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December 29, 2021

Airborne 12.29.21: Fake YT Crash?, Fired Pilot, SpaceX 100th

Also: IAF MiG 21 Loss, 10th Surveillance DA62, UAV Corp, COVID Consequences

One YouTube creator has made some waves with his latest video, a quickly edited affair packed with jump cuts, that he says shows his recent cross country flight ending in an ‘unavoidable’ plane crash.The 16-minute video is packed with oddities from the start. It features Jacob flying a 1940 Taylorcraft to spread the ashes of his friend, Johnny Strange, who died in a 2015 wingsuit crash. With his aircraft sporting cameras affixed to the tail, the port wing, and the cabin, Jacob had been filming a supposed cross country. He tells  viewers that he always flies with a parachute, sporting a large, sport skydiving rig, before his engine cuts out. He reacts with some profanity, saying the area

NASA Selects College Teams for Projects

Urbana-Champaign, Georgia Tech, UCF, Florida State Chosen for Leadership Initiative

NASA’s program to leverage university assistance for sustainable aviation has resulted in another boon to select schools chosen under the University Leadership Initiative (ULI). The program allows NASA to outsource some of its suitable aeronautical research goals and provide students with real-world lab experience in solving realistic, functioning problems. ULI project manager, Koushik Datta, said the program is important to transition the aeronautical industry into the world of the future. “Aviation of the future has to be climate friendly to keep the world flying, and a great way to do that is to allow tomorrow’s top minds to begin making c

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