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'Rescue Miss Pick Up from Loch Ness!' is the rallying cry for a project on GoFundme that is trying to keep one of the few remaining PBY Catalinas flying...the bird had to make an emergency landing in, of all places, Loch Ness. Miss Pick Up is the name of one of the world's few airworthy Catalina flying boats and is currently operated by Plane Sailing based in Duxford, Cambridge. Miss Pick Up ran into engine problems while operating on Loch Ness on Saturday, October 17th. RNLI Loch Ness helped t

Aero Linx: Great Eastern Balloon Association GEBA acts as a conduit for obtaining and disseminating information about ballooning to the general public. This is accomplished through this web site, the newsletter, mailings, and participation in numerous events. Through the work of the Newsletter Committee, we continue to disseminate information among GEBA’s ballooning community via the Skywriter. This web site is part of our efforts to increase the scope of those communications. Each GEBA member receives our annual membership directory, which lists the current association membership. The publication is useful in supporting communication between members. The Social Committee plans several eve

Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) An unmanned aircraft and its associated elements related to safe operations, which may include control stations (ground, ship, or air based), control links, support equipment, payloads, flight termination systems, and launch/recovery equipment. It consists of three elements: unmanned aircraft, control station, and data link.

“The IPP propelled the American drone industry forward, allowing for unprecedented expansions in testing and operations through innovative private-public partnerships across the country. Now, the BEYOND program will build upon this success, tackling the next big challenges facing drone integration. The Trump Administration remains committed to the safe and innovative development of drone technologies for the benefit of the American people." Source: U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios, discussing the three-year UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP) successfully concluded on Oct. 25. Eight of the nine state, local and tribal governments that participated in the program have signed new agreements with the FAA to continue t