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August 28, 2018

Airborne-Unmanned 08.28.18: DJI Mavic 2, Grand Sky BVLOS, Drone $$$

Also: Red Flag-Alaska, ScanEagle Wildfire Suppression, Echodyne EchoFlight Radar, UAS4STEM

DJI has introduced two additions to its Mavic series: Mavic 2 Pro, with an integrated Hasselblad camera, and the Mavic 2 Zoom, the first foldable consumer drone with optical zoom capability. The Mavic 2 incorporates the folding design of the Mavic Pro. The Mavic 2 has new gimbal-stabilized cameras and advanced features like Hyperlapse and ActiveTrack and offers a flight time of up to 31 minutes. The Mavic 2 Pro is the first drone with an integrated Hasselblad camera and houses a 1-inch CMOS sensor with a 10-bit Dl

Airborne-Unmanned 08.28.18: DJI Mavic 2, Grand Sky BVLOS, Drone $$$

Also: Red Flag-Alaska, ScanEagle Wildfire Suppression, Echodyne EchoFlight Radar, UAS4STEM

DJI has introduced two additions to its Mavic series: Mavic 2 Pro, with an integrated Hasselblad camera, and the Mavic 2 Zoom, the first foldable consumer drone with optical zoom capability. The Mavic 2 incorporates the folding design of the Mavic Pro. The Mavic 2 has new gimbal-stabilized cameras and advanced features like Hyperlapse and ActiveTrack and offers a flight time of up to 31 minutes. The Mavic 2 Pro is the first drone with an integrated Hasselblad camera and houses a 1-inch CMOS sensor with a 10-bit Dlog-M color profile. Powered by a 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor, the Mavic 2 Zoom is DJI’s first foldable consumer drone with zoom, combining two-times optical zoom (24-48mm) with t

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Autonomous Drone Delivery System For Medicines Tested In Puerto Rico

Direct Relief, Merck And Partners Conduct Temperature-Controlled Drone Flights And The Needed Coordinated Processes

Direct Relief, Merck, AT&T, Softbox and Volans-i are piloting a test of emergency medical supply deliveries using drones to model an innovative approach to disaster response. The organizations have conducted drone test flights and the coordinated processes needed to provide medical supplies by drone in a temperature-controlled environment with real-time monitoring.

Boston-Based Flying Car Company Expands Regional Footprint

Nashua Airport Will House The Latest Terrafugia Aircraft Prototypes

Terrafugia has signed a lease with Nashua Airport for 6,700 square feet of hangar and office space. The lease agreement comes as the company announces its plans to start production of its first flying car, the Transition, in 2019.

Japan Names First Female Fighter PIlot

First Lt. Misa Matsushima Says She Was Inspired By 'Top Gun'

Japan has named 26-year-old 1st Lt. Misa Matsushima as the country's first female fighter pilot. She will be stationed at Nyutabaru Air Base and fly F-15J fighter jets.

United Announces Move To Nasdaq

Transfer Expected To Take Effect September 7; Ticker Symbol To Remain UAL

United Continental Holdings, Inc. (UAL), the parent company of United Airlines, Inc., today announced that it is transferring its stock exchange listing to The Nasdaq Global Select Market from The New York Stock Exchange.

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Chinese Large Amphibious Aircraft AG600 Starts Tests On Water

Amphibious Testing To Be conducted In Jingmen, China

China's independently-developed large amphibious aircraft, the AG600, has completed trial ground flights and entered a new test phase on the water.

Historic Convair 880 To Be Acquired By The Tillamook Air Museum

To Be Only One Of Its Kind On Display On The West Coast

The Tillamook Air Museum, in cooperation with Doug Scroggins of Scroggins Aviation of Las Vegas, NV, is proud to announce the newest addition to its growing collection of historic aircraft and aviation exhibits; the forward fuselage of a 1960 Trans-World Airlines (TWA) Convair 880 jetliner, one of the finest, most comfortable (and fastest at 615 MPH) commercial jet aircraft ever produced. After sitting in the Mojave Desert for the past 38 years, this relic from a bygone era will now be calling the Tillamook Air Museum her home, and will be the only Convair 880 on display anywhere on the west coast.

USAF's First Advanced GPS III Satellite Shipped To Cape Canaveral For Launch

Lockheed Martin-Built GPS III Will Be More Powerful, Jam Resistant

The first of the U.S. Air Force's advanced new, higher-power, harder-to-jam GPS III satellites is making its way to the launch pad. On August 20, Lockheed Martin shipped the U.S. Air Force's first GPS III space vehicle (GPS III SV01) to Cape Canaveral for its expected launch in December. Designed and built at Lockheed Martin's GPS III Processing Facility near Denver, the satellite was shipped from Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, to the Cape on a massive Air Force C-17 aircraft.

Two Injured, One Fatally, In Massachusetts Accident

Brothers Had Just Scattered Their Father's Ashes From An Airplane

An Army National Guard Black Hawk pilot was fatally injured Friday when the Aeronca 7AC Champ he had borrowed to scatter his late father's ashes went down in a pond near the Cranland Airport in Hanson, MA.

Ryanair Compensates Passengers With Unsigned Checks

Airline Says The Mistake Was An 'Admin Error'

Some of the passengers who had flights cancelled by strikes against Ryanair this summer received compensation checks from the airline that were not signed, forcing the airline to apologize for what it said was an "admin error".

SEA-TAC Runway 16L/34R Closed For Maintenance

Closure Expected To Last 90 Days

A runway/construction project has closed Runway 16L/34R at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (KSEA) as of August 26. The project is scheduled to run 90 days with a planned reopening of the runway on Friday, Nov. 23.

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Four Fatally Injured In Skydiving Aircraft Accident

One Was A U.S. Army Parachute Team Member

Four people were fatally injured and another seriously hurt when the skydiving plane they were aboard went down Saturday at East Georgia Regional Airport in Swainsboro.

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Airbus Perlan Mission II Soars To Over 62,000 Feet

Sets Second Altitude World Record, Crosses The Armstrong Line

Airbus Perlan Mission II, the world’s first initiative to pilot an engineless aircraft to the edge of space, made history again yesterday in El Calafate, Argentina, by soaring in the stratosphere to a pressure altitude of over 62,000 feet (60,669 feet GPS altitude). This set a new gliding altitude world record, pending official validation.

Lake Aircraft, FAA Type Certificate And Assets Offered For Sale

Includes All Intellectual Property And Equipment Needed To Manufacture The Airplanes

After over 40 years of ownership, Revo Inc. is offering for sale the assets of Lake Aircraft, the only FAA-certified single-engine amphibious airplane produced in the world. The offering includes all of the intellectual property and equipment needed to manufacture the Lake Renegade, Seafury and Seawolf airplanes.

NBAA Annual Compensation Survey Shows Business Aviation Salaries Are Up

All 16 Surveyed Job Descriptions Showed Increases Of Up To Four Percent

The 2018 NBAA Compensation Survey results reveal that industry salaries are on the upswing, with several positions reflecting double-digit growth on average compared to survey results from 2017.

Airborne-Unmanned 08.21.18: Drones v Fires, Amazon UAV To NASM, UAVs Battle Pigs

Also: Kansas Leads?, FAA on Wildfire Flights, Loudoun Model UAS Program, Counter UAS Summit

Airbus Aerial has been using its analytic tools to help insurance companies and first responders come to grips with California’s raging Carr fire, still only 61 percent contained, in recent reports. Airbus Aerial fuses satellite data with its in-house analytical systems to let insurance companies monitor areas they insure, enabling them to settle claims rapidly — in some cases, before the homeowner even knows their house has burned down. One insurer logged into AA’s system on Friday and by Satur

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OSIRIS-REx Captures First Glimpse Of Asteroid Bennu

Initial Image Captured From A Distance Of 1.4 Million Miles

After an almost two-year journey through space, NASA's asteroid sampling spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, caught its first glimpse of asteroid Bennu last week and began the final approach toward its target. On Aug. 17, the spacecraft's PolyCam camera obtained the image from a distance of 1.4 million miles.

Goulian Takes Second Place At Kazan Red Bull Air Race

Pushes U.S. Pilot To The Top Of The Championship Standings In The Series

The sun set Sunday on Kazan, Russia after a second place podium finish for American pilot Michael Goulian…and Team 99 couldn’t be more proud: “I don’t think I will ever get tired of the taste of champagne! We finally feel what it’s like to be on top, and we are hungry for more. I couldn’t be more proud!” Team 99’s TC Emily Mankins said with a grin after watching her race pilot walk across the podium stage for the fourth time this year.

Bridenstine: Astronauts Will Launch From U.S. Soil In 2019

But Agency Will Continue To Buy Seats On Soyuz Aircraft

NASA Administrator James Bridenstine is confident that astronauts will again fly from U.S. soil next year, but sees the agency's relationship with Roscosmos continuing for several years.

FAA InFO Focuses On False ELT Alerts

Agency Recorded More Than 8,700 Such Alerts In 2017

The FAA has published in Information For Operators (InFO) focused on the issue of ELT false alerts. It also provides recommendations and additional information for the prevention of false alerts.

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (08.28.18)

“This is a tremendous moment for all the volunteers and sponsors of Airbus Perlan Mission II who have been so dedicated to making our nonprofit aerospace initiative a reality.” Source: Ed Warnock, CEO of The Perlan Project.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (08.28.18): Airport Diagram

The section of an instrument approach procedure chart that shows a detailed diagram of the airport.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (08.28.18)

NTSB Video: Loss of Control Accidents

More general aviation pilots and passengers die from accidents involving loss of control in flight than any other single factor. Prevent Loss of Control in Flight in General Aviation is on the NTSB 2017– 2018 Most Wanted List of transportation safety improvements. On April 24, 2018, the NTSB convened a roundtable of industry and government experts to discuss the current state of the problem, and highlight available technologies and training.

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