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___ Executives admit that TV isn't everywhere yet WASHINGTON (AP) — TV was supposed to be everywhere by now — watchable anytime, anywhere, on your smartphone or tablet. But four years into the industry's effort, network executives readily admit: TV isn't everywhere. The promise of "TV Everywhere" has been a ...
EU nations battle over air traffic control plans
A massive battle is taking place in the skies over Europe — and airplane passengers across the continent are feeling its effects. A plan to simplify the European Union's patchwork air traffic control system and open up more air traffic duties to private enterprise has sparked strikes and job actions ...
World air fleet to double in 20 years, Boeing says
Boeing predicted that the number of commercial aircraft in operation globally will double in the next two decades, with the bulk of some 35,000 new planes going to Asia, an executive from the US airplane-maker said Tuesday. Speaking ahead of the Bourget international air show in Paris, Randy Tinseth, vice-president ...
Conn. lawmakers join fight over who was 1st to fly
Connecticut's leading role in aviation has never been disputed, but legislators have passed a bill insisting that a Connecticut aviator flew two years before the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, N.C. The measure is the latest twist in an effort to credit the first successful airplane flight to German-born aviator ...
American, US Airways name post-merger leadership
The new American Airlines will have more top executives from smaller but more successful US Airways than from the current American. Five US Airways executives will follow their current CEO, Doug Parker, when he takes control after the airlines complete their proposed merger. Three executives from American parent AMR Corp. ...
China marks decade of human spaceflight
China's astronauts have braved the tension of docking with a space station and performed delicate tasks outside their orbiting capsule, but now face a more down-to-earth job that is perhaps equally challenging: Talking to young people about science. Three Chinese astronauts will take flight this week, on Tuesday if weather ...
Iran says it sets up space monitoring center
Iran said Sunday that it set up its first space tracking center to monitor objects passing in orbit overhead, the breakthrough claimed by the Islamic Republic in its space program. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who inaugurated the facility near the town of Delijan some 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Tehran, ...
'One giant leap' toward a NASA Armstrong center?
Neil Armstrong's name is attached to a lunar crater, an asteroid, more than a dozen schools and a museum, but not a single NASA facility is christened in honor of the man whose "giant leap" made him the first to walk on the moon. All that could soon change on ...
Army suspends general linked to sex-assault probe
A two-star general who commands U.S. Army forces in Japan has been suspended from his duties for allegedly failing to report or properly investigate an allegation of sexual assault, the Army said Friday. Maj. Gen. Michael T. Harrison was suspended by the Army chief of staff, Gen. Ray Odierno, and ...
Ky. medical helicopter crash kills 3 crewmembers
The crash of a medical helicopter that killed three crewmembers in southeastern Kentucky on Thursday was the fourth deadly accident in the past six years for Air Evac Lifeteam, a Missouri-based company that operates from 114 locations in 15 states. The helicopter that crashed Thursday night in Clay County had ...
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