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Allegiant Air’s planes 4 times more likely to fail during flight

x Embed x Share Forty two of Allegiant’s 86 planes broke down in mid-flight at least once in 2015. (November 2016) Video by Olivia Lopez Two maintenance personnel work on the panel of a Allegiant Air MD-80 tail section at … Continue reading

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Conference gives girls hands-on learning experience in STEM fields …

CLEARFIELD — Jessie and Maddy Turner have big dreams for their futures, but both include doing well in school. “The more I learn and the better I get at it, the more opportunities I’ll have,” said Maddy, a sixth-grader from … Continue reading

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Parkersburg man donates models to Veterans Museum of the Mid-Ohio Valley

SHOW ARTICLE –> Photo by Jess Mancini Modeler Mark Suek holds a 1/48 scale model of a United States Air Force F-105 Thunderchief jet used in the Vietnam War era. Suek has donated 44 models of warplanes, naval ships and … Continue reading

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Cirrus earns Vision Jet certificationCirrus earns Vision Jet certification

The Duluth, Minnesota-based company began talking about building a jet a decade ago and in 2007 showed its first concept, a seven-seat single-engine jet with a V-tail. After the 2008 recession, however, the project, like many aircraft development programs, languished. … Continue reading

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Finding that flying feeling

On a sunny, warm morning a couple weeks ago, recreational pilot Mike Peterson took me up for a flight in his 2004 Zenair CH701 airplane. Peterson had graciously offered to take me on a flight to show me how communications … Continue reading

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Fly-In Remembers Club’s Founder – NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville …

Madison Carter joined NBC29 as a reporter in June 2016.   She graduated from Syracuse with a degree in broadcast and digital journalism and a minor in policy studies.  You can reach her on Email, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Article source: http://www.nbc29.com/story/33514246/fly-in-remembers-clubs-founder

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Northeastern startup wins $50K MassChallenge award

3DFortify, a spinout from North­eastern pro­fessor Ran­dall Erb’s lab, com­bines 3-​​D printing and mag­netics to create the highest res­o­lu­tion com­pos­ites to date and received a $50,000 “Gold” prize on Wednesday night at the Mass­Chal­lenge Boston awards ceremony. 3DFortify was among … Continue reading

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