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  • Long overdue-Air Force pilot receives award 64 years late

    09/30/2006 8:59:02 AM PDT · by radar101 · 14 replies · 765+ views
    Prescott Courier ^ | 30 SEPT 2006 | SHARI LOPATIN
    His story is something from an old black-and-white movie ­ a war hero rescues the American Chief of Staff during World War II, flies him to safety and lands in Casablanca. Here's the twist: the military recommends him for the Distinguished Flying Cross, but he doesn't actually receive the medal until 64 years later, in the mail. That's right. So much time passed, Thomas Roberts forgot that his old commanding officer, Gen. Paul Tibbets ­ who dropped the Hiroshima bomb ­ recommended him for one of the most prestigious medals in the Air Force. Only a few months ago, while...
  • Rebooting Your Airbus (After All The Screens Go Dark)

    04/24/2006 10:17:12 AM PDT · by Yo-Yo · 153 replies · 3,673+ views
    AV Web ^ | april 24, 2006 | Russ Niles
    Rebooting Your Airbus (After All The Screens Go Dark) April 24, 2006 By Russ Niles, Newswriter, Editor Cures aside, pilots of Airbus A320-series airliners are getting new guidance on what to do if the screens on their electronically biased aircraft go blank. "Checklists will be streamlined so re-booting of power is quicker," an Airbus spokesman told the London Daily Mirror after Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch released a report on an incident aboard a British Airways A319 last October. The plane was carrying 76 passengers to Budapest from London when most of the electronic displays went blank. The crew was...