Tue, Sep 04, 2012
Aviation author, Richard Bach, remains in serious but improving condition following his approach to landing accident on Saturday while flying an Amateur Built-Experimental SeaRey Amphib he purchased earlier this year.
The Hoppers Jet Team has lost the newest member of the team after the crash of a L39 Albatross jet aircraft Saturday at the 2012 Quad City Airshow in Iowa. The accident occurred at approximately 1325 local time. The pilot has been identified as Glen A. Smith, 58, of Frisco, Texas. A group of students at a university in Maryland are a little closer to claiming the two-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollar ‘Sikorsky Prize.” All this... and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 09.04.12 is chock full of info about the half-week period ending Tuesday, September 4th, 2012... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Ashley Hale, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton, and Glen Moyer, this episode covers:
- Bach Injured
- Hoppers pilot lost
- Sikorsky Prize Within Reach
- NASAs Radiation Mission
- FAA Plans PED Working Group
- American/Pilots Need Agreement
- FAA’s Data Request Website Launched
- AVW--Electric Cri-Cri
- YOUR Votes For Best/Worst of Oshkosh2012???
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