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March 11, 2016

Egyptian Flight Student Faces Deportation

Said He Would Be 'Willing To Kill Donald Trump And Serve A Life Sentence'

A social media post has an Egyptian flight student in jail in Orange, CA and facing possible deportation.

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Airborne 03.11.16: Blue Origin Plans, WASP Elizabeth Strohfus, UK Airshow Woes

Also: Bell 505, TRUE Innovators, UAL/Flight Attendants, 737 Fuel Tank STC, F-35 Airshows, B-52s Join French, Bombardier/Hawker Pacific

Blue Origin founder, Jeff Bezos, says he expects to conduct his first manned test flights as early as next year, and carrying passengers as early as 2018. He says thousands of people have said they are interested in eventually flying with the company. Bezos made the comments during a rare media tour of the Blue Origin facility in Kent, Washington. One of the few remaining members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) has Gone West at the age of 96.

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Aero-TV: The Tucano’s Little Brother - Flying Legend Italy’s New LSA

An LSA That Is Truly Fantastico...

Just when you think you have a handle on the many light sport aircraft that are available, something really new and different pops up. While at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo 2016, ANN News Editor, Tom Patton, finds a new airplane that’s being introduced. To use the term that it is a scale model seems odd to apply to a full-scale airplane, but this light sport airplane is actually a look-alike to the Embraer Tucano light attack military airplane. It’s called the Tucano LSA.

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Barnstorming: Credit Must Be Given Where Credit Is Due…

It's More Than Just Being Honest… It's a Process Whereby The True Innovators Of Aviation Can Continue Their Drive To The Future

Analysis/Opinion/Commentary By Jim Campbell, ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Many years ago, I had an extraordinary adventure… as a test pilot/participant in an innovative, groundbreaking, test program that ultimately resulted in the first certified airframe parachute recovery systems. Over the course of many months, sitting next to parachute technology expert, the late Gary Douris, we would venture aloft time after time, and fire off a GA-sized BRS parachute (the first generation of such) in a number of attitudes and conditions, in order to fine-tune and perfect what would someday come to save hundreds of lives...

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Klyde Morris 03.11.16

And They've Gotten 3.3 Million Views ....

FMI: www.klydemorris.com

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Airborne 03.10.16: Part 23 Reform?, Student Pilot Deported, Challenger 650

Also: First US-Built A321, Aero-Community–AMA, Hubble Team, Rectrix New CEO, Boeing Self-Cleaning Lav, Duncan Aviation, Mars InSight

The FAA has proposed a rule that overhauls the airworthiness standards for small general aviation airplanes. The FAA’s proposal, which is based on industry recommendations, would reduce the time it takes to get safety enhancing technologies for small airplanes into the marketplace while also reducing cost. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking restructures the existing certification standards and replaces the current prescriptive design requirements

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Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (03.11.16)

“Changes in Part 23 will maintain and enhance high levels of safety, but allow for more innovation and freedom in design and maintenance of aircraft.” Source: Sean Elliott, EAA’s vice president for advocacy and safety.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (03.11.16): Instrument Departure Procedure (DP)

A preplanned instrument flight rule (IFR) departure procedure published for pilot use, in graphic or textual format, that provides obstruction clearance from the terminal area to the appropriate en route structure.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (03.11.16)

Friends of Leiston Airfield

The 'Friends of Leiston Airfield' was formed in the summer of 1995 by Peter Saunders, Chris Betson and the late Peter Barker, after a group of people with holiday caravans on the 'Cakes & Ale Park', had become concerned that a small memorial erected on a hardstand in an area hidden from view from the general public, had become neglected.

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