying car) to fly successfully and did so repeatedly during the 1980’s. The most important flight occurred on May 10, 1989 in front of the local, national and international press. This flight, shown on our website at http://www.moller.com/videom200x.htm, resulted in subsequent articles in Forbes, Discover, Popular Mechanics, USA Today and Esquire as well as TV appearances on Good Morning America, The History Channel, 60 Minutes, numerous times on The Discovery Channel and on the evening news with Peter Jennings...
MOSCOW (RIA Novosti): Kamov, one of Russia’s largest helicopter producers, is hoping to sign an agreement by the end of the year to export its helicopters to Iran, the company’s director said on Friday. Roman Chernyshev said that the agreement is for "supplies of civil rather than military helicopters."..
Federal investigators said Thursday they found human remains amid the wreckage of missing adventurer Steve Fossett’s airplane in the mountains of eastern California. The remains were found among a field of debris that stretched 400 feet long and 150 feet wide in a steep section of the Sierra Nevada. Some personal effects also were found at the crash site but investigators would not describe them in any detail...
GLASGOW, Scotland: The private company planning to take wealthy tourists to the edge of the atmosphere starting in late 2009 or early 2010 has refused a million-dollar proposal to film a sex video while the participants are floating gravity free, the company’s president said...
One vehicle’s operative life is coming to a close, while the other’s is still in its formative stages. Their legacies will be inexorably linked: Without the space shuttle, delivery and assembly of the International Space Station’s (ISS) key components would have been difficult at best, and probably could not have happened...
