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Flawless First Test Flight for New Bombardier Global Vision Flight Deck - Bombardier’s Global Vision cockpit successfully completed its first Bombardier test flight on a Global Express XRS aircraft on August 3. Dedicated to testing basic system functionality, the flight marks another significant milestone for the program. [Aviation Canada]

UK signs contract to replace Royal Navy Jetstreams - The UK has signed a delayed deal to buy four Beechcraft King Air 350ERs to perform observer training for its Royal Navy ... [Flight Global Headlines]

Opportunity Eyes Block Island - The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has eyed an oddly shaped, dark rock, which may be a meteorite and is about 2 feet across, on the surface of the... [NASA Image of the day]

Space Shuttle Endeavour Glides Home After Successful Mission - Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven astronauts ended a 16-day journey of more than 6.5 million miles with a 10:48 a.m. EDT landing Friday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.2 Vote(s) [LogFlight AvNews]

NASA Astronaut Sends First Tweets From Space Station - NASA astronaut and U.S. Army Col. Tim Kopra has become the first International Space Station crew member to use the social media tool Twitter to discuss living and working in orbit.2 Vote(s) [LogFlight AvNews]

Female World War II Pilots to Get Their Due. - "This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used." - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942... [Plane News]

B-1Bs Staying Busy With Precision Strikes - A-10's Effective Supporting Ground Troops With Shows Of Force Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations Aug 1, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials. [Aero-News]

Navy Rolls Out First Joint Strike Fighter - Navy's First Stealth Fighter Joins The Fleet The chief of Naval Operations (CNO) welcomed the Navy's first Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C Lightning II, to the fleet in a ceremony last week. The F-35C is the Navy's first stealth fighter and enables the Navy to decrease the time from threat to response at sea. [Aero-News]

GD Scrutinizes Gulfstream Midsize Sales - Gulfstream's large-cabin orders seem to be holding up, but the company may have to make further cuts in mid-size business jet production [Aviation Week]

SpaceX faces crucial Falcon 9 test - Space Exploration Technologies' larger rocket will be key to the company entering the worldwide launch services market [Flight Global Spaceflight News]

OSHKOSH 2009: VIDEO: SpaceShip Two mothership lands at Airventure - Watch video of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two mothership WhiteKnight Two landing today at 14:47 local time at the EAA Airventure air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin [Flight Global Spaceflight News]

OSHKOSH 2009: Virgin Galactic flies high at Oshkosh - Equity deal with Abu Dhabi investor will see Sir Richard Branson's space tourism venture offer low-cost satellite launches [Flight Global Spaceflight News]

PARIS AIR SHOW: Alcore: Lighting protection Always - From a small company in Edgewood, Maryland comes Strikegrid, a product with a big responsibility protecting exposed portions of... [Flight Global]

Europe Energy - AVIATION: THE ANSWERS TO CLIMATE CHANGE. - June 24, 2009 -- The bad news is that international experts have just pushed the estimated likely impact of aviation on climate change upwards. Although the... [Air Safety]

Europe Energy - AVIATION: THE ANSWERS TO CLIMATE CHANGE. - June 24, 2009 -- The bad news is that international experts have just pushed the estimated likely impact of aviation on climate change upwards. Although the... [Air Safety]

Embry-Riddle Expands Online Aviation Catalog - Instrument And Commercial Courses To Be Offered Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Worldwide Campus, through its Office of Professional Education, is now offering two new online courses that prepare students with the knowledge necessary for FAA Commercial Pilot and/or FAA Instrument Rating flight training and written tests [Aero-News]

Lawmaker: Time to Put Osprey Out of its Misery. - The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recommended Tuesday that the production of all MV-22 Ospreys be halted, saying that after more than two decades the hybrid aircraft still can’t complete the missions for which it was designed... [Plane News]

The Birds Soar Again - Photo Credit: Janet Trost
The much anticipated air demonstration of the CF Snowbirds and Hawk One Sabre since the operational pause was first implemented finally took place 21 June at the St. Thomas Air Show. Paul Kissmann, Deputy Team Lead, flew... [Aviation Canada]

Airbus gears up for Chinese A350 push - As the first A320s assembled at Airbus's Tianjin plant enter service, the airframer is gearing up to push composite component manufacturing for its forthcoming... [Flight Global Headlines]

NASA Gives California's San Andreas Fault a 3-D Closeup - This image showing a portion of the San Andreas Fault along the San Francisco Peninsula was taken by the UAVSAR instrument on NASA's Gulfstream III research... [NASA Image of the day]