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June 04, 2014

Aero-TV: Lockheed Flight Services -- Improving Safety for the NAS

Gearing Up To Meet Tomorrow's FSS/Pilot Requirements

ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell speaks with Jim Derr, the director of aviation services for the Lockheed Martin company. This is the division of Lockheed Martin that provides pilots with flight service station services. Most pilots are familiar with the typical flight service station briefing obtained over the telephone, but Derr says that the AFSS system is now moving to provide some types of information over the Internet. Examples of these improvements include an automated adverse condition alerting service and printed documents being written in “plain English” that are easy t

Whitaker: 'We Have Concrete Evidence That Demonstrates How NextGen Works ... As A Whole'

In his first report to Congress since becoming the Chief NextGen Officer one year ago Tuesday, Deputy Administrator Mike Whitaker detailed what the report says is the “significant progress” made toward completing the technological foundation that is bringing greater efficiency and predictability to the nation’s airspace system, while reducing aviation’s environmental impact.

Aircraft Will Attempt A Circumnavigation On Solar Energy Alone

Solar Impulse 2, the second solar aircraft of Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, has carried out its first flight from the Payerne aerodrome in Switzerland.