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On 19 May 2020, the Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) uncrewed CST-100 launched aboard the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket, to the ISS. The CST-100 returned, landing at the White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico. While the return landing was ‘textbook’ -- its trip to the ISS wasn’t entirely without issue. Apparently, on its way to the ISS, two of its main thrusters went offline per sensor data, but backups kicked into gear and it was on its merry way. And again, problems arose when the CST-100 got close to the ISS, two
ASR Pioneers Parachute System With VTOL/eVTOL Market In Mind
Mr. Mark McElhaney, Director of Sales and Marketing for Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) stated that ASR began in 2018, and that they knew they’d have to scale and as they got into it, this and Pioneer Aerospace became available, the engineering firm they have in Connecticut. It is a world class manufacturing facility of 160,000 square feet in Mississippi as well as the group that’s down in Milton FL, and he saw it as a perfect fit.
Aero Linx: Colorado Pilots Association
Colorado Pilots Association was incorporated as a Colorado Nonprofit Corporation in 1972. It is a statewide organization with over 700 members dedicated to making Colorado a better, safer, and more desirable place to fly. Objectives of the organization are to promote aviation and flight safety, to protect the rights of pilots, and to be of assistance to the general public in aviation matters.
North American Route
A numerically coded route preplanned over existing airway and route systems to and from specific coastal fixes serving the North Atlantic. North American Routes consist of the following:
Common Route/Portion. That segment of a North American Route between the inland navigation facility and the coastal fix.
Noncommon Route/Portion. That segment of a North American Route between the inland navigation facility and a designated North American terminal.
Inland Navigation Facility. A navigation aid on a North American Route at which the common route and/or the noncommon rou
“I’m not interested in demos and experiments unless they are a necessary step… If we don’t need it [a developmental measure] to reduce risk, we should go right to development for production and get there as quickly as we can.”
Source: USAF Secretary Frank Kendall, discussing the Air Force’s secretive and highly classified Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter program has entered its crucial, engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase.
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