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The pilot and owner of a 1945 Grumman TBM Avenger is asking for help locating the airplane he was forced to abandon during a flight last year, and he's willing to pay $20,000 to anyone who finds the airplane. That's not as easy as it sounds. Ron Carlson, explains... "...I just want to refresh my offer of $20,000 cash to find my still missing 1945 Grumman TBM Avenger. Many of you are probably familiar with the story, but for those who are not, it crashed a year and a half ago after a catastrophic engine failure and

Flew 25 Missions Assessing The Storm As It Developed And Rolled Up The U.S. East Coast

The Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, aka the Hurricane Hunters, have flown 25 missions, from Aug. 25 to their last, Sept. 6, in support of Hurricane Dorian.

Terry Boardman And General James Cartwright Join The Team

Firefly Aerospace, a provider of launch vehicles, spacecraft and in-space services, has added two members to their Advisory Board. Members of the board act as ambassadors and advocates of Firefly and support the executive and management teams through consultation and strategic analysis. New appointments to the Firefly board are Terry Boardman and General James Cartwright.

To Enhance Visual Data Collection, Management & Analysis For Enterprises

Drone manufacturer DJI and Delair, a provider of visual data management solutions for enterprise, have announced a partnership that will see the two companies collaborate on enhanced and integrated solutions for visual data collection and analysis for businesses. The partnership will include an agreement for Delair to sell DJI products through its worldwide sales channel, along with launching a relationship to build compatibility across platforms.

Drone Delivery Demo Conducted September 11th at Curiosity Lab Event

Valqari, creator of the patented Smart Drone Delivery Mailbox and provider of last inch solutions for drone deliveries, has teamed up with Sprint to become the first smart mailbox to connect to their HTC 5G Hub. To showcase this cutting-edge advancement, Valqari’s technology was demonstrated at the grand opening of Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners on September 11th.

Identifies The Top 17 Companies In The Industry Excelling At Innovation, Poised For Growth And Ripe For Investment

Frost & Sullivan reveals that the maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) market experienced substantial growth in line with global fleet expansion. As the market worth $75 billion continues to increase for aircraft maintenance, MROs are adjusting capacity to meet the surging demand through the adoption of digital transformation, technology innovation, and unrivaled efficiencies as well as mergers, consolidations, buy-outs and alliances. Airlines are spinning their maintenance divisions off into separate MRO entities to produce fresh revenue streams as OEMs jockey for additional market share.

New Spacecraft Address Fast Moving Market Needs

Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo, has launched its new Space Inspire satellite product line (INstant SPace In-orbit REconfiguration) which allows  seamless mission and services reconfiguration, instant in-orbit adjustment to the demand, transition from video broadcasting to broadband connectivity services while maximizing the efficiency & effective use of the satellite resources.

Pair Was Documenting Their World Tour In Part Using Drone Photography

A couple traveling on Australian passports has been arrested in Iran for allegedly operating a drone without a license and are being held in the country's notorious Evin prison.

Patented Approach Focuses Microwaves From Platforms in Space To Interrupt Formation Of Tropical Depressions

Bruce Morton, a retired aerospace engineer & rocket scientist who resides in Northern Virginia and St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, has developed a concept to prevent or interfere with the formation of hurricanes. He filed a patent application in May 2019 designed to interfere with and interrupt the storm system while it is still a tropical depression, and prevent it from forming into a much more powerful Tropical Storm and subsequently into a much more powerful hurricane.

Aero Linx: Sol Relief, Inc. In September and October of 2017 Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused massive devastation in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and many other areas of the Caribbean.  A former St. Croix, U.S.V.I. resident and pilot, Jennifer Lockwood, wanted to help. Jennifer partnered with St. Pete Air and the Glasscock Family Foundation to create an innovative disaster relief mission utilizing small aircraft to serve U.S.V.I and Puerto Rico with immediate aid. From that mission a new venture focused on providing humanitarian aid and disaster relief with the use of aviation was formed – Sol Relief, Inc.  In 2018, Bill Auer, owner of Tampa Bay Air Charter

Final Approach Fix The fix from which the final approach (IFR) to an airport is executed and which identifies the beginning of the final approach segment. It is designated on Government charts by the Maltese Cross symbol for nonprecision approaches and the lightning bolt symbol for precision approaches; or when ATC directs a lower-than-published glideslope/path intercept altitude, it is the resultant actual point of the glideslope/path intercept.

Aero-News Quote of the Day “Our mission is to go out and find the exact center of the storm and find how big the wind radius is and figure out what is going on in the storm environment. We then relay that information to the National Hurricane Center to improve their forecasts.” Source: Capt. Garrett Black, 53rd WRS aerial reconnaissance weather officer, in details associated with the Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, aka the Hurricane Hunters, who flew 25 missions, from Aug. 25 to their last, Sept. 6, in support of Hurricane Dorian.