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RC Helicopter Tested For Use In Vineyard Applications

Aircraft Used For Spraying Agricultural Fields For 20 Years In Japan Being Evaluated In CA

A remote-controlled helicopter, fitted with a spray applicator system, was field tested Wednesday over a vineyard in the heart of the famed Napa Valley by engineers at the University of California, Davis, and Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA.

Airborne 06.07.13: FAA Extorting EAA?, RV-12 To Go!, F-15 Style BizJet

Also: Mind-Flying A Quadcopter, Cool City PMA, Solar Impulse, Sandbar Mitchell, UAV Nearly Clobbers Airbus

Just about the time that you thought the FAA couldn't get any more difficult to understand... or justify... comes news that the Feds are ratcheting up the pressure on EAA to pay nearly $500K in additional fees to staff the annual Fly-In in Oshkosh, WI. What started as a negotiation has now turned into an outright demand. After forty years of supplying kits for amateur-built aircraft, Van’s Aircraft, Inc. stepped into a new world on May 31 when they delivered the very first certified, fly-away, ready-to-go Van’s airplane. Looking for mi

Klyde Morris 06.07.2013

It's All Great Except For That One Minor Detail ...

FMI: www.klydemorris.com

Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (06.07.13)

"You don't legislate history." Source: Tom Crouch, senior curator of aeronautics for the Smithsonian Institution.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (06.07.13): Interrogator

The ground-based surveillance radar beacon transmitter-receiver, which normally scans in synchronism with a primary radar, transmitting discrete radio signals which repetitiously request all transponders on the mode being used to reply.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (06.07.13)

Sport Flying, 1908 Style

As you contemplate this weekend's $100 hamburger, consider this. As early as 1908, no less pilot than Wilbur Wright understood that flying would be something that people would do for the sheer pleasure of it.