Sat, Apr 24, 2021
What a successful Sun n Fun Aero Space Expo! The first major aviation event in over a year is in the books...
Though the numbers are still being tabulated, Sun ‘n Fun Boss Lites Leenhouts declared Saturday the best ever for that day and predicted a strong possibility that SnF21 would break all previous records for the week. Based on what we saw, we agree. Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at JPL confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter via NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at 0646 EDT. ANN’s Jim Campbell will be among the first to tell you that he is an unrepentant taildragger aficionado. So much so, that when CubCrafters announced a nosewheel version of their here-tofore positively-reviewed X CUB, he really had little interest in the project. Advance buzz, though, was intriguing, and he decided to give it a try. During SnF21, Jim climbed aboard an NX Cub at South Lakeland airport early Saturday on a drizzly, overcast morning with
CubCrafters’s Brad Damm and 3/4 fuel, and was blown away. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 04.21.21 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Wednesday, April 21st, 2021... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Kimberly Kay. Kimberly is supported by ANN Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, as well as ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell. This episode covers:
- Sun ‘n Fun Breaks Records, Is Oshkosh Next?
- Simply Extraordinary: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies
- NX Cub Defies The Skeptics
- ANN SNFDD21 MVP--Maria Morrison
- Panthera Makes Public Debut at SnF21
- Zefhir Helicopter Offers Emergency Recovery Chute
- True Blue Power Ups It's Game: 'Most Powerful' Lithium-Ion Battery Yet
Get Comprehensive, Real-Time, 24/7 coverage of the latest aviation and aerospace stories anytime, at aero-news.net. And be sure to join us again tomorrow, for the next edition of "Airborne Unlimited" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, tomorrow!
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