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November 20, 2018

Airborne-Unmanned 11.20.18: Solar-Powered Odysseus, QF-16 Delivered, FT Aviator

Also: Hover 2, TX Man Charged After Drone Shooting, ZF First In Germany, AviSight, Inc.

Aurora continues its nearly 30-year legacy of advancing autonomous systems with Odysseus, a solar-powered autonomous aircraft. Odysseus is an ultra-long endurance, high-altitude platform utilizing advanced solar cells and built with lightweight materials. Odysseus can effectively fly indefinitely – all powered by clean, renewable energy. The inspiration for Odysseus started with the Daedalus Project that ultimately set records in distance and for human-powered flight in 1988 with a 72-mile flight between the Gr

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Texas Man Charged After Shooting At Neighbor's Drone

Said He Was 'Protecting His Property' From The Aircraft

These stories are only going to get more and more common. Someone takes offence at a drone flying anywhere near their property and decides that they can shoot it down.

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International Team, NASA Make Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice

Large Meteorite Impact Crater Found Under Nearly A Half-Mile Of Ice

An international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland. The crater — the first of any size found under the Greenland ice sheet — is one of the 25 largest impact craters on Earth, measuring roughly 1,000 feet deep and more than 19 miles in diameter, an area slightly larger than that inside Washington's Capital Beltway.

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Supersonic Commercial Travel Begins to Take Shape At LM Skunk Works

First Parts For X-59 QST Aircraft Manufactured

The Lockheed Martin Skunk Works began manufacturing the first part for the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, marking a milestone to bring supersonic commercial travel over land one step closer to reality.

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Airborne-Unmanned 11.13.18: Parrot AG Solution, Kratos Expands, Precisionhawk

Also: ERAU Certified, AeroVironment Award, International Brain-Drone Race, Relmatech's Direct Broadcast Platform

European drone group Parrot has introduced Bluegrass Fields, an end-to-end agriculture drone solution, which provides farmers, agronomists and researchers with the insights they need to boost the quality of their crops and maximize yields. Parrot Bluegrass Fields brings together the Parrot Bluegrass drone with the all-new ParrotFields mobile mapping app and Pix4Dfields desktop and cloud-based drone mapping software. The Parrot Bluegrass agriculture drone features a robust carbon-fiber structu

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (11.20.18)

“Implementing 55 new satellite-based routes on one day is a significant milestone in our work to modernize the air traffic control system.” Source: Dan Elwell, Acting FAA Administrator.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (11.20.18): Clean Configuration

A configuration in which all flight control surfaces have been placed to create minimum drag.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (11.20.18)

Deaf Pilots Association The organization says it is dediated to demonstrating, not only to the aviation world, but also to the larger hearing world, that deaf people can become pilots despite not being able to hear, that use of radio is not required in order to earn private pilot and commercial pilot certificates.

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