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Archer Aviation, the California-based designer of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, has announced that its Maker eVTOL made its first full-transition to wing-borne flight on 29 November 2022. The accomplishment marks a milestone in Maker’s flight-testing program and underscores the sincerity of Archer’s ambition to be the first company to have its eVTOL platform type-certified by the FAA.

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On 29 July 2022, while serving as Second In Command (SIC) aboard a CASA-212 (N497CA), Charles Hew Crooks fell from the aircraft. He was found dead approximately thirty-miles south of the Raleigh-Durham International Airport in the city of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. On or about 01 December 2022, a Raleigh, North Carolina television station obtained a copy of Mr. Crooks’s autopsy file.

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Tamarack Aerospace has submitted a claim this week to the NAA and the European FAI for two city-pair flight records. The first—a 15 October, non-stop 2,033-nautical-mile flight from Spokane, Washington (GEG) to Orlando, Florida (MCO) in a King Air 350 retrofitted with Tamarack’s innovative Performance SMARTWING technology—was completed in a brisk 7-hours and 46-minutes. porty's unveiled the newest rendition of their handheld radio systems with their PJ2+, improving upon the portable backup with more usability than ever before. The new model features 6 watts of peak tran

Buttigieg Lauds Supply Chains

Federal, state, local, and business leaders gathered to acknowledge the completion of 3.3 million-square-feet of de-icing pads at Memphis International Airport (MEM), FedEx’s primary hub and home to the company’s largest air-cargo sorting facility. The pads, which are sufficiently large to contemporaneously de-ice a dozen wide-body cargo aircraft, promise to keep FedEx’s freighters ice-free, thereby ensuring their cargo absolutely positively arrive safely at their respective destinations.

Aero Linx: Pilots N Paws Pilots N Paws® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our site is intended to be a meeting place for volunteers engaged in the valuable services of rescuing, sheltering and adopting animals, and volunteer pilots and plane owners willing to assist with animal transportation. The intent of Pilots N Paws is to provide an environment in which volunteers can come together and arrange or schedule rescue flights, overnight foster care or shelter, and all other related activities. Through the Pilots N Paws discussion board, volunteers can exchange information regarding animal transports, coordinate and schedule transports, share rescue stories and recruit volunteers.

Airport Rotating Beacon A visual NAVAID operated at many airports. At civil airports, alternating white and green flashes indicate the location of the airport. At military airports, the beacons flash alternately white and green, but are differentiated from civil beacons by dualpeaked (two quick) white flashes between the green flashes.

"Our 2023 inductees reflect the diversity of careers represented by our members. For the past 30 years, WAI is proud to honor women who have carried the weight of future female aviators on their shoulders as they broke down gender barriers and proved that women could succeed and contribute to aviation in unique ways. Their accomplishments – as individuals or groups-have most certainly helped to change the face of aviation.”  Source: Allison McKay, WAI CEO, lauding the Women in Aviation International (WAI) crop of 2023 inductees for its International Pioneer Hall of Fame.