When Blue Origin launches the New Shepard suborbital rocket for the 4th time on Friday, you can watch it live. And that's a change for the space company founded by Amazon billionaire, Jeff Bezos.
Compared to other companies ... can you say SpaceX ... Bezos has kept his launch attempts out of the public spotlight until after the fact. But this shift may indicate that Blue Origin is becoming more comfortable with sharing its successes ... and potential failures ... with the world in real-time. The Cessna Pilots' Association has notified the aviation world that John Frank, CPA co-owner and founder, passed away on Thursday, June 9th at his home in Santa Maria, California. "CPA as well as the aviation community has lost a true aviator with a wealth of technical knowledge and experience both in and out of the cockpit," the association said in its email notification. According to the CPA website, Frank, one of the founders and Executive Director of Cessna Pilots Association, was a 15,000 hour plus pilot as well as an A&P mechanic with Inspection Authorization. He was widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on Cessna aircraft. The FAA is working with commercial airlines and pilots’
unions to improve mental health evaluations, and encourage voluntary reporting of pilot mental health issues. Certain medical conditions, such as a psychosis, bipolar disorder and severe personality disorder automatically disqualify a pilot from obtaining an FAA medical certificate. However, many pilots have conditions that are treatable, and Several U.S. airlines already have programs that provide pilots with a path to report their condition, be treated for it and return to the cockpit once the FAA has determined it is safe to do so. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 06.15.16 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Wednesday, June 15th, 2016... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Brianne Cross and Christopher Odom, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton, and Earl Downs, this episode covers:
- Blue Origin To Live Stream New Shepard Flight
- Gone West: Cessna Pilots Association Founder John Frank
- U.S. Commercial Aviation Community Targets Pilot Mental Fitness
- A ‘One Week Wonder’ Is Planned In The UK
- Classic Aero-TV: Sandel's KingAir 'Avilon' Program - An Uncommon/Disruptive Development
- The Other Show At AirVenture
- FAA Proposes $350,000 Civil Penalty Against Amazon.com, Inc
- AD: Various Aircraft Equipped With BRP- Powertrain GmbH & Co KG 912 A Engine
- Chinese Consortium Acquires 100 H135s
- Updated Analysis Of FAA Drone Data Shows Decline In UAS Sightings
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