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June 02, 2019

Airborne 05.31.19: Sebring 2020 Cancelled, Red Bull Shutdown, D-Day Squadron

Also: Gogo 5G Network, Guardian 400 World Demo Tour, Tavares Seaplane Base, Fake Drone Collision

And.... another one bites the dust. Just as the shock of the Red Bull racing announcement about their withdrawal was starting to wear off, we have news of another long-time aviation event hitting the deck. Sebring Regional Airport in Sebring, FL will no longer host its Aviation Expo in January, but has offered little explanation for the move. Anecdotally, attendance by exhibitors and visitors had been falling for some time, and there has been serious competition in the space from Deland, FL, which began putt

Low Approach An approach over an airport or runway following an instrument approach or a VFR approach including the go-around maneuver where the pilot intentionally does not make contact with the runway.

Aero Linx: Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives The mission of the Igor I. Sikorsky Historical Archives is to acquire, manage,protect and make accessible to qualified persons for research and educational purposes, historical documents and memorabilia associated with Igor I. Sikorsky, his life and his careers in aviation, and the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, as well as related predecessor companies.

“We have identified a vast reservoir of Earth-like water in the outer reaches of the solar system. Water was crucial for the development of life as we know it. We not only want to understand how Earth’s water was delivered, but also if this process could work in other planetary systems.” Source: Darek Lis, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, and lead author of a study noting that many more comets than previously thought could have delivered water to Earth. The findings were published in Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters.