Painting on Title is Arroyotherapy, Oil on Canvas, Copyright M-J de Mesterton, 2006
In San Diego, a fighter jet returning to a Marine base crashed into two expensive homes and killed three people on Monday. One person in the home where three were found dead was still missing at last report.
The pilot of the F/A-18D Hornet jet ejected safely just before the crash around noon at Marine Corps [...]
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The value of stock in Boeing Company has risen today, presumably because on Saturday, November 1st, 27,000 assembly workers voted to approve the company’s four-year contract offer. This move by workers ended an assembly-workers’ strike that stopped production at western Washington Boeing plants for nearly two months.
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ANKARA, Turkey —
Despite the flagging worldwide economy, Turkish Airlines would like to buy 105 airplanes from Boeing and/or Airbus, depending upon the proposals it receives. The company desires delivery by the second half of year 2010. Turkish Airlines’ passenger numbers have increased by 150% within the past four years.
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Photo: Jim Bates, Seattle Times
Democrat Senator Harry Truman didn’t want Black Americans flying war-planes…
Lieutenant Colonel Le Roy Jones, Jr. of the Tuskegee Airmen Passes Away in Tacoma, Washington at Age 86
M-Jeanne de M.
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Article in Richmond, VA Newspaper, on the Passing of Lieutenant Colonel HowardLee Baugh
Tribute to Lt. Colonel Howard Lee Baugh
Great American Hero Lt. Col. Howard Lee Baugh had 6,000 flying hours.
M-Jeanne de M.
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Sherman Rose, Tuskegee Airman
Our Condolences to the Rose Family
Tribute to Sherman Rose
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Airbus suffered major delays to its A380 superjumbo program, which caused its parent-company, EADS, large financial losses in 2007.
The company reported on Friday, August 1st, that it had signed an agreement to sell one of its production sites in Germany to a consortium composed of German parts maker Diehl and French electronics company Thales.The sale [...]
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Tehachapi, California: what a beautiful, historic town, with a view of its gorgeous windmills. We drove into Tehachapi a few years ago and were extremely pleased to see a huge wind-farm up in the distance. Windmills and their motion have an elegant, lyrical beauty. especially the sleek, modern ones. I remember when my father [...]
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People in Small Planes Dropping Like Flies from the Skies, Continued:There they go again.
Going, going…GONE.It’s so much safer to do business over the internet!This sort of junket, though for legitimate business, seems unnecessarily wasteful, and now it has proven to be the ultimate waste. This is very tragic, but, like Senator Paul Wellstone’s [...]
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Article: FlyDubai Orders from Boeing
Farnborough Opens with New Orders for Boeing; Etihad, the National Airline of United Arab Emirates, Orders from both Airbus and Boeing
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We received this today from Viscount Carpentier de Gourdon:
A 600 meter long craft was seen by several witnesses, including police officers over Stephenville, TX, early this year. It took off, after hovering noiselessly, at more than 1900 nautical miles an hour in the general direction of Crawford, TX.To: zland@sympatico.caFrom: zland@sympatico.caDate: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:00:34 [...]
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Article by Dominic Gates
That’s fine. However, it would behoove EADS/Airbus to recognize the fact that the size of their proposed refueling tanker would necessitate the expansion and expensive rebuilding of airstrips worldwide, and that if their proposals aren’t practical, they may be cast upon the ash-heap of history.
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more [...]
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Article in The Seattle Times by Dominic Gates, Aerospace Reporter
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UPDATE, MARCH 30th, 2008: Small Plane Crashes Outside of London, Killing Six PeoplePhoto KABC, Los AngelesThe Incident, Los Angeles; January 20th
Small Plane Crash in Florida Kills Five
Taking yourself out this way is one thing, but destroying property and uninvolved people on the ground is quite another….
We hear about these incidents way too often. Not [...]
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As I wrote lately on M-J in the Republic, Boeing Company’s proposed aerial refueling tanker is a slightly smaller and better design than that of EADS/Northrop-Grumman. It will not only have a smaller environmental footprint, but would not require the building and rebuilding of landing strips worldwide in order to accommodate it, as would [...]
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Combating Corrupt, Absolute Power
