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Airborne 10.08.15: New ND Airport, Gone West: Dick Taylor, IFD440 Update

Also: CAF Update, ISS Docking, Turkey OverFlights, Air France, AF F-22 Sims, Teamsters v NetJets, Community Service For UAV Incident

ANN Airborne Link: /index.cfm?do=video.playVideo&videoid=7a49f9f5-b4f8-40c8-a94f-1b37b33abcaa YouTube Airborne Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaAuej1wB_I Sometimes federal funds received t

'The Swarm' Is A Multi-Rotor Copter Capable Of Carrying A Person

Forty-Six Rotors Provide Sufficient Lift For Manned Flight

If this were on a TV show like "Mythbusters" or "What Could Possibly Go Wrong" ... it would come with the disclaimer "Don't try this at home." But A British man did try it at home ... and has taken the multi-rotor copter concept to the extreme.

Airborne 10.07.15: FAA's Bizarre $1.9M UAS Fine, NTSB on BA Fire, AK Helo

Also: UA Labor Issues, EAA Seaplane Base, Launching Lives, House UAS Hearing, Aspen Update, SDSD's New B205A-1++, RUAG/Hartzell

ANN Airborne Link: www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=video.playVideo&videoid=ac1227a5-3ce4-4fc9-8565-9f2ebd20647b YouTube Airborne Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrlkyjGT6pM The FAA has proposed its lar

Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (10.08.15)

"Quite honestly there's a large number of sightings in there that couldn't even be termed a near encounter of any kind, because it wasn't even identified clearly as being an aircraft." Source: Richard Hanson, AMA Director of Government And Regulatory Affairs, during a House Aviation Subcommittee hearing on UAV Safety.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (10.08.15): Compressor Blade

Either a rotor blade or a stator blade in an axial-flow compressor; sometimes used restrictively (and ambiguously) for a compressor rotor blade.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (10.08.15)

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