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November 30, 2020

Airborne 11.30.20: NEW Fisher ARIA, AN-124 Grounding, Walmart Drone Shows

Also: Entry-Level Colt S-LSA, Warbird Adventures, AEA v GPS Interference, FAI Awards Ceremony

Fisher Flying products is alive and well... and readying an all-new aircraft design -- a small low-wing tandem speedster. The aircraft is an all wood design with composite cowl and bubble canopy. It seats 2 in tandem and has retractable tricycle landing gear! FFP will be offering this aircraft as a full kit with all of the metal and hardware components already prefabricated and ready for assembly. They will also be providing all of the premium wood and plywood materials in the kit as well as adhesives. Volga-Dnepr Airlines has announced the temporary suspension of its An-124-100(-150) commercial operations as of November 25, 2020 until the investigation completion and identification of

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NASA Armstrong Launches Virtual Tours

See Historical Aircraft Like The SR-71, X-29 and F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire

Have you ever wanted to visit a NASA flight research center? Now you can take a behind-the-scenes look at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. Obviously; the center is currently not open to the public, but two virtual phases have been unveiled. In the first phase, visitors enter the center and see historical aircraft like the SR-71, X-29 and F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire are on display. Continuing the tour, guests go inside the center’s main aircraft hangar to see current NASA aircraft used in flight research like the F/A –18BV and F-15B as well as a TG-14 that is capturing data for sonic boom research.

Synspective Is The Customer For Rocket Lab’s 17th Electron Launch

Rocket Lab, a space technology company and global leader in dedicated small satellite launch, has announced Japanese Earth-imaging company Synspective as the customer for Rocket Lab’s 17th Electron launch, and its seventh mission of the year. The dedicated mission for Synspective is scheduled for lift-off during a 14-day launch window opening on 12 December UTC and will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula to a targeted 500km circular low Earth orbit. The mission is named ‘The Owl’s Night Begins’ in a nod to Synspective’s StriX family of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) spacecraft developed to be able to ima