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May 23, 2014

Airborne 05.23.14: Rolling Record-987!, More CBP Insanity, ANN's Oshkosh Yearbook!

Also: Boeing's 737Max OrderBook, SyberJet Update, Cessna Latitude TIA, Aerion SSBJ

The Guinness Book of World Records has officially recognized 987 rolls performed consecutively as a new world record. It was achieved by Kingsley Just from Australia who raises money for zinc absorption research to benefit his son, Kaelan. Specifically, he needed to perform more than 408 consecutive rolls, so he set a new record by a good margin. For several years ANN, long before the more recent coverage by some of the aviation associations, has been alerting the GA industry to CBP's aggressive surveillance and intrusive searches of GA aircraft. Well, here we go again! In a recent incident, a pilot and his date landed in Marathon, in the Florida Keys, after a flight from Opa-Locka. According to h

SpaceX Continues Development Of Soft-Landing Spacecraft

'DragonFly' Would Use Retro Rockets And Legs Rather Than A Parachute To Land

A spacecraft designed to make soft landings on Earth, and maybe one day on Mars, is under development by SpaceX. The capsule is a modified Dragon spacecraft that has been code-named "DragonFly."

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Aero-TV: The BMW Of LSA? Bristell Offers ‘Premium’ Experience

ANN Puts The Bristell Through Its Paces...

While at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo 2014, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell had the opportunity to test fly the new Bristell LSA. Jim likened his flight experience to, “First you meet the pretty girl, and then you find out she’s got a nice personality.”

Smith: NASA Negligent With Sensitive Information

GAO Report Finds Weaknesses In Space Agency's Control Of Access To Information

A recently-released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that weaknesses in NASA’s export control policy and implementation of foreign national access procedures at some centers “increase the risk of unauthorized access to export-controlled technologies.”

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Dragon Spacecraft Appears To Have Leaked After Landing

'Significant' Amount Of Seawater Found Onboard

The Dragon cargo spacecraft that recently returned from ISS contained a "significant amount of water" when it was retrieved from the Pacific Ocean, according to media reports.

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