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Can nothing kill the P-3C Orion? By Stephen Trimble on November 10, 2010 I am reporting in next week's magazine that a subset of the P-3C Orion fleet will outlive its planned retirement by the Boeing 737-based P-8A Poseidon. I'll post the link to the article here when it's available. I consider the story a testament to the P-3C's record of freakish survival skills. Adapted from the doomed, 1950s-era Lockheed L-188 Electra airliner, the Orion first survived its predecessor's untimely demise in the regional airliner market. It should have been replaced by the Lockheed P-7 in the early 1990s, but...

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the loss of the U.S. Navy airship USS Macon, NOAA today announced that the wreck site on the seafloor within Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Macon, a 785-foot dirigible was one of the largest airships in the world – comparable in size to the RMS Titanic. It was intended to serve as a scout ship for the Pacific Fleet and had the ability to launch and recover Sparrowhawk biplanes. In service less than two years, the Macon, based at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, Calif.,...

Note: The following text is a quote: Swedish National Charged with Hacking and Theft of Trade Secrets Related to Alleged Computer Intrusions at NASA and Cisco Philip Gabriel Pettersson, aka "Stakkato," 21, a Swedish national, was indicted today on intrusion and trade secret theft charges. The five-count indictment includes one intrusion count and two trade secret misappropriation counts involving Cisco Systems Inc. (Cisco), of San Jose, Calif., which is a provider of computer network equipment and producer of Internet routers. According to the allegations in the indictment Pettersson intentionally committed an intrusion between May 12, 2004, and May 13, 2004,...

www.airshownetwork.com Date: July 27 - 28, 2002 Gates open: 9.00 am Location: NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA Attractions: FA-18 Super Hornet Demo C-130/H-60 Combat Rescue Simulation with Pyrotechnics USAF A-10 Fighter Demo NASA\'s 747 Shuttle Carrier Heritage Flights Combining WWII and Modern Day Fighters Jim LeRoy - Bull Dog Air Shows Wild Thing High Energy Aerobatcis Military Fly-Bys NASA Technology Showcase Military Equipment and Hands-on Interactive Display Steve Stavrakakis __________________________ Click on the link above and then click on the "AirExpo at Moffett Field" picture and scroll down for detailed information.