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January 07, 2019

Airborne 01.07.19: Fastest Electric Airplane?, Viking CL-515, New L-39NG

Also: Gone West-Herb Kelleher, Airbus A220-300 Buy, New Horizons Mission, DeFazio Confirmed

What do you get when you combine some of the finest talent in aerospace engineering, Formula E auto racing, and high-power battery development? The answer is sitting in a hangar two hours west of london at Gloucestershire Airport. Propped on a waist-high platform, a modest 12-foot carbon-fiber airplane chassis with outsized ambition. Once complete, this plane, the centerpiece of Rolls-Royce’s ACCEL initiative, will be different from anything else you might find at Gloucestershire airport – or anywhere

Airborne 01.07.19: Fastest Electric Airplane?, Viking CL-515, New L-39NG

Also: Gone West-Herb Kelleher, Airbus A220-300 Buy, New Horizons Mission, DeFazio Confirmed

What do you get when you combine some of the finest talent in aerospace engineering, Formula E auto racing, and high-power battery development? The answer is sitting in a hangar two hours west of london at Gloucestershire Airport. Propped on a waist-high platform, a modest 12-foot carbon-fiber airplane chassis with outsized ambition. Once complete, this plane, the centerpiece of Rolls-Royce’s ACCEL initiative, will be different from anything else you might find at Gloucestershire airport – or anywhere in the world, for that matter. It’ll be all electric. Viking Air has released a video that it says describes a new model of a scooping air tanker that could succeed the CL-

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USAF Demonstrates Innovation In Tight Spaces

Evacuated Aircraft Needed A Fuel Line Inspection While Away From Their Home Base

As Hurricane Michael churned toward the Emerald Coast of Florida, F-35A Lightning IIs from the 33rd Fighter Wing evacuated to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, to avoid the storm’s path and potential catastrophic damage. As Michael passed, narrowly missing Eglin AFB, a different type of storm brewed on the horizon that would test nomad innovation.

U.S. Aviation Sector Will Stay Busy In 2019 Thanks To New FAA Regs

LeClairRyan Attorney Mark Dombroff Sees Numerous Challenges And Opportunities In The Coming Year

The pace of change in U.S. aviation will accelerate in the year ahead thanks to passage of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, writes veteran LeClairRyan aviation attorney Mark A. Dombroff in a new column for Airport Business.

UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Presents Security Briefing

December Meeting Heightens Aviation Security Momentum

The international response to terrorism-related threats has taken an important step forward, through the delivery of an aviation security briefing to UN Security Council’s (UNSC) Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC). It was jointly delivered last week by ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu and the Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), Ms. Michèle Coninsx.

Universal Chairman Greg Evans Awarded NBAA Silk Scarf Award

Recognized For Contributions To Business Aviation Throughout His Career

Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc. Chairman Greg Evans has been awarded the National Business Aviation Association’s prestigious Silk Scarf Award for his contributions to the business aviation community throughout his career. The Silk Scarf represents diligence, industry and persistence and was created to honor outstanding business aviation community members and inspire future aviators.

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Second GlobalEye Takes To The Sky

Based On A Modified Bombardier Global 6000 Aircraft

Saab completed a successful first flight with the second GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) aircraft on January 3.

Rolls-Royce Developing Worlds Fastest Electric Airplane

'Accelerating The Electrication of Flight' Project (ACCEL) Targeting Speeds In Excess Of 260 Knots

What do you get when you combine the finest talent in aerospace engineering, Formula E auto racing, and high-power battery development? The answer is sitting in a hangar bay tucked toward the back of a rural airfield, Gloucestershire Airport, two hours west of London.

Kratos Receives $65 Million In Space And Satellite Communications Contracts

Work To Be Completed Over The Next 12 Months

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has received recent space and satellite communications contract awards and options on existing contracts totaling approximately $65 million. Work performed under these contract awards will be performed at secure Kratos manufacturing facilities and customer locations and is expected to be substantially completed over the next 12 months.

FAA Selects NovAtel For Safety-Critical Air Navigation Infrastructure

Wins Contract To Supply Next-Generation Signal Generators For FAA's WAAS Program

The FAA has awarded a contract to NovAtel to design, produce and deliver 40 next-generation Ground Uplink Station (GUS) Signal Generators to support the FAA’s safety of life WAAS navigation service. The contract also includes ongoing engineering support services for NovAtel’s complete portfolio of Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) products deployed by the FAA, including the WAAS G-III reference receiver platform. The FAA has relied on NovAtel's safety-critical SBAS technology for over 20 years starting with NovAtel's first-generation WAAS reference receiver that was created in the 1990's.

Braathens Regional Airlines Starts Fleet Management With ATR

Global Maintenance Agreement Covers All ATR -600s In The Carrier's Fleet

The Swedish regional airline Braathens Regional Airlines, BRA, started the implementation of its new ATR Global Maintenance Agreement on first of January, following the signature of this milestone agreement with ATR in June 2018 that further strengthens the strong relationship between the two companies. Covering Braathens Regional Airlines entire ATR fleet of ten ATR 72-600s, this customized full-service package covers repair, overhaul, pooling services of Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) and transportation of LRUs to the airline’s facilities. The contract is for a period of five years.

Elbit Systems Of America Awarded Contract To Deliver The Two Color Laser System

Raytheon Will Incorporate The Technology In Multiple Military Airborne Platforms

Elbit Systems of America was recently awarded a contract by Raytheon to deliver the Two Color Laser System (TCLS) for the Multi-Spectral Targeting System. The contract will be performed in 2019. TCLS is a production component within the electro-optical surveillance system for multiple military airborne platforms, including unmanned aerial vehicles.

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Mid-Michigan College Offers Drone Training

Open To Both Aspiring Professionals And Hobbyists

Mid-Michigan College in Mount Pleasant, MI is offering drone training classes geared both towards aspiring professionals and hobbyists who want to be better operators.

NASA's New Horizons Mission Reveals Entirely New Kind Of World

Images Of The Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule Unveil The Very First Stages Of Solar System's History

Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored — the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. Its remarkable appearance, unlike anything we've seen before, illuminates the processes that built the planets four and a half billion years ago.

Airborne 01.04.19: Jetpack Racing!, TH-119 1st Flt, SpaceX 'Starship'

Also: Experimental Category Aircraft, Ryanair Fires Netherlands Crews, Aging USAF Planes, Dream Chaser

Are you ready for Jetpack Racing? It could be the hot new sport in 2019, according to JetPack Aviation CEO David Mayman. After 12 months testing two of its jetpacks in side by side flights, JetPack Aviation has announced the launch of its racing league. And it is inviting the world to join in. The company has spent the past 12 months test flying to determine whether its jetpacks can be flown safely in close proximity to each other. Just after Christmas, it released a video of two of its company pilots

FAA Looks To Accelerate Drone ID Rules

Public-Private Partnerships Will Test Airborne Identification Of Drones Nationwide

The FAA is set to authorize as many as eight industry-financed projects to examine various options for airborne drone identification, according to a notice published in December in the Federal Register.

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Klyde Does Just A LITTLE Bit of Self-Promotion

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ICAO Reports Solid Passenger Traffic Growth, Moderate Air Cargo Demand In 2018

More Than Four Billion Passengers Were Carried By Air Transport On Scheduled Services During The Year

Preliminary figures released today by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) show a total of 4.3 billion passengers were carried by air transport on scheduled services in 2018. This indicates a 6.1 percent increase over 2017. The number of departures rose to approximately 38 million globally, and world passenger traffic, expressed in terms of total scheduled revenue passenger-kilometres (RPKs), grew solidly at 6.7 percent and reached approximately 8.2 trillion RPKs performed. This growth is a slowdown from the 7.9 percent achieved in 2017.

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Kansas State Polytechnic To Offer First Responder Scholarship For sUAS Training

Will Cut The Overall Course Cost In Half

Kansas State University's Polytechnic Campus is offering $500 scholarships to first responders interested in attending the small unmanned aircraft systems, or sUAS, commercial remote pilot training course in 2019.

Europe Moves To Set Ground Rules For Drone Deliveries

SAFIR Consortium Chosen To Carry Out U-Space Drone Demonstrations In Belgium

The SAFIR consortium, a group of 13 public and private organisations, has been selected by Single European Sky ATM Research Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU) to demonstrate integrated Drone Traffic Management for a broad range of drone operations in Belgium. The goal of the SAFIR project is to contribute to the EU regulatory process for drones and drive forward the deployment of interoperable, harmonized and standardized drone services across Europe.

Leesburg EAA Chapter In (Wing Rib) Stitches

Workshop Held At Leesburg International Airport Last Thursday

Members of the Experimental Aircraft Association had to learn how to rib stitch a wing by doing it. This was done at their hangar at the Leesburg International Airport in Leesburg, Florida on Thursday January 3, 2019. A good way to start out the new year.

Gone West: Southwest Airlines Founder And Chairman Emeritus Herb Kelleher

Passed Away Last Thursday At The Age Of 87

Southwest Airlines Founder and Chairman Emeritus Herbert D. Kelleher has Gone West. Kelleher passed away last Thursday at the age of 87.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (01.07.19): LORAN

LORAN An electronic navigational system by which hyperbolic lines of position are determined by measuring the difference in the time of reception of synchronized pulse signals from two fixed transmitters. Loran A operates in the 1750-1950 kHz frequency band. Loran C and D operate in the 100-110 kHz frequency band. In 2010, the U.S. Coast Guard terminated all U.S. LORAN-C transmissions.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (01.07.19)

Aero Linx: The American Yankee Association (AYA) The American Yankee Association (AYA) is the official owners group for all models of American Aviation, Grumman American, and Gulfstream Aerospace, AGAC and Tiger Aircraft. AYA was initially formed in June, 1976. The original concept focused on the model AA1 "American Yankee," with owners of subsequent two- and four-place models accepted as "associate members." This was changed almost immediately to include as full members all of the two-place owners, and, in 1978, the bylaws were amended to include all of the other models built by American Aviation, Grumman American, and Gulfstream Aerospace. In 1989, these aircraft were returned to production by the

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (01.07.19)

"Approximately 35 percent of the attendees of this training come from the public safety arena. We do not want cost to become a barrier to providing access of this life-saving technology into the hands of our first responders and emergency managers. K-State has offered this training since the inception of the FAA regulations for commercial UAS operations. We will continue to develop new courses, with an eye on further development of public safety relationships to help promote safe operations in our airspace." Source: Kurt J. Carraway, UAS research executive director of Kansas State Polytechnic's Applied Aviation Research Center, commenting on Kansas State University's Polytechnic Campus offer of $500 scholarships to first responders in

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