Bomber Was Undergoing Repairs in SW Florida

EAA’s B-17 Aluminum Overcast, which has been based in Punta Gorda, Florida, for the past year while awaiting repairs to its wing structure, apparently sustained only minor damage as Hurricane Ian came ashore in that area of the Gulf Coast earlier this week and caused tremendous damage in that region. “We were incredibly fortunate that the aircraft did not suffer any major damage, from what early indications tell us,” said Jack J. Pelton, EAA CEO and chairman of the board.

Of Airplanes, Kansas, and Dust in the Wind

The U.S. National Aerobatic Championships—the International Aerobatic Club’s (IAC) premier event—will return to Salina, Kansas in October 2022. Competition flights are scheduled to commence Sunday, 2 October, and end Friday, 7 October at the Salina Regional Airport (SLN).

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Larry Page, the Google (Alphabet) billionaire has clipped the wings of his 10-year experiment known as Kittyhawk. This effort was part of his long elusive dream of developing flying cars. By now, there are several variants out there still trying to make their way in the world, and so it comes as no surprise that this bird's wings have finally been clipped. However, this project will live on in some form through a joint venture between Wisk Aero and the Boeing company. Eviation has been hard at work on their all-electric commuter aircraft, completing their

To Boldly Go…

NASA has assigned two astronauts to the agency’s Boeing Starliner-1 launch to the International Space Station, the spacecraft’s first planned mission following completion of its flight-testing and certification programs. Astronauts Scott Tingle and Mike Fincke will serve as the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively. Both men are space veterans, having each previously flown as crew members aboard the space station.

“E” is for Efficient, Economical, Estimable, etc.

Embraer, the Brazilian multinational manufacturer of commercial, military, executive, and agricultural aircraft, has delivered the 1,700th production specimen of its robustly successful E-Jet family of narrow-body airliners. Subject aircraft, an  Aircastle leased E195-E2, was handed over to KLM Cityhopper at a ceremony at Embraer’s facility in São José dos Campos. The newly delivered airplane was the sixtieth to join KLM Cityhopper’s E-Jet fleet—the largest in Europe.

The Wild Green Yonder

VerdeGo Aero, the Florida-based maker of customizable eVTOL propulsion systems, has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to perform an advanced risk reduction study on the company’s VH-3-185 hybrid powerplant.

Everything’s Bigger…

Atlantic Aviation, the Plano, Texas-based FBO giant with 103 locations on airports from Addison to Waukesha, has broadened its stake in the Lone Star State with the completion of its acquisition and initial renovations of Textar Aviation, one of the largest FBO properties on Dallas Love Field (DAL). The facility’s existing lobby, offices, hangars, and fuel-farm have been rebranded as Atlantic Aviation, and continue to undergo extensive upgrades.

From 2015 (YouTube Version): The Capabilities and Complex Talents of Today's RC Rotorcraft Result In Surprisingly Simple Fun!

While at eFest 2015, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, talks with a company known as Horizon Hobby to find out what’s going on in the rapidly changing world of remote control (RC) aircraft. In this interview, Jim talks with James Haley, the multirotor category manager for Horizon Hobby, about the hobby of flying RC helicopters.

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Larry Page, the Google (Alphabet) billionaire has clipped the wings of his 10-year experiment known as Kittyhawk. This effort was part of his long elusive dream of developing flying cars. By now, there are several variants out there still trying to make their way in the world, and so it comes as no surprise that this bird's wings have finally been clipped. However, this project will live on in some form through a joint venture between Wisk Aero and the Boeing company. Eviation has been hard at work on their all-electric commuter aircraft, completing their

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The popularity of UAV racing was compellingly evinced by the 710 drone-pilots who vied to enter the 2022  MultiGP Drone Racing Championship—a six-day event to be held from 18 through 23 October at the No Quarter Ranch drone field in Citrus Springs, Florida. The FCC aims to reduce the disposal window for decommissioned orbital equipment: Up to 5 years after end of service, down from the more leisurely 25-year timeframe currently in effect. The Federal Communications Commission released a fact sheet regarding the incipient issue of space debr

The Accident Airplane Began A Left Ascending Turn To The Northwest

On September 14, 2022, about 1054 mountain daylight time, a Vans RV-6A, N992KS, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Preston, Idaho. The pilot and the passenger sustained fatal injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The accident airplane was the lead in a flight of two that departure from Ontario Municipal Airport (ONO), in Ontario, Oregon, about 0911. After departure, Salt Lake City Air Route Traffic Control Center provided flight following services to the flight of two airplanes.

Aero Linx: Volunteer Pilots Network Launched in 2015, the Volunteer Pilots Network was started by Rick Gutlon, a business technologist and private pilot based in Durham, NC. Since 2011 Rick has flown 92 animal rescue flights and transported over 347 dogs (and 42 cats) to safety.

Localizer Type Directional Aid (LDA) A localizer with an angular offset that exceeds 3degrees of the runway alignment, used for nonprecision instrument approaches with utility and accuracy comparable to a localizer, but which are not part of a complete ILS.

“The Agility Prime program has been exploring and evaluating hybrid propulsion architectures combined with EVTOLs for dual use applications where additional range over what current battery only solutions may offer is of higher importance. The program office is excited to continue those efforts and better understand what capabilities VerdeGo's VH-3 powerplant may offer future systems over the course of this Phase 2 effort.” Source: Sterling Alley, program manager and technology transition lead for the USAF’s Agility Prime program, commenting on VerdeGo Aero having been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to perform an advanced ris