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March 08, 2016

Solar Impulse Team Moving Towards Continuation Of Flight

Testing Of New Batteries And Cooling System Underway

After a record-breaking, history-making flight from Japan to Hawaii last year, engineers discovered that the batteries on Solar Impulse had been damaged beyond repair during the flight, and the mission to circumnavigate the globe using no fossil fuel was suspended pending repairs to the airplane.

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Gone West: Pilot Daniel Murray

Curtiss Wright Travel Air 4000 Went Down Wednesday En Route To A Vintage Aircraft Fly-In

A 1928 Curtiss Wright Travel Air 4000 went down Wednesday near Palmer Lake in El Paso County, CO resulting in the fatal injury of the two people on board the airplane.

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T-Craft Down On St. Petersburg, FL Golf Course

Pilot And Passenger Uninjured, But Plane Badly Damaged

A 1939 Taylorcraft went down on a golf course in St. Petersburg, FL Saturday, resulting in substantial damage to the airplane, but leaving the pilot and passenger, both teenagers, uninjured.

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FAA: Emails In Alleged ATC Cheating Scandal Missing

Agency Claims It Cannot Recover Documents It Says Are 'Corrupted'

The FAA has admitted in court that it is not able to recover emails that are key to a lawsuit involving applicants rejected from the agency's ATC selection process.

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FAA Publishes ADS-B Policy

Contains Several Of The Changes Outlined In AC 20-165 Revision

The FAA has published a policy memorandum that provides guidance for the installation and airworthiness approval of Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) Out systems in aircraft.

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Capitol Lawn Gyro Pilot Accused Of Narrowly Avoiding Collision

Prosecutors Say He Nearly Hit A Delta Airlines Jet That Had Just Departed KDCA, But Facts May Prove Otherwise

When Douglas Hughes infamously flew his unregistered gyrocopter from Pennsylvania to a landing on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol last spring, he nearly collided with a Delta Airlines A320 that had just taken off from Washington Reagan National Airport (KDCA), prosecutors say.

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