February 18, 2002

COVER STORY

Tight Security Compels Airport Design Shakeup

COVER STORY

New Detroit Gateway Signals a Renaissance

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

New Budget Leaves Room for Pluto Probe

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COVER STORY

Tight Security Compels Airport Design Shakeup

TSA guidance is sought on revising terminal projects as securily takes priority over passenger convenience

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COVER STORY

New Detroit Gateway Signals a Renaissance

DETROIT The lean and linear $ 1.2-billion midfield terminal that Northwest Airlines opens this weekend will raise dowdy Detroit Metropolitan Airport to world-class status and is likely to change opinions of jaded travelers about the Motor City and Northwest Airlines.

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

New Budget Leaves Room for Pluto Probe

WASHINGTON Long-suffering planetary scientists who want Pluto to be NASA’s next deep-space destination still may get their wish under the space agency’s Fiscal 2003 budget request, even though the Bush Administration has left Pluto funding out of the budget for the second year in a row.

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Aerospace Panel Bids to Shore Up FAA Budget, Export Reforms

WASHINGTON About halfway through its year-long deliberations, the U.S. Aerospace Commission plans to issue an interim report urging the government to restore what industry thought it already had gained—a financially healthy 10-year aviation system modernization program at the FAA, and export control reforms adopted in 2000.

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

USAF Hopes Dim For Beleaguered Tanker Lease

WASHINGTON U.S. Air Force officials still hope to jump-start replacement of the service’s KC-135 tanker fleet with a 10-year lease agreement with Boeing, but they believe the odds are against their being able to seal a deal. “It is going to be a tough road ahead to make this work.

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

War Drains U.S. Military's Aircraft and Munitions

WASHINGTON After five months of the war on terrorism, munition stocks are running low, aircraft are aging rapidly, and military aviation’s safety record is deteriorating. “Global tasking and the war against terrorism continue to stress our aviation force readiness,” Navy Secretary Gordon R. England told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week.

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Dutch Jsf Deal a Blow to European Fighters

Netherlands cabinet decision has taken the wind out of the Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Iridium Forgoes Profits to Build Data Market

WASHINGTON Iridium Satellite LLC expects to break even in 2003, delaying profitability this year in favor of investments in software and other technology development aimed at a potentially lucrative niche in the data delivery market.

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

New Space-based Radar Shaped By Sbirs Snags

WASHINGTON Chastened by serious cost increases on several space programs, U.S. Air Force officials want to avoid a repeat performance as they develop a new space-based radar. The Pentagon has put SBR on the fast track to accelerate fielding of the ground-target tracking system.

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Bush Backs Limited Local Airport Ops

WASHINGTON Flight privileges will be restored by month’s end for hundreds of general aviation pilots at three small Washington area airports under a measure endorsed last week by President Bush. The lofty approval process—a seemingly local issue requiring the nod of the commander-in-chief—signifies the concern at the highest government levels raised by the airports’ nearness to what one FAA official called “the constitutional assets of the U.S.”

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