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May 25, 2018

Airborne 05.25.18: Aero-Fraud Sentenced, Perimeter Flight, Desert Jet Ctr

Also: Dallas Love Field, CAL FIRE Firehawks, Rotors ’N Ribs, Israeli Air Force F-35s

Robert Charles Jones Brady, owner of Beech Aviation, was sentenced in a US District Court to 7 years incarceration, 3 years supervised release, and a $400 special assessment fee for operating aircraft without an airman’s certificate, wire fraud, and falsification of records in a Federal investigation. An investigation by the DOT OIG found that it in 2016, FAA revoked Brady’s pilot certificates; yet he continued to operate aircraft and was involved in multiple schemes to defraud the Government, airmen, and the flying public using single, multi, and jet engine aircraft. Brady defrauded student pilots by directing Beach Aviation employees to fraudulently endorse student pilot logb

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Airbus-Built GRACE-FO Satellites Successfully Launched From California

Maps Of Earth’s Gravitational Field Will Indicate Movement Of Liquid Water, Ice And Land Masses

The twin GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On) satellites, developed and built by Airbus, were successfully launched Tuesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in CA using a Falcon 9 launcher. GRACE-FO is a joint project between NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam, near Berlin.

DJI Sponsors Inaugural AUVSI XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award

Five organizations that flew drones on critical, life-saving missions were recognized with the inaugural XCELLENCE Humanitarian Award by the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI). The award, which is sponsored by DJI was presented at the AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2018 conference at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.