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January 20, 2015

Airborne 01.19.15: Virgin Satellites, Lear 85 Grounded, Sebring LSA Accident

Also: LearJet Vs Flyboard, C-17 Aflame, DAC/Mid-Continent, Sikorsky Legal Woes, Jazz Pilots Settle

Virgin Galactic’s Sir Richard Branson says they are applying their human spaceflight program and its team’s extensive background in low-cost launch systems to create LauncherOne, an orbital launch vehicle dedicated to the new and exciting small satellite market. Bombardier said last week that it will pause its Learjet 85 business aircraft program. They say the pause is due to weak demand for the Learjet 85 aircraft and follows a downward revision of Bombardier's business aircraft market forecast. This

“We are disappointed that this beneficial rule change was withdrawn based on a single negative comment out of the hundreds submitted on this issue.” Source: John Dorcey, interim Executive Director of the Society of Aviation and Flight Educators (SAFE).

The published minimum altitude to intercept the glideslope in the intermediate segment of an instrument approach.

The United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Rucker

Fort Rucker became Army Aviation’s centerpiece when flight training was consolidated here in 1973. U.S. Air Force helicopter pilots have also trained here since 1971.