The News Review:
- Eclipse Aviation files for bankruptcy
- China’s first homegrown jet makes trial flight
- GM asks government to block public tracking of jet
- Museum recalls Downey’s Space Age glory
Eclipse Aviation files for bankruptcy
Albany Times Unionnbsp;NYnbsp;
The company hopes to sell itself as a going concern to a Luxembourg-based aircraft company that is Eclipse’s largest shareholder. The offer by ETIRC Aviation S.
China’s first homegrown jet makes trial flight
The Associated Pressnbsp;
Authorities said earlier this month that they planned to make the flight sometime after Nov. Unusually clear skies in the region made Friday a good opportunity to go ahead and the test flight was successful said an official with the Aviation Industry Corp. of China or AVIC confirming reports in the state-run media. Like many media-shy Chinese officials he gave only his surname Peng. The flight was made from a local airport in northern Shanghai’s Baoshan District and went “extremely well” the China News Service and other state-run media reported. For safety reasons the aircraft was allowed to attain a maximum height of only 900 meters (2953 feet).
GM asks government to block public tracking of jet
Reutersnbsp;
Ngt; whose chief executive was blasted last week by U. lawmakers for flying on a private jet to ask for public funds has asked the U.
Museum recalls Downey’s Space Age glory
Los Angeles Timesnbsp;CAnbsp;
Smith bought a plot and turned it into an airfield and manufacturing plant. As the aircraft industry grew Downey grew with it. By the 1960s some 30000 people were working there building planes and missiles for North American Aviation the contractor then operating the site. NASA acquired the land in the early 1960s and as the United States rushed to be the first country to send men to the moon it turned to North American Aviation to develop the spacecraft to take them there. Engineers and other skilled workers moved to town. Subdivisions blossomed. People brimmed with patriotism.
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