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March 28, 2014

Airborne 03.28.14: New Dynon, Inverted Spin Record, TBM 900 Delivers

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It almost seems that modern instrumentation and avionics displays can’t get any better, but Dynon is here to say, there’s more to come! Dynon Avionics has unveiled The New SkyView integrated avionics system. This latest edition of SkyView includes SkyView Touch, two new control panels, and dozens of new features. We all know that flat spins are bad and inverted flat spins are terrible. But what would scare the heck out of most pilots is a lot of fun for airshow pilot Spencer Suderman. On March 13th, Suderman set a new record of 81 turns in an inverted flat spin, breaking the old record of 78 turns. This was his third attempt to set this record. The Apple iPad may not be th

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NASA Is Bypassing Use Of The Delta IV For Orion For One Succinct, But Complicated Consideration

On the fourth day of March, 2014 a barge arrived at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Aboard that barge were two of the three Common Booster Cores, or “CBCs” that are to make up a Delta IV Heavy rocket. Unlike other Delta IV Heavy boosters, this one is slated to loft a payload that is very important to the future of United States human spaceflight; it is the first flight version of the Orion spacecraft. The arrival of the CBCs is considered to be a major step toward a mission called the Exploration Flight Test 1, or EFT-1 which will qualify the Orion’s space worthiness and reentry capability at lunar return velocity.

Calls On Congress To Support Planetary Exploration

The Planetary Society has released its official response to the President’s 2015 NASA budget request, in which it decries the hundreds of millions of dollars of cuts to NASA’s science programs. NASA’s Planetary Science Division, which launches all robotic missions to destinations within the solar system, has been cut for the third year in a row, despite consistent congressional and public support.