Also: Avgas White Paper, Annual Space Day, Reselling Chinese 737s, Brazilian H125s
The popularity of UAV racing was compellingly evinced by the 710 drone-pilots who vied to enter the 2022 MultiGP Drone Racing Championship—a six-day event to be held from 18 through 23 October at the No Quarter Ranch drone field in Citrus Springs, Florida. A mid-air collision has claimed three lives near Vance Brand Airport (LMO) in Longmont, Colorado—a home-rule municipality approximately 25-nautical-miles north of Denver. The accident occurred just before 09:00 MDT on the morning of Saturday, 17 September 2022, and involved a Cessna 172 Skyhawk and a Sonex Xenos—a light, aluminum, low-wing, kit-aircraft marketed by Oshkosh-based Sonex Aircraft. Th
In an operation predicted upon daring, chutzpah, stealth, low-altitude non-radar flight, and no small amount of luck, a team from Wizz Air, the Hungarian ultra-low-cost air-carrier, crept into Ukraine and stole-back an Airbus A320 wrongfully taken from the airline at the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The aircraft was clandestinely flown from the war-torn nation to a safe landing in the southern Polish city of Katowice.
VFR Accident Involving Cessna-172 and Sonex Xenos Under Investigation
A mid-air collision has claimed three lives near Vance Brand Airport (LMO) in Longmont, Colorado—a home-rule municipality approximately 25-nautical-miles north of Denver. The accident occurred just before 09:00 MDT on the morning of Saturday, 17 September 2022, and involved a Cessna 172 Skyhawk and a Sonex Xenos—a light, aluminum, low-wing, kit-aircraft marketed by Oshkosh-based Sonex Aircraft. The National Transportation Safety Board, in a preliminary statement, has confirmed the collision occurred in VFR conditions.
Long-Delayed Aircraft Maintenance School to Open in 2024
After years of budgetary, logistical, and legal challenges, Chattahoochee Technical College, on Friday, 09 September 2022, held a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new aviation maintenance academy in Paulding County. The academy, which is slated to begin classes in 2024, will train aircraft maintenance and service technicians.
Tired of Trickle-Charging a Power-Hungry EFB? New High-Output USB-C Standard Charges it All
True Blue Power has announced a line of 100-watt USB-C charging ports to their line of TSO certified MAX Power USB charging receptacles. As personal computing devices have grown in size and capability, many users have complained of greatly increased power requirements, particularly as the industry moves away from traditional, square USB-A receptacles in favor of the smaller, sleeker, reversible USB Type-C.
Hot on the Heels of F-16 AAF Release, Falcon Operator Nabs Training Deal
Top Aces Corp has announced its selection for the US Air Force Combat Air Force Contracted Air Support program, to provide advanced adversary air training to pilots at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) in Florida and Luke AFB in Arizona. Top Aces was a shoo-in for the deal, a 5-year contract worth up to $175 million, due to their status as the sole operator of a commercial F-16 fleet in the USA. Their services will begin training the USAF's F-35A and F-22 fleets before October 1st.
Adaptive Cycle F-35 Engine Replacement Continues Path to Development With Promising Future
GE has finished another phase of testing the XA100 adaptive cycle engine at the US Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Complex, ending their work at the facility as it moves on to completion. The Air Force’s Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP) has been an ongoing project between GE Aviation and the USAF, aiming to develop a next-gen engine to fully outfit the F-35 Lightning II with a future-forward engine system.
From 2010 (YouTube Version): Recrafting The Future of Aerospace, Part 2
Recent publications from the Aerospace Industries Association note that, "America’s requirement for workers who are well educated in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is falling far short of anticipated need. Trends are discouraging, and interest is lacking among American youth. We simply aren’t producing enough engineers and non-engineering technical workers, such as hands-on manufacturing labor. Without dramatic change, these needs will go unmet, the future of the American aerospace industry will be bleak and the consequences for the nation will
Pilot Proceeded Eastbound On Course Toward Avl And Climbed To 9,000 Ft MSL
On September 5, 2022, at 1711 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 182P airplane, N58807, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Cleveland, Tennessee. The pilot and passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) data revealed that the flight departed Arlington Municipal Airport (GKY), Arlington, Texas, at 1012 central daylight time (cdt) and arrived at Fletcher Field Airport (CKM), Clarksdale, Mississippi, at 1300 cdt.
Aero Linx: The Transportation Safety Board of Canada
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is an independent agency that advances transportation safety by investigating occurrences in the air, marine, pipeline and rail modes of transportation. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is an independent agency created by an Act of Parliament (the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act) on 29 March 1990 with the mandate to advance safety in air, marine, pipeline, and rail transportation in Canada.
Mach Technique [ICAO]
Describes a control technique used by air traffic control whereby turbojet aircraft operating successively along suitable routes are cleared to maintain appropriate MACH numbers for a relevant portion of the en route phase of flight. The principle objective is to achieve improved utilization of the airspace and to ensure that separation between successive aircraft does not decrease below the established minima.
"We know 80% of aspiring pilots drop out for lack of funding, making scholarships of paramount importance in aviation education, not only pilots but other high-demand occupations such as aviation maintenance technicians as well as others aspiring to aviation careers. By addressing the high cost of an aviation education, we can remove a major barrier to addressing workforce shortages and continue to help students pursue AMT, airline management and pilot careers."
Source: RACCA head Stan Bernstein, adding some details to the a
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