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November 16,2009
Guard Moves To UH-72A Lakota For Medevac

The first National Guard medevac unit to receive the UH-72A finds the helicopter nimble and well eq...

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China Close To Testing Next-Gen Fighter
Beijing also plans to start flying a jet airlifter that is larger than the A400M...
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Touchscreens, Broadband Coming To Flight Decks
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How To Get More To The ISS, And Save
Ian Whalley, Palm Desert, Calif. - The weight of the space shuttle solid rocket booster (SRB) parachutes totals around 15,000 lb. per flight. Dispensing with these parachutes would allo...
Engineers As Numbers
Frank OBrimski, Garrett Park, Md. - I finished reading your articles on innovation (Oct. 26/Nov. 2) with an unsatisfied feeling. Retired Lockheed Martin Skunk Works President Sherman Mul...
Breaking The Propeller Rules
Paul Lipps, Arroyo Grande, Calif. - I take exception to Ed Stickel’s statement that “except for a few military aircraft and the dead-end Concorde, there has been no real innovation in ae...
U.S. Needs A New Tanker Now
Victor N. Rios, Marco Island, Fla. - While I cannot blame the Europeans, and Pierre Sparaco in particular, for trying to get a piece of the $45 billion that the U.S. needs to spend on a r...
Don’t Let Tankers Fall From Sky
Richard Lancaster, Edgewater, Md. - I am disappointed with the view of the U.S. Air Force as presented in your article “Bend or Break,” concerning the request for proposals for the KC-X ...
American Subsidies Are More
Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany - Hans J. Weber contradicts Pierre Sparaco, in his column “Leveling the Playing Field,” by pointing out the “indirect support” Airbus receives through t...
Transports Need TCAS
Scott Cooper, Danville, Calif. - That military transport aircraft continue to have mid-air collisions shows gross negligence. The Oct. 29 mid-air off San Diego between a U.S. Coast Gu...
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