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Seattle Times, October 14, 2011   Aerospace training consortium gets $20M federal grant Air Washington, a consortium of community and technical colleges and aerospace training organizations across the state, on Friday detailed how a $20 million federal grant will be spent to promote aerospace workforce training in Washington. U.S. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell [...]

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  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/26/uk-boeing-dreamliner-idUSLNE78P04I20110926   The delivery ceremony is great fun, as Boeing employees hand-tow the A/C to their customer, and bow in unison.         http://www.newairplane.com/787/firstDelivery/#/en/787DeliveryCelebration

The BC Aviation Council is proud to announce the winners of its Awards and Scholarships for 2011. The Awards will be presented at BCAC’s Silver Wings Awards Banquet on October 27 at the Delta Vancouver Airport Hotel. See Scholarships & Awards for more details on the awards and scholarships offered by the BCAC. Student Scholarship [...]

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Weatherhaven, a Vancouver, BC company, builds a variety of such shelter systems, and showed their newest one at the at the world’s largest defence and security show at London’s DSEi 2011.       http://www.marketwatch.com/story/weatherhaven-canadian-designed-hospital-and-command-posts-fit-inside-helicopters-to-add-new-dimension-for-nato-forces-2011-09-14   Designed to be carried inside a CH-47 Chinook, these innovative shelter systems can be deployed quickly where needed.        [...]

Nascent broadband provider LightSquared’s plans to roll out a satellite-terrestrial network adjacent to the GPS band next year have been halted by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).   “Following extensive comments received as a result of the technical working group process required by the [26 January conditional approval for the network], the FCC, in [...]

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