Next-Gen Power Unit to Be More Reliable, Clean Burning, Advanced than Current APUs
Airbus will be evaluating a hydrogen-powered Auxiliary Power Unit for large aircraft, providing a clean-burning alternative to traditional APUs. The program will be completed under Airbus UpNext, beginning with a ground demonstrator to check the efficacy of non propulsive energy through the use of hydrogen fuel cells. Airbus engineers hope that they can build a green APU with enough output for all the usual functions, like air conditioning, onboard lighting and electric power for avionics.
Also: Daher SAF Demo, ZeroAvia - MHIRJ, New SLS Rocket, Archer-Stellantis Partnership
Destinus unveiled its third and most complex and capable technology demonstrator during the Paris Air-Show. Kokorich and his apparatchiks assert the contraption—prosaically dubbed Destinus-3—may be set to go down in aviation history as the world’s first hydrogen-powered supersonic unmanned vehicle. Eve Air Mobility announced its plans to offer a number of eVTOL commuter routes throughout the Bay Area and San Francisco, California. The plan will be assisted by Eve investor United Airlines, who will use the routes as a "quick, economical and lower-carbon way to get to hub airports and commute in dense urban environments." C
McKinny, Texas-based Adventure Pilot LLC is a provider of Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) products designed to enhance pilot productivity and flight safety. The company’s iFly EFB app features navigation, flight planning, aeronautical charts, and weather integration capabilities. Adventure Pilot announced the release of version 12.1 of iFly EFB. In addition to the full complement of the product’s legacy features, the update introduces Helicopter Mode and Checklists--addenda designed to meet the unique needs of rotary-wing pilots.
On 25 May 2023, Virgin Galactic, the California-based spaceflight subsidiary of archetypal billionaire-cool-guy Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, announced it had successfully completed its Unity 25 space mission—the final shakedown flight of the company’s Unity spacecraft -- or so they believe...
5th Annual National Aviation Day to be Held at Dare County Regional
The First Flight Society will be celebrating the 5th annual National Aviation Day on August 19th, 2023. The event will be held at Dare County Regional Airport in North Carolina, with exhibitors, aircraft displays, and food in celebration of the Wright Brothers’ first flight more than a century ago. National Aviation Day is a free event for all, suitable for the whole family. This year's keynote speaker will be Larry Tise, historian, scholar, and author of Conquering the Sky.
Reflections on War’s Collective Lessons and Cyclical Nature
The exigencies of war ought be colorblind. Inane social-constructs the likes of racism ought break down precipitously amongst men thrust together into combat’s equal-opportunity abattoir. Faced with a common, indiscriminate enemy, human beings ought perceive—suddenly, and with perfect clarity—the immateriality of color, creed, religion, and the myriad trivialities by which they fatuously divide themselves in peacetime. Alas, they do not.
Also: AeroPup Soon To Fly, Bushliner, Dynon Offers Trade-In, Cubcrafters
A much-modified version of the Velocity V-Twin has made its first flight in Sebastian, FL, out of Velocity Aircraft’s company HQ. Stretching a fiberglass / carbon-composite airframe 24-inches longitudinally and four inches both vertically and laterally is an ambitious undertaking, but one well-suited to Velocity’s decades of experience and aeronautical know-how. We’ve been promoting the forthcoming SportPlane Resource Guide in an all-digital format for some weeks now and we’re happy to say that we’re making excellent progress... with all primary b
Also: AeroPup Soon To Fly, Bushliner, Dynon Offers Trade-In, Cubcrafters
A much-modified version of the Velocity V-Twin has made its first flight in Sebastian, FL, out of Velocity Aircraft’s company HQ. Stretching a fiberglass / carbon-composite airframe 24-inches longitudinally and four inches both vertically and laterally is an ambitious undertaking, but one well-suited to Velocity’s decades of experience and aeronautical know-how. We’ve been promoting the forthcoming SportPlane Resource Guide in an all-digital format for some weeks now and we’re happy to say that we’re making excellent progress... with all primary book t
India First to Roll Out the New System, with Worldwide Locations to Follow
Boeing and CAE have announced the addition of the school as a Boeing Authorized Training Provider, the first to offer Boeing’s Competency-Based Training and Assessment (CBTA) curriculum. Under the new arrangement, both companies will "expand accessibility to high-quality, innovative flight training to commercial aviation customers worldwide."
On 19 June 2023, Archer Aviation, the California-based designer of electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and Stellantis, the multinational automotive manufacturing concern born of the merger of Italian-American Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and the French PSA Group—jointly announced at the Paris Air-Show that significant progress had been made on the two-companies’ strategic manufacturing partnership. With construction of Archer’s Covington, Georgia high-volume eVTOL aircraft manufacturing facility well underway, Stellantis has increased its strategic shareholding in the enterprise by dint of a series of open-market purchases of Archer stock.
Diamond Aircraft’s PT6A-25C-powered DART-750 aerobatic trainer has made its first flight at the company’s Austrian headquarters. The test-flight, which spanned thirty-minutes and covered all basic flight-maneuvers and performance and handling checks—was piloted by Diamond’s head of flight test Sören Pedersen and senior test pilot Niko Daroussis. Despite a fairly small number of "test flights," Virgin Galactic announced the date for its very first commercial spaceflight, planning on launching between June 27 and 30 of this year
Storied aerospace marque Honeywell Aerospace put in a fine showing at 2023’s Paris Air-Show. The North Carolina-based company highlighted a range of initiatives by which it and its industry partners seek to hasten the actualization of a safe, sustainable, and fiscally-stable global aviation sector.
Both Wings Were Located About ¼ Mi East Of The Main Wreckage
On May 28, 2023, at 1815 eastern daylight time, a Luce Buttercup, N18263, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Lyndonville, New York. The pilot and a pilot-rated passenger sustained fatal injuries. The airplane was operated under Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. Witnesses stated that they saw either pieces of the airplane or the airplane wings separate from the airplane.
Aero Linx: The Subsonic Aerodynamic Testing Association
The Subsonic Aerodynamic Testing Association was formed in March 1965 to provide a world-wide organization for operators of low-speed aerodynamic testing facilities. The broad objective of the organization is: "To provide at the operational level a means of interchange of ideas, techniques, and solutions of problems."
Any of the automated weather sensor platforms that collect weather data at airports and disseminate the weather information via radio and/or landline. The systems currently consist of the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) and Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS).
“It makes us proud to be the operator of the first Challenger 3500 in Europe. This outstanding aircraft will be based at the Central European Oberpfaffenhofen airport [OBF], located close to Munich in the southern part of Germany, and will be operated for the owner and Aviator Aircraft's key accounts. Our experienced maintenance team will handle technical support of the new CL3500 at our own on-site service center.”
Source: Aero-Dienst manager of aircraft sales Andreas Strabel, commenting on the first delivery of a Challenger 3500 to a European customer.
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