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Airborne 08.11.16: CAP's 75th!, Frontier Pilot Demands, Space Virtual Reality

Also: Vietnam Marine Found, AIP 2016 Results!, Lee Bottom 2016, UAV Powerline Monitoring, Laser v Helos, Space Elevator, Era UAS

More than 700 Civil Air Patrol members will convene at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center this week for the organization’s 2016 National Conference. The conference will devote several days to training, networking and focusing on the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary’s historic past as well as its promising future. Airline labor strife seems to be in the offing at Frontier Airlines as The Air Line Pilots Association has filed a grievance that

Aero-TV: AirVenture 2016 Succeeds! – Jack Pelton Offers His Highlights

Also, What’s Ahead For AirVenture 2017…

On the closing day of EAA AirVenture 2016, ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, caught up with EAA’s CEO, Jack Pelton, to hear some final thoughts about this year’s AirVenture. Pelton best described his feelings about the conclusion of AirVenture 2016 as, “sensory overload.”

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