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Steve Jobs Thoughts on Flash

Can-Am Spyder Motorcycle / Trike / Weird!

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I have decided to change the name of Today in Aviation History to “Aviation History this week” and move it over to my other website, www.flightradio.com. In the next couple of weeks there will be a special page over there for Aviation History This Week and all the new podcasts will come out there. If you are subscribed to the feed in RSS, iTunes or zune, you shouldn’t have to re-subscribe. If you listen on the website, the new website will be over at FlightRadio.com. Stay tuned here and over at the new site for the first weekly installment of Aviation History this week with Mike Dell.

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I have android 2.1 on my droid now and most (if not all) Motorola Droid users should have the upgrade. HTML 5 is NOT on the droid yet for some reason. Not sure why, but it doesn’t yet. The iphones and ipads using the same browser (webkit) do HTML 5. Oh well, I’m sure they will get it sooner or later.

Airlines charge for EVERYTHING!

Check out www.airlinenightmare.com for some very cool inside info about what the airlines and air traffic control are doing. I play some audio samples of Air Traffic Control loosing it on pilots and another example of a pilot that shouldn’t have been given a license to fly.

FAA to let pilots fly on prozac.

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(from a press release)

World’s First Manned Commercial
Spaceship Revealed

On a blustery December 7th 2009 history was made in the Mojave Desert as aerospace partners Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites revealed the world’s first commercial passenger space liner.

Those of us fortunate enough to attend were among a heady crowd that included the visionary aerospace engineer and system designer Burt Rutan, Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson, the entire Scaled Composites team, about 170 future astronauts with confirmed reservations … and of course the Accredited Space Agents who are escorting these pioneering clients into a new era in tourism.

Also in attendance were Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bill Richardson, respectively of California and New Mexico. The two politicians jovially bantered over whose state should rate higher for its involvement in the future of commercial space travel. California is a well-known aerospace incubator and New Mexico is quickly gaining a space-friendly reputation via its newest public works project, Spaceport America, where Virgin Galactic departures will take flight.

The air was charged with excited anticipation. When the big reveal finally came, the 800-strong crowd erupted into thunderous applause on seeing the spaceship suspended from the mother ship, VMS Eve taxiing toward them.

With the resounding smash of two champagne bottles held by the two governors, she was christened VSS Enterprise.

Test flights of the carrier aircraft “White Knight 2″ have been under way for nearly 12 months and flight-testing with the new spaceship has begun!
Contact me today to hear about this incredible milestone and to reserve your place in history.
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Accredited Space Agent
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Check out this 1953 film with Arthur Godfrey

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Today I talk more about Google stuff along with a couple of listener voice mails.

Google Chrome for Mac WITH EXTENTIONS – I’m using chrome almost exclusively now that I can have it on my Macbook with Adblock and Bookmark Sync. It’s good.

I also talk about the Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network (www.vatsim.net) – VATSIM is a worldwide network of Aviation enthusiasts that have live Air Traffic Control for your flight simulator software. Read more about them at their website – www.vatsim.net and on their Wikipedia page.

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HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass (AFNS) — Equipping warfighters with the technology to detect moving targets in combat gained momentum when Electronic Systems Center officials here, in concert with prime contractors and other organizations, recently completed a key flight milestone for the Multiplatform Radar Technology Insertion Program.

A Proteus aircraft flies over Southern California carrying the Global Hawk variant of the new Multiplatform Radar Technology Insertion Program radar.

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