On The Fly…

The Department of Defense has decided to keep its air navigation secrets … well … secret. The DoD’s National Geospatial Intelligence Agency will no longer allow the public to snoop in its aeronautical navigation publications and Web sites. The idea is to keep would-be terrorists from having “unfettered access to air facility data” and to prevent the DoD from competing with private-sector suppliers of similar information…

There’s a building boom in Arkansas. Airports all over the state are expanding or renovating to provide much-needed hangar space. The current hangar shortage is so acute that some civic leaders are worried about the impact on businesses…

The Pentagon has reopened a $20 billion contract to supply air-to-air refueling aircraft. Boeing won the original competition but an investigation revealed hanky-panky in the bidding process. Airbus will be back in the race…

Happy Thanksgiving. We hope you’ll enjoy digesting today’s ‘Pumpkin Bombing’ article (scroll down).