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September 09, 2016

Airborne 09.09.16: New DJI Drone, Sling 4 Built In 7 Days, ISS Return

Also: China's C919, Remembering 9/11, Regional Cargo Carriers, TSB Canada, DatuFly, GAMA Promotes, Polk State

It seems like Apple might have started the concept of keeping new high-tech products top-secret, and then releasing the information in a Hollywood style extravaganza. Well, if that’s what DJI was trying to do with their new drone, their cover has been blown as some images have found their way to the Internet. The images of their "Mavic" drone were first leaked by the drone site Heliguy, and then the Engadget site posted a couple of photos posted as well. In their own versio

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Capitol Gyrocopter Pilot Released From Prison

Doug Hughes Served Three Months Of His Four-Month Sentence

Doug Hughes is a free man. The former mailman who famously landed a gyrocopter on the Capitol lawn on April 15th, 2015 was released from the Federal Detention Center in Miami, FL Wednesday, his 62nd birthday.

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Aero-TV: The Ultimate RANS?? - Randy Schlitter’s New S-21 SportPlane Kit

The RANS S-21 Kit-Built Airplane Encompasses a Unique Building Concept…

While ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, was stomping around EAA AirVenture 2016 on his “What’s New” rounds, he stopped to talk with Randy Schlitter, the founder and owner of RANS Designs, which is the company that produces the RANS line of kit-built airplanes. While RANS has been around for a long time, they still managed to come up with something new in the RANS S-21.

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Klyde Morris 09.09.16

Any (Space) Port In A Storm, General

FMI: www.klydemorris.com

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Airborne 09.08.16: Gone West-Tuskegee Airman Montgomery, Safi Grounded, Balloons

Also: New Launch Pad, AUVSI, Crop-Duster, SoCal Airspace, Charlotte Douglas Airport, Bombardier Safety Standdown, Beech Aero Club

We are sorry to say that another member of the group known as the Tuskegee Airmen has gone west. Dabney Montgomery, a ground crewman who was stationed in Italy with the Tuskegee Airmen in World War-Two has succumbed at the age of 93. Montgomery, born in Selma, Alabama in 1923, was inducted into the service in 1943. While it’s common for the pilots of the Tuskegee Airmen unit to be spoken of the most, it must be remembered that like all units who fought i

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (09.09.16)

"Despite our sometimes different viewpoints, we all agree on one thing: and that is we all want to see the safe integration of unmanned aircraft.” Source: FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, in a speech delivered at the Interdrone conference in Las Vegas.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (09.09.16): Blind Speed

The rate of departure or closing of a target relative to the radar antenna at which cancellation of the primary radar target by moving target indicator (MTI) circuits in the radar equipment causes a reduction or complete loss of signal.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (09.09.16)

Aerobridge

The Aerobridge mission is to to assist in times of catastrophic emergency by coordinating donated aircraft to provide a powerful, immediate response to disaster.

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