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March 05, 2023

Airborne-SE 02.23.23: Sun n Fun Update With Gene Conrad

Also: Airborne-Special Editions Reports On Several New improvements at the SnF Campus

Welcome to this special edition of Airborne. As we prepare for the 49th rendition of the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo, SnF BOss, Gene Conrad has kept the Lakeland staff busy with all manner of new updates and improvements.  Starting with some of the most requested items on the ‘to-do’ list, it's obvious that Conrad and staff have used this prep year to their best potential as they recraft the Expo for this year and even get a headstart on what will be their 50th Anniversary event in 2024. But first; let’s look at ticketing and a few ways to save a f

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Rare WWII Target Drone to be Displayed

Idaho’s Spirit of Flight Museum Acquires Culver PQ-14

Nampa, Idaho’s Spirit of Flight Foundation museum announced that a rare WWII era Culver target drone has been donated to the museum’s collection. Spirit of Flight Foundation president Gordon Page stated: “We have had a Culver PQ-14 Target Drone on our wishlist for years, but there aren’t many left of the over three-thousand built.”

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Clay Lacy Aerospace Scholarships Top $500,000

FBO Titan Walks the Walk 

Clay Lacy has anted-up a tremendously generous $500,000 in scholarship funding, thereby making manifest both its largess and dedication to the upcoming generation of aerospace professionals. All told, the 55-year-old FBO concern—in addition to $225,000 in scholarships the company has granted since 2015—has pledged $281,000 to students through new scholarships.

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Congressional Report Cites F-35 Failures

Lightning II Reliably Unreliable

The United States Air Force (USAF), in 2021, conducted the TacAir study, an investigative enterprise that examined the tactical requirements of U.S. combat aircraft in future conflicts. The study’s results compelled Air Force chief of staff General Charles Q. Brown to concede the F-35 program had failed to achieve its goals. General Brown further set forth that little reason existed to believe the F-35 platform would ever deliver on its designer’s promises. Comes now 2023, and the F-35 variant operated by the U.S. Air Force is flying less frequently than the service’s F-15E Strike Eagles—which were developed during the Reagan administration of the 1980s.

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Coast Guard Abandons Search for Mystery Aerial Object

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

On 02 March 2023, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) made public details pertaining to its efforts to recover the remnants of a mystery aerial object downed over Lake Huron by a USAF F-16 on 12 February. In a statement, the service reported that it had deployed vessels ranging from heavy ice-breakers to airplanes, the crews of which spent nearly sixty-hours looking for the object—albeit unsuccessfully.

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USAF’s Task Force 99 Conducts First Operation

Sleepers in the Middle East

U.S. Air Forces Central (AFCENT)—the air component of United States Central Command—reported in February 2023 that the service's Task Force 99 had concluded its first operational experiment, a successful test using small drones for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) purposes.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (03.05.23)

Aero Linx: WORLD WAR 1 AEROPLANES

WORLD WAR 1 AEROPLANES was founded by Leo Opdycke in 1961 and incorporated as a federally recognized 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit corporation in 1979. In 2016 a decision was made by the Board of Trustees to dissolve the organization, and transfer the assets to the Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum to allow back issues, documents and other related items to remain available to the public.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (03.05.23): North Atlantic High Level Airspace (NAT HLA)

North Atlantic High Level Airspace (NAT HLA)

That volume of airspace (as defined in ICAO Document 7030) between FL 285 and FL 420 within the Oceanic Control Areas of Bodo Oceanic, Gander Oceanic, New York Oceanic East, Reykjavik, Santa Maria, and Shanwick, excluding the Shannon and Brest Ocean Transition Areas. ICAO Doc 007 North Atlantic Operations and Airspace Manual provides detailed information on related aircraft and operational requirements.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (03.05.23)

"It's a testament to the training of pilots these days and the technology we have there hasn't been a catastrophic incident but everybody knows it's only a matter of time if this goes unchecked before something really catastrophic happens with a potentially massive loss of life..."  Source: Kelly Sloan with the Colorado Aviation Business Association, opining as the Colorado Pilot Association has called for stringent punishments for those lasing aircraft in flight, after a stark increase in reports through 2022.

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