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Airborne 03.24.15: New Daher HQ, AEA2015 Prep!, 'Smart Transponder'

Also: Aero-Calendar, NTSB Looks At Parasailing, Commercial UAV Waivers Streamlined, Marenco Swisshelicopter, Predator B Record, U.S. Naval Test Pilot School

Daher has formally opened the new location for its Airplane Business Unit’s U.S. headquarters at Pompano Beach, Florida. The grand opening ceremony attracted more than 300 attendees and brought approximately 30 TBM family aircraft to Pompano Beach Airpark, coinciding with the TBM Owners and Pilots Association Safety seminar. The staff of the Aero-News Network is hard at work in preparation for its LIVE EVENT Coverage of the 58th Annual AEA Internation

Operation IceBridge Debuts Its Seventh Arctic Campaign

First Flight Completed Last Week, Different Aircraft Involved This Year

NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, successfully completed its first Greenland research flight of 2015 on March 19, thus launching its seventh Arctic campaign. This year's science flights over Arctic sea and land ice will continue until May 22.

Aero-TV: Homer Holb’s Genius Lives On - Kolb Aircraft’s Time Tested SportPlanes

One Of The TRUE Classics Of The Ultralight Movement Continues To Fly Into The Future

Just in case you think ultralights are a thing of the past, ANN’s News Editor Tom Patton, attended the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Florida earlier this year to show you that they’re still around. One of the earliest producers of ultralights, Kolb Aircraft, was at Sebring to show off their ultralight legal 103 Firefly. Tom meets up with Bryan Melborn the Owner and CEO of the Kolb Aircraft Company. Kolb has been around since the 1970s, and Melborn took over the company in the late 80s. He says that the recrea

Airborne 03.23.15: Amazon Gets UAV OK, 10K ADS-B Equipped A/C, CS100 FTV5 Flies!

Also: White House UAV Update, AVW: Glider Looping, Rockwell Collins, UAV v News Helis, ERAU Award, Leonov's Spacewalk Remembered

The FAA has issued an experimental airworthiness certificate to an Amazon Logistics unmanned aircraft design that the company will use for research and development and crew training. Much like any experimental airworthiness certificate, it comes with some restrictions. All flight operations must be conducted at 400 feet or below during daylight hours in visual meteorological conditions. The UAS must always remain within visual line-of-sight of the pilot and observer, and the pilot act

Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (03.24.15)

"If passed, HR 476 Prohibits VA from including flight training fees in the in-state tuition and fees at public institutions of higher education (IHEs) that are covered by post-9/11 veterans' educational assistance." Source: Website urging the defeat of HR 476, the "GI Bill Education Quality Enhancement Act of 2015".

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (03.24.15): Final Monitor Controller

Air Traffic Control Specialist assigned to radar monitor the flight path of aircraft during simultaneous parallel (approach courses spaced less than 9000 feet/9200 feet above 5000 feet) and simultaneous close parallel approach operations.