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March 19, 2014

Airborne 03.19.14: CubCrafters 300th, G650 Record, FAA's New Upset Regs

Also: Sean Tucker, F-35 at Luke, AEA Scholarship, USPA Says You Have to Be 18 to Jump

Cub-like planes are popping up all over, and you can blame a LOT of it on CubCrafters. They have now delivered their 300th LSA Cub. CubCrafters’ Light Sport family includes the Carbon Cub SS and Sport Cub S2 LSA models. Just in case you need to get to Mumbai, India in a hurry, check out the Gulfstream G650 corporate jet. Gulfstream’s G650 recently set another city-pair record, this time between White Plains, New York, and Mumbai, India. The FAA continues to expand its guidelines for upset recovery and correct responses to stalls. A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) has been published in the Federal Register for the creation of Advisory Circulars 120-UPRT and 120-109A to address t

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U.S. Space & Rocket Center Launches Campaign To Land Shuttle Training Aircraft

Center Kicks Off First Crowd-Funding Campaign To Install STA Exhibit

A team including Space Camp alumni from around the world and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Foundation is raising awareness and embarking on their first 60-day crowd-funding campaign to bring a Grumman Gulfstream II Shuttle Training Aircraft to the center's Shuttle Park, home of the world's only full-stack shuttle display, Pathfinder.

Images Give A Taste Of What Scientists Can Expect From The Webb Telescope In The Future

In celebration of the 24th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured infrared-light images of a churning region of star birth 6,400 light-years away.

'For A Couple Of Hundred Dollars, You Can Reach The Fringe Of Space'

More than 60 teams from around the world will launch high-altitude balloons into the upper atmosphere April 18-21. The Global Space Balloon Challenge, organized by graduate students at the University of Michigan, Stanford University and MIT, has attracted crews from 20 countries so far.

Global Hawk Aircraft Now Back At Edwards Air Force Base Following Research Flights

NASA's Global Hawk research aircraft returned to its base at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, CA, early Friday morning March 14, marking the completion of flights in support of this year's Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX), a multi-year NASA airborne science campaign.

A Novel Approach To Covering An Issue of Importance To Aircraft Owners EVERYWHERE

When ANN CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Jim Campbell stomped around EAA AirVenture 2013, he stopped to talk to Lars Jensen at the Hangarsphere display. Jensen said he came up with the idea of a magazine about hangars when he saw that there seemed to be a void in the market for hangar information.

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Station Debris Avoidance Maneuver Conducted March 16, 2014

Moved ISS Safely Away From Remnants Of Old Russian Satellite

Playing it conservatively, flight controllers conducted a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) Sunday night at 2137 EDT to provide a healthy margin of clearance from the projected path of a piece of Russian METEOR 2-5 satellite debris that was calculated earlier in the day to approach the neighborhood of the International Space Station. The Russian satellite was launched in late October 1979.