It’s been about four weeks since the B-29 named ‘Doc’ flew for the first time after a 16 year restoration project, and the Doc restoration crew is working to plan the historic warbird’s second flight.
Jim Murphy, Doc’s Friends restoration project manager, said on the project blog, “Over the past few weeks, we’ve been combing through all of the airplane’s systems and control surfaces checking to see how things behaved during the first flight. We’ve also been reviewing gauge readings that were captured by video during flight and so far, everything has been rock-solid.” When a new aircraft rolls out for the first time it’s always a big deal, but when the world’s largest aircraft, the Airlander 10, made its first appearance last month it actually floated out. Being the largest aircraft in the world, exiting the hangar was a very delicate operation because of close clearances with the hangar structure. It took around 5 minutes for the Airlander to clear the hangar and then a further 30 minutes to be towed to rest at the primary mast site. The first branded Amazon Prime air cargo Boeing 767 has been publicly unveiled with a flyover of the Seafair Air Show
Parade in Seattle, Washington. The airplane, named Amazon One, is one of 40 that Amazon has agreed to lease through air cargo partners Atlas Air and ATSG. There are currently 11 dedicated airplanes flying for Amazon as of today with additional airplanes rolling out over time. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 08.10.16 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Wednesday, August 10th, 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:
- B-29 Doc Update: Rock-Solid Performance, Planning For More Flight Testing
- Successful Hangar Exit For Airlander 10
- Amazon Takes Flight As A Cargo Hauler
- KY Gov. Bevin Announces Significant Funding For General Aviation Airports
- Classic Aero-TV: AMA President Bob Brown - Defending The Front Lines Of Model Aviation
- Qantas Has Change Of Mind On A380 Order
- Canadian Man Takes Very Short Joyride In Float Plane
- Engines Selected For First TriFan 600 Prototype
- Another Space Artifact Embroiled In Legal Dispute
- A-10s Land On Highway In Estonia
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