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Official Helloween Website: The summer party goes on…
The unforseable factor – the weather – has affected Helloween’s performance at this year’s “Metal Camp Festival” in Slovenia. Due to heavy rains and strong winds the festival has been stopped prior to the band’s performance on Sunday 6th of June. But thanks to the many capable helpers [...]

YLE News
Finland’s Frontier Guard considers it probable that a Russian helicopter violated Finnish airspace over the south-eastern border village of Kontu on Monday afternoon.
The Frontier Guard took statements from eyewitnesses on Tuesday and compared their accounts with radar recordings.
A Russian border official has confirmed that a Russian Border Guard Service Mi-8 helicopter was on a [...]

10 Firefox Add-ons to Supercharge your Blogging

Posted by K-IntheHouse in Blogging Tools

Blogging is fun but sometimes it can be hard work. If you use
Firefox for browsing, you will be amazed at how your tool for browsing
can be transformed into a tool that supercharges your blogging
experience!
Here are some Firefox extensions (in no particular order) that can
give [...]

By Liz Moscrop, AVweb Contributor

Britain’s Formula 1 hero and brand ambassador for Bombardier Lewis Hamilton took on the Canadian airframer’s iconic Learjet 60 in a special one off head-to-head challenge at the Farnborough International Airshow Monday. Hamilton tore his McLaren Mercedes around the runway at 175mph, competing against the Learjet some 200ft above him and [...]

EVERETT, Wash., July 14, 2008 — The first Boeing [NYSE: BA] 777 Freighter, the world’s most capable twin-engine cargo airplane, today successfully took to the sky for the first time and completed an initial series of tests during a flight lasting more than three-and-a-half hours. The airplane performed well.
“The 777 Freighter completed the [...]

July 13, 2008 — Initiative Targets Improved Fuel Efficiency Up to 16 Percent FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW —
GE Aviation has launched a new engine core program, called “eCore”, as the technology cornerstone for a new generation of jet engines for narrow-body, regional, and business jets. The program is designed to outpace competitive engine designs by [...]

ALBUQUERQUE, NM — June 25, 2008 — Eclipse Aviation, manufacturer of the world’s first very light jet (VLJ), today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Flight Into Known Icing (FIKI) certification for the Eclipse 500. With this certification, the Eclipse 500 can now operate in conditions in which ice is known to [...]

Bombardier today announced that its Board of Directors has granted approval for the launch of the CSeries family of aircraft, a new game-changing five abreast commercial airliner family, with the economics, performance, environmental and passenger-oriented improvements demanded by airline customers for the next quarter century. Entry into service is scheduled for 2013.
Launch customer, Lufthansa, a [...]

FSWidgets has released a new edition of the GMap for FSX freeware moving map.

All of the functionality of the previously released EFB Edition of GMap for FSX has been replicated using standard windows controls inside a normal resizable window. This new version of GMap - the Browser Edition - has its own resizable built-in web [...]

A Boeing 737 on a PAR (Precision Approach Radar) runway 24 at Enschede (Belgium) beeing perfectly ‘talked down’ by ATC.