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June 06, 2023

Airborne-NextGen 06.06.23: Boeing Buys Wisk, Autel Robotics, FAA Drone Symposium

 Also: NW-230 Heavy-Fuel UAV Engine, 28th ISS Resupply Mission, Ameriflight, Boeing’s Starliner Delayed... Again

 

 

Boeing has acquired full ownership of Wisk Aero, the California-based, Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) joint-venture undertaken by Boeing and Kitty Hawk Corporation. Kitty Hawk’s sale of its stake in Wisk follows the company’s 2022 decision to abandon work on its aviation and aerospace ventures and gradually shutter its operations in their entirety. Autel Robotics is making ready to showcase its wares at the upcoming 7th Annual Energy Drone & Robotics Summit. The event will see Autel debut Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) the likes of its transportation and delivery optimized Titan model, and a new Enterpri

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SpaceX’s 28th ISS Resupply Mission Launches Successfully

The Short Trip from Remarkable to Routine

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying several thousand pounds of critical scientific hardware and crew supplies is on its way to the International Space Station. Launched atop a company Falcon-9 rocket, the mission—dubbed SpaceX Commercial Resupply Service-28 (alternately, SpaceX CRS-28 or SpX-28)—lifted-off from Launch Complex 39A of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 11:47 EDT on the morning of 05 June 2023.

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Four Perish in Virginia Citation 560 V Accident

Intercepting USAF F-16s Occasion Sonic Boom

National Rifle Association (NRA) executive and conservative donor Barbara Rumpel confirmed late Sunday, 04 June 2023, that her daughter, granddaughter, and a nanny had lost their lives earlier in the day when the Cessna 560 Citation V on which they were traveling from Tennessee’s Elizabethton Municipal Airport (0A9) to MacArthur Airport (ISP) on New York’s Long Island went down in mountainous terrain in the vicinity of Montebello Virginia. The aircraft’s pilot also perished.

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B-29 Doc History Restored Tour to Visit Mason City, Iowa

What’s Up …

Of the staggering 3,970 Boeing B-29 Superfortresses built between 1943 and 1946, only two remain airworthy in 2023: Doc and FIFI. On 02 June 2023, Doc’s Friends, Inc, the Wichita, Kansas-based non-profit organization by which Doc is owned, maintained, and operated, announced the storied aircraft would make a 19 July stop at Mason City, Iowa’s Mason City Municipal Airport (MCW) as part of the B-29 Doc History Restored Tour.

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FAA 8th Annual Drone Symposium/Inaugural AAM Summit Announced

Save the Date

The Federal Aviation Administration’s Eighth Annual Drone Symposium and inaugural AAM Summit will be held at Maryland’s Baltimore Convention Center. The FAA is pleased to partner with the Association for Uncrewed Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) in the planning and execution of the stakeholder-centric events. Registration for the FAA’s Drone Symposium and AAM Summit is currently open. Detailed information pertaining to the events’ agendas, speakers, and logistics will be made public in the coming weeks.

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Airborne 05.26.23: NEW Citation Ascend, Perlan Mission II, Jenny Down

Also: MiG-21 Fleet Grounding, New Gogo Antenna, Jet It Standdown, Gulfstream Record

Textron has unveiled the Cessna Citation Ascend, the newest model in Cessna’s proven and popular 560XL series. Made public on the eve of 2023’s European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE), the Citation Ascend—by virtue of its wholly redesigned cockpit, improved performance, and a more luxurious cabin—pleasantly disrupts the midsize business jet market. Representatives of Airbus’s Perlan Mission II announced its pilots and engineers had completed a successful flight test campaign in the Southwestern U.S., thereby clearing the way f

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Airborne 05.26.23: NEW Citation Ascend, Perlan Mission II, Jenny Down

Also: MiG-21 Fleet Grounding, New Gogo Antenna, Jet It Standdown, Gulfstream Record

Textron has unveiled the Cessna Citation Ascend, the newest model in Cessna’s proven and popular 560XL series. Made public on the eve of 2023’s European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE), the Citation Ascend—by virtue of its wholly redesigned cockpit, improved performance, and a more luxurious cabin—pleasantly disrupts the midsize business jet market. Representatives of Airbus’s Perlan Mission II announced its pilots and engineers had completed a successful flight test campaign in the Southwestern U.S., thereby clearing the way f

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Aero-TV: Piper at the Gates of Lakeland

Right on the Marque

As motoring enthusiasts look upon Chevrolet, Ford, and Chrysler as the U.S. Automotive Industry’s Big Three, so aircraft aficionados revere Cessna, Beechcraft, and Piper as the holy trinity of America’s General Aviation aircraft marques. Cessna and Beechcraft, though active, still, in the production of light G.A. airplanes, have devoted the larger parts of their design and manufacturing faculties to their CitationJet and King Air aircraft families respectively. Piper, despite offering impressive turbine machines the likes of the M500 and M600/SLS, has remained, at its heart, a builder of piston-engine airplanes e

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Rick Larsen Named ALPA 'Pilot Partisan of the Year'

Licking the Feeding Hand

On 05 June 2023, ALPA announced Representative Rick Larsen (Democrat-Washington State) had been awarded the union’s top legislative honor, Pilot Partisan of the Year. The award will be presented during ALPA’s 10th annual Legislative Summit.

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FLT Academy Expands Diamond DA20 Training Fleet

Utah Flight School Anticipates Significant Near-Term Growth

FLT Academy has acquired ten factory-new Diamond DA20 training aircraft. The deal included an option for ten additional units of the popular single-engine, two-seat, low-wing, fixed-undercarriage, general aviation trainer.

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United 787 Diverts over Pacific Ocean

Engine Issues Force Diversion of Filed OGG-ORD Flight

A United Airlines (UAL) 787 Dreamliner bound from Maui’s Kahului Airport (OGG) to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) diverted to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) after experiencing as-of-yet unspecified engine issues.

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NTSB Prelim: Cessna R182

Airplane Lifted Off Nose-High, The Wings Buffeted, And The Airplane Drifted Left Into Trees

On May 21, 2023, about 1447 eastern daylight time, a Cessna R182, N182LG, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Macon, North Carolina. The private pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight.The airplane was departing on runway 18 at Nocarva Airport (NC10), Macon, North Carolina. Runway 18 was 1,900 ft long, 100 ft wide, and consisted of a turf surface.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (06.06.23)

Aero Linx: Piper Aviation Museum Preserving the history and legacy of the Piper Aircraft Corporation and its founding family. Piper Aviation Museum is a non-profit organization that relies on the generosity of it’s donors.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (06.06.23): Breakout

Breakout A technique to direct aircraft out of the approach stream. In the context of simultaneous (independent) parallel operations, a breakout is used to direct threatened aircraft away from a deviating aircraft.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (06.06.23)

“During this event, the NORAD aircraft also used flares—which may have been visible to the public—in an attempt to draw attention from the pilot. Flares are employed with highest regard for safety of the intercepted aircraft and people on the ground. Flares burn out quickly and completely and there is no danger to the people on the ground when dispensed.” Source: From a post-incident statement by NORAD, after a Cessna Citation was approached by their fighters after the aircraft went incommunicado and violated airspace...  

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