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We are happy to announce that the U.S. Navy Blue Angels will return to their 2016 demonstration schedule July 2-4 in Traverse City, Michigan. The Blue Angels temporarily stood down, canceling three weekend shows following a crash on June 2 during a practice in Smyrna, Tennessee, in which Marine Captain, Jeff Kuss, lost his life. The Team will fly a modified five-jet demonstration in Traverse City, along with Fat Albert, the Blue Angels C-130 transport plane. The town of Hemps

New Study In The Journal 'Nature Communications' Focuses On Contrails

Clouds may have a net warming or cooling effect on climate, depending on their thickness and altitude. Artificially formed clouds called contrails form due to aircraft effluent, in a cloudless sky, contrails are thought to have minimal effect on climate. But what happens when the sky is already cloudy? In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists from the University of Hertfordshire and Stockholm University show that contrails that are formed within existing high clouds increase the reflectivity of these clouds, i.e. their ability to reflect light.

Onboard The Flying Fortress

Our ANN video crew was at the ‘Wings Over The Rockies Blue Star Weekend’ event that occurred during the first weekend of May, 2016. This event, with support from the National Museum of World War II Aviation, presented a Blue Star Weekend, which is a special Mother’s Day event honoring veterans and mothers of veterans. One of the features of the weekend was the arrival of EAA’s B-17G, known as the ‘Aluminum Overcast.’

Getting A Running Start On Recreating the Aviation Industry

One of the most active discussion topics I’ve engaged in, of late, is just what individual game-changing steps or developments might take place that could help to jump-start this industry towards a new and sustainable future. I’ve oft counseled that the true enemy of aviation is the phrase, “Well, that’s the way we’ve always done it…” and that in order to survive long into the future, that we need to make a clean break with the past and build a whole new aviation industry to handle the requirements and interests of the bold new world that has sprung up around us. We need to be radical… not conservative. Plainly put; the world that aviation used to thrive in, no l

Klyde Appreciates The Blue Origin Approach

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Flight Safety Foundation has released the study "Benefits Analysis of Space-Based ADS-B", investigating the application of ADS-B networks to meet the predicted safety challenges of air traffic growth over the next 20 years. The study also assesses how space-based ADS-B can enhance the world's aviation network by introducing a near-real-time flight surveillance capability that provides 100 percent global coverage. As the 2020 mandate for ADS-B out capabilities continues to edge clo

Officials Hope Examining Remains Will Help Determine The Cause Of The Accident

Polish officials plan to exhume the remains of President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and some others who were aboard an airplane that went down in heavy fog in April 2010, resulting in the fatal injury of all 96 people on board.

Discrete Code As used in the Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System (ATCRBS), any one of the 4096 selectable Mode 3/A aircraft transponder codes except those ending in zero zero; e.g., discrete codes: 0010, 1201, 2317, 7777; nondiscrete codes: 0100, 1200, 7700. Nondiscrete codes are normally reserved for radar facilities that are not equipped with discrete decoding capability and for other purposes such as emergencies (7700), VFR aircraft (1200), etc.

Aero Linx: World Birdstrike Association (WBA) The mission of the WBA is to be the global voice of the national bird/wildlife strike committees and other entities, civil and military. At the same time, the WBA provides the platform for pursuing a constructive and cooperative relationship with all stakeholders. The WBA acts as the worldwide forum for the reduction of the bird/wildlife strike risk to aviation.

"We have to learn to come together, to support each other, to make each other flyer’s problems our own and to realize that we, as a community, are an extraordinary group of human beings… FLYERS! We are deserving of a positive and prosperous future... but we must work for it -- united, we must choose to be led by good people who have our best interests at heart, we must participate personally in every possible way, we must learn to be honest with each other, and to empower each other to regain our former prominence -- and then go past and exceed it as a force of extraordinary people, all united by the fact we are something more than the average human being… we are aviators… and that is something quite amazing, indeed. BUT… until we learn to act t