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Key Takeaways:

  • An online video showing Air Force One being spray-painted with graffiti was a hoax, while real aviation security threats saw F-16s intercept a United Airlines flight due to a bomb scare.
  • New pilot technologies are in development, including a DARPA project for a tongue-technology interface to enable night vision without goggles and a portable "glass-cockpit-in-a-briefcase" system.
  • Other aviation news includes the discovery of a Bell JetRanger wreck seven years after it crashed, a new helicopter shuttle service from Manhattan to the airport, and new online mini-courses for cockpit radar training.
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Online video showing Air Force One being spray-painted with graffiti was a hoax

Tongue-technology interface could enable pilots to “see” in the dark without goggles; now in the works at DARPA…

Two F-16s followed a United Airlines A320 into Denver on Saturday after a passenger said he had a bomb. Passengers subdued the man after he tried to open a door; no bomb was found. One source suggests aircraft have diverted for security concerns more than 2300 times since 9-11…

The wreck of a Bell JetRanger was found last weekend, seven years after it crashed in a South African jungle…

Tired of those steam gauges? Another magic box, this one from VIT Engineering offers a glass-cockpit-in-a-briefcase…

Wish you knew more about your cockpit radar? King Schools offers a new mini-course online…

Exasperated by slow limos from Manhattan to the airport? New helicopter shuttle every half hour, eight minutes, $139…

Aviation writer Dan Johnson reports online about on the aircraft accident that stifled his attempt to attend Sun ‘n Fun.

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