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June 10, 2019

Airborne 06.10.19: ‘Doc’ Returns, D-Day Vet Jumps Again, World View

Also: Optionally Piloted BlackHawk, Airport Infrastructure Grants, EAA Names Connolly, Airbus Wins

There are few aircraft that get more immediate attention than the iconic B-29. After the restoration of ‘Doc” a few years ago, aviation fans have twice the opportunity to see one in flying shape as it joined CAF’s ‘FiFi’ on tours around North America... Doc will make a much-anticipated return to Oshkosh for the 50th anniversary of AirVenture. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress four-engine heavy bomber was built in 1944. Doc and FIFI are currently the only two flying aircraft of their type. On June 6th, 1944, Tom Rice arrived in Normandy, France via parachute at the beginning of the D-Day invasion. On June 5th, 2019, he did it again on the eve of the 75th an

NGC Ships Orion Spacecraft's Launch Abort Motor To Kennedy Space Center

Will Be Integrated With The LSAS And Orion Spacecraft

The inert abort motor for NASA’s Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) has been shipped from the Northrop Grumman facility in Magna, Utah, to Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It will be integrated with the LAS and Orion spacecraft destined for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System, designated Artemis 1.

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