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June 07, 2013

Airborne 06.07.13: FAA Extorting EAA?, RV-12 To Go!, F-15 Style BizJet

Also: Mind-Flying A Quadcopter, Cool City PMA, Solar Impulse, Sandbar Mitchell, UAV Nearly Clobbers Airbus

Just about the time that you thought the FAA couldn't get any more difficult to understand... or justify... comes news that the Feds are ratcheting up the pressure on EAA to pay nearly $500K in additional fees to staff the annual Fly-In in Oshkosh, WI. What started as a negotiation has now turned into an outright demand. After forty years of supplying kits for amateur-built aircraft, Van’s Aircraft, Inc. stepped into a new world on May 31 when they delivered the very first certified, fly-away, ready-to-go Van’s airplane. Looking for military jet styling and performance with all the luxuries of civilian life? You may need look no further than the Saker S-1. The e

The Most Dangerous And Daring EVA Ever Attempted

It Occurred Not On STS-114 ... But 22 Year Earlier Aboard Skylab

“This will be the most dangerous and daring EVA ever attempted!” one TV “journalist” spouted during the July 2005 STS-114 Space Shuttle mission. But in fact, the most daring and dangerous EVA ever attempted was done 22 years earlier by Pete Conrad and Joe Kerwin aboard Skylab.

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Rocket Launched From Wallops Flight Facility In Virginia

CIBER Experiment Boosted To An Altitude Of 358 Miles Above The Atlantic Ocean

A Black Brant XII suborbital rocket carrying the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) was successfully launched at 2305 EDT June 5 from NASA's launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

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