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April 09, 2020

Airbus Adapts Commercial Aircraft Production And Assembly Activities

Pausing Production At Its Mobile, AL Factory In COVID-19 Environment

Airbus is temporarily adapting commercial aircraft production and assembly activity at its German sites in Bremen and Stade and pausing production at its A220/A320 manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama in the United States. These actions are being taken in response to several factors related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic including high inventory levels in the sites and the various government recommendations and requirements which impact at different stages of the overall industrial production flow. Airbus remains committed to meeting customer demand.

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Flight Design Introduces New CTLS Features For 2020

Rolls Out New Exterior And Interior Look For The New Decade

Flight Design has rolled out a new look for its CTLS aircraft for 2020. The CTLS 2020 is a balanced combination of the well-proven CTLS with technical and aerodynamic upgrades along with a new exterior and interior look for the new decade.

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African Drone And Data Academy Graduates First Students

Students Are Now Licensed Drone Pilots By The Government Of Malawi

The African Drone and Data Academy (ADDA) has graduated its first students in March at a ceremony in Malawi, enabling them to build and operate drones and analyze the data from them.

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CAE Announces Measures In Response To COFVID-19 Pandemic

Suspending Common Share Dividend And Share Repurchases, Furloughing Employees

CAE announced today that it has taken a series of flexible measures to protect its financial position in response to the COVID-19 crisis and mitigate the impact on its employees. The measures include temporarily suspending its common share dividend and share repurchase plan, as well temporarily laying off 2,600 of its 10,500 employees and placing another 900 employees on a reduced work week. CAE also announced that, in an effort to help save lives, it is developing an easy-to-manufacture ventilator which will provide life support to patients in intensive care.

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FSANA Urges Flight Schools To Follow CDC Guidelines

Sends Letter To President Trump Offering Services Of Flight Schools

FSANA has and will always encourage flight schools to deploy safety, security and best practices as top priorities. Each flight school has their own, unique set of operational practices to follow based on a variety of items including but not limited to location.

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JetHQ Completes Company Repatriation To The U.S.

Plans West Coast Expansion With Addition Of A Sales Director

JetHQ has completed its process of becoming a United States-based company and has moved its company headquarters to its Kansas City, Missouri office. The aircraft transaction and brokerage company made the move this year to better serve growth for its domestic divisions.

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Gone West: Rear Admiral Edward L. 'Whitey' Feightner USN, (Ret)

American fighter ace Rear Admiral Edward L. "Whitey" Feightner USN, (Ret) has Gone West. He passed away April 1 at 100 years old.

Feightner was born October 14, 1919. He was raised on a farm near Elida, Ohio and graduated from Elida High School as Class Valedictorian. He then attended Findlay College, also in Ohio, on a full-ride scholarship, graduating in 1942.

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Learn Aviation Photography Online

Web-Based Course Being Offered By Photographer Jim Koepnick

Join pro photographer's Steve Chesler and Sigma Pro Jim Koepnick on an amazing journey of flight as they talk about their tips and techniques for getting great aviation photography.

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GA-ASI Installs New Predator Mission Trainer At FTTC

New Simulator Will Aid in Training For Operators Of MQ-9 Block 5

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has installed a new Predator Mission Trainer (PMT) at its Flight Test and Training Center (FTTC) in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The aircraft flight simulator, produced by CAE, will be used to train operators of MQ-9 Block 5 Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). GA-ASI offers a range of pilot and sensor operator training at the FTTC for operators of GA-ASI’s family of RPA systems.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (04.09.20): Slaved Compass

A system whereby the heading gyro is “slaved to,” or continuously corrected to bring its direction readings into agreement with a remotely located magnetic direction sensing device (usually a flux valve or flux gate compass).

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (04.09.20)

 FAA Fact Sheet: David J. Hurley Air Traffic Control System Command Center

If you think of our National Airspace System as a symphony, the command center is the conductor. It’s a 24/7 operation where staff set the traffic flow for the entire day.

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