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September 24, 2019

Airborne-Unmanned 09.24.19: Hidron Record, Schiebel S-100, NOAA Drones

Also: UAM Grand Challenge, Southeast Regional UAS Rodeo, New European UAS Turboprop, USMC MQ-9A

UAVOS and Stratodynamics have announced that their HiDRON stratospheric glider has completed a record-setting stratospheric flight. Released from a Canadian Space Agency scientific gondola at an altitude of 111,434 feet, the glider performed a four hour controlled flight, eventually landing at Iroquois Falls Airport. The HiDRON was launched from the Timmins Victor M. Power Airport via the CSA scientific gondola at 10 pm on Aug. 31. The mission plan was to release the HiDRON from the gondola between an altitud

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ICAO Holds Inaugural Innovation Fair

Highlights Critical Importance Of New R&D To Aviation Safety, Security, Sustainability

Opening ICAO’s first ever Innovation Fair in Montréal Sunday, ICAO Council President Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu highlighted the critical importance of new technologies to the continued safety, security, and sustainability of flight.

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Barbie U.K. And Virgin Atlantic Partner On New Dolls

Pilot, Cabin Crew And Engineer Barbie Added To The 'Dream Gap' Project

Virgin Atlantic has teamed up with Barbie U.K. to create three special edition dolls. It’s all part of Barbie’s Dream Gap Project, which was launched to tackle the fact that girls as young as five years old begin to develop limiting self-beliefs and doubt their full potential. The Dream Gap Project is an on-going initiative to level the playing field for girls globally and highlight role models to show girls that they can be anything they want to be.

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About 150 Gather Near Area 51, But Crowd Is Mostly Quiet

Still, U.S. Military Is Compelled To Apologize For An Inappropriate Tweet

The "Storm Area 51" event that received so much hype the past couple of months turned out to be a fairly quiet non-event, with about 150 people turning out to play in the desert near the secretive military base over the weekend.

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Airborne 09.23.19: Yeager Sues Airbus, Huge NYC TFR, Area 51 ‘Threat’

Also: Mitsubishi Aircraft, Female Apache Pilot, NASA Funds CubeSat Pathfinder, ARAC DPE Reforms

General Yeager is not done fighting battles, but this time he may not have strategized his plan of attack as well as he might have. General Yeager, along with an attorney known for some ‘interesting’ legal tactics in past skirmishes, are suing European juggernaut Airbus... because he believes they used his name, and rep without his permission... even though what Airbus seems to have done is publish some material related to Yeager’s historical precedents while trying to establish one of

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Airborne-Unmanned 09.17.19: Flirtey Unveiling, Silent Arrow, AIRT UAS

Also: Dubai Police, Volocopter $$$, RAF Selects Leonardo, Rafael Acquisition

In an event held last week at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Flirtey unveiled an advanced drone delivery technology aircraft dubbed Flirtey Eagle, and released a video of its next-generation delivery drone performing consumer and automated external defibrillator (AED) deliveries to customer homes. Flirtey's system is designed to safely get packages to customers with the delivery goal of less than 10 minutes using drones. The aircraft designer and manufacturer unveiled the Flirtey Eagle, an advanced delivery drone;

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (09.24.19)

“The flight of this test asset two years before our first MQ-25 arrives represents the first big step in a series of early learning opportunities that are helping us progress toward delivery of a game-changing capability for the carrier air wing and strike group commanders.” Source: Capt. Chad Reed, the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Aviation (PMA-268) program manager.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (09.24.19): Departure Center

The ARTCC having jurisdiction for the airspace that generates a flight to the impacted airport.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (09.24.19)

NCAR Research Applications Laboratory

As the principal laboratory responsible for aviation weather projects for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), The Research Applications Laboratory (RAL), composed of the former Research Applications Program and the Developmental TestBed Center, has been the recognized leader in aviation weather research and technology since 1980.

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