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May 06, 2021

Airborne-Flight Training 05.06.21: Skyborne-US, Leonardo Heli Training, Master CFI

Also: UPRT Partnership, Launch Activity Areas, AF Youth Programs, Virtual Reality FST

Skyborne Aviation Group has completed the acquisition of its new Flight Academy located in Vero Beach, Florida. “Skyborne Airline Academy Vero Beach” will be the first pilot training base in the United States for the UK-headquartered airline academy. “Skyborne Airline Academy Vero Beach” offers prospective pilots a full-time FAA Part 141 approved training on a 12-month residential program, airline pathway programs with leading US airlines, plus Private, Instrument, Commercial and Instructor courses. It will also serve as a fair-weather base for Skyborne’s UK CAA Integrated ATPL programme. Leonardo has opened their new Helicopter Training Academy. It’s located

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Wow, Just Wow... Starship SN15 Launches, Lands... Does Not Blow Up

Beautiful Launch, Return, and Landing Watched by Thousands Online

With hundreds of thousands logging in all over the globe to watch, the 'much upgraded' Starship SN15 aced a test flight that had destroyed four prototypes before it. On Wednesday, May 5, Starship serial number 15 (SN15) successfully completed SpaceX’s fifth high-altitude flight test of a Starship prototype from Starbase in Texas. Similar to previous high-altitude flight tests of Starship, SN15 was powered through ascent by three Raptor engines, each shutting down in sequence prior to the vehicle reaching apogee – approximately 10 km in altitude.

Bid For The Very First Seat On New Shepard

Sixty years after Alan Shepherd got the US firmly into the space race by being the first American to undertake a sub-orbital flight, Blue Origin is offering the public a chance to take a very similar ride--albeit with greatly upgraded technology. On July 20th, Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle will fly its first astronaut crew to space. They are offering one seat on this first flight to the winning bidder of an online auction. Blue Origin has been flight testing New Shepard and its redundant safety systems since 2012. The program has had 15 successful consecutive missions including three successful escape tests, showing the crew escape system can activate safely in any phase of flight.

Areas Are In Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas And Virginia

The Federal Aviation Administration says that it is increasing pilot safety and airspace awareness by marking more space launch activity areas on navigation charts. Adding space launch activity areas to the navigation charts used by pilots who fly visually responds to the recent and expected continued growth of commercial space operations. All 12 FAA-licensed spaceports, and other federal and private launch and reentry sites, are represented on the charts by a rocket symbol. These areas are in Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia.

Vehicle Could Land At Cape Canaveral in 2022

Sierra Nevada has completed a Use Agreement for Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) to land the Dream Chaser spaceplane in support of NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract. Dream Chaser will service the International Space Station (ISS) under the CRS-2 contract in 2022. “This is a monumental step for both Dream Chaser and the future of space travel,” said SNC CEO Fatih Ozmen. “To have a commercial vehicle return from the International Space Station to a runway landing for the first time since NASA’s space shuttle program ended a decade ago will be a historic achievement."