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Android to go boldly in new satellite launch - The challenge of getting a mobile signal in remote locations will be raised to new heights with the 2012 launch of a satellite with an electronic core consisting of an Android smartphone. [Flight Global Spaceflight News]

NBAA: PT6A helps Skydive Las Vegas drop its human payload - When you think of business aviation, a fleet of a plush leather cabins and twin turbofans pushing you through the sky come to mind. [Flight Global]

Sikorsky boost gives birth to Eclipse 550 - One year after Sikorsky took a minority ownership in Eclipse Aerospace, the company has announced a "new" aircraft called the Eclipse 550. [Flight Global]

iPad Upgrade Causing Data To Disappear - A recent software update for the Apple iPad could cause charts and other navigation information to “disappear". [Aviation Week]

FAA Determines Pilot Not Distracted By Skydiving Sex Stunt - No FARs Were Violated During Video Filming The FAA has determined that no FARs were broken when a skydiving instructor who is also a porn star and a receptionist for the California skydiving operator ... his former employer ... made a video of themselves engaged in what can best be described as "adult activities" before and during a jump. [Aero-News]

Air France-KLM to acquire up to 60 A350 XWBs. - The Air France-KLM Group has announced its intention to sign for up to 60 A350 XWB aircraft, of which 25 A350-900 will be firmed up shortly. The aircraft will become an essential pillar in the group’s long-haul fleet modernization strategy.

PICTURES: Cathay Pacific takes delivery of its first Boeing 747-8F - Cathay Pacific took delivery of its first Boeing 747-8 Freighter aircraft on 31 October. [Flight Global Headlines]

The Space Station's First Crew - Expedition 1 Commander Bill Shepherd (center) is flanked by Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko (right) and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev (left) in this crew photograph. The three, seated in front of an artist's concept of the International Space Station, are wearing the Sokol space suits like those donned for trips in the Soyuz to the station. National flags representing all the international partners run along the bottom of the portrait.

767 Belly-Lands In Warsaw - The crew of a 767 out of Newark made a successful gear-up emergency landing in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, with sparks flying as the airplane skidded to a halt on the runway. The crew circled the airport for more than an hour, then landed with minimal fuel on a foamed runway, fire trucks standing by. Crews hosed down the fuselage with fire-retardant foam as a precaution, and the passengers were quickly evacuated via the emergency slides.

NASA Television To Cover Next Soyuz Departure, Arrival - NASA Television will cover the return of three International Space Station crew members and the launch of three new station residents in the coming weeks.3 Vote(s) [LogFlight AvNews]

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