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Last week, two teenage boys were arrested near the Vernal Regional Airport after landing a small plane they had stolen from a private airstrip in Jensen, Utah. At this time, investigators believe the boys, ages 14 and 15, left a group home on the Wasatch Front earlier this week and made their way to eastern Utah, where they have been staying with friends in the Jensen area. This morning the teens gained access to a tractor and drove it to the air strip in Jensen, where they stole a fixed-wing, single engi

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Airbus has selected twenty-four new startups to join its BizLab for the launch of the fourth accelerator program, providing a platform to develop previously untapped technologies and ways of working in the aerospace sector.

Passenger Survives The Accident With A Broken Leg

The pilot of a paraglider flying with a passenger in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India on November 25 was fatally injured after the aircraft appeared to suffer an in-flight structural failure and spun into the ground. But the piloting skills of 22-year-old Purushottam Timsina are being credited by some with saving the life of 32-year-old passenger Gaurav Choudhary.

The Only Spitfire Aircraft To Return To The U.K. After Having Crashed On The Russian Tundra

In the Spring of 1945, a Spitfire aircraft went down on the Russian tundra during a dogfight. Her incredible story is captivated in the RJM mechanical timepiece. The RJM is the worlds' first timepiece that combines authentic salvaged Spitfire aircraft material with both the design of the aircraft itself and the watches worn by the pilots of the WW2 era – making the RJM utterly unique in design and limited in nature.

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Aero Linx: Hope Air For many Canadians, a trip to see a medical specialist is usually a short car or bus drive away. But for thousands of Canadians (over 20% of the population), who live in small and rural communities where specialized medical care is not available, a trip to see a medical specialist might involve an 16 hour car or bus ride.  Healthcare coverage starts at the door of the doctor’s office. How you get to the doctor and any related travel costs fall to you.  For patients living in small and rural communities, travelling long distances to their specialist medical appointments comes at a cost of time and money. Low-income families can afford neither. This lack of acce

Aero-News Quote of the Day “This achievement marks the successful conclusion of a great joint effort between LSST and Harris. Numerous challenges due to the mirror’s large size and convex shape were overcome with novel and custom fabrication and metrology solutions. The Harris team successfully completed and is delivering the world’s largest active secondary mirror system. We look forward to its delivery to the summit site in Chile and future telescope integration.” Source: William Gressler, LSST Telescope and Site Manager, referencing the fact that Harris Corporation has shipped its largest mirror ever for a ground-based observa