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The vertical lift technology of helicopters has far more utilitarian aspects to its credit than only being an effective mode oftransport. In India, civil helicopters are performing transportation business, be it executive or offshore. But, with Indian skies opening up tointernational aviation and domestic aviation getting global, it is time we understand that helicopters are the connecting links towards its success.Helicopters can reach where nothing else can. Helicopters can perform EMS (Emergency Medical Service), Law Enforcement, Power Line Survey, Fire Fighting,SAR (Search and Rescue), ENG (Electronic News Gathering) at the same time as connecting the remotest places to the center. Whileeffort is on to improvise our country’s infrastructure by introducing metro rail, building expressways, modernizing railways, building better airports, it istime to incorporate helicopter services as well. Heliports along the expressways and railway tracks will enable timely rescue services in caseof accidents.

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DARPA has developed a small laser cannon, just like Star Wars to use as a weapon in a fighter plane forair to air combat, destroying enemy missiles or perhaps using a combination later on of Argon or CO2 (depending on altitude)for close air support. Recently it was announced that they would put this new airborne laser system onto fighter jets. Thesystem, which will go onto a fighter jet would be called the; "HELLADS" or High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System,it is being tested now. It would be a system based on Israel’s THEL system, which is a mobile "Tactical HighEnergy Laser."

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I will not pretend that this is the easiest topic to write about. In fact, my knowledge of how one findswork as a private flight attendant is based chiefly on what others have shared with me. You can find some usefultips within the many threads written on the Corporate Flight Attendant Community message boards, but to save you from culling throughhundreds of threads I will highlight various standout points and include others that have been shared with me over the pastseveral years by industry insiders:

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Smart Missiles are expensive, but effective. Efficiency in the the new paradigm of the net-centric warfare will yield results to thosewho pay attention and do not waste assets.

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We’ve all experienced it - the commercial flight. After a mad dash to make it to the airport on time, includingthe hours allotted for getting through security, where you’ll have to take off your shoes, empty your pockets, and prove thatyour laptop is not a bomb, you sit and wait for a couple hours before they decide to start boarding, andgive you the privilege of sitting in the cramped seat that you paid a couple hundred dollars for.

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It now looks certain that Hurricane Katrina will push fuel prices - and air fares - up through the roof.

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When you’re looking for airline tickets to your specific destination, whether it be for business purposes or for a well-deserved holiday,finding really cheap airfare tickets will relieve a lot of your traveling costs.

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