3rd and 4th Flights Under Their Belt, 5th Underway Now
Eclipse Aviation's flight test program, fighting winter weather
and the necessary ceilings for flight test ops, has recently logged
its 3rd and 4th flights, with a total of four hours flown, thus
far. On the fourth flight, N503EA executed 7 standard gear
retractions out to an imposed limit of 190 kts, while
also practicing two emergency gear extensions.
Could They Have Contributed To Deadly Medical Helo
Incident?
The body of Joseph Schaffer, pilot of an EC-135 medical helo
that went down in the Potomac River near Washington, DC, Monday
night, has now been recovered. Schaffer, a 30-year flight veteran,
was still strapped in his seat, underwater approximately 40 feet
from the crash site. He was found by rescuers and a cadaver
dog.
Three people were killed Tuesday when a 1978 Beech B-90 King Air
configured as a Yampa Valley Air Ambulance went down near Rawlins,
WY. A fourth person on board the aircraft survived and is
hospitalized in critical condition.
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