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Special Motorsports Event - JDRF Unveils Groovy Car

Special Motorsports Event - JDRF Unveils Groovy Car

DEARBORN, Aug. 18, 2011: Seven-year-old Katie Hahn of Omaha, Neb. used every crayon in the box when she created her entry for the “JDRF Race Car Design Contest,â€� hosted by the Ford Customer Service Division (FCSD) and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). She named it “Driving Our Way t ... Continue reading

Automotive Performance Brands - Yokohama Tire Corporation Sponsoring the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance For 7th Consecutive Year

Automotive Performance Brands - Yokohama Tire Corporation Sponsoring the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance For 7th Consecutive Year

<b>Tire maker to go ‘green’ and feature a sustainable ‘living wall’ display at Aug. 21 classic car celebration</b> FULLERTON, Aug. 18, 2011: For the seventh consecutive year, Yokohama Tire Corporation is a major sponsor of the annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Yokohama is dubbed “th ... Continue reading

Aviation Business - NLRB Sued For Documents Concerning Boeing Lawsuit

Aviation Business - NLRB Sued For Documents Concerning Boeing Lawsuit

Washington, August 18, 2011: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit has been filed by Judicial Watch against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The suit seeks records concerning the NLRB's decision to file a lawsuit against Seattle-based Boeing for opening a $750 million non-union assembly plant in North Cha ... Continue reading

Aviation - CSC Completes Upgrades for FAA Modernization

Aviation - CSC Completes Upgrades for FAA Modernization

Washington, August 17, 2011: CSC, Computer Sciences Corporation, announced this week it has successfully implemented a series of upgrades to the FAA's Traffic Flow Management System (TFMS) in the first half of 2011. The upgrades include two separate software releases improving the performance and functionality of TFMS, ... Continue reading

Aviation - NASA, NIA Announce Student Engineering Competition

Aviation - NASA, NIA Announce Student Engineering Competition

Cape Caneveral, August 17, 2011: NASA has launched a competition which will involve university students in helping to solve space exploration challenges. The RASC-AL (Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage) contest, sponsored by NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), seeks engineering id ... Continue reading

Aviation - Centennial Celebration Of Wright Soaring Record Planned For The Fall

Aviation - Centennial Celebration Of Wright Soaring Record Planned For The Fall

Point Harbor, August 16, 2011: Motorless aviation enthusiasts and historians are teaming up to celebrate the centenary of an historic aviation milestone at the Outer Banks of North Carolina from October 21 through 24. The celebration of Orville Wright’s record 9 minute 45 second soaring flight near Kitty Hawk, NC ... Continue reading

Aviation - Lynx Spacecraft Will Help Investigate Upper Atmosphere, Edge Of Space

Aviation - Lynx Spacecraft Will Help Investigate Upper Atmosphere, Edge Of Space

Mojave, August 16, 2011: NASA has selected XCOR Aerospace to provide suborbital flight and payload integration services for research and scientific missions in a program that will offer up to $10 million dollars in contracts to match payload customers with flight vehicle services. The awards were announced by NASA's Fl ... Continue reading

Aviation - American Eurocopter Helps International Helicopter Safety Team Launch Social Media Strategy

Aviation - American Eurocopter Helps International Helicopter Safety Team Launch Social Media Strategy

Grand Prairie, August 16th 2011: The International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) announced that it has launched social media profiles in an effort to increase awareness about the organization’s goal to reduce the civil helicopter accident rate by 80 per cent by 2016. American Eurocopter created the profiles in Fac ... Continue reading

Aviation - Goodrich to Present at the 21st Annual Morgan Stanley Aerospace & Defense Unplugged Conference

Aviation - Goodrich to Present at the 21st Annual Morgan Stanley Aerospace & Defense Unplugged Conference

CHARLOTTE, Aug. 16, 2011: Cindy Egnotovich, Segment President of the Nacelles and Interiors Business of Goodrich Corporation , will address the 21st Annual Morgan Stanley Aerospace & Defense Unplugged Conference on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011, in Boston, MA. The presentation is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. EDT. A live au ... Continue reading

Automotive Performance Brands - Yokohama Tire Corporation's Orange Oil Tire Technology To Be Highlighted At Museum Of Science

Automotive Performance Brands - Yokohama Tire Corporation's Orange Oil Tire Technology To Be Highlighted At Museum Of Science

FULLERTON, Aug. 15, 2011: It’s rare for a tire to be showcased in a museum, but Yokohama Tire Corporation’s BluEarth-1™ – the company’s latest orange oil-infused passenger car tire – is an exception. Its breakthrough eco technology will be highlighted in a special two-year exhibit at the M ... Continue reading

Aviation - Aero Dynamix NVG Conversion Delivered To Howard County Police

Aviation - Aero Dynamix NVG Conversion Delivered To Howard County Police

Howard County, August 15th 2011: Aero Dynamix Inc. is very proud to announce the completion and delivery of the Howard County Police night vision goggle modified Bell 407 aircraft. "We are very pleased to be working with a large number of law enforcement agencies on the conversion of their aircraft for night vision gog ... Continue reading

Aviation - NEMSA Heliport Advisory Circular Update

Aviation - NEMSA Heliport Advisory Circular Update

Modesto, August 15th 2011: In its continuing pursuit to enhance industry safety and to help insure the appropriateness of the recommendations set forth in its recently released white paper on heliport infrastructure, the National EMS Pilots Association initiated an online pilot survey on heliports. Since its release on ... Continue reading

Aviation - Preliminary NTSB Report Regarding SC Polaris Polar Star Crash

Aviation - Preliminary NTSB Report Regarding SC Polaris Polar Star Crash

NTSB Identification: ERA11LA415<br> 14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation<br> Accident occurred Wednesday, July 20, 2011 in Dewees Island, SC<br> Aircraft: Polaris Polar Star, registration: None<br> Injuries: 2 Fatal<br> <p> Washington, August 14, 2011: This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain err ... Continue reading

Special Motorsports Event - The Ultimate Barn Find in Hertfordshire

Special Motorsports Event - The Ultimate Barn Find in Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire, August 13, 2011: When classic car broker, Philip Jones was asked to visit a family to look at a "couple of Lagondas", he didn't know he was going to uncover one of the most dramatic "barn finds" of his life. In the yard of a family-owned business in Hertfordshire, there were some trailer containers; one ... Continue reading

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