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January 09, 2015

Airborne 01.09.15: Terrafugia Petitions, Boeing Delivers, AMA: Don't Ground Us!

Also: AirAsia Crackdown, UAV Exemptions, Avidyne Update, FAA InFO, GROB-WERKE AD

Terrafugia has petitioned the FAA to grant waivers to allow its Transition roadable aircraft to exceed weight limits and stall speed requirements for an LSA. The petition asks the FAA to allow the Transition to have a gross takeoff weight of 1,800 pounds, and a correspondingly higher stall speed of 54 knots. Boeing employees helped the company set a record for the most commercial airplanes delivered in a single year at 723 in 2014, breaking the company record for a second consecutive year. The company's sales team also booked 1,432 net orders, carrying a value of $232.7 billion at list prices, breaking the previous all-time high set in 2007. The Academy of Model Aeronautics sent letters to the New Y

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A few days ago I was reading a spaceflight forum and one of the SpaceX super-fans had started a poll asking others of his ilk “How many (Falcon 9) cores will SpaceX recover in 2015?” Of course by “recover” the question addressed the new fly-back first stage configuration of the Falcon 9 version 1.1 and the term “core” was a new-space term for that same first stage.

Launch Now Scheduled For Saturday At 0447 EST

The fifth official SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract now is scheduled to launch at 0447 EST Saturday, Jan. 10, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.