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October 19, 2015

Airborne 10.19.15: New AMA Program, CSeries Almost Ready?, Tecnam in China

Also: Google UAVs, AVW: Girls in Aviation, Citation Longitude, EASA Mandate, Schumer v UAVs, Gulfstream G500, Oregon Commuter Airline

The Academy of Model Aeronautics, known as the AMA, and its community of more than 187,000 members across the globe are uniting to welcome and encourage the next generation of model aviation enthusiasts. In a public awareness campaign titled ‘Discover Flight,’ AMA will show the world why it’s never been a more important, or exciting, time to take to the skies. Bombardier says it's all-new CS100 aircraft has successfully completed over 90 percent of the certification program and is now in the final stage of flight testing that will include a few weeks of function and reliability tests. In the last month, B

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NASA Releases Plan Outlining Next Steps In Journey To Mars

Bolden: NASA Is Closer To Sending American Astronauts To Mars Than At Any Point In Our History

NASA is leading our nation and the world on a journey to Mars, and Thursday the agency released a detailed outline of that plan in its report, “NASA’s Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration.”

Cygnus Service Module Shipped To Kennedy Space Center For December Launch

Orbital ATK has shipped the Cygnus spacecraft’s service module to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the next International Space Station (ISS) cargo mission, scheduled to launch on Thursday, December 3. Today’s OA-4 mission milestone marks a key step forward as Orbital ATK continues its cargo delivery service to the ISS for NASA under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract.

Spacecraft Will Be The First European Exoplanet Tracker

Airbus Defense and Space has finished building the structural model for ESA’s CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite), Europe’s first mission to search for exoplanetary transits by performing ultra-high precision photometry on bright stars already known to host planets.

Addresses Issues Of Raising Capital And Security Intellectual Property Rights

NASA is unveiling a new opportunity for start-up companies to license patented NASA technology with no up-front payment. The Startup NASA initiative addresses two common problems start-ups face: raising capital and securing intellectual property rights.

MGL Continues TO Impress With Affordable/Readable/Customizable Avionics That WORK

ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, had just finished a flight in a Sling 4 airplane that was equipped with an MGL Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS) and he wanted to know more about it. So, he sat down with Matt Liknaitzky, the president of MGL Avionics USA to get some details about their products.