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Sikorsky Aircraft Launches Twitter Page

by Jarkko on February 18, 2010

in Aviation, Manufacturers

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today launched its own page on the Twitter social media Web site, reaching out to a broader audience to provide information on company news, products and services. Sikorsky’s new Twitter page can be found by visiting http://twitter.com/SikorskyAircrft. The page also can be accessed via the Sikorsky Web site at www.Sikorsky.com. “The age [...]

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South African Airways Adds CyberSource to Its Anti-fraud Arsenal

September 29, 2009

JOHANNESBURG and READING, England and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CyberSource Ltd., the U.K.-based subsidiary of CyberSource Corporation, today announced an agreement in which South African Airlines will use CyberSource solutions in its anti-fraud efforts. The airline has selected Decision Manager, CyberSource’s global fraud management portal, as well as Performance Monitoring, a CyberSource [...]

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NASA Research to Help Aircraft Avoid Ocean Storms, Turbulence

July 7, 2009

WASHINGTON, July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA is funding the development of a prototype system to provide aircraft with updates about severe storms and turbulence as they fly across remote ocean regions. Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., in partnership with colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, are developing a [...]

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Airline Industry Leads in Mobile Web Performance

June 16, 2009

Image via Wikipedia LEXINGTON, Mass., June 15 /PRNewswire/ — Five out of the top ten airline companies scored top marks for their mobile Web performance in May, according to new Mobile Web Experience Benchmark data published today by Gomez, Inc., the leader  in Web application experience management and Web performance benchmarking, and dotMobi (http://dotmobi.mobi/), the [...]

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FreeFlight Systems and Fokker Services Announce Partnership

June 15, 2009

Image via Wikipedia WACO, Texas, June 15 /PRNewswire/ — FreeFlight Systems and Fokker Services announce a partnership to provide air transport aircraft a low-cost means to modernize the airborne navigation system without replacing existing equipment or making extensive changes to the aircraft. This dual system with certification is about one-third of the cost of a [...]

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Cessna Selects Aircell

June 11, 2009

Image via CrunchBase BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 10 /PRNewswire/ — Aircell, the world’s leading provider of airborne communications, announces that Cessna will offer Aircell’s new High Speed Internet system as a factory option aboard its Citation XLS+, Citation Sovereign and Citation X business jets. Having delivered more than 190,000 aircraft in its history, Cessna is the [...]

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MegaSceneryEarth!

December 29, 2008

There’s not too many flight simmers in the world who have not heard of or used the MegaScenery brand of photoscenery which has been available for Microsoft Flight Simulator since Flight Simulator 98. MegaScenery has always been at the forefront of scenery realism and has always brought flight simmers the most realistic scenery possible for [...]

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Is virtual airlines going out of hands…

December 28, 2008

I decided to make a post about virtual airlines and how I feel about those. I have nothing bad against any virtual airline but it seems that there is no virtual airline that accepts members like me to join their fleet. I mean, too often I have seen a very nice group to join but [...]

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