Mon, Mar 25, 2024
Model Aviation Devotees... What Are YOUR Plans For June 28-30 This Year?
You might consider attending the AMA National Fun-Fly, which will take place on those dates at the International Aeromodeling Center (IAC) in Muncie, Indiana. This annual event has been revamped and combined with a community day. The AMA Foundation team and AMA Headquarters staff have been working hard to make this gathering bigger and better than ever.
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Mon, Mar 25, 2024
New Timing Announced For America's 'Most Prestigious' Individual Award
NAA has disclosed that it is NOW seeking nominations for its Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy. Established by NAA in 1948 to honor the memory of Orville and Wilbur Wright, the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to a living American for significant public service of enduring value to aviation in the United States. The Wright Trophy reflects a timeline of the most innovative inventors, explorers, industrialists, and public servants in aeronautics and astronautics.
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Mon, Mar 25, 2024
NASA's Dyson Will Spend Six Months Aboard The Station As An Expedition 70 And 71 Flight Engineer
It's about to get crowded aboard the ISS... Three crew members including NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson successfully launched at 8:36 a.m. EDT Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. Dyson, along with her crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, will dock to the space station’s Prichal module at about 11:09 a.m. on Monday, March 25, on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft.
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Mon, Mar 25, 2024
History Restored Tour Arrives At Cincinnati’s Lunken Airport, May 23-27
B-29 Doc and the Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) B-25 Berlin Express will bring the History Restored Tour to Cincinnati’s Lunken Airport, May 23-27. The two historic World War II-era aircraft will be hosted by Cincinnati Warbirds EAA Chapter 18. The tour stop will include ride flights for B-29 Doc and B-25 Berlin Express, along with ground and cockpit tours for both aircraft. “Teaming up with the EAA and Berlin Express for this event in Cincinnati will give warbird fans a unique opportunity to see the aircraft that helped defend freedom and gave the Allies victory over oppression during World War II,” said Josh Wells, B-29 Doc executive director.
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Mon, Mar 25, 2024
But, Of Course, There Is No Admission Of Guilt In Agreement With DOJ
A business, that is no longer in operation, has agreed to pay DOJ serious bucks to stay out of trouble... without admitting guilt. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina confirmed that Campbell Oil Company; Executive Aircraft Services; Brian D. Campbell; and David Taylor Stephens have agreed to resolve allegations that they conducted illegal charter flights, contained in the March 10, 2023, Complaint filed by the United States captioned United States v. Campbell Oil Company et al., No. 7:23-CV-265.
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Mon, Mar 25, 2024
From 2010 (YouTube Version): The US Champs Have Become The World's Champs!
One of the most rewarding events ANN and Aero-TV have participated in over the last year was AIA's extraordinary Team America Rocketry Challenge. Fun, inspiring, challenging... all these words do little to impart the amazing event that we witnessed and shot over the course of a few days... and we can't wait to do it again. However; one of the truly great 'bennies' of this event was meeting the next generation of America's rocket people... and that includes the TARC 2010 National Champions, Penn Manor High School... who went on to the International competition and took ALL the marbles there as well.
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Mon, Mar 25, 2024
Weather Deteriorated Significantly To Include Thunderstorms, Heavy Rain, And High Wind Gusts To 54 Knots
Analysis: The commercial pilot and his flight instructor were preparing to depart on a local flight when the accident occurred. They taxied to the runway and continued the pre-takeoff and engine runup tasks. While at the holding pad, the weather deteriorated significantly to include thunderstorms, heavy rain, and high wind gusts to 54 knots. The pilots elected to hold their position to wait until the weather conditions improved. The instructor applied down elevator control and moved the left aileron into the wind. Review of available weather data indicated that a microburst caused the left wing to raise and the airplane rolled over, coming to rest inverted.
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Mon, Mar 25, 2024
Aero Linx: The Nebraska Aeronautics Commission
The Nebraska Aeronautics Commission was created by the 1935 Legislature to oversee the development of aviation in the state. The Commission operated on its own in this capacity until the creation of the Department of Aeronautics in 1945. The Aeronautics Commission consists of five members who shall be appointed by the Governor. Each member shall serve until the appointment and qualification of his or her successor. In case of a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term of a member, the appointment shall be made only for the remainder of the term.
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Mon, Mar 25, 2024
Good News, Bad News... It's ALL News
As the preeminent online aviation news resource out there, the editorial staff at Aero-News sees a large number of news releases. We look at all of them, and can usually tell whether something merits publishing consideration within reading the first couple of paragraphs. Often, however, a new and innovative product can be overlooked because of the very words written to promote it, by the very people who created it.
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