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September 03, 2021

Airborne 09.03.21: Virgin Galactic Grounded, G700 Records, Kirby Chambliss

Also: Tamarack Aerospace, Laser Strikes, Sonaca Aircraft, Air Tractor

Virgin Galactic is grounded after a number of inflight issues have become public. The FAA has finally stepped in and grounded Virgin Galactic. This occurred as details about the flight that carried Richard Branson, and others, to a point short of the Karman Line ran into problems that have just recently come to light. A New Yorker story by Nicholas Schmidle was the first to note the hastily rescheduled Unity 22 that carried Branson encountered issues with its attitude and the parameters established for a proper ascent and return to their base. The Gulfstream G700, set its first ever city-pair speed records from Savannah to (dow-haa, cutter) Doha, Qatar, and then from Doha to Paris. The G700 is the larges

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After a number of inflight issues have become public, the FAA has finally stepped in and grounded Virgin Galactic. This occurred as details about the flight that carried Richard Branson, and others, to a point short of the Karman Line ran into problems that have just recently come to light. A New Yorker story by Nicholas Schmidle (who wrote the recently published "Test Gods" revealing a number of problems inherent in the VG program) was the first to note the hastily rescheduled Unity 22 that carried Branson encountered issues with its attitude and the parameters established for a proper ascent and return to their base. In t