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April 05, 2019

Airborne 04.05.19: Sling Pilot Academy, Apollo 11 at OSH, ADS-B

Also: National GA Award, Piper Aircraft Record, EU And Airbus, Hovering Drone Record

A new flight training academy has started teaching its first group of future commercial pilots, destined for the airlines. The Sling Pilot Academy, based in Torrance, CA, is the brainchild of three aviation entrepreneurs, Wayne Todden, Jean d’Assonville, and Matt Liknaitzky. Equipped with all new Next-Generation Sling training aircraft, using the latest in modern powerplant and glass cockpit display technology, Sling Pilot Academy effectively wields the double-edged sword of combining proper expert preparation for tomorrow’s airline pilots, as well as providing cost-effective quality training. The Complete Professional Flight Training programs that may be undertaken in under 9 months

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ESA And DLR In Joint Study To Support Deep Space Missions

Ground Station Capacity Needs To Grow For Future Flights

An existing deep-space dish antenna at the DLR Weilheim site, near Munich, may offer an almost ready-made solution to the problem of providing sufficient ground station capacity to support ESA’s current and future deep-space exploration missions. Now and in the next few years, ESA is sending some of the most advanced spacecraft ever flown to exotic locations like Mars, Mercury and Jupiter, and these missions all have one thing in common: they need plenty of ground station capacity to download their masses of science data and to enable mission controllers to send up commands.