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Only 10 months since its introduction, DJI has informed its dealers that it is ending production of the basic Phantom 4 sUAS. And that's not all. In the message sent to dealers, the company said that the Phantom 3 is also out of production, while the stocks of the popular Mavic Pro and Mavic Pro combo are very low. The memo to dealers said that while production is releasing more and more aircraft, DJI would be withholding all production to service their own clients on DJI.COM until the end of this month. At CES 2017,

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In a stunning betrayals of all things GA, the FAA said they and the City of Santa Monica, California have reached a settlement agreement to resolve longstanding litigation over the future of Santa Monica Airport. In short, the FAA’s agreement will spell the death of Santa Monica Airport. While the agreement requires the city to maintain the airport in operation until 2028, other provisions of the agreement effectively put the airport out of business. The agreement allows Santa M

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Aero-News Correspondent, Kathryn Creedy, took the opportunity while at the Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) held in November 2016 to meet with Nick Kanellias, who is the Senior Director of General Aviation Programs at Pratt and Whitney Canada. Creedy asked the question about their PT-6 turboprop engine and its competitiveness in the industry.

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The race is on: the five finalist teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE have been set, and they all have rocket launch contracts to go to the Moon in 2017. A total of $30 million in prizes is on the line, including the $20 million grand prize for whoever gets there first and completes the competition goals. It seems that Gulfstream keeps collecting more records. A Gulfstream G280 aircraft recently set a speed record between Carlsbad, California, and Kalaoa, Hawaii, comple

Contaminated Runway A runway is considered contaminated whenever standing water, ice, snow, slush, frost in any form, heavy rubber, or other substances are present. A runway is contaminated with respect to rubber deposits or other friction-degrading substances when the average friction value for any 500-foot segment of the runway within the ALD fails below the recommended minimum friction level and the average friction value in the adjacent 500-foot segments falls below the maintenance planning friction level.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day "OK... some details are starting to emerge... and the whole thing smells to high heavens. SOMETHING happened in the last few weeks to get the FAA to betray the aviation community... we don't YET know what that is. WAY too much of this was done in secret and without consult to major stakeholders in this matter... which may not be lawful. WAY too many lies and false statements have been made and continue to be made by the City and the Anti-KSMO crowd... some of which will bite them... hard. Worst of all... after looking hard at this matter for our upcoming documentary project, we came to the realization that this was a fight that could be won, and that the