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March 26, 2015

Airborne 03.26.15: Germanwings Crash 'Pilot Induced', B-29 Rollout, CC Rockets Ready

Also: ALPA v UAVs, Aero-Community Update: XPrize, FAA Streamlines UAS COAs, Airport Infrastructure, ATC Reform, New SpaceX Rocket

Data retrieved from the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) aboard the Germanwings Airbus A320 that went down in the French Alps indicates that the pilot had been locked out of the cockpit before the plane impacted terrain. A senior French military official involved in the investigation said that initially there had been a light knocking on the door, then more insistent knocking and shouting. Eventually, the captain was reportedly trying to break through the reinforced cockpit door. There was apparently never any answer from the co-pilot still in the cockpit. Seventy years ago this week in 1945, a B-29, later named “Doc”, rolled off the assembly

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Issue Was On The City Council Agenda Tuesday Night

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Ohio State Legislature Working To Repudiate Gustave Whitehead Claim

The National Aviation Heritage Alliance (NAHA) on Tuesday, March 24, testified in favor of a resolution in the Ohio legislature that would repudiate the claim that Gustave Whitehead flew a powered airplane in Connecticut two years before Ohio’s Wright brothers flew in North Carolina.

Tecnam Delivers First P2010 To The Middle East

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NATA has provided members of the House Aviation Subcommittee with its views on air traffic control reform in response to its hearing entitled, “Options for FAA Air Traffic Control Reform.” The association, in comments from its President and CEO Thomas L. Hendricks, expressed support for the injection of more private sector practices into the FAA but cautioned “it is important how any changes to the agency are managed in order to maintain a stable, safe and efficient system that protects access for all users of our system.”