Thu, Aug 25, 2016
If it was a secret, it isn’t now, as a few images of Northrop Grumman's offering to replace the Air Force’s T-38 supersonic jet trainer have appeared on the Internet as the plane conducted high-speed taxi tests last week at Mojave Airport in California.
The aircraft was built by Scaled Composites under contract with Northrop Grumman. FAA records indicate it is powered by a single F404-GE-102D engine, also known as the Model 400. The High Sky Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in Midland, Texas plans to unveil a refurbished Grumman F-14A Tomcat at its CAF Airsho this weekend. The airframe is notable as being the first F-14A to shoot down another aircraft in combat. On August 19, 1981, Commander Henry Kleemann and Lieutenant David Venlet of VF-41 flew the aircraft off the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier during the Gulf of Sidra incident. The crew shot down a Russian-built Libyan SU-22 fighter-jet during the conflict. Money falling from the sky seems like a lot of fun, but it didn’t sit well with local law enforcement, and maybe the FAA. The pilot of a helicopter that dropped $1,000 cash on Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina may face charges of littering and flying lower than 500 feet over a populated area. The helicopter had been chartered by a
company for a publicity stunt. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 08.24.16 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Wednesday, August 24th, 2016... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Brianne Cross and Christopher Odom, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton, and Earl Downs, this episode covers:
- Public Gets Peek At Northrop Grumman's T-X Trainer
- CAF To Unveil Refurbished F-14A
- Helicopter Cash Drop May Result In Charges
- New Entry Announced In The Mini-Drone Market
- Classic Aero-TV: Avilution - 2016 Sun ’n Fun Innovation Preview
- Narita Control Tower Closed By Typhoon Winds
- U.S., Mexico Aviation Agreement Enters Into Force
- Helicopters Bought By U.K. Government Can't Use Hospital Helipads
- FAA Employee Caught In Child Sex Sting
- Proba-3: Seeing Through Shadow To View Sun's Corona
Get Comprehensive, Real-Time, 24/7 coverage of the latest aviation and aerospace stories anytime, at aero-news.net. And be sure to join us again next week for the next edition of "Airborne Unlimited" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, tomorrow!
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