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December 22, 2014

Airborne 12.22.14: More Congressional Pilots, NAHF '15 Class, JetBlue Sisters

Also: AVW-A380 Emergency, B29 Won't Fly Til Spring, Fire Scout Flies, Super Dell Nonsense, PHX Attempts To Dictate Flight Paths

Two more pilots are among the 12 new members who will serve on the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee when the 114th Congress convenes in January. The Committee and its Aviation Subcommittee will play a vital role in setting long-term spending priorities for the FAA. The National Aviation Hall of Fame, known as the NAHF has announced the names of four individuals who have been elected for enshrinement at its annual formal ceremony on October 2, 20

Airborne 12.22.14: More Pilots In Congress, NAHF Class Of '15, JetBlue Sisters Soar!

Also: AVW-A380 Emergency, B29 Won't Fly Til Spring, Fire Scout Flies, Super Dell Nonsense, PHX Attempts To Dictate Flight Paths

Two more pilots are among the 12 new members who will serve on the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee when the 114th Congress convenes in January. The Committee and its Aviation Subcommittee will play a vital role in setting long-term spending priorities for the FAA. The National Aviation Hall of Fame, known as the NAHF has announced the names of four individuals who have been elected for enshrinement at its annual formal ceremony on October 2, 2015 in Dayton. JetBlue pilots, and sisters, Pia and Anna-Maria Kymalainen recently flew as the cockpit crew on flight 1480 from Fort Lauderdale to Washington DC making them

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Electric UAVs Market To See Significant Global Growth Over Next 4 Years

Rise In Commercial Use Seen As Principal Driver Of The Trend

New research from ReportsnReports.com indicates that the market for electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicles will grow by more than 18 percent compounded annually through 2018.

Airbus Helicopters Delivers Two Aircraft To Spain

An EC135 To The Spanish National Police, And The First AS355 NP For The Spanish Road Transport Authority

Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first AS355 NP Ecureuil to the Spanish Road Transport Authority (DGT) and the first EC135 to the country’s National Police Force under the contract signed in February of this year with the DGT.

Bell Helicopter Training Academy Expands Capabilities In Singapore

Six New Training Courses Offered For Multiple Aircraft Types

The Bell Helicopter Training Academy (BTA) has received renewal for Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) Part 147 certification and approval to conduct six new technical training courses at the Bell Helicopter Singapore Service Center.

NASA Awards Launch Contract For Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

SpaceX Selected To Launch TESS Mission In 2017

NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. TESS will launch aboard a Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle, with liftoff targeted for August 2017 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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Trinidad And Tobago Air Guard Reaches Key Training, Capability Milestones

Increasing Mission Scope Through Training And Support Led By

AgustaWestland has extended congratulations to the Trinidad and Tobago Air Guard, as the country’s first Search and Rescue helicopter unit promoted two pilots to Command Officers and recognized the licensure by the Trinidad & Tobago Civil Aviation Authority of five engineers now authorized to work independently on the four multi-mission AW139s in operation by the Air Guard.

NASA's MAVEN Identifies Links In Chain Leading To Atmospheric Loss

Findings Among First Returns From Science Mission Which Began November 16

NASA’s MAVEN mission is observing the upper atmosphere of Mars to help understand climate change on the planet. MAVEN entered its science phase on Nov. 16, 2014.

Jeppesen Helps Smartlynx Airlines Of Latvia Go Paperless

Regional Wet-Lease Operator Now Uses iPad-Based EFB, Eliminates Paper Flight Materials

Latvian wet-lease charter carrier SmartLynx Airlines has been granted approval to operate in a paperless cockpit environment, using Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro on iPad as its electronic flight bag (EFB) solution. SmartLynx Airlines gained the clearance from the Latvian Civil Aviation Authority to eliminate bulky paper-based flight materials.

Associated Air Center Signs New Airbus A320CJ VVIP Completion Project

Will Be Company's 18th A320 Completion Project Since 2003

Associated Air Center (AAC) recently signed a contract for a new, green Airbus A320CJ VVIP narrow-body completion project. This project represents the company’s 18th A320 completion program since becoming and Airbus Completion Center in 2003.

Blackhawk Modifications, Valair Aviation Renew Relationship

Agreement Covers Installation And Service For New PT6A Engine Upgrades

Blackhawk Modifications Waco, TX and Valair Aviation, headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK recently came to an agreement that renews Valair as an installation and service center for Blackhawk’s line of PT6A new engine upgrades.

Virgin America First To Offer Gogo's ATG-4 Inflight WiFi Service Fleetwide

New ATG-4 WiFi Brings Increased Bandwidth And Faster Browsing Speeds For Flyers At 35,000 Feet

Virgin America has rolled out Gogo's faster ATG-4 WiFi service fleetwide, with the completion this week of ATG-4 WiFi installation on its Airbus A319 plane "Jane" (N526VA).

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Germany Takes Delivery Of Its First A400M Transport

Nine Of The Aircraft Now In Service With Four Nations

Airbus Defense and Space has formally delivered the first Airbus A400M military transport ordered by Germany. A total of nine aircraft have now been delivered and the aircraft is in service with four nations.

Aerojet Rocketdyne Demonstrates 3D Printed Satellite Rocket Propulsion System

Project Funded By NASA's Opportunities In Technology Development

Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully completed a hot-fire test of its MPS-120 CubeSat High-Impulse Adaptable Modular Propulsion System (CHAMPS). The MPS-120 is the first 3D-printed hydrazine integrated propulsion system and is designed to provide propulsion for CubeSats, enabling missions not previously available to these tiny satellites.

Deadline For $30 Million Google Lunar XPRIZE Extended To End Of 2016

Up To $6 Million In Milestone Prizes Recognizing Technological Advancements To Be Awarded In January 2015

XPRIZE has announced that the deadline for the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE has been officially extended until December 31, 2016. As part of this revised timeline, at least one team must provide documentation of a scheduled launch by December 31, 2015 for all teams to move forward in the competition.

AeroSports Update: You Can Win The Perfect Cub

The Grand Prize In The 2015 EAA Aircraft Sweepstakes Is A Very Special Piper J-3 Cub

It could be said than any Piper J3 cub is special, but this one is the poster picture of the perfect J3. EAA has announced that the 2015 EAA Aircraft Sweepstakes grand prize is a Piper J-3 Cub, meticulously restored by Ellis Clark, of Solvang, CA. Entries are now being accepted, and entry coupons will be packaged with the January and February issues of the EAA members magazine, Sport Aviation. The lucky winning entry will be selected at 5 p.m. CDT on September 30, 2015.

Progress Continues On XCOR Lynx Spacecraft

Carry-Through Spar Installed, Tested To 6G Re-Entry Loads

The XCOR Lynx suborbital spacecraft continues to make rapid progress towards final assembly. Immediately after bonding the cockpit to the fuselage the shop crews set up for the delicate and precise operation of bonding the carry-through spar on to the rear end of the Lynx fuselage.

Klyde Morris (12.22.14)

Numerology? Yin/Yang? Is That What You Think It's Come To, Klyde?

FMI: www.klydemorris.com

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Sisters Share JetBlue Cockpit For The First Time

Pair Realize Life-Long Dream Of Flying An Airliner Together

Here's a great story from the JetBlue blog. It's pretty well known that women have historically been underrepresented in the field of aviation. Currently only 4% of commercial pilots are women. JetBlue says that while they're proud that their own representative number of female pilots is higher at 5+%, they know there’s a lot of room to increase the representation of women in the cockpit.

Airborne 12.19.14: Falcon 8X Unveiled, Sportys 172LITE, Bizarre CA AvGas Lawsuit

Also: ANN/Airborne's Crystal Ball, Lear70/75 Mexico Cert, Carnegie Mellon's Lunar Rover, Dragon Delays

Dassault Aviation rolled back the curtains earlier this week on the ultra-long range Falcon 8X, the company's latest addition to the growing Falcon business jet family. The 8X will offer the greatest range and the longest cabin in the Falcon line, along with the most extensive selection of cabin configurations available on any executive jet. Sporty’s Academy flight school goes back to the basic trainer concept of World War II. They are acquiring Cessna 172s and equipping them with basic flight instrument

Signs Of Ancient Mars Lakes And Quakes Seen In New Map

Images From MRO Released By USGS

Long ago, in the largest canyon system in our solar system, vibrations from "marsquakes" shook soft sediments that had accumulated in Martian lakes.

Former Employee Sues California Aircraft Parts Company

Informed FAA Of Possible Use Of Relabled Chinese Parts For Use In Aircraft

A former employee of Ameri-King in Huntington Beach, CA has filed a lawsuit against the aviation equipment manufacturer and distributer saying he was fired for informing federal officials of the possible use of relabeled Chinese or remanufactured parts.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (12.22.14): Bernoulli's Principle

Bernoulli's Principle Daniel Bernoulli explained that the faster molecules within a fluid move, the less pressure they exert on objects around them. This applies to all fluids, including water, air and gases. For example, the water in a pond will exert more pressure on the pond's bottom than a flowing stream with the same amount of water will exert on the streambed.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (12.22.14)

Aero Linx: The Deaf Pilot's Association Who is The Deaf Pilot's Association? We are men and women, teachers and students, mechanics and farmers, bankers and programmers, priests and writers, working and retired. We come from all over the United States, many European countries, and Australia. We are diverse. Many of us are Deaf people who use American Sign Language. Others employ speech and lipreading. Some of us are hard of hearing. Some are late-deafened. We are united by a common love of flying. We have been pilots since the earliest days of aviation. In fact, the first pilot to fly across the United States (Calbraith Perry Rodgers in “Vin Fiz,” 1911) had a severe hearing loss from scarlet fever during his ch

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Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (12.22.14)

"It was a long time goal for both sisters to fly together and that dream recently came true. The women recently operated flight 1480 from FLL to DCA making them the first ever sister-sister flight crew at JetBlue! Pia began her aviation career flying freight and corporate jets before joining JetBlue nine years ago. While, Anna-Maria followed her big sister’s lead and also began flying corporate jets seven years ago until finding her home at JetBlue three years ago." Source: Comments made in an inspiring JetBlue blog entry after two sisters worked together for the first time -- on the same flightdeck -- both halves of the same flight crew.

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