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August 25, 2021

Airborne 08.25.21: Skytyper Lost, RC Paper Airplane, Blue Origin

Also: FAA's Warpath, Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett, Spacewalk Postponed, Oceana Air Show

The aviation community is in mourning... Tragically, on the evening before an airshow in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, a pilot for the GEICO Skytypers died during a practice run. Andy Travnicek was confirmed as the pilot. He was an Air Force Academy graduate, a 20-year veteran of the Air Force, a commercial airline pilot, and a certified flight instructor. He resided in New Hampshire with his wife, Sandy, also a veteran military pilot.He was the only person on board. Because smartphones can pretty much do almost everything, now they can power paper airplanes. The PowerUp 4.0 is a device that can be attached to your paper airplane design to take th

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Virgin Orbit Becoming A Publicly Traded Company

Enters Business Combination With NextGen

Virgin Orbit revealed that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which they will become a publicly-traded company. Upon closing, the transaction is expected to provide the combined company up to $483 million in cash proceeds. Existing Virgin Orbit shareholders will roll 100% of their equity into the combined company. Virgin Orbit’s highly differentiated air launch technology enables satellite launches at any time, from any place, and to any orbit.

Cargo Transfers Are Still Ongoing Inside The US Cygnus Space Freighter

The Expedition 65 crew is turning its attention to this weekend’s arrival of a US cargo craft and a pair of Russian spacewalks starting several days later. SpaceX is planning to launch its Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on Saturday at 3:37 a.m. EDT. It will arrive on Sunday and dock autonomously at 11 a.m. to the Harmony module’s forward international docking adapter packed with new science experiments and crew supplies. NASA TV will broadcast both launch and docking and NASA Flight Engineers Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur will be on duty monitoring the Cargo Dragon’s arrival.