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Tony Douglas Appointed Chief Executive Officer Of Etihad Aviation Group

Will Join The Company In January, 2018

The Chairman of Etihad Aviation Group, His Excellency Mohamed Mubarak Fadhel Al Mazrouei, has confirmed the appointment of Tony Douglas as Group Chief Executive Officer, who will join the company in January 2018.

Cleveland Pitcher Trevor Bauer Has Lost A Drone

Has Asked For Its Return 'Or I'll Just Have To Build Another One'

Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer has lost one of his drones, and the club is not being very helpful in helping him get it back.

DARPA Seeks Novel Approaches For Detecting And Stopping UAVs

Mobile Force Protection (MFP) Program Invites Input On Sensing And Neutralization Technologies To Defend U.S. Forces Against Quickly Evolving Unmanned Airborne Threats

The rapid evolution of small unmanned air system (sUAS) technologies is fueling the exponential growth of the commercial drone sector, creating new asymmetric threats for warfighters. DARPA’s Mobile Force Protection (MFP) program seeks to develop an integrated system capable of defeating self-guided sUAS (i.e., those that do not rely on a radio or GPS receiver for their operation) attacking a high-value convoy on the move, and recently awarded Phase 1 agreements to start research.

ESA Initiates New Radiation Research Program For Human Spaceflight

Teaming With Five Particle Accelerators Across Europe For The Research

ESA has announced a new program for conducting research into radiation and how to protect astronauts from space radiation. Teaming up with five particle accelerators in Europe, the agency is offering researchers slots to bombard samples with radiation.

Marine Corps Aviation Fatalities Are Six Times Those Of The Navy

However, The Corps Actually Lost Fewer Aircraft

The U.S. Marine Corps is experiencing Class A aviation accidents, defined as those involving loss of life or damage of over $1 million, can be as much as 670 percent higher than the Class A accident rate for the U.S. Navy, according to analysis from BreakingDefense.com.

ViaSat, Boeing Proceeding With Full Construction Of Two Satellites

ViaSat-3 Class Satellites Complete Critical Design Reviews

ViaSat has completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) milestones for the ViaSat-3 class spacecraft. The payload CDR was successfully completed last week, and when combined with the successful bus CDR, conducted with Boeing in mid-August, ViaSat and Boeing are now moving forward with building, integrating and testing the first two satellites.

Rockwell Collins Helps Major Asia Pacific Airline Get Connected

Will Supply Services On 100 New Boeing 737 MAX Aircraft

A large Asia Pacific-based airline has selected Rockwell Collins as its provider of nose-to-tail connectivity services for its fleet of 100 new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (10.01.17): Hazardous Weather Information

Hazardous Weather Information Summary of significant meteorological information (SIGMET/WS), convective significant meteorological information (convective SIGMET/WST), urgent pilot weather reports (urgent PIREP/UUA), center weather advisories (CWA), airmen’s meteorological information (AIRMET/WA) and any other weather such as isolated thunderstorms that are rapidly developing and increasing in intensity, or low ceilings and visibilities that are becoming widespread which is considered significant and are not included in a current hazardous weather advisory.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (10.01.17)

Aero Linx: The British Aerobatic Association The British Aerobatic Association Limited is a Company incorporated with its liability limited by guarantee and not having any share capital. We are recognised by The Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom as the governing body of sport aerobatics. We were founded in 1974 to represent the interests of all those concerned with aerobatic flying in powered aircraft and in gliders, by promoting and organising all aspects of competition aerobatics in the UK, including progressive training, proper conduct and furtherance of the sport....

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (10.01.17)

"This is a brand new program that will run for many years using the best facilities Europe has to offer. We expect many great research proposals and experiments and look forward to testing interesting ideas from the scientific community, putting Europe at the forefront of space radiation research.” Source: Jennifer Ngo-Anh, head of Human Research at ESA, commenting on a new program for conducting research into radiation and how to protect astronauts from space radiation. Teaming up with five particle accelerators in Europe, the agency is offering researchers slots to bombard samples with radiation.