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The 2023 Sun ‘n Fun Aerospace Expo was a watershed event for us… We’ve never been asked to do as much in one week as we did at Sun ‘n Fun, and despite the ever-present possibility (maybe even a certainty), of things going wrong; the Aero-News and Airborne staff stepped up and performed like absolute magicians with our partners at SnF. Indeed; if any descriptive word truly applied, "magic" might be it.
The Aerokopter AK1-3 is a Ukrainian designed and built helicopter distributed by Warsaw, Poland’s Manufaktura Lotnicza as the Argon AK1-3 Sanka. The aircraft is supplied as both a kit and a complete, ready-to-fly helicopter. In several Slavic languages, Sanka is the term for sled. Designed to comply with Ukrainian AP-27 rules—which approximate the European Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA) CS-27 standards—the AK1-3 is a conventional helicopter featuring an enclosed, two-occupant cabin; a single main rotor; and a boom-mounted anti-torque rotor. The aircraft is powered
The unsecured creditors of Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson’s imperiled Virgin Orbit have prevailed upon a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject the satellite launch concern’s request to access nearly $32-million in Chapter 11 financing, contending Virgin Orbit’s parent company's arranged both the bankruptcy case and the post-filing loan for its own benefit. DJI introduced its Agras T20P agricultural drone to the Americas at Brazil’s Agrishow, an agricultural technology trade show that ranks among the world’s largest such events. The instance occasioned the platform&rsquo
Aero Linx: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the world’s largest aerospace technical society, dedicated to advancing the global aerospace profession for engineers and scientists.
The operation of a UAS beyond the visual capability of the flight crew members (i.e., remote pilot in command [RPIC], the person manipulating the controls, and visual observer [VO]), if used to see the aircraft with vision unaided by any device other than corrective lenses, spectacles, and contact lenses.
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