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Embraer broke ground last Thursday on its Legacy 500 and Legacy 450 assembly complex in Melbourne, Florida. At the ceremony, which included Florida Governor Rick Scott, and Brevard County and city officials, the Company celebrated this significant addition to its existing 212,000 square-foot campus at Melbourne International Airport. NASA is inviting the public to send their names on a microchip to destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, including Mars. Your name will begin its journey on a dime-sized microchip when the agency's Orion spacecraft launches December

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Speedy Little LSA Is Available As Either Kit or Fly-Away

ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell took some time at the AOPA Aviation Summit 2013 to check out some light sport aircraft. In this video, Jim takes a look at a slick little job produced by Arion Aircraft. Mark Stauffer, the Operations Manager at Arion Aircraft introduced Jim to the Arion Lightning. The all composite Arion Lightning started out as a kit airplane in 2006. The airplane was designed from the ground up around the Jabiru engine and is manufactured in the United States. As the market indicated that fully manufactured light sport aircraft were in demand, Arion obtained ASTM compli

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The NTSB has issued a preliminary report of an accident that fatally injured two people during a Young Eagles flight on September 27th. The report added some specific details and confirmed what has been previously reported by ANN. Bring on the drones! Following the ANN’s recent report that six TV and film production companies will be allowed to fly UAV aircraft, The FAA has received more than a dozen new applications for exemptions to its UAV prohibition. The first Tecnam P2006T Multisensor Reconnaissance and Identification aircraft, known as MRI, is n

Aero Linx: The Idaho Aviation Association The Idaho Aviation Association was organized in 1989 to give Idaho a general aviation voice locally and nationally. Our mission is to represent our members in forums where decisions are made that affect general aviation; to inform our members about aviation issues; to work with public and private entities for the preservation, maintenance and enhancement of aviation facilities; and to promote safety, education and public understanding of general aviation in Idaho.

Light-Sport Aircraft (LSA) An FAA-registered aircraft, other than a helicopter or powered-lift, that meets certain weight and performance. Principally it is a single engine aircraft with a maximum of two seats and weighing no more than 1,430 pounds if intended for operation on water, or 1,320 pounds if not. They must be of simple design (fixed landing gear (except if intended for operations on water or a glider) piston powered, non-pressurized, with a fixed or ground adjustable propeller), Performance is also limited to a maximum airspeed in level flight of not more than 120 knots CAS, have a maximum never-exceed speed of not more than 120 knots CAS for a glider, and have a maximum stalling speed, without the use of lift-e

"Sir Richard’s Virgin Galactic has constructed their passenger version of SpaceShipOne, sold reservations and even constructed a huge carrier aircraft from which to launch. Yet, technical difficulties and delays have kept it from carrying any paying passengers -- as of this writing. So, in effect, and hopefully not for very long, we now have a SpaceShipNone. SpaceShipOne itself hangs in the Smithsonian as tourists walk past. I recently heard a small boy ask his daddy, 'What’s that?' as they strolled by it, and the daddy replied, 'Some kind of rocketplane,'” while they simply walked away." Source: From a retrospective story by ANN Space Correspondent, Wes Oleszewski, bemoaning the lack of commercial s