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House Republicans move ahead with plan to shift 38000 FAA workers

House Republicans moved ahead with their plan to spin 38,000 federal workers into a private nonprofit corporation, beating back an effort by Democrats that would have preserved the Federal Aviation Administration. The transfer of about 80 percent of the FAA’s workforce … Continue reading

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Neighborhood group defends radio control airplane buffs

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Arroyo del Oso North Neighborhood Association is coming to the defense of a group of radio control model airplane enthusiasts who were unexpectedly given the heave-ho from Arroyo del Oso Park recently, where they had been … Continue reading

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Japan Wants to Build Boeing’s Next-Gen Commercial Plane

Post updated Friday at 11:10 a.m. When it comes to commercial airplane sales, Airbus AIR has been eating Boeing’s BA lunch lately. But according to a report Friday in the Nikkei Asian Review, a trio of Japanese conglomerates wants to … Continue reading

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Oklahoma Tribe To Pay $48M In Payday Lending Case Tied To Race Car Driver

Two companies controlled by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma have agreed to pay $48 million to avoid federal prosecution for their involvement in a lending scheme that charged borrowers interest rates as high as 700 percent. As part of the … Continue reading

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Will Ash Carter’s Hail Mary Pass To Reboot The Anti-ISIS Coalition Actually Work?

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter seems to get the reality that the so-called “coalition” of 66 countries that are supposedly fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria is a sham. Most of these countries are contributing nothing to the fight … Continue reading

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Bogdan Predicts F-35s For Less Than $80M, Engines Included!

ARLINGTON, VA: Three years ago, Lockheed Martin made the bold boast that F-35s would cost less than $85 million a copy by 2019, less than any existing fourth-generation fighter. Skeptics howled. Boeing scoffed (eager to sell their ostensibly cheaper F-18 and … Continue reading

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Grounded!

Copyright © 2016 Albuquerque Journal For more than two decades, hobbyists have flown their radio control airplanes at Arroyo del Oso Park in the Northeast Heights. Greg Rullman, president of the Duke City Electric Flyers Club, launches a P-51 Mustang … Continue reading

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