Silverlight Shows Off its American Ranger Gyrocopter
A few days into Sun n Fun 2022, Mr. Abid Farooqui, CTO of Silverlight Aviation, shared that Silverlight Aviation got into gyroplane manufacturing in 2016. They have manufactured about 60 of them so far, and have just started expanding outside the US into Taiwan and hopefully looking at Australia and New Zealand. These gyrocopters are manufactured in Zephyrhills, Florida. This gyrocopter is an AR1C configuration which is the convertible so you can fly with just windshields on like a motorcycle, or you could in the winter put the canopy on and fly with the canopy. It was prim
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For some time, Republic Airways has enjoyed a not so favorable opinion in the “Low Time” flying community due to reports of it allegedly engaging in second-in-command (SIC) operations on its single-pilot fleet, and those SIC’s later discovering that their ‘logged time’ is invalid and cannot be applied to flight experience for their Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) rating. Well, those woes may soon come to an end if Republic Airways gets its way. “Where’s the ground? Where’s the ground?” No o
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Nonprecision Approach Procedure
A standard instrument approach procedure in which no electronic glideslope is provided; e.g., VOR, TACAN, NDB, LOC, ASR, LDA, or SDF approaches.
“Denso’s focus is powering the shift to a green, safe and seamless mobility future for all. We’re grateful to work with Honeywell and Lilium on making air travel cleaner and more efficient, and in doing so, we have the opportunity to apply our electrification expertise to vehicles on land and in the sky.”
Source: Koji Ishizuka, senior director at Denso, explaining the co-development of a new electric motor for the upcoming Lilium Jet, working with Honeywell and large automotive OEM Denso.
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