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June 27, 2016

Airborne 06.27.16: Blue Angels Return, LI UAV Ban, NJ Jet Fuel Tax

Also: Gone West-Thomas Wathen, Boeing 747-8, FAR 107 Course, Teamster Pilots, C Series, Yuneec Typhoon H, Embraer

We are happy to announce that the U.S. Navy Blue Angels will return to their 2016 demonstration schedule July 2-4 in Traverse City, Michigan. The Blue Angels temporarily stood down, canceling three weekend shows following a crash on June 2 during a practice in Smyrna, Tennessee, in which Marine Captain, Jeff Kuss, lost his life. The Team will fly a modified five-jet demonstration in Traverse City, along with Fat Albert, the Blue Angels C-130 transport plane. The town of Hemps

Airborne 06.27.16: Blue Angels Return, LI UAV Ban, NJ Jet Fuel Tax

Also: Gone West-Thomas Wathen, Boeing 747-8, FAR 107 Course, Teamster Pilots, C Series, Yuneec Typhoon H, Embraer

We are happy to announce that the U.S. Navy Blue Angels will return to their 2016 demonstration schedule July 2-4 in Traverse City, Michigan. The Blue Angels temporarily stood down, canceling three weekend shows following a crash on June 2 during a practice in Smyrna, Tennessee, in which Marine Captain, Jeff Kuss, lost his life. The Team will fly a modified five-jet demonstration in Traverse City, along with Fat Albert, the Blue Angels C-130 transport plane. The town of Hempstead, New York on Long Island has voted to prohibit the operation of unmanned aircraft over town-owned property, including public beaches, parks and golf courses. Town officials said that the ban

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Airbus Defense And Space Orders A330 MRTT Full Flight Simulator

Says Demand Is Driving Training Requirement

Airbus Defense and Space has placed an order for the development and provision of a Full Flight Simulator (FFS) to support the training of crews on the A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport.

Universal Avionics Provides Upgrade For Sultan Of Johor's S-76Bs

EFI-890H To Be Installed Aboard The Aircraft

Universal Avionics is providing advanced avionics for two Sikorsky S-76B helicopters operated by His Majesty the Sultan of Johor’s Royal Flight. The upgraded, modern glass cockpit includes the installation of three EFI-890H Advanced Flight Displays (PFD-MFD-PFD) with Vision-1 Synthetic Vision System (SVS) and a UNS-1Fw Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS)-Flight Management System (FMS).

More Giant Planets Found In Star Cluster Than Expected

European Southern Observatory Announces Discovery

An international team of astronomers have found that there are far more planets of the hot Jupiter type than expected in a cluster of stars called Messier 67. This surprising result was obtained using a number of telescopes and instruments, among them the HARPS spectrograph at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile.

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft To Risk Jupiter’s Fireworks For Science

Will Fly Closer To The Gas Giant Than Any Previous Spacecraft

On July 4, NASA will fly a solar-powered spacecraft the size of a basketball court within 2,900 miles of the cloud tops of our solar system’s largest planet.

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Drone Aviation's Tethered Drones In Compliance With New FAA Regulations

Company Accelerates Production Schedule Following FAA Announcement

Drone Aviation Holding Corp. has accelerated the production schedule of the WATT line of tethered drones, investing in expanded inventory levels as a result of the announcement of the FAA's first operational rules allowing the operation of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) into the National Air Space (NAS) for commercial purposes.

Final P-3C Orion Aircraft With New Wings Delivered To The RNoAF

IMP Aerospace Completes Multi-Year Upgrade Program For The Royal Norwegian Air Force

The final re-winged P-3 Orion aircraft has been delivered to the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) by IMP Aerospace, marking the successful completion of this multi-year program.

Lockheed Martin Wins $733 Million Aerial ISR Contract

Expands Support Of U.S. Army Contracting Command's Multiple Platforms And Sensor Equipment

The U.S. Army Contracting Command has officially awarded the Sensor Systems - Aerial Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (SS-AISR) task order on the R2-3G indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract vehicle to Lockheed Martin.

Bristow Nigeria Introduces New Helicopter Rescue And Recovery Services

New Rescue And Recovery Service To Launch From Port Harcourt

Bristow Helicopters (Nigeria) Limited has announced a new dedicated helicopter rescue and recovery (RRS) service for Nigeria’s oil and gas industry to provide critical life-saving assistance currently not available in the country’s aviation landscape. The new service is expected to launch in August 2016.

Airplanes Make Clouds Brighter

New Study In The Journal 'Nature Communications' Focuses On Contrails

Clouds may have a net warming or cooling effect on climate, depending on their thickness and altitude. Artificially formed clouds called contrails form due to aircraft effluent, in a cloudless sky, contrails are thought to have minimal effect on climate. But what happens when the sky is already cloudy? In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists from the University of Hertfordshire and Stockholm University show that contrails that are formed within existing high clouds increase the reflectivity of these clouds, i.e. their ability to reflect light.

ESO Marks First Detection Of Methyl Alcohol In A Planet-Forming Disc

Helps Astronomers Understand Chemical Processes During Planetary Formation

The organic molecule methyl alcohol (methanol) has been found by the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the TW Hydrae protoplanetary disc. This is the first such detection of the compound in a young planet-forming disc. Methanol is the only complex organic molecule as yet detected in discs that unambiguously derives from an icy form.

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Bluedrop Receives Sikorsky Contract To Extend Canadian Aircrew Training

Extends Training Services By Three Years At Canadian Forces Base Shearwater

Sikorsky has awarded a contract valued at $13 million to Bluedrop Training & Simulation to provide instructors and training courseware for pilots and maintainers learning to operate Canada’s new fleet of 28 CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopters. The agreement extends by three years the training that Bluedrop has provided to the programme — known as the Canadian Maritime Helicopter Project — since 2010.

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Aero-TV: B-17 Sights & Sounds: Experience EAA's Aluminium Overcast

Onboard The Flying Fortress

Our ANN video crew was at the ‘Wings Over The Rockies Blue Star Weekend’ event that occurred during the first weekend of May, 2016. This event, with support from the National Museum of World War II Aviation, presented a Blue Star Weekend, which is a special Mother’s Day event honoring veterans and mothers of veterans.

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Aero-TV: B-17 Sights & Sounds: Experience EAA's Aluminium Overcast

Onboard The Flying Fortress

Our ANN video crew was at the ‘Wings Over The Rockies Blue Star Weekend’ event that occurred during the first weekend of May, 2016. This event, with support from the National Museum of World War II Aviation, presented a Blue Star Weekend, which is a special Mother’s Day event honoring veterans and mothers of veterans. One of the features of the weekend was the arrival of EAA’s B-17G, known as the ‘Aluminum Overcast.’

Barnstorming: Innovation, Disruption and Changing the Game

Getting A Running Start On Recreating the Aviation Industry

One of the most active discussion topics I’ve engaged in, of late, is just what individual game-changing steps or developments might take place that could help to jump-start this industry towards a new and sustainable future. I’ve oft counseled that the true enemy of aviation is the phrase, “Well, that’s the way we’ve always done it…” and that in order to survive long into the future, that we need to make a clean break with the past and build a whole new aviation industry to handle the requirements and interests of the bold new world that has sprung up around us. We need to be radical… not conservative. Plainly put; the world that aviation used to thrive in, no l

AeroSports Update: Pilot Proficiency Continues At AirVenture 2016

EAA Pilot Proficiency Center Offers Free Skill Improvement Programs During AirVenture

On Friday July 1, flight instructor Earl Downs will conclude his six-part AeroSports Update series regarding pilot proficiency and skills when flying into Wittman Regional Airport during EAA AirVenture. However, pilot proficiency continues to be a hot topic after you arrive at AirVenture because of EAA’s Pilot Proficiency Center.

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Klyde Morris (06.27.16)

Klyde Appreciates The Blue Origin Approach

FMI: www.klydemorris.com

Final T-6B For TRAWING 5 Arrives In Alabama

The 148th Aircraft Was Flown From Wichita, Joined Two Others For Formation Flight

An unprecedented three-plane formation of the Navy's first, Training Air Wing 5's final T-6B Texan II aircraft arrived to Naval Air Station Whiting Field June 21. The landing marked the command's full complement of primary, fixed-wing aircraft.

Airborne 06.24.16: ADS-B Analysis, NavWorx Price Drop, ALPA v Transport Canada

Also: Porker Of The Month, Aviation BBB?, Super Puma, AirVenture Events, FedEx 767s, Solar Impulse, Sikorsky

Flight Safety Foundation has released the study "Benefits Analysis of Space-Based ADS-B", investigating the application of ADS-B networks to meet the predicted safety challenges of air traffic growth over the next 20 years. The study also assesses how space-based ADS-B can enhance the world's aviation network by introducing a near-real-time flight surveillance capability that provides 100 percent global coverage. As the 2020 mandate for ADS-B out capabilities continues to edge clo

Newark, NJ Police Use Helo For Traffic Citations, Drug Arrests

Airborne Surveillance Helps Avoid Dangerous Car Chases

Scofflaws in Newark, NJ may find themselves the subject of helicopter surveillance for things such as traffic violations and drug arrests.

Commercial Drone Use For Real Estate Set To Grow With Release Of FAA Rule

Realtors Enthusiastic About Use Of Aircraft For Marketing

Commercial drone use in the real estate business got a boost Tuesday with the release of the FAA's final rule governing small unmanned aerial systems, or UAS, in the national air space.

Poland To Exhume Remains Of President, Others Fatally Injured In Accident

Officials Hope Examining Remains Will Help Determine The Cause Of The Accident

Polish officials plan to exhume the remains of President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and some others who were aboard an airplane that went down in heavy fog in April 2010, resulting in the fatal injury of all 96 people on board.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (06.27.16): Discrete Code

Discrete Code As used in the Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System (ATCRBS), any one of the 4096 selectable Mode 3/A aircraft transponder codes except those ending in zero zero; e.g., discrete codes: 0010, 1201, 2317, 7777; nondiscrete codes: 0100, 1200, 7700. Nondiscrete codes are normally reserved for radar facilities that are not equipped with discrete decoding capability and for other purposes such as emergencies (7700), VFR aircraft (1200), etc.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (06.27.16)

Aero Linx: World Birdstrike Association (WBA) The mission of the WBA is to be the global voice of the national bird/wildlife strike committees and other entities, civil and military. At the same time, the WBA provides the platform for pursuing a constructive and cooperative relationship with all stakeholders. The WBA acts as the worldwide forum for the reduction of the bird/wildlife strike risk to aviation.

Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (06.27.16)

"We have to learn to come together, to support each other, to make each other flyer’s problems our own and to realize that we, as a community, are an extraordinary group of human beings… FLYERS! We are deserving of a positive and prosperous future... but we must work for it -- united, we must choose to be led by good people who have our best interests at heart, we must participate personally in every possible way, we must learn to be honest with each other, and to empower each other to regain our former prominence -- and then go past and exceed it as a force of extraordinary people, all united by the fact we are something more than the average human being… we are aviators… and that is something quite amazing, indeed. BUT… until we learn to act t

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