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Airborne 08.10.16: B-29 Doc Update, Airlander 10, Amazon Jets

Also: Airport Funding, AMA President Bob Brown, Qantas, Float Plane Theft, TriFan 600, Space Artifact, A-10s

It’s been about four weeks since the B-29 named ‘Doc’ flew for the first time after a 16 year restoration project, and the Doc restoration crew is working to plan the historic warbird’s second flight. Jim Murphy, Doc’s Friends restoration project manager, said on the project blog, “Over the past few weeks, we’ve been combing through all of the airplane’s systems and control surfaces checking to see how things behaved during the first

Flying Eye Hospital Lands In Silicon Valley

Using Technology To Create A Community To Fight Blindness Around The World

Orbis has brought its new Flying Eye Hospital to Silicon Valley. As the world's only accredited ophthalmic training hospital aboard an MD-10 aircraft, this unique aircraft brings state of the art technology, training and teaching tools to local healthcare teams so that they can win the fight in their communities.

NASA Awards Contract For AIRS Technology

Southern Research Wins $10 Million For Airborne Imaging And Recording System

Southern Research has been awarded a 5-year sole source contract renewal from NASA in the amount of $9.95 million to provide continued support of the Airborne Imaging and Recording System (AIRS) used on WB-57 research aircraft for more than a decade. This is the second sole source contract received by the Birmingham -based non-profit organization for work on this unique high altitude research program.

Airborne 08.09.16: Delta MeltDown, AirVenture Impresses, AW609 Resumes

Also: USMC Standdown, Aero-Calendar, St. Marys GA, 1000th Arrested Landing, Miracle Flights, SeaPort Fine, Alaska Airlines

As our favorite spokesman for the common man, Yogi Berra, once said – “it’s déjà vu all over again.” It was only a couple of weeks ago that Southwest Airlines was all but grounded because of some sort of computer system glitch. Now, the same thing has reportedly happened at Delta Airlines. It’s reported the IT problems took hold early Monday morning and initially led to concerns that delays would be encountered. It now appe

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (08.10.16)

"Our mission at Orbis is to bring the world together to fight blindness. We believe that no one should go blind from conditions that are treatable or preventable. The Flying Eye Hospital is in equal parts teacher, envoy and advocate." Source: Bob Ranck, Orbis President and CEO.