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October 19, 2020

Airborne 10.19.20: Raptor 1st Flt, P92 Echo MkII, Jetpacks v LAX

Also: 'Top Gun' Pays Off, Edwards AFB, 'Women in the Air Force', FAA Proposes $464,300 Penalty

We have a packed episode today filled with the latest news, let's start with a video that will get your heart rate up.. the Raptor aircraft makes it’s first flight… but it wasn't without a hitch.. Several days ago, the first flight of an experimental aircraft headed for the kit aircraft market, someday, took to the skies. The Raptor Aircraft made bold promises... The designer Peter Muller claims "The Raptor is an extremely spacious 5 place, pressurized, composite aircraft with a 62 inch wide cabin with a possible top speed of 300 knots. It will come equipped with an optional BRS airframe parachute, constant speed propeller and anti-lock

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Here We Go Again... 'Jetpack' Spotted Over LAX

6000 Feet? The Experts REALLY Don't Think So...

Last August's hysteria over the reports of a jetpack and pilot flying at high altitudes near LAX is back. Another sighting was filed with the LAX tower as pilots from an inbound China Airlines flight reported another sighting at 6000 feet. 'A flying object, like a flight suit just passing us by at 6000' was the callout from the inbound Airbus. The target painted no known radar return, as before, and no one on the ground in the vicinity of LAX, has reported anything like this landing... Experts remain highly doubtful that what was seen was an actual jet pack, as the technology currently is not advanced enough to allow for the time aloft and altitudes required to perform such a stunt.

The Flight Constituted The 6th Re-Use Of The First Stage Booster

On Sunday, October 18 at 8:25 a.m. EDT, 12:25 UTC, SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The flight constituted the 6th re-use of the first stage booster, the 62nd launch of a Falcon and the 32nd time that a booster was recovered on the seaborne droneship, "Of Course I Still love You." The early Sunday morning launch was the thirteenth Falcon 9 mission to deploy portions of the Starlink program and carried the designation of Starlink v1.0 L13. SpaceX is keeping up quite pace of Starlink launches in order to an initial operating capability said to require some 1440 sats.