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September 25, 2019

Airborne 09.25.19: Longitude Cert, Chipper Biz 4 Sale, MQ-25 1st Flight

Also: Lawsuit Filed In Amazon Accident, FedEx Pilot Arrested, Dixon Flies MAX Sim, Pilot Barbie

The FAA has awarded Type Certification to Textron Aviation's Citation Longitude business jet, paving the way for customer deliveries. FAA Type Certification follows ‘the most robust’ flight, structural and component qualification testing completed on a Citation to date. The experimental and demo fleet completed close to 6,000 hours of flight time. In addition to 11,000 test points during the certification process, the Longitude also completed a 31,000-nautical mile world tour. The Longitude is produced at Textron Aviation’s manufacturing facility in Wichita. A fire that ripped through the hangar where James Wiebe was developing the Chipper aircraft has led him to put

NASA Awards $2.3 Million In Fellowships To U.S. Universities

Will Help Further Aviation, Planetary And Space Research

NASA has awarded fellowships to 14 minority-serving institutions through its Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) and five majority institutions through its Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD), all totaling $2.3 million, to support graduate student research.

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