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July 28, 2015

Pilot Error Cited By NTSB In SpaceShipTwo Accident

Board Says Pilots Were 'Not Adequately Trained' On Feather Lock System

The NTSB has released its probable cause report from the SpaceShipTwo accident last October 31 that resulted in the fatal injury of one pilot and which seriously injured the second.

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Pelton: A Tremendous Week For AirVenture 2015

Planes, People, Even The Weather Spot-On For Oshkosh

Whether you’re talking weather, variety of aircraft, volunteer support, air shows, or the plethora of “Only in Oshkosh” examples, a weary but happy EAA Chairman Jack Pelton said EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015 was another great week.

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The Hughes H-4 Hercules Flying Boat Stays In McMinnville, OR

The Evergreen Aviation And Space Museum Has Reached A Deal To Assure That The ‘Spruce Goose’ Will Stay Where It Is

The famous Hughes H-4 Hercules has been on display at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum since 1993. Because it has been a fixture there for so long, it was reasonable to assume that the museum owned the aircraft, but that is not the case.

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NTSB Releases Probable Cause Finding On Southwest Airlines Flight 345

On July 22, 2013, A Boeing 737, Operated As Southwest Airlines Flight 345, Landed Hard, Nose-First, On Runway 4 At LGA

The NTSB found the captain's attempt to recover from an unstabilized approach by transferring airplane control at low altitude instead of performing a go-around was the primary cause of this accident. Contributing to the accident was the captain's failure to comply with standard operating procedures.

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Citation Latitude Continues To Stretch Its Legs On Transcontinental Flights

The Citation Latitude Flew A Crew Of Two Pilots And Five Passengers On A Trip From Santa Barbara, CA To Maui, HI

The Cessna Aircraft Company last week demonstrated the trans-Pacific capability of its newly FAA-certified Citation Latitude between the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii. The flights follow other recent successful transcontinental missions on the aircraft, including the first trans-Atlantic crossing in May and nonstop U.S. coast-to-coast flights earlier this month.

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Report: Commercial Drones Market To Reach $4.8 Billion By 2021

Opportunities Exist In Airfreight Delivery, Pipeline Observation, Aerial Photography, Other Sectors

The market for commercial UAVs (drones) shows promise for significant growth because of the more economical visualization and navigation provided by systems, according to research released by Radiant Insights.  Visualization includes mapping from the air, inspection from the air, surveillance from the air, and package delivery from the air.  The unmanned aircraft equipped with cameras are able to do things that cannot be done in any other way.

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NASA Aircraft Assists In FAA-Approved Drone Medical Supply Delivery Research

Both A Hexacopter Drone And A Full-Size Aircraft Were Used In A UAS Experimental Delivery Test

It has already been reported that a Flirtey Inc. hexacopter was used to deliver medical supplies in rural Virginia, but there is more to this story. NASA joined with the FAA in the medical supply drone delivery research program with their own UAS version of a Cirrus SR-22.

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CAE Achieves Level D Qualification For Their A350 XWB Full-Flight Simulator

This Is The World's First A350 XWB Full-Flight Simulator Qualified To Level D

CAE has announced that the FAA, the Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGAC) in France, and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have qualified the world's first A350 XWB full-flight simulator (FFS) to Level D, the highest qualification for flight simulators.

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Drones May Be The Way To Go For Information Gathering

Small Unmanned Aerial Systems Can Go Where People Can Not

In the summer of 1961, the first robot was introduced into the General Motors assembly line. Today, we are looking at a future of robots everywhere. Robots delivering our packages, robots investigating crime scenes, robots surveying terrain. These all fit into a specific category of robots called Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS), commonly referred to as drones.

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Ohio State Highway Patrol To Receive First U.S.-Built Airbus Helicopters H125

The OHSP Will Take Delivery Of Its New H125 At Airbus Helicopters Inc. Later This Year.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) has ordered the first H125 AStar produced on the new final assembly line at the Airbus Helicopter’s production facility in Columbus, MS. The H125, locally known as the “AStar,” is now built in the United States by American workers.

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Flight Management System Market Worth $912.20 Million By 2020

Annual Growth Rate Over Seven Percent Forecast By Analysts

The global Flight Management System Market is estimated to be $601.36 million in 2014 to register a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 7.19% to reach $912.20 million by 2020, according to new research published by MarketsandMarkets.

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Cessna 208 Caravan STC Used In Cockpit Upgrade And Redesign

Full Garmin G600 Cockpit Recently Installed Under AML STC

Under Garmin’s AML STC, Mid-Canada Mod Center (MC2) has completed and placed back into service a full Garmin G600 cockpit and avionics mod to a Cessna 208 Caravan.

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First Commercial Aircraft Brought To Mainland China For Recycling

GA Innovation China Imports A 767-300 For Disassembly

GA Innovation China (“GAIC”), a joint venture between GA Telesis and Air China, has announced the import and delivery of the first-ever aircraft from overseas for teardown and parts redistribution in mainland China.

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Wipaire Secures Fleet Order From AVIC Joy Air Holdings Limited

Chinese Regional Carrier Will Take Delivery Of 20 Sets Of Floats

Wipaire has announced that Joy Air, a Chinese regional carrier serving the northwestern region of the country, has placed a fleet order for 20 sets of Wipline 8750 floats. This coincides with Joy Air’s order for 20 Cessna Grand Caravan EX aircraft.

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Airborne At OSH15 Day 2 Redux: Aspen's AOA, NTSB's Hart, New Able Flight Pilots

Also: BIG Piper Order, AEA $1000 Givewaway, Airbus A350 X-W-B, F-22 Raptor, Pelton Interview -- Part 2

In only four months since its introduction, Aspen has obtained FAA certification for its Angle-of-Attack display for the Evolution MFD. Aspen Avionics president and CEO John Uczekaj says that AoA is one of the most important safety features available in aviation. Piper announced a big order from FlightSafety. Piper CEO Simon Caldecott says the flight training company will take delivery of 26 new airplanes beginning later this year. One of the unique aspects on AirVenture is the opportunity for those attending

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Boeing Forecasts Rising Demand For Commercial Airline Pilots, Technicians

Nearly 1.2 Million New Pilots, Technicians Needed Over Next 20 Years

Boeing has released a new forecast showing continued strong demand for commercial airline pilots and maintenance technicians as the world's airlines add 38,000 airplanes to the global fleet over the next 20 years.

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Aero Electric Details Their Vision Of The Future Of Flight

AEAC CEO George Bye Says Sun Flyer Incorporates Everything Pilots Love About A Cessna 172

At a news conference introducing the Sun Flyer electric trainer, Aero Electric Aircraft Corporation (AEAC) CEO George Bye made a bold statement: "We think we are looking at the future of aviation," Bye said.

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Helicopter Tours Business Over The Hudson River Takes A Hit From A U.S. Senator

It’s A Business That’s Under Fire And U.S. Senator Bob Menendez Adds Fuel To The Flames

Residents continued to complain about the noise caused from helicopter tours along the Hudson River and now U.S. Senator Bob Menendez jumps into the fray. Tourist helicopter trips take off and land in only one spot in New York City: the Financial District's Pier 6, in the East River. There are currently five companies that operate from the city-owned heliport.  

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FlyThisSim Introduces New Touch Trainer FM 210

Expanded Field Of Vision, Enhanced Luminance And Accurate Visual Displays

FlyThisSim introduced the TouchTrainer FM 210 at EAA AirVenture 2015 in Oshkosh. The TouchTrainer FM 210 is the first of floor-mounted TouchTrainer with ergonomic, versatile, and reconfigurable cockpit and side-by-side seating. The system provides a 210 degree horizontal by 70 degree ‘Visual Motion’ field of view system with outstanding brightness and resolution.

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AeroSports Update: Enthusiasm Does Not Trump Good Planning

The Story Of Bill’s Idea To Own An Airplane And Become A Sport Pilot Didn’t Work Out So Well

Anxious to own a plane and become a sport pilot, Bill purchased a damaged, sport pilot eligible, classic airplane. His plan was to restore the plane and use it for his training.

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SpaceShipOne Memento Journeys To Pluto

Scaled Composites Celebrates Historic New Horizons Mission With A Memento From SpaceShipOne

The first privately-funded vehicle to reach space and one of the most innovative crafts ever flown is part of space history again. A three-inch piece of SpaceShipOne was selected by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to accompany eight other mementos on the New Horizons spacecraft's extraordinary journey to Pluto.

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'Safest Cub Wing On The Market' Shown At AirVenture

Dakota Slotted Wing Provides Slower Stall Speed And Better Handling

Piper Cub pilots are always looking for ways to land shorter, stall at lower speeds, and takeoff with less runway. All of these could be accomplished with the Dakota Slotted Wing, which is being called "the safest Cub wing sold on the market."

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Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (07.28.15)

"To help address this need, Boeing trained last year a record number of pilots and technicians at 17 training campuses around the globe and has invested in a comprehensive Pilot Development Program to train early stage pilots to become qualified commercial airline pilots." Source: Sherry Carbary, vice president, Boeing Flight Services.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (07.28.15): FAA-Contracted Towers

Low activity VFR ATCTs providing air traffic control services for a municipality or subdivision thereof while under contract to the FAA.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (07.28.15)

The Future Of Aviation Is Electric

The arrival of a unique experimental demonstrator at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center on February 26 may herald a future in which many aircraft are powered by electric motors.

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