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New Wichita terminal hinges on airfare subsidy
Building a new terminal at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport may hinge on the state Legislature renewing a nearly $5 million airfare subsidy, a city official said.Allowing the bids for the $160 million terminal could happen as early as July if all goes wel…
U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher, farmer from Frog Jump, leaps into Congress
It’s been just over a month since he was sworn in, but freshman U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher, R-Tenn., is settling in with a combination of infectious enthusiasm and serious-mindedness. He introduced himself at the organizational meeting of the Transporta…
ShipRightNow.com: Connecting Consumers and Independent Carriers to Cut Shipping Costs
When Jill Popowitz relocated from Atlanta to Chicago, the hardest part of the move was shipping her furniture.
Sen. Schumer: Pilot safety regs being weakened
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York warned on Sunday that national air safety regulations proposed after a Buffalo airliner crash two years ago are being watered down in Washington.
Trouble down the road?
Dave Thurston of Omaha inspects his vehicle as part of a truck driver training program at Metropolitan Community College.
ADA Technologies to develop ultracapacitors for hybrid military vehicles
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Hybrid
ADA Technologies, Inc. has been awarded a $70,000 contract from the U.S. Army to begin Phase 1 of the development of an electrochemical ultracapacitor for use in hybrid military vehicles. ADA’s developmental …
Center for Automotive Research releases study on estimated US distribution pattern of electric vehicles through 2015; focus on incentives
The CAR study uses the distribution of hybrid sales as the basis to estimate the distribution of plug-in electric vehicle sales. Source: CAR. Click to enlarge.
In a new study, the Center for Automotive
Research, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based nonpr…
TSB releases last communications of pilot
A Cougar Sikorsky S-92 helicopter taxis on the runway at St. John’s International Airport in this file photo.
Iran produces biodiesel from Jatropha
Fars News Agency (FNA) reports that Iranian experts and scientists for the first time managed to produce biodiesel fuel using the oil extracted from Jatropha curcas plant cultivated in Southern Iran.
“Iran could produce biodiesel fuel through ext…