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April 30, 2015

Airborne 04.30.15: ECA Condemns 'Pay-To-Fly', Sun Country, UAV Pilot Tased

Also: True Blue Power, AEA, Quadcopter Type Cert?, House Armed Services Committee, NASA Balloon, Textron 1Q/15

We often hear about airline pilots wanting higher wages, but here’s a case where the airlines require the pilots to pay them for the privilege of flying their airplanes. There is a growing trend in Europe that requires young pilots to pay an airline for flying its aircraft and passengers. The European Cockpit Association strongly denounces what they call an unacceptable practice used by airlines and intermediary agencies in Europe, and calls upon EU decision-makers to ban such “Pay-to-fly” schemes. As the pilots of Sun Country picketed Friday outside of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association announced sup

Russian Progress Cargo Vessel Suffers Malfunction After Launch

Spacecraft Out Of Control, Docking Plans Scrapped

Russia launched its Progress 59 mission to resupply ISS Tuesday at 3:09 a.m. EDT (1:09 p.m. local time in Baikonur) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, but the spacecraft suffered a malfunction shortly after launch that will prevent it from delivering the more than 6,000 pounds of food, fuel, and supplies on board to the International Space Station crew.

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House Science Committee’s NASA Budget Bill Draws Space Community Support

Chairman Smith: 'We Must Continue To Invest In NASA As The Only Government Agency Responsible For Space Exploration'

The two-year NASA reauthorization bill introduced Tuesday by House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) and lead sponsor Congressman Steven Palazzo (R-MS) and fifteen cosponsors has drawn letters of support from the Planetary Society, the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership/Citizens for Spaceflight Exploration-Texas.   

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