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All News

April 04, 2017

Airborne-Unmanned 04.04.17: FAA UAS Event, DJI Offers ID Plan, Wynne Preps XPO

Also: Sky-Futures and Bristow, SpaceX Drone Ship, Seagull USV

The Second FAA UAS Symposium, the first to feature the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International as a pivotal partner, is now history. In addition to some well-crafted sessions, panels and discussions, the event boasted an SRO crowd that often required the hosting facility to add chairs to many of the more popular events. ANN scored an interview with FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, who started the event off with some interesting pronouncements... that all the work heretofore conducted to the get the Unmanned com

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What's Up With Stratobus?

Thales Group Offers Update On Half-Drone/Half-Satellite Technology

During the 2014 Thales’ Innovation Days, the Stratobus concept was introduced, and generated a lot of buzz on the Net and social networks as well as more traditional media.

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Airborne 04.04.17: TruTrak AutoPilot, Dynon Update, New Seareys!

Also: Lindbergh Foundation, PAC45 Audio, AHRS Market, NASA Library, AF Pilot Shortage, F-35 Avionics

Our friends at TruTrak Flight Systems have just announced that they are now offering PMA’d autopilot install kits for the Cessna 172 F through R models as well as the Cessna 177. EAA was awarded the STC for the install kits on March 28. TruTrak received their Low Risk PMA, on March 30. TruTrak is continuing to work with EAA on the remainder of the Vizion autopilot approval, which is expected later this summer. TruTrak will begin selling the install kits at Sun-N-Fun in Lakeland, FL.

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Airborne 04.03.17: 787-10 1st Flt, PS Engineering Challenge, uAvionix 'Disrupts'

Also: iFly GPS, Sportcopter Vortex, 747-8F Orders, ExoMars, GAMA, ISS Crew, A350-1000

Boeing's largest variant of the Dreamliner has made its maiden flight. The 787-10 took off from a runway at the North Charleston, SC manufacturing facility at 0939 EDT Friday morning on a flight that lasted well over 4 hours and seemed to go quite well. The new airplane flew extensively over South Carolina and the Atlantic Ocean. Boeing says the 787-10 is about 95 percent the same as the -9 variant, but the airplane's additional 18 feet of length allows the seat capacity to be increased to 330, and carg

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (04.04.17)

“The industry projects to create more than 100,000 jobs and provide more than $82 billion in economic impact once UAS are fully integrated into the airspace. With an expanded regulatory environment, there’s no question these numbers could go even higher.” Source: AUVSI president and CEO Brian Wynne.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (04.04.17): Density Altitude

Pressure altitude (as indicated by the altimeter) corrected for air temperature.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (04.04.17)

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