Also: Hartzell, Dynon and Airmate, Last Czech WWII RAF Pilot, Mig-29s For Ukraine

Blue Origin’s crew-rated suborbital launch vehicle dealt with a mission-ending anomaly during NS-23, an un-manned flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket on the morning of 12 September 2022. No lives were lost in the incident, and both Blue Origin and New Shepard—within the context of spaceflight malfunctions—acquitted themselves honorably. Comp Air Aviation plans to display its Comp Air 6.2 at Booth MD 7-B of Lakeland, Florida’s SUN ‘n FUN Aerospace Expo 2023. A great deal of progress has been made on the Comp Air 6.2 since SUN ‘n FUN 2022, when the model was introduced as little more than a fuselage and some big promises. We have a very big day tomorrow in our partnership with the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo... We have oiver 25 confirmed presenters. Tuesday Morning, March 28th, we will present the MASSIVE Sun ‘n Fun

PA44-180 Delivered to Inter American University

On Tuesday, 28 March 2023, Piper Aircraft, the storied and perennial American aircraft manufacturer, announced it had delivered a specimen of its enduring PA44-180 Seminole light twin-engine airplane to Puerto Rico’s Inter American University (IAU). The purchase agreement by which the aircraft was acquired was signed at SUN ‘n FUN 2022. Comes now SUN ‘n FUN 2023, and the promised Seminole—the first to be delivered to Puerto Rico in a quarter-century—has arrived on the Caribbean island and unincorporated U.S. territory.

Even Klyde Can't Make All This Stuff Up...

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Beverly Hills Showroom Continues Expansion with Focus on Interior Design

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp opened a new, interior-focused showroom in the upscale locale of Beverly Hills, California. The new 12,000 square-foot showroom builds up Gulfstream’s presence in the region while putting its laser-focused cabin design work on display for a prime target demographic. The Beverly Hills Sales and Design Center features full-scale cabin mock-ups of all the best sellers at Gulfstream, including the  G400, G700, and G800. The models allow prospective customers to see and experience the living areas and seating for each jet before ordering one of their own.

Also: Airborne-Special Editions Reports On Some Amazing Aspects Coming To SnF23!

Welcome to this special edition of Airborne. As we continue to prepare for the 49th rendition of the Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo, now less than a week away, SnF Boss, Gene Conrad has kept the Lakeland staff busy with all manner of new updates and improvements. In this chat, we continue with even more cool stuff... starting out with FIGHTERS! Gene starts out this chat with some cool news about their F-14 restorations and some even cooler news about the all the fighter action we can expect this year. There will be NO limit to the firepower at SnF23! He also provides some details about their Fly-In Style program and all the benefits to be found form this SnF benefit. And finally, Gene opines about the understated recognition and value to be found in the dozens of forums and workshops we'll see this year and the immense amount of expertise brought to these events. And.

With The eSPRG Only Weeks Away From Its Start Date, A-AF Will Help To Support Sport Flyers, Worldwide

With the all-new and all-digital SportPlane Resource Guide getting ready for publication early next year, the Aero-News Network is pleased to announce yet another addition to the Airborne video news programming roster… Airborne-Affordable Flyers. Dedicated to keeping people up-to-date on the most affordable aspects of sport and general aviation, Airborne-Affordable Flyers is one of our most exciting offerings yet. A-AF will delve into more than just the current LSA community, but look at all aspects of aviation to examine and evaluate the most enjoyable, and most affordable, solutions to flying, operating, and owning aircraft in the 21st century.

Also: ABQ Balloon Relief, Sikorsky Layoffs, Flair Jets Seized, Circling Approaches

“While we had anticipated the final National Championship Air Races in Reno would be one of our best, we never imagined it would be so popular that the demand would overload our servers within a half-hour of tickets going on sale..." The Santa Monica Airport Association published a survey in the printed and digital iterations of the Santa Monica Mirror, the city’s weekly, community newspaper. Subject survey posed two simple questions: Should Santa Monica close the Airport? If you think the airport should close, what should the site be converted to? In addition to Tuesday, March 28th’s Sun ‘n Fun Innovation Preview which will be broadcast LIVE at 1030ET, at www.airborne-live.net, ANN is resuming our widely viewed ‘SnF Morning Brief’ each morning thereafter. The SNFDD crew will continue the very popular LIVE MORNING BRIEF series with a li

BIG Upgrades In The Works --- ANN Is Seeking EXCEPTIONAL New Staffers

The last few years have been about as challenging a time as we can recall... but we survive (yeah, we're kinda surprised, too) and look forward to 2023 and what we see as a very rewarding (and yes, still challenging) new generation of activities at ANN. After some truly weird times during the pandemic, ANN continues to expand slowly, but surely, and we have some truly intriguing upgrades coming up over the next few months. In other words, we're about to grow again -- REALLY/TRULY -- and in some novel directions. The much-appreciated expansion of "AIRBORNE UNLIMITED", the incredible potential of the all-new digital edition of the

From 2015 (YouTube Version): RC Aviation Offers Stunning Technologies and TRULY Exciting Flying Fun For Today's Model Aviators

While at eFest 2015, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, talks with a company known as Horizon Hobby to find out what’s going on in the rapidly changing world of remote control (RC) aircraft. In this interview, Jim talks with David Payne, the senior product developer of airplanes for Horizon Hobby, about the airplane facet of RC flying. Payne starts off by saying one of the most important achievements in recent years is the development of a technology referred to as “SAFE.” SAFE is the acronym for “Sensor Assisted Flight Envelope” and it allows almost anyone to get started into RC Airplane flying with an airplane that simply won’t let you get into trouble.

And That's But One Of Over A Dozen Major Developments Planned For The Next Year Or So

Aero-News Network is now available on Roku and Amazon FireTV! That’s right folks. You can now get your daily dose of aviation news… right on the ol' giggle box! This is an EPIC development for our network, one of many to come, and we’re thrilled to offer you this new way to watch our news programming. Whether you’re a traditional website reader, podcast listener, or YouTube subscriber, we’re dedicated to giving you quality, honest, aviation news that you can trust and broadening our reach and audience aggressively in the coming years, so that we may both Grow and Inform the aviation and aerospace world.