Congressional Research Service Releases Background and Issues for Congress

The Congressional Research Service recently posted a comprehensive report on the US military’s V-22 Osprey rotorcraft and, let’s just say, it doesn’t paint the fleet in a very flattering light. The tilt-rotor aircraft has been plagued with issues over its service life and has been directly involved in the deaths of 65 military personnel and civilians.

North Shore Medevac Averts ‘Quite A Bad Situation’

A hiker stuck on North Vancouver’s Mt. Seymour was very lucky to have a cell signal to make a call that enabled him to be rescued after sustaining a “lower body injury” that kept him from moving further. North Shore Rescue (NSR), based in North Vancouver, saved the ill-equipped man from what rescuers called potentially “quite a bad situation.”

15th Payload Flight Also Took Thousands Of Postcards To Space

Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster rocket successfully completed the program’s 15th payload mission to space carrying more than 40 research and scientific payloads on a suborbital flight that was its 20th spaceflight without a crew. It was the 12th and final mission for the RSS H.G. Wells Crew Capsule, the dedicated vehicle for flying customer payloads.

IDIQ Deal For Aggressor Fleet Fighter Jet Services

Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, a unit of Textron Systems, announced it has received a $555 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps for training support under the Fleet Fighter Jet Services program, providing high subsonic and supersonic contractor-operated aircraft in simulated airborne threat scenarios for Navy and Marine Corps aviators.

Boeing Subsidiary Partners With the City of Fullerton for Infrastructure Development

Boeing subsidiary and air taxi developer Wisk Aero recently announced a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Fullerton, California, that works towards the integration of autonomous air mobility in one of the cities that needs it most: Los Angeles. The effort will center at Fullerton Municipal Airport (FUL) in Orange County.

Contract Negotiations With Airline Management Continue

Voting members of the JetBlue Master Executive Council (MEC) of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l re-elected by acclamation their union leadership for the 4,700-plus pilots of JetBlue.

Also: SUN ‘n FUN’s EarlyBird, Rotax Advanced Start, Girls in Aviation Day, Lockwood RV-916!

The recently concluded Midwest Aviation Expo, hosted by the Mt. Vernon Outland Airport is a modest but overtly positive event in the sport aviation scheme of things. Led by Airport Boss Chris Collins, one of the best in the business, the event has been going on for 17 years and emphasizes a close and personal opportunity for companies to display their wares and for potential customers to spend time looking them over... There are a LOT of SportPlanes out there and while ANN’s Chief Test Pilot, Jim Campbell, has flown well over a 1000 unique types,

Also: SUN ‘n FUN’s EarlyBird, Rotax Advanced Start, Girls in Aviation Day, Lockwood RV-916!

The recently concluded Midwest Aviation Expo, hosted by the Mt. Vernon Outland Airport is a modest but overtly positive event in the sport aviation scheme of things. Led by Airport Boss Chris Collins, one of the best in the business, the event has been going on for 17 years and emphasizes a close and personal opportunity for companies to display their wares and for potential customers to spend time looking them over... There are a LOT of SportPlanes out there and while ANN’s Chief Test Pilot, Jim Campbell, has flown well over a 1000 unique

They Departed, Remained In The Traffic Pattern, And Were On Final Approach When The Engine Lost All Power

Analysis: The flight instructor and pilot receiving instruction, who was also the airplane owner, were performing takeoffs and landings as part of a tailwheel training flight. After an uneventful landing, they departed, remained in the traffic pattern, and were on final approach when the engine lost all power. The flight instructor took control of the airplane and conducted a forced landing to a field.

From 2012 (YouTube Edition): "Back To The Aviation I Knew..."

ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell had a chance to talk with Phil Boyer who had retired as president of AOPA about four years prior to this conversation. The meeting took place at EAA AirVenture 2012 and Boyer simply considered himself just another aviation enthusiast at the event. Campbell starts off by asking Boyer how he feels about general aviation as a pilot and a user of the system. Boyer’s response is that he feels overall general aviation is getti

Aero Linx: European Association of Aviation Training and Educational Organisations (EATEO) Welcome to the “European Association of Aviation Training and Education Organizations –EATEO.” EATEO aspires to be the European voice for driving the best aviation training and education practices and to provide a common forum for its Members, enabling them to contribute to aviation safety and other fields of civil aviation , to defend their common interests in European as well as international fora and to support them in their efforts as regards promotion of their training activities and the securing of new business.

Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) A radio transmitter attached to the aircraft structure which operates from its own power source on 121.5 MHz and 243.0 MHz. It aids in locating downed aircraft by radiating a downward sweeping audio tone, 2-4 times per second. It is designed to function without human action after an accident. 

“We’re proud to have flown hundreds of science, research, and educational payloads to space on New Shepard. Each mission has expanded opportunities for our customers to rapidly and reliably test space technologies, conduct groundbreaking research, and engage the next generation of scientists and explorers.” Source: Audrey Powers, Vice President of Mission and Flight Operations for Blue Origin, as their New Shepard booster rocket successfully completed the program’s 15th payload mission to space carrying more than 40 research and scientific payloads on a suborbital flight that was the program's 20th spaceflight without a crew. It was the 12th and final mission for the RSS H.G. Wells Crew Capsule, the d