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BREAKTHROUGHS & DISCOVERIES
Early Indicators of Aviation Futures & Environmental Issues
EMISSIONS
(Smartplanet.com, April 2012)
 Researchers at MIT have discovered a way to make copper turn carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels, with help of just a little bit of gold.
When copper is stimulated with voltage, it acts as a strong catalyst that sets off an electrochemical reaction with carbon dioxide that reduces the greenhouse gas to methane or methanol. But the problem was that copper is temperamental and oxidize too easily. Copper is inherently unstable, which significantly slows down the reaction with carbon dioxide by producing unwanted byproducts. READ MORE...
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FedEx Looking at Biofuel for Aircraft Fleet
(MinnesotaPublicRadio.org, April 2012)
The rising cost of oil isn't just a hit to the family budget. Businesses are hurt, too. Few are more affected than firms like FedEx. It deploys nearly 700 planes and tens of thousands of trucks and vans every day to deliver packages around the world. And few business leaders are more focused on finding alternatives to petroleum-based fuels than FedEx CEO Fred Smith.
Shortly after Smith founded Federal Express, the 1973 Arab oil embargo almost killed it. The experience imprinted Smith with a keen interest in the price and availability of oil. READ MORE...
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Algae-to-Fuel Developer Receives $144M in New Financing
(DomesticFuel.com, April 2012)
San Diego-based biofuel developer Sapphire Energy, Inc. has secured the final installment of $144 million in a Series C round of venture funding that includes Arrowpoint Partners, Monsanto, and other undisclosed investors.
This round of funding is being used to directly support Sapphire's active and on-schedule commercial demonstration of an algae-based biofuels facility in Luna County, New Mexico. The Green Crude Farm, also known as the Integrated Algal BioRefinery (IABR), is the world's first commercial demonstration scale algae-to-energy facility, integrating the entire value chain of algae-based fuel, from cultivation to production to extraction of ready-to-refine Green Crude. With this latest investment round, Sapphire Energy's total funding from private and public sources substantially exceeds $300 million. READ MORE...
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Scientists Develop Spider-Silk Solar Batteries
(Smartplanet.com, April 2012)
 Researchers from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and Johannes Kepler University, Austria, have created the world's thinnest and lightest solar battery.
With a thickness of only 1.8 micrometers, the solar batteries are thin enough to wrap around a human hair. Thinner than a skein of spider silk, the thin-film device comprises of electrodes on a plastic foil, and is a tenth of the size of the thinnest solar cells currently available.
In order to create the battery, the scientists applied ink containing an organic semiconductor to plastic film that measures 1.4 micrometers in thickness. According to the researchers, the thinnest battery to date was 25 micrometers. READ MORE...
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Electric Aircraft Advocates to Meet
(AvWeb.com, April 2012)
 The 6th Annual CAFE Electric Aircraft Symposium, coming up April 27 and 28 in Santa Rosa, Calif., will feature speakers from NASA, Boeing, Aerovironment, leaders in battery technology, and more, the organizers announced recently. Tine Tomazic of Pipistrel will be there to talk about the Taurus G4, which won last year's $1.35 million Green Flight Challenge. Mark Moore of NASA will discuss advanced concepts in electric propulsion, and Tom Gunnarson of FAA's Small Airplane Directorate will explain the agency's plans for certifying electric aircraft. The weekend is billed as a "graduate-level program" (PDF) in new flight technologies, featuring experts in lithium battery research, design software, UAVs, quiet propellers, and high-lift aerodynamics. READ MORE...
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(Smartplanet.com, April 2012)
Electric vehicle skeptics have long argued that EVs cannot truly be considered "zero emissions" because they use coal-generated electricity, which in itself produces harmful emissions.
Now, a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists seems to lend credence to that view. In a report to be published Monday, according to The New York Times, the advocacy group compares the emissions of a baseline electric vehicle, the Nissan Leaf, in different parts of the country.
The report, titled "State of Charge: Electric Vehicles' Global Warming Emissions and Fuel Cost Savings Across the United States," found that given similar driving conditions and distances, a hypothetical Nissan Leaf in Denver would generate significantly more emissions than the same hypothetical car in Los Angeles. READ MORE...
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Qantas Conducts Australia's First Biofuel Flight
(ATWOnline, April 2012)
 Qantas (QF) launched Australia's first commercial biofuel flight Friday, operating an Airbus A330 between Sydney and Adelaide using a 50:50 blend derived from used cooking oil and conventional jet fuel (ATW Daily News, April 2).
Just ahead of the flight, QF announced it will conduct a feasibility study into the potential for a sustainable alternative aviation fuel industry in Australia. The Australian government will fund the study, which will begin in May. Shell will provide technical support, QF said. READ MORE...
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Biofuel Price Relief Still Distant
(ATWOnline.com, April 2012)
Biofuels are unlikely to provide significant relief from high fuel prices any time soon or before oil prices climb considerably further. But they could eventually limit the degree of escalation in fuel costs and evade restraints that governments may put on hydrocarbon fuels.
These implications emerged from the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference 2012, held in Washington DC the first week of April. Attended mostly by biofuel developers, past editions of this gathering have held out some over-optimistic estimates of biofuel potential, cost and timing. The 2012 meeting was more realistic, perhaps because commercial projects are closer to serious funding efforts. READ MORE...
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Powered by Cooking Oil, Boeing's 787
Dreamliner Crosses Pacific
(Smartplanet.com, April 2012)
 We've always coveted All Nippon Airways' business class seats - lay-flat seats? USB ports? local cuisine? sign us up! - but now all that luxury comes at a slightly better price.No, a flight to Tokyo Haneda airport will still cost as much as a small car. But the environment (and ANA's CFO) can breathe a bit easier now that Boeing has successfully completed its first-ever transpacific flight running on biofuels with its flagship 787 Dreamliner.
The flight between Boeing's Delivery Center in Everett, Wash. and Tokyo is a win for both companies. Boeing gets some positive press for its long-delayed flagship aircraft and a bit more for its commitment to using biofuels; meanwhile, ANA shows that it's at the forefront of aviation technology while saving on fuel costs, too.
The biofuel used by the aircraft was derived mainly from used cooking oil and emitted about 30 percent fewer carbon emissions compared to conventional airplanes. (Boeing will have you know that two-thirds of that reduction was the Dreamliner's efficient technology at work.) READ MORE... -
INSTALLATIONS
Colorado Airport Looks to the Future with
Spaceflight, Drones
(Denverpost.com, April 2012)
For nearly 30 years, Front Range Airport has sprawled on prairie land near the Eastern Plains town of Watkins, managing to cling to life as development dreams have been dashed.
Now, those dreams are once again at the forefront as the 4,000-acre airport's long-sought prosperity hinges on a mix of futuristic space travel, unmanned aircraft, new surrounding development and continued general-aviation services.
Up to now, Front Range has grown in spurts, in part due to infrastructure improvements fueled by on-airport and off-airport projects that have stalled. READ MORE...
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MATERIALS & MANUFACTURING
Reusable Oil-Absorbing Nanosponges Could Soak Up Oil Spills
(Gizmag.com, April 2012)
Last week we looked at the development of "hydrate-phobic" surfaces that could assist in the containment of oil leaks in deep water. Now, by adding boron to carbon while growing nanotubes, researchers have developed a nanosponge with the ability to absorb oil spilled in water. Remarkably, the material is able to achieve this feat repeatedly and is also electrically conductive and can be manipulated with magnets.
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Nanotube sponge soaks up oil
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While multiwalled carbon nanotubes grown on a substrate via chemical vapor disposition form standing up without any real connections to their neighbors, the researchers found that adding a dash of boron to the nanotube production process puts kinks and elbows into them as they grow and promotes the formation of covalent bonds. This gives the nanosponges, which are 99% air, an elastic property that is retained even after 10,000 compressions in the lab. READ MORE... -
ORGANIZATIONS & INSTITUTIONS
NASA Aeronautics Research Institute Seedling Seminar
The NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI) will present a technical seminar June 5-7, 2012 to the aeronautics community and persons interested in some of the innovative aviation technology concepts being developed by NASA. Approximately nine months ago, NARI awarded twenty $150,000 seedling grants to start important, innovative aeronautical research. These grants funded work at NASA field centers to pursue aviation concepts conceived by innovative individuals. The results of this research will be presented via a virtual seminar over the internet. Each research topic discussion is scheduled for 45 minutes, 30 minutes for the presentation, 15 minutes for questions and clarifications.
Through aeronautical research solicitations and hosting future challenges, the NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI) promotes innovation in aeronautics across a broad spectrum of aeronautical challenges in the nation's air transportation system. The Institute coordinates those efforts, and communicates the outcome of the research conducted to interested parties both internal and external to NASA.
The Institute, part of NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD), was established to pursue ARMD's objective to make deliberate investments in innovative,early-stage, and potentially revolutionary aviation concepts and technologies. This reflects ARMD's desire to not only acquire additional innovative concepts within its technical portfolio, but also in the management of this portfolio. The Institute's formulation and operating concept reflects a new approach for ARMD to introduce fresh lines of research into existing ARMD Programs and Projects. As a result, the NARI will complement other ARMD efforts in seeking early-stage innovative concepts.
View the seminar via the internet using the following link. http://connect.arc.nasa.gov/nari_workshop/
FAA Searching for Test Sites for Unmanned
Aircraft Systems(AINOnline.com, April 2012)
The Federal Aviation Administration continues its search for test sites for unmanned aircraft systems. The agency announced this month that it is seeking public comments for the site selection. The recently approved FAA reauthorization bill requires the agency to establish a test program for such systems. READ MORE... -
(Smartplanet.com, April 2012)
Boeing and Embraer have signed an agreement this week to cooperatively work on improved aircraft safety, operational efficiency and manufacturing productivity.
Aimed at ensuring the mutual cooperation of both corporations, they have agreed to also collaborate on research and aviation biofuels. According to a statement released on Monday, the companies also plan to look 'for other areas to work together to bring mutual benefit and value to customers'. READ MORE...
- Blog: Aviation Community Should Band Together (GeneralAviationNews.com, April 2012)
As regular readers of this column may have noted, I often write about airports and administrative issues that effect the municipally owned airports of Polk County, Florida. Because most of the issues that one airport faces will eventually become an issue for others, there is a certain universality to the topics covered here, even if the focus does appear on the surface to be narrow, including only the four municipally owned airports in this county.
That's the magician's trick of it all. There aren't four airports in my county. The four airports I've mentioned here, in relation to the Polk Aviation Alliance for instance, are just the tip of the iceberg. They are the big dogs in a kennel filled with dozens of yapping pooches. You see, although there may be only four municipally owned airports in my county, it is entirely reasonable to say that there are as many as 40 aviation bases of operation. READ MORE... -
Eco-Aviation Awards(ATWOnline.com, April 2012)
ATW is pleased to announce the First Annual Eco-Aviation Awards Ceremony, where we will honor those companies who are demonstrating leadership in the field of eco-aviation. The Ceremony will take place on 21 June 2012, at the conclusion of ATW's 5th Annual Eco-Aviation Conference held at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel in Crystal City, VA (across the street from Reagan National Airport). ATW Editors, will present the awards.
The magazine's editorial staff and ATW's Eco-Aviation Conference Committee members will select the Award winners through all of the nominations. Any person or organization within the industry can be nominated as long as their company or product fits one of the four award categories. Here are some of the criteria used to consider an award in each category: READ MORE...
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Fedex Shipping Envelopes now Carbon NeutralBy Mitch Jackson, Staff Vice President, FedEx Corp Environmental Affairs & Sustainability
* FedEx Carbon-Neutral Envelope Shipping
* More than 200 million shipments each year
* Worldwide
* At no extra charge
* Now
I could end this post here, I suppose. But, I'll say a bit more about it since we're excited to share it. READ MORE... -
How is the US Air Force Adapting to Renewable Energy?(Smartplanet.com, April 2012)
For fuel-consumptive industries, the shift to renewable energy can be an expensive process - one that requires extensive planning, investment, and occasionally battles in the political arena.
The U.S. Air Force is one of these industries. Required to fulfill a number of tasks for the sake of national security, it now must also establish a way to achieve higher levels of energy efficiency and begin to lessen its dependency on sources of energy that are not renewable. READ MORE... -
SYSTEM INNOVATIONS Video: Terrafugia Flying Car Prototype Takes Flight
(AOPA.org, April 2012) A production prototype of the Terrafugia Transition flying car, a combination street-legal car and airplane, flew the traffic pattern at Plattsburg, N.Y., on March 23, the company announced on April 2. It marked the first time a Terrafugia prototype has flown around the traffic pattern. Earlier flights of a proof-of-concept aircraft were made above the runway at Plattsburgh in 2009. That model has been retired. The company announced the flight on national morning television shows. AOPA has previously reported on the Terrafugia. The two-seat aircraft had been expected to fly during EAA AirVenture 2011 but was not ready in time. READ MORE...
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Your Future Electric Vehicle May Run on Eggs
(Smartplanet.com, April 2012)
Is there something else we can do with our morning breakfast discards, rather than throwing them in the bin or using the fragments to deter slugs from eating potted plants?
Electric vehicle (EV) use is facing a problem with the prospect of widespread distribution in cities. The batteries that allow such car models to run are reliant on continual charging - the rate of which is based on the capacitors - and how much the cars are able charge, drain, and recharge. READ MORE...
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(FlyingMag.com, April 2012)
As Terrafugia looks to make headlines with the debut of its Transition roadable aircraft at the upcoming New York International Auto Show, a Dutch company with an intriguing flying car is making news of its own a continent away. Startup manufacturer PAL-V Europe flew its roadable gyrocopter for the first time last week, and in the process proved there's more than one way to merge travel by street and sky.
PAL-V stands for Personal Land and Air Vehicle, and that's exactly what this machine is. On the road, the vehicle resembles a three-wheeled motorcycle, with a unique tilting suspension system that makes it surprisingly agile in the corners. Once stopped, the PAL-V's rotor and rear-facing propeller quickly unfold and the craft is ready to take to the air, flying much like a conventional gyrocopter. READ MORE...
Boeing Targets Fuel Efficiency in 737 MAX Choices(ChicagoBusiness.com, April 2012) Boeing Co. said it has made several design choices for its upcoming 737 MAX, the re-engined version of its best-selling narrowbody aircraft, to ensure it hits its ambitious fuel-efficiency targets. The planemaker said it would improve the craft's aerodynamics by extending the tail cone and changing the way it integrates the engine with the wing. READ MORE...
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AGA SPOTLIGHT 
BRS Aerospace Joins Aviation Green Alliance
as a Founding Member
April, 2012
The Lindbergh Foundation is pleased to announce that BRS Aerospace - designer, manufacturer, and seller of exceptionally reliable, innovative, and high quality safety and aerospace products - has joined the Aviation Green Alliance as a Founding Member.
"We are thrilled that BRS Aerospace is joining our elite group of Aviation Green Alliance Founding Members," said Lindbergh Foundation Executive Director Yolanka Wulff. "BRS provides a solution to a problem unique and inherent to aviation, using parachutes to save lives. The support of BRS, and its fellow Founding Members, demonstrates the importance of Aviation Green Alliance as a leader in the future of aviation. I am confident that both Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh would be enormously proud to have such a prestigious organization as a supporter - especially one which has done so much for aviation and has had such an impact on saving lives." READ MORE...
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AGA Founder Member: Keeping alive the 'Golden Age of Aviation' in Minnesota
(The Star Tribune, March, 2012)
When Greg Herrick, who collects antique airplanes, wanted to restore a 1937 Fairchild aircraft, he struggled to get ahold of the technical drawings for the plane.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which stores the information, told him it couldn't release the records, claiming that they contained trade secrets.
Herrick, who owns the Golden Wings Museum at the Anoka County-Blaine Airport, which houses nearly 30 vintage airplanes dating back to the "Golden Age of Aviation" between the two world wars, viewed it as a challenge.
Fifteen years later, following a lawsuit that he brought against the FAA which eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court, Herrick obtained the documents.
More recently, Herrick, who lives in Minneapolis, helped write a related amendment to the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act of 2012, which Congress passed last month. READ MORE...
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FEATURE
Lindbergh Prize for Innovation Given to e-volo
April, 2012
Today at AERO-Friedrichshafen, Erik Lindbergh, grandson of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, announced the AERO 2012 winner of the Lindbergh Prize. The Lindbergh Foundation's aviation prizes are designed to recognize and stimulate innovation, and promote meaningful advancements in green aviation.
e-volo is the winner of the AERO 2012 Lindbergh Prize for Innovation. Many innovative aircraft designs on display at AERO-Friedrichshafen this year were considered by the independent judging panel, but one aircraft stood out. In fact, this aircraft was so innovative that it appears to be in a category all by itself.
The e-volo Volocopter VC1 is a completely novel vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) system. Using the distributed power of multiple small electric propulsion units, e-volo has demonstrated breakthroughs in redundancy, simplicity of controls and inefficiencies inherent in the control surfaces normally used in aircraft. READ MORE...
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FUTURES OF AVIATION
Solar-powered Plane will Fly from Switzerland to Morocco
(Upi.com, April, 2012)
A solar-powered airplane that has already set three world records is being prepared for a two-day flight of more than 1,500 miles, its Swiss developers say.
The builders of the "Solar Impulse" say the flight will be a dress rehearsal for the ultimate goal of flying around the world in 2014.
The team behind the aircraft has spent seven years building the craft with the wingspan of an Airbus A340 airliner that weighs about the same as an average family car, InnovationNewsDaily reported. READ MORE...
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iPads Outpace Inflight Use of Cell Phones and Laptops(ATWOnline.com, April, 2012)
In the week following the release of the iPad, Gogo director-airline operations Tim Lemaster said the Wi-Fi provider identified over 10,000 separate usages of iPads being used onboard aircraft. The tablets continue to outpace cell phones and laptops 10 to one on airplanes, he said.
"The traditional IFEs are going to be squeezed down to a more long-haul market," Lemaster told attendees at the Aviation Week MRO Conference in Dallas last week. He pointed out that Wi-Fi-enabled short-haul flights that take advantage of passengers' own personal electronic devices (PEDs) could help the industry avoid buying and installing seatback systems. However, on a 3-hr. flight, Gogo has seen the average passenger pushing 61 megabytes by themselves-a challenging amount of data to support on multiple PEDs. "It is a big challenge in the industry," of "how to push more through the pipe, because the pipe is limited," he said. READ MORE... - All-you-can-fly Airline Takes off in California(Smartplanet.com, April, 2012)
Frequent flyers will soon be able to zip up and down California's coast with a new all-you-can-fly airline.
Surf Air announced Thursday that starting this summer, it will offer members unlimited service between Palo Alto, Monterey, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles for $790 a month.
The membership-based airline will cater to investors and entrepreneurs who regularly travel for business. According to the company's estimates, these frequent flyers account for a whopping 85 percent of the business travel industry and in 2011 alone, more than 20 million of these passengers flew between Los Angeles and San Francisco. READ MORE... -
Pipistrel Unveils Panthera(GeneralAviationNews.com, April, 2012)
On opening day of Aero, the giant general aviation show in Germany, Pipistrel presented to the world for the first time its latest design, the Panthera.
Launched as a project at last year's Aero, the Panthera is a new four-seat composite cruiser, developed entirely in house. The streamlined design takes four people 1,000 nm and cruises at 200 kts while burning only 10 US gallons per hour of fuel. The prototype is powered by a Lycoming IO-390 fuel injected engine, but hybrid- and electro powerplants are coming soon, company officials promised. READ MORE... -
(GeneralAviationNews.com, April, 2012) The iOptik display system, consisting of modified contact lenses and glasses, promises to revolutionize head-mounted display-based augmented reality by allowing the wearer to focus on two planes at the same time. Innovega, the company behind the project, developed their ultra-small form-factor head-up display (HUD) setup in frames of DARPA's Soldier Centric Imaging via Computational Cameras (SCENICC) program, and has now signed a contract with the agency to deliver a prototype.Head-up displays are transparent displays that allow for the superposition of the presented imagery over what is being observed in the real world, and are therefore great for augmented reality purposes. DARPA has been exploring HUDs for a long time (they were originally designed for jet fighter pilots to allow them to see all the critical information while keeping their heads up, without looking down at the console), so the agency is definitely no stranger to the idea, but the existing solutions were just too bulky to be of any use on the battlefield. READ MORE... -
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The most powerful solar storms in the last five years threatened to wreak havoc with our digital systems on Earth in March. To find out just what solar storms are, why they are in the news recently and why we are more vulnerable to them than ever before, Smart Planet turned to space weather expert Bill Murtagh, program coordinator for the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. READ MORE...
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LINDBERGH FOUNDATION NEWS 
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The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation announced that Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Eugene Cernan will be the featured speakers at a 35th Anniversary celebration dinner at The Explorers Club in New York City on May 18th.
"We are thrilled to have Apollo astronauts Armstrong, Lovell and Cernan-three special members of the extended Lindbergh Foundation family-join us for this chance to honor 35 years of achievement in carrying out the vision they have each helped to further," said Lindbergh Foundation Chairman and CEO Larry Williams. Noting the historical significance of having founding- and Board-emeritus members on hand at the very place where the Foundation began, Williams added, "We're looking forward to hearing what these visionaries foresaw for the Lindbergh Foundation, and what they encourage us to pursue going forward in the vital work of seeking balance between technology and our environment." Also speaking will be the Foundation's Honorary Chairman, Reeve Lindbergh, youngest daughter of Charles and Anne Morrow and a noted author.
Following a reception and dinner for about 100 invited guests, Capt. Lovell, who served on the Foundation's first Board, will share his recollections of the vision for the Foundation during the early years. Capt. Cernan will reflect on receiving the Lindbergh Spirit Award in 2007, and his impressions of the Foundation and its role today in encouraging creative technologies to solve some of aviation's environmental challenges. Astronaut Armstrong will offer his perspective on the Lindbergh Foundation, and his recollections of working with Jimmy Doolittle who served with him as national co-chair of the fundraising effort that endowed the Lindbergh Foundation. READ MORE... |
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UPCOMING EVENTS
2012 CAFE Electric Aircraft Symposium April 27 & 28 Santa Rosa, California 2012 European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition May 14 - 16 Geneva, Switzerland JDA's Regulatory Affairs Training Course May 1 to 17 Fort Worth, Texas Regional Airline Association May 21 - 24 Minneapolis, MN Lindbergh Foundation May 18 2012 The Explorers Club New York, NY The 2012 China Civil Aviation Development Forum May 23 to 24 China World Summit Wing, Beijing, China ATW's 5th Annual Eco-Aviation Conference & Awards Ceremony June 20 to 21 Crystal City, VA
EAA AirVenture July 23 - 29 Oshkosh, WI 2012 Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition Aug 16 - 18 Sao Paulo, Brazil AOPA Aviation Summit Oct 11 - 13 Palm Springs, CA NBAA Annual Meeting & Convention Oct 30 - Nov 1 Orlando, FL
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MEMBER PROFILE: AGA Founding Member Sikorsky 
"Sikorsky has been employing a comprehensive strategy for environmental management and sustainability to lead the rotorcraft industry in reducing energy consumption, protecting our natural resources, and being a leader in green and sustainable initiatives and green technology," said Robert Araujo, Sikorsky Manager of Sustainable Development and Environmental, Health and Safety Programs. "Initiatives like the Aviation Green Alliance are an opportunity for industry leaders to leave an indelible mark on the future of green aviation, and Sikorsky is proud to support this effort."
Laurence Vigeant Langlois, Sikorsky Innovations' Director of Business Development & Partnerships, added, "The Lindbergh Foundation Aviation Green Alliance presents an opportunity for Sikorsky to demonstrate our engagement and to support initiatives that respond to the aviation industry's environmental sustainability challenges throughout the product life cycle. We look forward to sharing best practices and to maturing our partnership in environmental stewardship."
Sikorsky Joined the Aviation Green Alliance on March 28th during the annual Sun 'n Fun event.
AVIATION GREEN ALLIANCE FOUNDING MEMBERS:  Bombardier Aerospace BRS Aerospace
Cessna Aircraft Company
FedEx Corporation
Hawker Beechcraft Corp.
Jeppesen
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.
Individuals:
Greg Herrick
John and Martha King
David Treinis
Kermit Weeks
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