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IAG Accepts Mediator Proposal In Iberia Dispute
Iberia parent IAG has accepted a government-appointed mediator's proposal to end conflict over mass layoffs, the company said on Sunday. "The board has decided to accept the proposal," IAG said in a statement.
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Air India Jet Clips Jet Blue Plane On JFK Tarmac
An Air India Boeing 777 clipped a JetBlue A320 on the tarmac of New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on Saturday morning, JetBlue said in a statement.
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Virgin Atlantic Faces Record Loss: Report
Virgin Atlantic is facing record annual losses of GBP£135 million (USD$202 million), raising fears of job cuts, The Sunday Times reported.
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Boeing To Move Flight Training To Miami
Boeing said it is consolidating its North American flight and maintenance training operations in Miami, a shift that will move all flight simulators for the 787 Dreamliner and other aircraft out of the Seattle area.
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Chicago Midway Airport Privatisation: Anatomy of a US airport lease
Just as with a bus, you wait 17 years for an airport privatisation to come along, one breaks down then you find two come at once. That encapsulates the story of the US’ 1996 pilot Airport Privatization Program, which, after five years in the doldrums, suddenly sprang back to life in late Feb-2013 with the conclusion of the lease transaction on Puerto Rico’s San Juan Luis Munoz Marin Airport and with the completion of the RfQ (Request for Quotations) procedure on the second attempt to privatise Chicago Midway Airport.
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AirAsia buys into Zest Airways, seeking growth in Philippines
The Philippine unit of Asia's biggest budget airline AirAsia has agreed to acquire 49 percent of small-scale regional carrier Zest Airways, as it moves to turn its Philippine business into a money-making operation.
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Parked Air China 737 damaged by strong winds
An Air China Boeing 737-800 parked at Tianjin Binhai International Airport suffered damage after strong winds pushed it into a nearby aerobridge.
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MAS to take A380 deliveries into three figures
Malaysia Airlines is set to take Airbus A380 deliveries into three figures, nearly five and a half years since the first airframe was handed over to Singapore Airlines.
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If it’s ugly, it’s British; if it’s weird, it’s French; and if it’s ugly and weird, it’s Russian.

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On This Date

---In 1910... Lieutenant J. W. Dunne’s D5 tailless biplane is tested at Eastchurch, Kent, England. It has a 60-hp Green engine and was built by Short Brothers.

---In 9141…A record for heaviest payload for a commercial aircraft is set by a Lockheed Super constellation flying for Flying Tiger Lines from Newark, New Jersey to Burbank, California.

---In 1955…Orient Airways is merged into a new government-owned airline to become Pakistan International Airlines.

---In 1957... The prototype Boeing 707 jet lands after a press demonstration flight from Seattle, Washington to Baltimore, Maryland during which it covers 2,350 miles in a record time of 3 hours 48 minutes.

---In 1957…a Flying Tiger Lockheed Super Constellation sets a new payload record for a commercial aircraft, carrying 41,749 lb (18,937 kg) on a flight between Newark, New Jersey and Burbank, California.

---In 1958…Boeing B-47E Stratojet, 53-1876, and an F-86 Sabre collide during a training mission. The damaged B-47 is forced to jettison a nuclear weapon casing. Because there’s no fuel capsule installed on the bomb, there is no nuclear detonation. The bomb would never be found.

---In 1960…US Probe, Pioneer 5 Solar Monitor launched. Space probe is now in a solar orbit.

---In 1982…Winderoe Flight 933, a Twin Otter (LN-BNK) crashes into the Barents Sea after structural failure of the aircraft’s tail due to severe clear-air turbulence. All 15 on the aircraft perish.

---In 1986…Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km.

---In 1993…First flight of the Airbus A321.

---In 1997…Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space.

---In 1998... The first two of four Boeing E-767 airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircrafts are officially handed over to the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force.

---In 2005…JetsGo ceases operations.

---In 2005…China’s first privately-owned carrier Okay Airlines begins operations with a flight from Tianjin to Changsha. Their fleet currently consists of five Boeing 737s and two Xian MA-60s.

---In 2011…An 8.9 magnitude earthquake strikes off Japan’s northeast coast, generating a massive tsunami which sweeps away entire towns in Japan, washes out Sendai Airport and forces Tokyo’s Narita Airport to shut down.

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Farm Kid

Dear Ma and Pa,

I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.

I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m. But I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing.

Men got to shave but it is not so bad, there's warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food, plus yours, holds you until noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.

We go on "route marches," which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A "route march" is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.

The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The Captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.

This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes.

Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake . I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'6" and 130 pounds and he's 6'8" and near 300 pounds dry.

Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.

Your loving daughter,
Alice

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Zak wrote:---In 9141…A record for heaviest payload for a commercial aircraft is set by a Lockheed Super constellation flying for Flying Tiger Lines from Newark, New Jersey to Burbank, California.