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October 01, 2019

Airborne-Unmanned 09.24.19: Hidron Record, Schiebel S-100, NOAA Drones

Also: UAM Grand Challenge, Southeast Regional UAS Rodeo, New European UAS Turboprop, USMC MQ-9A

UAVOS and Stratodynamics have announced that their HiDRON stratospheric glider has completed a record-setting stratospheric flight. Released from a Canadian Space Agency scientific gondola at an altitude of 111,434 feet, the glider performed a four hour controlled flight, eventually landing at Iroquois Falls Airport. The HiDRON was launched from the Timmins Victor M. Power Airport via the CSA scientific gondola at 10 pm on Aug. 31. The mission plan was to release the HiDRON from the gondola between an altitud

“We saw in these two accidents that the crews did not react in the ways Boeing and the FAA assumed they would. Those assumptions were used in the design of the airplane and we have found a gap between the assumptions used to certify the MAX and the real-world experiences of these crews, where pilots were faced with multiple alarms and alerts at the same time.” Source: NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt, releasing seven safety recommendations related to the 737 MAX.

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Drone Pilot Races A Roller Coaster For Awesome Action Footage

An experienced drone pilot was able to follow a roller coaster along its track ... capturing some spectacular footage which was posted on YouTube, of course.