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Volume 25, Number 41c
October 12, 2018
 
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Crew Rescued After Russian ISS Launch Fails (Updated)
 
Paul Bertorelli
 
 
A Russian cosmonaut and an American astronaut were recovered unharmed early Thursday after the Soyuz booster they were aboard on a launch to the International Space Station failed. The failure put the MS-10 capsule into a ballistic trajectory and it and the crew were recovered 200 miles east of the Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, launch point, NASA said early Thursday.
 
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Yes, Dorothy, I've Had a Heart Attack
 
Paul Berge
 
Despite a lifetime of healthy living and exercise, I'm now sporting two custom-fitted stents. While I consider taking up smoking, pass the pork rinds, willya?
 
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Pentagon Grounds F-35s
 
Kate O'Connor
 
 
The Pentagon temporarily grounded the United States’ F-35 fleet on Thursday after the discovery of defective fuel tubes in an F-35 engine. The findings come from the initial investigation into the crash of an F-35B in late September
 
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Picture of the Week, October 11, 2018
 
 
Had a trip over to RAF Lakenheath to see the F-22s and all of these F/A-18s rolled out. I used a Canon EOS1D MKIII with Sigma 150-600mm Sport lens. Copyrighted photo by Shaun Brown.
 
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Record-Breaker Darryl Greenamyer Passes Away
 
Kate O'Connor
 
 
Air-racer, record-setter and test pilot Darryl Greenamyer died last week at the age of 82.
 
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One Aviation Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
 
Mary Grady
 
 
One Aviation has “entered into a consensual restructuring,” the company said in a news release on Wednesday, and has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
 
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Bruce Whitman Dead At 85
 
Kate O'Connor
 
 
Bruce Whitman, chairman, president, and CEO of FlightSafety International, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 85. Whitman joined the U.S. Air Force after graduating from Connecticut’s Trinity College in 1955, earning ratings as a pilot, navigator and bombardier before being appointed Assistant to the Commander at Homestead Air Force Base in 1957.
 
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Podcast: EAA's Sean Elliott Explains LSA Weight Increase Proposal
 
Paul Bertorelli
 
 
The FAA’s just-revealed report that it would consider raising the light sport aircraft limit from 1320 pounds to 3600 pounds is just a proposed talking point and any rule is at least a year and a half away, according to EAA.
 
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Branson: Space Launch Expected Within Weeks
 
Mary Grady
 
 
Virgin Galactic should be in space “within weeks, not months,” CEO Richard Branson told CNBC this week. He added that he expects to fly to space himself “in months and not years,” and customers will be in space “not too long after that.”
 
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Longest Nonstop Commercial Route Launched
 
Kate O'Connor
 
 
Singapore Airlines launched the first of its newly reopened nonstop flights from Singapore’s Changi Airport (SIN) to Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) on Thursday.
 
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