Also: CAPSTONE Spacecraft, ALPA On The Warpath, SAS Strike, Tora! Tora! Tora!
Van's Aircraft is now flying the engineering protype of the RV-15, their first high-wing bird, announced at Oshkosh last year. Van's JUST published a very short video of a test flight on YouTube and set the sport aviation community on fire. The video shows N7357, conducting a pretty short takeoff followed by nearly a minute of inflight beauty shots. ScaleBirds’ Sam Watrous, has confirmed that their P-36 replica has now flown a number of times and outside of the usual teething pains, the P-36 looks to have a bright future. Overall controllability appears promising and the ground handling also appears to be on target. Instrumentation was a little off, so performance numbers are not yet available. The first flights were conducted by a respected member of the test flying community, Eliot Seguin, noting that “...you have a great little airplane here!” A number of Air National Guard aircraft—to include: A-10 Thunderbolt II, USAF Special Operations Command MC-12W Liberty, C-145A Combat Coyote, U-28 Draco, and USAF Reserves C-146a Wolfhound landed, took off and performed integrated combat turns on a closed 9,000-foot section of Michigan Highway-28. The occasion marked the first time integrated combat turns—which enable the quick rearming and refueling of running aircraft—have been conducted on a U.S. public highway. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 07.11.22 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Monday, July 11th, 2022... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Holland Lee. Holland is supported by ANN Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, as well as ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell. This episode covers:
Breaking News... The RV-15 IS Flying!
ScaleBirds P-36 Radial-Engined Replica Is Flying
Highway Landings Advance Combat Agility
NASA Re-Establishes Contact With CAPSTONE Spacecraft
ALPA On The Warpath With DOT, Republic, SkyWest
Piling On... Allied Pilots Association Voices Support for SAS Strike
CAF Congratulates Tora! Tora! Tora! Crew As It Turns 50
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