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Skydiving World Record
Thursday, 16 February 2006
Four hundred skydivers from over 31 countries established a new world record by hold hands in a mid-air free-fall formation.
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Global Flyer Record Flight
Sunday, 12 February 2006
After being airborne for more than 73 hours and travelling over 23,000 miles the destination airport was just appearing on the horizon.  Just when Steve Fossett and his Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer had the hard part of the journey behind them, things went wrong fast. 
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L-39 Fatal Crash
Saturday, 04 February 2006

A Czech-made L39 two-seater training jet owned by USA Air Inc. of Las Vegas, crashed into a trailer park in Ketchikan, Alaska, last Wednesday, killing the pilot. The pilot’s body was found still strapped to the ejection seat about 100 yards from the crash scene.  Details are few but no one was injured on the ground.

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Mitsubishi MU-2B Safety Report
Saturday, 04 February 2006
The increasing number of accidents in recent years on MU-2B series airplanes prompted the FAA to conduct a thorough and complete safety evaluation involving not only a review of the certification aspects of the airplane, but also including a review of operations, maintenance and training.
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Are User Fee’s Coming?
Saturday, 28 January 2006
User fees for general aviation in the United States may be just around the corner if you start reading between the lines of  a speech delivered by U.S Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta to the Aero Club of Washington (D.C.) on Tuesday, Jan. 24.
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Bombardier First Flight
Friday, 27 January 2006
Bombardier's Challenger 605 wide-body business jet completed its first flight on Sunday, meeting the schedule announced at the NBAA Convention last November.  "It was a great flight ... the aircraft performed superbly," said pilot Frank Magnusson.
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NTSB Caravan Concerns
Monday, 23 January 2006
On October 6, 2005, about 0540 central daylight time, a Cessna 208B, Canadian registration C-FEXS, operated by Morning Star Air Express as cargo flight 8060, was destroyed when it impacted the ground about 5 minutes after takeoff from the Winnipeg International Airport (CYWG), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The certificated airline transport pilot was killed.
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November Calendar

Newsflash

A sheriff's department plane carrying inmates collided with another small craft in the air over western Colorado. Both aircraft landed safely.

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Sunny Perth in Western Australia will host the final showdown of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship on the 1st and 2nd November where the 2008 title will be decided between Austria’s Hannes Arch and Britain’s Paul Bonhomme.

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Just one nautical mile of vertical separation avoided disaster on the Atlantic today.  A Delta Airlines Boeing 747 and a Russian Registered Transaero Boeing 737 came dangerously close.

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The air traffic control systems at airports in the United States returned to normal after a computer system glitch caused hundreds of flight delays across the East and the Midwest.

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Four are dead after a Hughes MD 500 plunged into a icy, swift flowing river near Prince Rupert British, Columbia.

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