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Airborne 06.01.16: End Of The Legacy, Enstrom TH-180, XCOR Setbacks

Also: Valdez STOL, AMA President Bob Brown, CA UAV Ban, Fighter Pilots, EASA Action Plan, French ATC Strike, Counter-UAV Tech

For those who are involved in the homebuilt airplane movement, this announcement from Lancair closes a chapter with a popular kit-built airplane. Lancair has announced that it will no longer be offering "Legacy" kits after 15 years of production. In a post on the company's website, Lancair said that the final kit will be a retractable Lancair Legacy "Reno Race Version." According to Lancair, Closing down the Legacy production line was a "tough but necessary decision." Enstrom helicopter

Airborne 05.31.16: Falcon 9 ThreePeat, P-47 Down, ISS 'Taxi Service' Ending

Also: FIFI Returns, Aero-Calendar, UAV Downing, MIA Vietnam Airman Found, Deer Jet, Pan Am Academy, UAV/Drone Pro Course

On Friday afternoon of last week, SpaceX did it again. After a successful launch of their Falcon Nine rocket carrying a Thaicom 8 communications satellite, they successfully returned the booster to a platform floating on the ocean. SpaceX has now demonstrated their ability to do this three consecutive times within the last 2 months. According to reports, the satellite was carried to its geostationary transfer orbit which required the first stage to perform a series of

Aero-TV: Updating Avidyne's IFD540 & 550 - Dynamic SynViz on Your GPS/NavCom

Exploring A “New Category” of Avionics…

It would seem logical to ask what a GPS NAV/COM radio has to do with the attitude of the airplane or synthetic vision, and that’s the question ANN News Editor, Tom Patton, sought the answer to when he talked with Tom Harper, the Director of Marketing for the Avidyne Corporation. This conversation took place at Sun ‘n Fun 2016.

Barnstorming: How Is It???

Looking Over Just A Few More Of the Questions Raised By The Icon Aircraft Fiasco

News/Analysis/Commentary by Jim Campbell, ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief How is it that a company like Icon Aircraft, which has yet to produce a single airplane delivered to a real-live customer, can 'slow down production' and have much of the aero-media report it just that way? How is it that a company like Icon Aircraft can blow through 85 million dollars, that we know of, without producing a single real delivery of a production airplane and have it reported as a 'temporary setback?' How is it that...

Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (06.01.16)

"We have come to a point where a significant investment will be necessary to continue the production and after 15 years we feel it is time for something new." Source: Announcement on the Lancair website explaining the end of production of the Legacy airplane.