LONDON -(Dow Jones)- BAA Thursday welcomed the Government’s review of the progress made in implementing the Air Transport White Paper, published in 2003, and its commitment to the strategy which calls for two new runways in the South East of England. more tow…..

An airman was found dead Tuesday in a dormitory at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The airmans name and other personal information are being withheld until the family is notified, a Hill spokeswoman told Air Force Times. more tow…..

The Air Force said Wednesday it awarded a contract modification worth $9.6 million to Lockheed Martin Corp. The pact will provide specific foreign military equipment support for the Greek F16 new aircraft program. more tow…..

ST MEINRAD, IN - An update to a great story NEWS 25 told you about. The episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition shot in the Tri-State will air in November. more tow…..

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE Air Force Institute of Technology officials Thursday broke ground on a facility intended to help the Air Force advance the art of designing complex weapon systems. more tow…..

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is recalling about 56,000 Holiday Time stuffed Christmas beagles. The red pompoms on the wreath attached to the beagle’s mouth could detach, posing a choking hazard to young children. The stuffed animal is a brown and white more tow ..

Forbes - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Through a competitive process, the Department of Defense has renewed a contract held by IAP Worldwide Services, Inc., to manage and operate the Department of Defense’s primary visual information center more tow ..

CBS News - Environmental Program, told the three-day Better Air Quality Conference 2006 in Yogyakarta. The meeting _ one of the biggest air quality conferences in the region _ comes at a time when Asia has begun to address the bad air that has resulted from more tow ..

Caribbean Net News - NEW YORK, USA: Air Jamaica has announced new daily non-stop service between John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York and Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados, starting January 10, 2007. In light of the decision by the new more tow ..

San Francisco Gate - A classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office was launched Thursday aboard a Delta 2 rocket, the Air Force said. The Delta 2 lifted off at about 1 p.m. from the base on the central California coast. No details of the payload were more tow ..

Xinhua News Agency - BEIJING, Dec. 15 — China sees the first Sino-US strategic economic dialogue as an opportunity to correct misunderstandings between the two sides, Vice-Premier Wu Yi said yesterday at the start of the talks. “We have had the genuine feeling that some more tow ..

Forbes - The Hoover Dam is one of the largest hydroelectric dams in the world and one of the most magnificent sites in the western United States. So much so, traffic on U.S. Highway 93, which runs across the dam in the Colorado River and is the main road more tow ..

Sybase 365 has announced Frances first and largest Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) loyalty programme for Air France deployed in partnership with BETC EuroRSCG, Frances premier advertising agency, and French mobile marketing agency, MobileTrend. more tow…..

HONG KONG, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Shareholders in China National Aviation Co. Ltd. (CNAC) on Friday accepted a proposal by state-run Air China Ltd. to pay about US$414 million to buy out CNAC and delist it after the deal, the company said. more tow…..

WASHINGTON — The US Air Force announced yesterday that it will expand the mission of Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, a move that elected officials expect will add 80 jobs to the team of 150 maintenance specialists who repair large transport aircraft at the base. more tow…..

European officials yesterday joined the chorus of concern over a U.S. screening program that creates risk profiles for every air traveler entering or leaving the United States, and sought assurances that the system does not violate European privacy rights. more tow…..

TAMPA - There’s a recognizable pattern when looking at the history of the Melbourne-based Florida Air Academy basketball team: The school has won a state championship every odd year this decade (2001, ‘03 and ‘05). more tow…..

Werner Heuser writes with an article in Linuxdevices on building your own handheld pointing device that works in mid-air. There is a YouTube video showing the Soap in action and detailed instructions to make your own Soap. From the article: “‘Soap,’ which resembles a bar of soap, is based on hardware found in a common wireless optical mouse, and is relatively easy to make, according to its … more tow…..

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. A Delta 2 rocket has been launched from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. On board, a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance… more tow…..

The Air Force said Thursday it awarded a contract worth $161 million to Lockheed Martin Corp. It provides additional funding to upgrade 34 F-16 aircraft for the Pakistani government. more tow…..

WASHINGTON (AFX) - The Air Force said Thursday it awarded a contract worth $161 million to Lockheed Martin Corp. more tow…..

Orbital Sciences will provide the U.S. Air Force with two Minotaur IV space launch vehicles under a new $27 million contract. more tow…..

Thick fog has rolled into the north and northeast of China in the last couple of days, raising air pollution levels to near “hazardous” conditions in Shanghai, Beijing and other population centers. more tow…..

A classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office was launched today aboard a Delta 2 rocket, the Air Force said. The Delta 2 lifted off at about 1 p.m. from the base on the central California coast. more tow…..

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Asia’s economic expansion has turned its skies into some of the world’s most polluted and the region must do more to fight a scourge that is blamed for more than 500,000 premature deaths annually, delegates told a clean air conference Wednesday. more tow…..

by Staff Writers St. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 14, 2006 Under a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory industry team, the Boeing Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR) program successfully completed flight tests in August that demonstrated for the first time an unmanned air vehicle’s ability to autonomously maintain a steady refueling station behind a tanker aircraft. more tow…..

Air New Zealand is likely to face increased competition after Qantas agreed to a takeover deal by a consortium of private equity firms. more tow…..