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March 07, 2016

Airborne 03.07.16: Hoover Honors, Air Force Bails On 2020, New Boeing?

Also: KS AvMuseum, USMC Fat Albert, RiteAngle AOA, CA Aviation Hall Of Fame, New ASTM GA Standards, Rolls-Royce/Enstrom, Sally Ride Science

The Aviation Foundation of America will honor one of the greatest aviators in the history of aviation on April 2nd of this year when they unveil a life-size statue of beloved aviation legend R.A. “Bob” Hoover at a reception at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The Bob Hoover statue is a life-size bronze statue of Hoover waving his iconic straw hat as he used to do following so many air show performances. The sculpture is the work of sculptor Benjamin Victor. As all segments of aviation in the United States work towards the mandate to have ADS-B Out equipment installed by the year 2020 deadline

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Sally Ride Science To Offer Innovative Summer Program

Junior Academy At UC San Diego Will Focus On STEAM Education For Young Women In Middle And High Schools

Delivering on the late astronaut Sally Ride's pioneering spirit, University of California, San Diego today announced the official launch of Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego with a slate of summer workshops in science, technology, engineering, art and math, or STEAM, aimed at young women in middle school and high school.

Will Be Integrated Into Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars 2020 Project

Space Systems Loral (SSL) will design and build a robotic Sample Handling Assembly (SHA) for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) through MDA US Systems, a division of MDA, managed by SSL. The arm will be used on a rover vehicle exploring Mars to process and store samples acquired from the planet's surface.

An Autopilot Small Enough For An Ultralight...

Finally, a little autopilot that simply lets you go hands-free to relax and manage other cockpit duties. Better yet, the price is right. While at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo 2016, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, stopped at the TruTrak display to talk with Andrew Barker, the president and CEO of TruTrak flight systems.