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February 03, 2021

Airborne 02.03.21: Starship Blows Landing, Mandatory Masks, Virgin Galactic

Also: King Air 260C Cargo Door, 104th Fighter Wing, Women In Corporate Aviation, New ACE Exec Director

Finally; the FAA gave SpaceX clearance to fly Starship SN9 in the second such test of a higher altitude flight -- this time to 10 KM, with a re-entry transition and final reorientation for landing... and again, SN9 got almost all of it right… Almost. This time, it appears that in the final transition to the landing attitude and reignition of two Raptor engines, that one not only didn't fire up properly but video suggests it may have come apart, as debris was clearly seen near the descending machine right after reignition. SN9 hit the deck at a high rate of speed and inclined some 45 degrees off axis and offered the usual fiery explosion, po

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Starship SN9 Flies... But Still Can’t Hack The Landing

One Raptor Engine Appears To Have Failed In The Final Descent

After days of turmoil with our old friends at the FAA, Elon Musk's SpaceX has apparently learned to play nice with the feds and got the clearance to fly Starship SN9 in the second such test of a higher altitude flight -- this time to 10 KM, with a re-entry transition and final reorientation for landing... and again, SN9 got almost all of it right. Almost.

44 Undergraduate Students Earn Their Place At Leading Aerospace Organizations

The Brooke Owens Fellowship has announced its newest class of Brooke Owens Fellows. The Class of 2021 marks the fifth class of "Brookie" Fellows and were selected from the Fellowship's most competitive application year. More than 800 promising and talented students applied from Ivy League universities, major research universities, historically black colleges and universities, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and major international universities.