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Cleared Hot: Court Rules Flights Suits back in Style

A state appeals court has overturned a lower court and ruled that military flight suits cannot be trademarked:

The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Atlanta-based Afterburner Inc. could not stop others from using a “military aviation-themed approach to business consulting” or wearing flight suits and using fighter jet imagery in such presentations.

The suit started when employees broke off from Afterburner Inc. and started their own company. A trial court had ruled in favor of Afterburner, but the appeals court reversed it: Read more

Air Force Deploys Newest Predator

Purists have for years mocked the Hollywood portrayal of military UAVs.  The 2007 Transformers, for example, featured an afterburning Predator.

The Predator has a propeller, so that’s like having an afterburning Cessna 172.

Now, however, reality has started to catch up with fiction.  The Air Force has reportedly purchased — and deployed, its single Predator C, which has a jet engine in place of the propeller.

It does not appear to be an afterburning engine, but there’s still time yet…