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June 10, 2014

Young Eagles Chair Sean Tucker Encourages Pilots To Inspire The Next Generation

Will Fly One Young Eagle Himself During International Young Eagles Day, June 14

Each year, thousands of volunteers worldwide introduce nearly 80,000 young people to flight through the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Young Eagles program. On International Young Eagles Day, Saturday, June 14, thousands of kids are expected to take their first flight in a general aviation airplane, expanding their horizons and introducing them to new career paths.

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'Disney’s Planes: Fire & Rescue' Interactive Display Touring This Summer

Film Opens In Theaters In July

Attendees at select air shows across the country, including the American Heroes Air Show, will have a chance to see some of the exciting elements from "Disney’s Planes: Fire & Rescue.” The movie will come to life with a colorful interactive display that is loaded with activities.

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NASA Selects Minority University Teams For 2014 Microgravity Research

Experiments Will Be Conducted Aboard RGEF Flights

NASA has selected 13 undergraduate teams from minority-serving institutions across the United States to test their science experiments in microgravity conditions. The teams will travel on a Reduced Gravity Education Flight (RGEF) with NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) the week of July 7.

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Hartzell Makes Maintenance Manuals Available Through ATP

Cloud-Based Distribution Gives Immediate Access To Information

Hartzell Engine Technologies has entered into an exclusive arrangement with ATP to provide all of HET’s maintenance publications and regulatory documents through the ATP Knowledge information services platform including the ATP Aviation Hub cloud application and NavigatorV desktop application.

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Island University Receives FAA Approval To Fly Small-Scale UAS

Flights May Be Conducted Over Campuses To Create Infrastructure Map

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has received approval from the FAA to fly its small-scale unmanned aircraft system (UAS) platform over the campus to map the infrastructure of both the main Island University and the Momentum Campus.

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NASA's Orion Spacecraft Is Ready To Feel The Heat

Heat Shield Fitted On The EFT-1 Capsule

NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers have installed the largest heat shield ever constructed on the crew module of the agency's Orion spacecraft. The work marks a major milestone on the path toward the spacecraft's first launch in December.

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Schiebel Demos Camcopter S-100 For Brazilian Navy

Flights Showed UAVs Flexibility With Multiple Payloads

Schiebel´s dedication to the maritime domain and its ability to respond to the evolving unmanned systems requirements lead to a series of trials for the Brazilian Navy from 2nd to 5th June near San Pedro, Brazil, from the Brazilian Amazonas Class Ship APA.

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Canada Expands Air Transport Agreement With The Philippines

Makes More Flight Options And Routes Possible

Canada's Minister of Transport The Honourable Lisa Raitt has announced an expanded Canada-Philippines Air Transport Agreement that allows for more flights between the two countries. Minister Raitt, joined by Senator Tobias Enverga, made the announcement at the Gateway Center for New Canadians in Mississauga, Ontario, home to a growing Canadian-Filipino community.

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NASA Beams 'Hello, World!' Video From Space Via Laser

Message Delivered From ISS In Orbit Above The Earth

NASA successfully beamed a high-definition video from the International Space Station to Earth Thursday using a new laser communications instrument.

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FreeFlight Systems Promotion Intended To Boost ADS-B Equipage

Will Give Away One Unit, Installed, Along With An iPad Mini

FreeFlight Systems will be holding a “Wrangle A RANGR” promotion for U.S.-registered aircraft owners offering a grand prize of RANGR FDL-978-XVR ADS-B Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) at no charge, a $3,000 installation credit and an iPad Mini. The drawing also includes a second prize of a $399 iPad Mini or a third prize of a $249 Pebble Steele watch.

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F-35 And Typhoon Fly Together For The First Time

Sortie Took Place Over Edwards AFB In California

An F-35 has flown in formation with two RAF Typhoons in the skies over Edwards Air Force Base, California.

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AD NUMBER: 2014-12-01

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Airborne 06.09.14: Sunseeker Duo, Diamond DA62, Russian Fighters Hassle RC135

Also: Glendale Airport Troubles, Progressive Air Group, Blue Angel Refuel, Google Loon

The Sunseeker Duo under development in Milan, Italy has become the first airplane in history to carry a passenger using only solar energy. It is reported that the airplane is the company's third, and it is powered by batteries charged only by 1,510 solar cells on its wings. The company says that the airplane can fly more than 12 hours with two people on board. When ANN first reported about Diamond's new DA62 twin last week, it was noted that it bore a striking resemblance to the DA52 the company had previously developed. There was a good reason for the resemblance. D

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Senate Prods FAA On Creation Of Pilot Record Database

Language Added To Transportation Bill Asking For A Report

U.S. Senator Charles E. (Chuck) Schumer (D-NY) has attached language to a pending transportation funding bill that would require the FAA to provide a status report on a proposed pilot record database.

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JFK Airport Manager Resigns As Runway Probe Begins

FAA Looking Into Two Incidents Involving Runway Lights

As the FAA began a probe into two incidents involving runway lights at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York (KJFK), the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced that airport manager Gennaro “Jerry” Spampanato was stepping down from that post.

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Downed Lancair, Pilot Located In Lake Superior

Aircraft Went Down Saturday Near Duluth, MN

The pilot of a Lancair IV that went down Saturday in about 140 feet of water in Lake Superior near Duluth, MN has been located, along with the wreckage of the airplane.

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Daher-Socata Delivers TBM 900 To French-Singaporean Entrepreneur

First Of The New Aircraft To Be Received In The Asia-Pacific Region

A new TBM 900 has been delivered to Jean-Jacques Bely, the founder and CEO of Franco-Asian Enterprises Singapore Pte Ltd (FAE). Immediately after the owner completes his aircraft type training at Airways Formation in Agen, France, he flies with Daher-Socata’s ferry pilot the TBM 900 to Singapore, and then to its home base in Australia.

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AgustaWestland And Turkey's Havelsan Sign MoU

Will Collaborate On Training Systems

AgustaWestland and Havelsan are pleased to announce the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and jointly market and sell their complementary training products and capabilities. Witnessed by the Turkish Undersecretary for Defense Industry, Dr. Ismail Demir, the MoU was signed by Mr. Sadik Yamac, CEO of Havelsan and Mr. Ross Kelly, AgustaWestland Head of Region for Turkey.

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Astronaut Brings Experiences From Space Station To NIH Event

Presentation Highlights Mission, Vital Research Conducted Aboard Orbiting Laboratory

NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, recently returned from living and working aboard the International Space Station, will give a presentation Tuesday, June 10, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

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AeroSports Update: British Microlight Rules Trump US Ultralight Rules

If You Want To Fly A Single Place Airplane Without The Requirement To Have It Certified, You’re A Lot Better Off In The UK

If you want to fly a powered aircraft that does not have to meet FAA certification in the US, the only way you can do it is to operate it as a single place ultralight under FAR 103. As a matter of fact, in FAR 103 they don’t even call it an airplane; they call it a “vehicle.”  

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Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (06.10.14)

"The FAA has been far too slow in getting this database off the ground, and that’s why I supported including language in the transportation appropriations bill to get them to pick up the pace by forcing them to report to Congress on their progress.” Source: Senator Charles (Chuck) Schumer (D-NY).

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (06.10.14): En Route Automation System (EAS)

The complex integrated environment consisting of situation display systems, surveillance systems and flight data processing, remote devices, decision support tools, and the related communications equipment that form the heart of the automated IFR air traffic control system.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (06.10.14)

Flight School Association of North America

The Flight School Association of North America is a membership-based association which represents flight schools, firms that provide products or services to the flight training or aviation industry, and supporting partners.

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