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September 14, 2020

Airborne 09.14.20: Mooney Hit By Truck!, One Aviation BK Saga, Pawnee Dunked

Also: Bombardier Safety Standdown, New CAE Financing Initiative, AMA And Others Urge FAA, EASA 737 MAX Tests

An unfortunate Mooney was forced to execute a deadstick landing on an Eastbound lane of Florida's Interstate 75, Wednesday morning. A twitter post by FHP summed up the scenario... "A small airplane made an emergency landing on EB I75 (?? Alley) @ 40 mm. Once landed, a pickup truck collided with the left wing of the plane. Thankfully no injuries. The EB right lane of I75 remains closed at this time." An engine failure downed the M20R Mooney over Broward County. The 2007 M20R Ovation 3 GX, N120GX, had two persons on board and executed a safe emergency landing on the right side of the road with no known damage as it came to a stop. Whew... right? All's well that en

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Commercial Space Race Adds New Player, But First Launch Fizzles

Elon Musk Sent A Classy and Encouraging Tweet Noting SpaceX's Early Woes

Space is hard... rockets are harder... so says one of the many variations on a theme that is echoed here and there throughout the commercial space community. A new commercial space player, Astra, planned a major launch attempt this [part weekend from their facilities in Alaska, stating that they expected to make three tries before they were successful in launching a vehicle into Low earth Orbit... they weren't wrong. The Saturday launch attempt took place at 2019PT with "Rocket 3.1" -- and launch they did. However; shortly after launch, the vehicle reportedly encountered problems, as noted in the Astra post-flight blog entry...