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All News

May 18, 2019

Airbus Perlan Mission II Aims For Top World Aviation Record

Pilots Prep Aircraft In U.S. With New Equipment, Prepare For Fourth Season

Airbus Perlan Mission II officially launched its fourth season of operations with a press briefing this week at Minden-Tahoe Municipal Airport, the year-round home of the Perlan 2 glider, the world’s first engineless aircraft designed to reach the edge of space. When the aircraft deploys to Patagonia later this year, the team aims to achieve the world altitude aviation record for sustained, level flight.

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NASA Awards $106 Million To U.S. Small Businesses For Technology Development

Selects 142 Proposals From 129 Small Businesses

Managing pilotless aircraft and solar panels that could help humans live on the Moon and Mars are among the technologies NASA is looking to develop with small business awards totaling $106 million. In all, NASA has selected 142 proposals from 129 U.S. small businesses from 28 states and the District of Columbia to receive Phase II contracts as part of the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

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FAI Provides Details For International Drone Conference And Expo 2019

Event To Be Held In Lausanne, Switzerland September 13-15

FAI has announced that its International Drones Conference and Expo 2019, due to take place in Lausanne, Switzerland September 13 to 15, will include a conference exclusively for professionals, and a new symposium open to the public.

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Harbour Air And magniX Partner To Build World’s First All-Electric Airline

Aviation Leaders Set To Transform Seaplanes Into ePlanes ... A Zero-Emission Aircraft For The Future

A partnership has been formed between Harbor Air and electric aviation engine manufacturer magniX to transform Harbour Air seaplanes into an all-electric commercial fleet powered by the magni500, a 750 horsepower (HP) all-electric motor.

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Langley Aerodrome Created To Explore Urban Air Mobility

New Effort Looking At Manned And Unmanned Urban Flight

One of the keys to unlocking the future of Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is exploring how different technologies and configurations of aircraft will perform in the urban environment. To start gathering as much data as possible, NASA engineers are moving forward with their newest modular unmanned aerial system, the Langley Aerodrome #8.

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NASA's First Planetary Defense Technology Demo To Collide With Asteroid In 2022

Will Attempt To Change Asteroid's Orbit

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – NASA’s first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense technique – will get one chance to hit its target, the small moonlet in the binary asteroid system Didymos. The asteroid poses no threat to Earth and is an ideal test target: measuring the change in how the smaller asteroid orbits about the larger asteroid in a binary system is much easier than observing the change in a single asteroid's orbit around the Sun.

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Report: U.S. Civil Aircraft Shipments To Grow 4.5% Yearly Through 2023

Rising Exports Will Boost Gains, According To Freedonia Focus Reports

U.S. civil aircraft shipments are forecast to advance 4.5 percent annually in nominal terms through 2023, according to Civil Aircraft: United States, a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports. The US industry will remain highly reliant on export markets. Rising incomes in developing regions such as Asia and Africa boost demand for air transport services, which supports aircraft orders.

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Air Canada Enters Into Exclusive Agreement With Transat A.T.

Will Pursue A Combination Of The Two Companies

Air Canada announced today that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Transat A.T. Inc. (Transat) regarding the proposed purchase by Air Canada of all issued and outstanding shares of Transat and its combination with Air Canada. The proposed transaction, valued at approximately $520 million or $13.00 per share (Canadian) of Transat (on a fully-diluted basis), will create a Montreal-based global travel services company in leisure, tourism and travel distribution operating across Canada and internationally.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (05.18.19)

“We’re excited to be supporting this courageous group of aviation pioneers, whose passion and drive for innovation really epitomizes the spirit we try to instill in everyone at Airbus.” Source: C. Jeffrey Knittel, chairman and CEO of Airbus Americas, title sponsor of the non-profit Perlan II project. The project is preparing for its fourth season.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (05.18.19): Nonradar Separation

The spacing of aircraft in accordance with established minima without the use of radar; e.g., vertical, lateral, or longitudinal separation.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (05.18.19)

97-Year-Old Fighter Pilot Makes Visit To Nellis Air Force Base

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal comes the story of Clarence “Bud” Anderson, a decorated 97-year-old former fighter pilot was a “triple ace” in World War II.

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