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Dassault flight-test crews are making ready to embark on a grueling, global proving campaign to ensure the company’s Falcon 6X, ultra wide-body, business aircraft meets its ambitious performance and reliability goals. The one-month, forty-stop, 150-hour campaign is set to begin in June, and is scheduled to comprise a number of long and short haul legs across Europe, and between North and South America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Flights of 10-12 hours will alternate with quick, short hops. The largest aircraft in the world, recently destroyed, may be retu

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Surprisingly; Sonaca Aircraft announced that it will cease production of its S200 aircraft. Sonaca CEO Yves DeLatte describes the measure as a “necessary decision… ” engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic’s adverse impact on general aviation and, in particular, pilot training. Sonaca Aircraft, a subsidiary of the Belgian Aerospace conglomerate Sonaca Group, has committed to offer employment to all employees formerly engaged in the production of the S200. The FAA has published its interim final rule regarding the modernization of Avi

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Aero Linx: The FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) The FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) is the medical certification, research, education, and occupational health wing of the FAA's Office of Aerospace Medicine. The goal of our activities is to enhance aviation safety. The Institute's people - researchers, physicians, and other medical specialists, engineers, educators, pilots, technicians, and communicators - all merged as a team in 1961 at our centralized Oklahoma City facility.

Outer Fix An adapted fix along the converted route of flight, prior to the meter fix, for which crossing times are calculated and displayed in the metering position list.

“Gulfstream continues to make significant investments across the company to address both current demand and future growth in our completions and Customer Support operations … The investment in our Appleton facility is a key part of our overall strategy to provide our customers with industry leading completions and support worldwide.” Source: Gulfstream President Mark Burns, adding some background to the decision to invest more than $55-million in its Appleton, WI, facility. The move is the latest in a series of expansions that have seen the Savannah, GA company erect new facilities in Fort Worth, TX and Mesa, AZ while supplementing its customer support call center in Farnborough, England.