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April 17, 2020

Airborne 04.17.20: NTSB on Halladay-Icon A5, Pipistrel eCourses, DC-3s Damaged

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The NTSB has filed the final report on the tragic crash that took the life of a baseball legend, Roy Halladay. In his Icon A5. On November 7, 2017, about 1204 eastern standard time, an Icon Aircraft A5 special light sport amphibious airplane, N922BA, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Clearwater, Florida. The private pilot sustained fatal injuries. The CAP system was not deployed, and the CAP cockpit handle pin was in its installed position. The pilot had 14.5 hours of total flight experience in the accident airplane and had been seen flying aggressively. Got a great note from our friends at Pipistrel... they

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CIMON-2 Makes Its Successful Debut On The ISS

A Free-Flying, Spherical Technology Demonstrator With Artificial Intelligence

CIMON-2, the updated version of the CIMON astronaut assistant, developed and built by Airbus for the German Aerospace Center Space Administration (DLR), has now demonstrated its capabilities during initial tests on the International Space Station (ISS). The free-flying, spherical technology demonstrator with artificial intelligence (AI) showed off a number of its features during interactions with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano. CIMON-2 started its journey to the ISS on 05 December 2019, launching with the CRS-19 supply mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is scheduled to stay on the ISS for up to three years. Just shy of two months after the