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August 31, 2018

Airborne 08.31.18: Armstrong's SpaceSuit, Acro World Tour, Historic Convair 880

Also: Lake Aircraft 4 Sale-Again, Beechjet Flap Cables, Martha King, NASA's Orion

The space suit that Neil Armstrong wore on the historic Apollo 11 moon mission is falling apart, and while its custodians at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space museum are trying to preserve it, the suit is showing its age. The main culprit is a layer of neoprene embedded in the fabric of the suit. Neoprene is the material that is used to make wetsuits, and over time it hardens and becomes brittle. Despite fierce competition from his fellow paragliding aerobatics competitors, Spain’s Horacio Llorens, 35, impress

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NASA Assists In Efforts To Contain California Wildfires

Using ER-2 Aircraft To Collect Information For Recovery Planning

An effort by multiple NASA centers to assist with the California wildfires included capturing satellite data of the smoke plumes and aircraft flights over burned areas to collect information for recovery planning.

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It's ALIVE! 2018 AirVenture Innovation Preview Program Now Available

Get The Inside Details On THE Most Exciting NEW Innovations And Product Announcements From OSHKOSH 2018...

The staff of EAA and the Aero-News Network were pleased to release the latest in a series of novel Aero-TV/Airborne programs designed to draw attention to the most innovative and aggressively oriented companies in the aviation universe -- and most particularly, those with REAL news to impart at AirVenture 2018. ANN and EAA have joined together again to present the highly successful "AirVenture Innovation Preview," (which we call the "AIP", for short), to highlight the incredibly innovative and news-making products that provid

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Klyde Morris 08.31.18

Just Try Not To Think About It, Klyde

FMI: www.klydemorris.com

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Airborne 08.29.18: US Astros To Launch 2019, Red Bull AirRace, Perlan Mission II

Also: Japan's 1st Female Fighter Pilot, NBAA Survey, GPS III Satellite, SEA-TAC Runway 16L/34R

NASA Administrator James Bridenstine is confident that astronauts will again fly from U.S. soil next year, but sees the agency's relationship with Roscosmos continuing for several years. Bridenstine said "Without question, by the middle of next year, we'll be flying American astronauts on American rockets from American soil." Since the end of the shuttle program in 2011, U.S. taxpayers have been paying up to $82 million per seat to send U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz sp

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (08.31.18)

“This program gives us a better understanding of how operations over people, beyond visual line of sight ops, and flying drones at night work at the local level.” Source: Acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell, in an update on the FAA's UAS IPP.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (08.31.18): Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System

Sometimes called secondary surveillance radar (SSR), which utilizes a transponder in the aircraft. The ground equipment is an interrogating unit, in which the beacon antenna is mounted so it rotates with the surveillance antenna.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (08.31.18)

Institute for Women of Aviation Worldwide

The Institute for Women Of Aviation Worldwide is an independent, not-for-profit, global consortium of businesses and organizations that want to foster diversity, thus growth, in the air and space industry.

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