ANN Daily Touch-And-Go:
08.23.10 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News
Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 08.23.10 (ANN's Long-Form
Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature: Hover Taxi, in an Airplane?
- 08.23.10 (ANN Special Report, with CFI
Bob Miller)
Aero-Linx: Transport Canada --
Air Transportation
Canada is recognized as having one of the most successful and
safest civil aviation programs in the world. Transport Canada works
with many partners both here at home and around the world to
protect and maintain our air safety and security record, and to
make air travel more environmentally responsible.
"By holding the Dragon to stringent standards for manned
missions from the start, tests like this will ensure the highest
quality and reliability for Dragon over the long term... We
are proving, every day, that the future of American missions to
space will rely on American made commercial
companies."
Source: Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO and CTO,
following the drop test of a Dragon capsule from a high-flying
Erickson S-64F Air-Crane helicopter, from a height of 14,000
feet to test parachute and landing recovery systems.
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