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It’s the airplane that EVERYONE wants to fly... the single seat, one-third scale, flying replica of one of America’s greatest bombers... the mighty B-17. A labor of love for one great man, the presence of the “Bally Bomber’ is a jaw-dropper! The One Week Wonder is back for AirVenture 2018! Over the next seven days, thousands of EAA members will come together to put together a brand new Vans RV-12is. The build kicked off at 8am sharp Monday

Pilot Union Concerns Led To Self-Initiated Audit

The Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a report from a self-initiated audit in which it finds that the FAA did not fully address safety concerns brought to its attention about an airworthiness flight test program at American Airlines.

UTC Aerospace Systems Unveils Intelligent Aircraft Technologies Lab

UTC Aerospace Systems has announced the opening of a new Intelligent Aircraft Technologies Lab based in Rockford, Illinois. The lab is dedicated to the accelerated development of more intelligent and connected aircraft systems to optimize airline operational efficiency while providing new insights for the design and manufacture of highly reliable products. 

Klyde Relates His Continuing Love Affair With TSA (NOT!)

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New Project Focuses On Aviation Safety, Promotes Partnerships

The European Union (EU) and Latin American states recently celebrated the launch of a new project to enhance their ties in civil aviation. This four-year project, managed by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), aims to enhance aviation safety, and promote the political, economic and environmental partnership between the EU and Latin America in the domain of civil aviation.

Promises Unprecedented Scale And Speed

The European Commission and the ESA have awarded an Airbus-led consortium a contract for the provision of satellite-based seamless coverage of the whole of Europe at very high-resolution. The consortium includes Airbus Defense and Space, Planet, Deimos Imaging, IGN-France and space4environment. This agreement is part of the Copernicus Earth Observation program for the European Union (EU).

Will Provide Telemetry, Commanding, And Data Support

Atlas Space Operations, Inc., a company that provides satellite communications as a service through an innovative software-driven, high data flow global antenna network, announced today that BlackSky has selected Atlas to provide telemetry, commanding, and data support for its high-revisit, Earth imaging constellation of satellites. Atlas will be offering this support via new ground station sites in Guam and Japan to further maximize the performance of the BlackSky constellation.

Will Deliver High-Fidelity Visual System To The Carrier

Turkish Airlines has selected Rockwell Collins to provide its EP-8100 image generators with JVC laser illuminated projectors for pilot training for the airline’s new and existing fleet of Boeing 737 MAX, 777-300 and 787 Dreamliner aircraft, as well as its Airbus A320neo, A330 and A350 XWB aircraft. This new contract is for 14 new visual systems, nine firm with options for five more.

Powers F-15 Eagle And F-16 Fighting Falcon Aircraft

Pratt & Whitney has announced that its F100 engine, which powers Boeing's F-15 Eagle and Lockheed Martin's F-16 Fighting Falcon, has reached 28 million engine flight hours. This marks a major milestone for the engine that powers more than 2,000 aircraft around the world and has been relied on by dozens of countries during its 40-plus years of service.

“This is just the latest approval in our steady stream of STCs, but it shows how agile and experienced the Tamarack team has become in obtaining multiple sequential certifications. We are excited that international CJ owners can now experience the significant performance benefits of our Active Winglet upgrade.” Source: Nick Guida, Founder of Tamarack Aerospace, commenting on Tamarack Aerospace Group's having received the last in a series of approvals from ANAC Brazil for its Atlas Active Winglets for the Cessna C525, C525A and C525B. This certification means that Atlas is now approved for installation on Cessna CJ, CJ1, CJ1+, M2, CJ2, CJ2+, CJ3 and CJ3+ business jets by all the major regulatory agencies including EASA, FAA

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IMC Club

IMC Club is dedicated to mitigating the issue of lack of instrument proficiency by providing a means to reengage pilots with other pilots and instructors. IMC club is coaching, training, mentoring and helping pilots to fly in actual instrument meteorological conditions with local chapters across the country.