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June 10, 2015

Airborne 06.10.15: SpaceX Payday, CAP Finds Glider, Legend Cub Floats

Also: Falcon 9 Debris, From Ghana To Oshkosh, WingX Pro, Airline 3-Drink Limit, VH-71 Helis, Firefighters v UAV, Rural Airports

NASA has approved a $30 million milestone payment to SpaceX under the agency's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability agreement with the company following a recent and successful pad abort test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft. An aircrew of the Civil Air Patrol’s New Mexico wing spotted the wreckage of a single-seat glider reported missing last Thursday after departing Moriarty Municipal Airport. The pilot of the glider did not survive the accident. CAP cell phone forensics and radar analysis teams allowed searchers to better focus their efforts. The time of departure and last known position was calculated and plotted using tools the CAP developed, t

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