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Airborne 03.08.16: NATA Transition, Electric Airplanes, Women Soar/AirVenture16

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A statement from the National Air Transportation Association says that President and CEO Thomas L. Hendricks announced his intention to resign effective August 31, 2016. A member of NATA’s board of directors will be designated to assume the duties as interim President/CEO effective September 1st until a successor is named. For those who are interested in the application of electric powered flight for recreational flying, it may come to

Classic Aero-TV: Connected and Directed - The 2nd Generation Appareo Stratus

Transform Your iPad Into The Ultimate Flight Tool...

At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013 ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell caught up with John Pedersen, the Marketing and Communications Lead for Appareo Systems. Jim asked what’s new and different with their second-generation version of the Stratus system that supplies various types of information to an iOS platform tablet.

Airborne 03.07.16: Hoover Honors, Air Force Bails On 2020, New Boeing?

Also: KS AvMuseum, USMC Fat Albert, RiteAngle AOA, CA Aviation Hall Of Fame, New ASTM GA Standards, Rolls-Royce/Enstrom, Sally Ride Science

The Aviation Foundation of America will honor one of the greatest aviators in the history of aviation on April 2nd of this year when they unveil a life-size statue of beloved aviation legend R.A. “Bob” Hoover at a reception at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The Bob Hoover statue is a life-size bronze statue of Hoover waving his iconic straw hat as he used to do following so many air show performance

Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (03.08.16)

“It has been an honor to lead NATA through this period of significant change by greatly enhancing its position as the voice of aviation business on Capitol Hill, at the agencies, and in the states.” Source: NATA president and CEO Thomas Hendricks, announcing his retirement at the end of August.