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What We Now Know About Malaysia Airlines 370, and What We Still Do Not

9M-MRO, the aircraft that would become Flight 379 Many of you will recall that I said it was just far too early to determine what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. (See: Malaysia Airlines...

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WhiteKnightTwo

Something you don’t see every day — WhiteKnightTwo On September 11 of this year we had a visitor come to El Paso International Airport.  What you see above is WhiteKnightTwo, the launch vehicle for...

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Fun Photo Friday — WhiteKnightTwo Favorites

WhiteKnightTwo Panoramic WhiteKnightTwo doesn’t only act as a launch platform.  Something I didn’t mention in Wednesday’s blog is that WhiteKnightTwo is also built to handle the stresses of parabolic...

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El Paso International Airport and Biggs Army Airfield Histories — Part 1

El Paso Military Aviation and Biggs Army Airfield: In 1919 the first permanent aviation presence arrived at Fort Bliss Aviation Field. The U.S. Army deployed to Fort Bliss the 104th Aero Squadron,...

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El Paso International Airport and Biggs Army Airfield Histories — Part 2

El Paso Civil Aviation: El Paso’s first civilian airfield, El Paso Municipal Airport, was built in 1928 near the eastern base of the Franklin Mountains in the area that today is just northeast of...

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El Paso International Airport and Biggs Army Airfield Histories — Part 3

El Paso ATCT “Firsts”: There are several ‘firsts’ associated with El Paso International Airport and the FAA Airport Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) facility which serves it. In the early 1960s the FAA...

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