RED TAILS ON THE BIG SCREEN
When Red Tails, the new George Lucas film about the Tuskegee Airmen, opens on January 20, it will bring a classic aviation story to a new audience. Actor Marcus Paulk, who plays one of the airmen, spoke with AVweb's Mary Grady about how the experience of working on the film affected him and how he hopes it will affect those who watch.

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CHALLENGING THE GOVERNMENT ON FULL-BODY SCANS
In studies, full-body-scanning x-ray Backscatter machines have been found ineffective and potentially cancer-causing, and the European Commission has banned the. Here, AVweb's Glenn Pew speaks with Ginger McCall, who works with EPIC.org, an organization that has mounted legal challenges to the implementation and use of the machines.

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AMELIA EARHART FLIES AGAIN
Amelia Rose Earhart, who works as a reporter at a Denver TV station, has been inspired by her famous ancestor to learn to fly. She's now re-tracing Earhart's 1937 flight from Oakland to Miami. She talked with AVweb's Mary Grady about the flight, what she hopes to achieve, and her big plans for what's next.

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BONUS DEPRECIATION BACK?
The political map in Washington is changing daily, but tucked under all the bombast and rhetoric is a section of the legislation now in play that will be welcome news to the aviation industry. If all goes well in the next few days (and there are no guarantees of that), 100 percent depreciation of equipment purchases will be back in force for another year. AVweb's Russ Niles spoke with Daniel Cheung of Aviation Tax Consultants.

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