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September 27, 2022

Gulfstream Delivers 500th G650 Family Aircraft

Going the Distance

On 26 September 2022, only ten years after the model’s 2012 type certification, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced that it had delivered the five-hundredth G650-family business jet. The aircraft was commended to the care of an undisclosed customer at Gulfstream’s Appleton, Wisconsin completions facility.

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Artemis Launch Thrice Scrubbed

Tropical Storm Ian Precludes 27 September Liftoff

The launch of Artemis I—the inaugural mission of NASA’s five-flight Artemis lunar program—has been postponed for a third time. The most recent postponement is attributed to concerns over Tropical Storm Ian, which is making its way northwest at a rate likely to see it near enough Florida’s Cape Canaveral area to pose unacceptable risk to United Launch Alliance’s SLS Rocket on its planned, 27 September launch date.

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Airborne 09.19.22: Drone Racing Championships, CO MidAir, Reclaimed Airliner

Also: Avgas White Paper, Annual Space Day, Reselling Chinese 737s, Brazilian H125s

The popularity of UAV racing was compellingly evinced by the 710 drone-pilots who vied to enter the 2022  MultiGP Drone Racing Championship—a six-day event to be held from 18 through 23 October at the No Quarter Ranch drone field in Citrus Springs, Florida. A mid-air collision has claimed three lives near Vance Brand Airport (LMO) in Longmont, Colorado—a home-rule municipality approximately 25-nautical-miles north of Denver. The accident occurred just before 09:00 MDT on the morning of Saturday, 17 September 2022, and involved a Cessna 172 Skyhawk and a

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Airborne 09.19.22: Drone Racing Championships, CO MidAir, Reclaimed Airliner

Also: Avgas White Paper, Annual Space Day, Reselling Chinese 737s, Brazilian H125s

The popularity of UAV racing was compellingly evinced by the 710 drone-pilots who vied to enter the 2022  MultiGP Drone Racing Championship—a six-day event to be held from 18 through 23 October at the No Quarter Ranch drone field in Citrus Springs, Florida. A mid-air collision has claimed three lives near Vance Brand Airport (LMO) in Longmont, Colorado—a home-rule municipality approximately 25-nautical-miles north of Denver. The accident occurred just before 09:00 MDT on the morning of Saturday, 17 September 2022, and involved a Cessna 172 Skyhawk and a

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FAA Issues Initial Vertiport Design Standards

Thou Shalt …

The FAA has released a memorandum outlining its initial design guidelines for vertiports—infrastructure that will support Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) aircraft. Titled Engineering Brief No. 105, Vertiport Design, the memorandum sets forth the standards to which municipalities, airport owners and operators, and civil engineers will develop and construct the facilities from which Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) and Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (EVTOL) aircraft will arrive and depart, be fueled, charged, serviced, and hangered.   

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Iranian Government Blocks Starlink

Of Information, Truth, and the Space Between

Iran’s Islamic fundamentalist government has employed satellite jamming technology to block SpaceX’s Starlink website. The measure seeks to counter SpaceX boss Elon Musk’s imminent attempt to activate Starlink for Iranians, thereby granting 83-million subjugated individuals access to unrestricted information and broadened perspective—access Iran’s government aggressively denies its citizens.

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U.S. Military Recruitment at Record Low

Senator Decries Air Force Academy Curriculum

Every branch of the U.S. military is struggling to meet its 2022 recruitment goals. Record low numbers of young Americans are enlisting, and Pentagon officials are scrambling to fill out the ranks of the U.S.’s all-volunteer forces. Military analysts maintain America’s armed forces have not had such recruitment shortfalls since 1973—the year the U.S. left Vietnam and the draft officially ended.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (09.27.22)

Aero Linx: The EAA Warbirds of America The EAA Warbirds of America, a division of the Experimental Aircraft Association in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is a family of owners, pilots and enthusiasts of “warbirds,” or ex-military aircraft. Our goal is to promote and encourage the preservation and safe operation of ex-military aircraft, better known as Warbirds. These wonderful aircraft are an important part of our aviation heritage.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (09.27.22): Radar Point Out

Radar Point Out An action taken by a controller to transfer the radar identification of an aircraft to another controller if the aircraft will or may enter the airspace or protected airspace of another controller and radio communications will not be transferred.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (09.27.22)

“The agency is taking a step-wise approach to its decision making process to allow the agency to protect its employees by completing a safe roll in time for them to address the needs of their families while also protecting for the option to press ahead with another launch opportunity in the current window if weather predictions improve.” Source: Some typically careful language from NASA, as the Artemis I Launch was scrubbed yet again... this time to avoid possible consequnces from the approach of Hurricane Ian.

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