Global ePoint, Inc. (Nasdaq:GEPT), an innovator of homeland security solutions in aviation, law enforcement and high-volume contract manufacturing, has announced that its industry-leading on-board security and electronic product line has received full Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...

Joseph Massaro, stuck in traffic on Route 46, panicked as he watched the plane slam into a warehouse. Would it blow up? Would the inferno reach his home four blocks away, where his children were waiting for their school bus? ... Read more... Source: Planenews Aviation News Portal Planenews...

American Airlines is rolling out a new marketing campaign guaranteeing that travelers will find the airline's cheapest fares on its Internet site. The campaign, expected to be unveiled today, says that American will refund the price difference, and throw in a $50 travel voucher, for anyone who...

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) will be showcasing its flagship product Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) and the Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) at the Aero India exposition here next month. ... Read more...

Insurgents claimed to have shot down a British military plane north of Baghdad over the weekend, and Al-Jazeera television aired a videotape Monday showing flaming wreckage of a plane. Britain said all 10 personnel on the flight were missing and presumed dead. ... Read more...

Some time this month, 60-year-old thrill-seeker Steve Fossett plans to climb into the small cockpit of an experimental jet aircraft and attempt to fly around the world without refuelling, without company and without sleeping. ... Read more...

Boeing Co. is testing demand for a new 747 wide-body aircraft and expects to decide whether to build it by the middle of the year, the planemaker's chief executive said on a conference call on Wednesday. "I think they've got a great airplane," Harry Stonecipher told reporters on the call....

A few years ago at an air show in Lancaster, Ohio, Dan Schiffer noticed a man standing on the grass next to his shiny yellow WWII-era combat training plane. ... Read more...

A woman who had a friend call in a bomb threat to the Philadelphia airport to avoid missing her flight to London was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison. ... Read more...

With airlines reigning in their budgets, more leg room for travelers is unlikely to be on a company's agenda soon, despite all the talk about economy class syndrome.... Read more...

Can anyone tell me if there is any importance to the order of sceneries in the scenery add on window. I loaded 3rd party upgrades to mesh terrain and airports. Don't seem to notice a difference from the MS default in the mesh/terrain and now the terminal is missing. Where should airport be...

The Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules crashed 40 kilometres north-west of Baghdad at 1340 GMT on Sunday, killing all 10 military personnel on board. The plane is thought to have been carrying Special Forces troops to a base in the north of the country. On Tuesday, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair...

I have MS Flight Simulator 2004. What is the best joystick to flight the Cessna 152? Thanks.

Flight Simulator 2004: Cessna 182 with IFR Panel Is there a way to replace the vacuum HI with the King KI 525A Indicator? TIA, a.

You might try http://www.ScienceOxygen.com/aviation204.html http://www.ScienceOxygen.com/design265.com It does not provide the answer directly . It is with a collection of links on this field for helicoptor design. You might as well just start from there...

Thanks all for the advice. I'll look into the Matrox web site. I have been doing some experimenting with using my 2 monitors as a flight screen. If I use the 19" for the fwd view with an undocked window showing fwd/left view on the left monitor it does give an acceptable view out the left side....

Three widescreen shots of the new Elba scenery http://client.webshots.com/photo/194691959/251601803qyfFXf -- Quilljar Matrox

I sent the following message to the group but it never made it AFAICS. So I'm repeating it - I apologise if it's a repeat Quilljar As promised I have prepared a webpage illustrating the two routes for 2D panels using the Parhelia - Please note that both require some work on them. Where a Virtual...

In two of my aircraft in fs2002 pro, I have problems tuning my nav radios. The King Air won't let me tune my ADF to the right of the decimal point, and I can't tune either nav radio on my BAe 146. Is there a way of sorting this out? Is there a config file I can alter and if so what do I do? Any...

Saturday, January 1, 2004 Wallpaper of the month - January 2004 Desktop Wallpaper - "MV-22 Osprey". A MV-22 Osprey, lifts off from the flight deck aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD-3). Kearsarge is conducting landing, launch and recovery training and evaluation with the...