THE REAL 'ASTRONAUT FARMER'
"If we don't have our dreams, we have nothing" — that's a quote from the recent Polish brothers movie The Astronaut Farmer, staring Billy Bob Thornton and Virginia Madsen. But if you thought that "dream" was simply too large for a private citizen to really consider, think again! AVweb's Mike Blakeney introduces you to Craig Russell of Madison, Alabama, who has decided to make it his mission to build and fly his own personal rocket ship into orbit in 2012 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Friendship 7 mission, in which then-astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.

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AVIATION SAFETY ASKS, "DOES CESSNA'S CARAVAN HAVE AN ICE PROBLEM?"
No more than any other airplane, according to Suburban Air Freight's Geoffrey Gallup. Aviation Safety magazine's Jeb Burnside interviewed Gallup to learn more about recent attention directed at the Caravan. The January issue of Aviation Safety features an in-depth article on how Cessna, the industry, and the FAA worked together to better understand how to fly the airplane in winter weather.

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