FARNBOROUGH, England, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- AVIATION WEEK and Farnborough International have presented the 2010 John Curtis Sword Award to Air Marshal T.M. "Timo" Anderson, first Director General of the independent U.K.

Police said a man was arrested in Miami after he allegedly posed as an air marshal to get on a plane after the gate had closed. Miami-Dade police said Mark Rimkufski, 49, used a toy Fisher Island Chief of Police badge to convince airline employees that he was a federal air marshal, but the ruse was uncovered once he boarded the plane and was confronted by real air marshals, The Miami Herald reported Friday. Rimkufski was scheduled to appear in Miami-Dade court Thursday on charges of falsely impersonating a law enforcement officer, but he was absent from court due to hospitalization for an unspecified ailment. Authorities said Rimkufski also faces a federal charge of impersonating an air marshal.

Less than 1 percent of the average 28,000 daily U.S. commercial airline flights have armed federal air marshals on board, a CNN investigation found.

By Sofia Santana and Vanessa Blum, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Oct.

By Cao Desheng The first batch of Chinese air marshal forces are expected to fly to the United States next month for a two-week anti-terror training programme, the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC) said on its website yesterday.