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September 20, 2019

Airborne 09.20.19: FAA Admin To Fly MAX Sim, China Drone Ban, SpaceX

Also: Iridium And OneWeb To Collaborate, USCG Rescue, New NASAO Board Members, API Claims Fuel Save

FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson is planning to travel to Seattle to personally fly a 737 MAX sim prior to the airplane's recertification. Dickson said that he plans to make the trip this week in order to make an evaluation of software changes to the airplane's MCAS, which has been implicated in two accidents earlier this year leading to a worldwide grounding of the airliner. Dickson, a former airline pilot, will also meet with Boeing officials in Seattle. He said the FAA has no firm timeline for a return to service for the 737 MAX. Even drone politics are getting ugly... Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) , Chris Murphy (D-CT), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Richard Blumenthal (

Iridium And OneWeb To Collaborate On A Global Satellite Services Offering

MoU Between LEO Ku-Band And L-Band Satellite Operators Is The First Of Its Kind In The Industry

Iridium Communications and OneWeb have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together toward a combined service offering. This combined service offering would be designed to make it easier for their mutual partners to offer unique bundling and co-marketing opportunities for the Iridium Certus L-band services and OneWeb's Ku-band service.

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SpaceX Trying To Buy Boca Chica, TX

But Many Residents Apparently Are Resisting The Offers

SpaceX is attempting to buy as much property as it can in Boca Chica, TX, a small village near the company's south Texas test facility.

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