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VSS Unity has successfully completed her seventh glide flight. In the few months since Unity's last flight, the team has worked through a planned period of focused ground time. This involved extensive analysis, testing and small modifications to ensure vehicle readiness for the higher loads and forces of powered test flight. That work was tested Thursday by pushing Unity’s atmospheric capabilities hard, touching top-end glide speeds as pilots Mark ‘Forger’ Stucky and Michael ‘Sooch

Will Help Develop Strategies To Adapt To Climate Change

Solar Ship and Arctic UAV Partnerships recently announced the signing of a Letter of Intent (LOI) to create a Joint-Venture to service Nunavut.

Will Be Flying At Air Shows From April To November, Including AirVenture

The GEICO Skytypers Air Show Team will take flight later this year at several of the nation's top air shows.  The 2018 season kicks off in April and wraps up in November, with can't-miss special events planned for several weekends.

Video Images Have Led To Several Convictions

Authorities in Westmeath, Ireland are using video captured by drones to identify and prosecute people dumping trash illegally in the county, leading to several convictions for the offense.

Klyde's Got Some Questions About What Happened to Zuma...

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With one ‘FAA approved’ jetpack allegedly to its credit, JetPack Aviation unveiled a prototype of its next model on Wednesday at CES 2018 in Las Vegas ... the JB-11. The new model has six turbojet engines, and the company says it can fly about 20 miles at speeds up to 150 mph. The first model was revealed when CEO David Mayman flew around the Statue of Liberty in November, 2015. He made a similar flight in the JB10 model over the River Thames in London in 2016. Textron company Bell Hel

Traffic Situation Display (TSD) TSD is a computer system that receives radar track data from all 20 CONUS ARTCCs, organizes this data into a mosaic display, and presents it on a computer screen. The display allows the traffic management coordinator multiple methods of selection and highlighting of individual aircraft or groups of aircraft. The user has the option of superimposing these aircraft positions over any number of background displays. These background options include ARTCC boundaries, any stratum of en route sector boundaries, fixes, airways, military and other special use airspace, airports, and geopolitical boundaries. By using the TSD, a coordinator can monitor any number of traffic situa

Aero Linx: Aviation Crime Prevention Institute, Inc. (ACPI) ACPI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of aviation-related crime through: 1. EDUCATION of the aviation industry worldwide in security awareness, theft prevention and methods. 2. COOPERATION between the Aviation Industry and Law Enforcement Agencies to provide information on theft or suspicious activity. 3. COMMUNICATION of information and security procedures to all involved. 4. DOCUMENTATION of information developed, maintained and available to Aviation Insurers in the form of databases for Stolen Aircraft, Avionics and Hail Damage.

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