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June 30, 2023

Kitfox Upgrades Back-Country Landing-Gear

Acme Aerofab Black Ops Gear and Suspension Impress

As part of its continuous improvement of the long-running, eminently proven Kitfox aircraft family, Kitfox Aircraft LLC and Acme Aerofab have partnered for purpose of offering the backcountry sector a superior landing-gear and suspension system—soon to be available across nearly the entire Kitfox lineup.

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FAA Safety Chief Addresses Key Issues

Deviation from the Washington Norm?

FAA Acting Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety David Boulter heads up a veritable brigade of over 7,500 aerospace and administrative professionals tasked with setting, overseeing, and enforcing aviation industry safety standards. During a recent interview officiated by the NBAA, Boulter set forth his position vis-à-vis a number of challenges with which the FAA and the aviation industry are currently and contemporaneously faced.

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Pilot Killed in Montana P-40 Accident Identified

Makings of a Strange Epitaph

The pilot of a Curtiss Wright P-40E WWII-Era fighter aircraft who lost his life in a 27 June 2023 accident at Hamilton, Montana’s Ravalli County Airport (HRF) has been identified as Paul Ehlen, founder and owner of Bloomington, Minnesota’s Precision Lens—a manufacturer of therapeutic, surgical, and pharmacological products germane to the field of ophthalmological medicine.

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EAA Museum Welcomes Two New Exhibits

Memories of Yesterday; Visions of Tomorrow

The EAA Aviation Museum in Oshkosh will presently see the opening of two new exhibits dedicated respectively to the draftsmen and women by whom some of the Second World War’s most iconic aircraft were designed, and the career of Mr. Michael Winston Melvill—record-breaking pilot and the world’s first commercial astronaut.

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Aura Aero Partners with Airbus for Electric Trainer

Airbus Europe to Aim for Sustainable Integral E

Airbus Flight Academy Europe signed a memorandum of understanding with Aura Aero for the development of a new, training-focused version of the INTEGRAL E. Under the agreement, the Airbus training subsidiary will "collaborate on the initial development of INTEGRAL E, a fully-electric, two-seater trainer aircraft, ideally suited for initial stages of pilot training". The technology is a hot commodity in the minds of flight schools around the world, just on the cusp of real-world feasibility but still out of reach without production aircraft.

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NBAA Supports FAA’s Revised Stance on Aeromedical Issues

A Kinder, Gentler, Machine-Gun Hand

Among its numerous initiatives to better lives, careers, and wellbeing of professional pilots, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has prevailed upon the FAA to ensure aviators faced with medical and mental health issues are able to continue flying—provided doing so remains safe to all concerned parties.

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EAA Cites and Responds to Recent FAA NPRMs

Of Webs Tangled and Untangled

The EAA has respectively cited and commented on FAA NPRMs pertaining to Public Aircraft Logging of Flight Time, Training in Certain Aircraft Holding Special Airworthiness Certificates, and Flight Instructor Privileges.

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