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July 24, 2022

Commemorative Air Force Reveals It’s AirVenture Top-Ten

When the CAF Talks…

The Commemorative Air Force is an American institution. The non-profit organization comprises over 13,000 members and pilots who, together, maintain and operate 170-classic aircraft—the world’s largest collection of warbirds.  

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ANNouncement: Now Accepting Applications For Oshkosh 2022 Stringers!!!

An Amazing Experience Awaits The Chosen Few...

Oshkosh, to us, seems the perfect place to get started on watching aviation recover the past couple of years... and so ANN is putting EXTRA effort and resources into our coverage of Oshkosh 2022... just a little over 70 days hence. We are now starting the process to seek talented stringers to help us present Oshkosh and the sport and general aviation community to the world around us. If you ever thought about joining us, this is THE year to do it.

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NASA Astronaut Michael Gernhardt to Retire

It's Just My Job Five Days a Week…

After nearly 30-years of furthering humanity’s off-planet endeavors, NASA Astronaut Michael Gernhardt is hanging up his helmet. His last day as an American Astronaut is 25 July 2022.    

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Airborne 07.15.22: Russian ISS Rebuke, Man v Machine, FA-18 Blown Away

Also: WWII POW Found, NBAA Addresses Congress, Edwards AFB, DoT To Force Seat Rules

The worsening enmity between the US and Russia took a dive when three Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station posed with flags NASA construed to be anti-Ukraine. Photos were subsequently posted to the Telegram channel of Roscosmos. The images depicted cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov holding the flags of the Luhansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic—two Russian-backed separatist regions in Ukraine. The University of Zurich, hosted a trio of champion (human) drone-racers as they squared-off agains

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Embraer E195-E2 Makes London City (LCY) Debut

Type Becomes Largest Aircraft to Land at Iconic Airport

An Embraer aircraft departed the Farnborough Airshow and proceeded to London’s London City Airport (LCY) where it landed without incident. The story seems an utter bore and deserving of no mention whatsoever until one takes into account the facts that London City Airport’s runway is a scant 4,947-feet long, and the aircraft in question was a 135,000-pound, 146-seat, E195-E2—the largest of Embraer’s E-Jet family of twin-engine, narrow-body airliners.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (07.24.22)

Aero Linx: The Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting Working Group (ARFFWG) The Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting Working Group (ARFFWG) is a non-profit membership organization established in 1990 to promote the science and improve the methods of aviation fire protection and prevention. The organization exists for the benefit of fire protection personnel around the world who work at airports or work with aircraft and/or who can reasonably be expected to be involved with some type of aviation/aircraft related emergency event.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (07.24.22): Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude (MOCA)

Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude (MOCA) The lowest published altitude in effect between radio fixes on VOR airways, off-airway routes, or route segments which  meets obstacle clearance requirements for the entire route segment and which assures acceptable navigational signal coverage only within 25 statute (22 nautical) miles of a VOR.

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