Taking travel services into your own hands: Becoming an on-the-go iPhone travel agent (CNET)
Using the iPhone to help people navigate travel delays

UP AND RUNNING (New York Post)
FIRST came the peace marches. Next up, the "I love Mumbai" novelty T-shirts. Now comes the healing. It's been exactly a month since the attacks on my city, a month since terrorists, armed with AK-47s and filled with hate, stormed into the Leopold...

Upgraded: Ranger Rotorcraft Group's Ed Bolden (The Aero-News Network)
Just Call Him "Mr. President" Ranger Rotorcraft Group, Inc. has promoted Edward Bolden to President. Bolden was previously Vice President-Operations Development of Ranger Rotorcraft Group.

Frontier Pilots Ratify Long-Term Agreement (The Aero-News Network)
Pilots overwhelmingly approve wage, benefit concessions Members of the Frontier Airline Pilots Association (FAPA) have ratified a long-term labor agreement with the airline. The agreement will extend certain wage and benefit concessions through December 2011. Nearly 85 percent of votes cast were in favor of ratification. Of the 454 votes cast, 384 voted yes, only 70 voted no.

NASA-Funded Study Reveals Hazards of Severe Space Weather (The Aero-News Network)
A NASA-funded study describes how extreme solar eruptions could have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth. The National Academy of Sciences in Washington conducted the study.

Continental To Make First Biofuel-Powered Flight by a U.S. Carrier (The Aero-News Network)
There's no Fuel Like A Biofuel... It's been all the rage of late... bio-fuel this, green-flight that. But, apparently the US Carriers haven't quite caught up with the hype... that is, until this Wednesday.Continental Airlines tells ANN that will conduct the first biofuel-powered demonstration flight of a U.S. commercial airliner.

CAIR Files DOT Complaint After Muslims Kicked Off AirTran Flight (The Aero-News Network)
An Islamic civil rights and advocacy group has filed a complaint with the DOT following an incident Thursday in which nine Muslim passengers were removed from an AirTran Airways flight at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Aero-TV: Owning The Night... The Forward Vision Solution (The Aero-News Network)
EVS Is Here... and Changing The Vision of GA! At the AOPA Expo 2008, it was obvious that 2009 was to be (in part) the year of EVS. A number of OEM and aftermarket deployments were shown and discussed and ANN's Aero-TV crews used the event as an opportunity to find out more about the Forward Vision offering... recently TSO'ed for retrofit installation in the Cirrus SR 20 and SR 22.

More Upgrades For USCG HC-130Js (The Aero-News Network)
$13.25 Million Contract Options to Provide Mission Systems for the HC-130J Aircraft Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Coast Guard exercised contract options valued at $13.25 million to install mission systems aboard two additional HC-130J aircraft. Once delivered, these aircraft will complete the Coast Guard's planned inventory of six missionized HC-130Js.

ANN's Best Of The Breed '08/Planes Of The Year-S/E 4+ Place Piston: Piper Matrix (The Aero-News Network)
4+ Place S/E Certified GA (Piston) -- Piper Matrix! Talk about a 'd'oh!" moment... when we first heard that yet another variant of the Malibu series was coming forth from Piper, our reaction was simple... what else could they add to this amazing little airframe? And the answer is what we thought it was... NOTHING.