Chief Pilot Jacob Paprcka of the Embry-Riddle Flight Team Launched Each Aircraft

Little planes, big planes, colorful planes, plain planes. Judges had a variety of paper airplanes to critique in the first ever Kids’ Paper Airplane Challenge hosted by Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB). The contest allowed children – with their parents – to drop off paper airplanes at the county-run airport during the days leading up to Aug. 19, National Aviation Day. Flight instructors with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University judged the paper airplanes in three categories: accuracy, distance and creativity. After drawing a chalk line on the airport’s first-level floor, Chief Pilot Jacob Paprcka of the Embry-Riddle Flight Team launche

FAA Takes Drone Safety to Spanish-Speaking Community

It's hard to get a message or a lesson across these days... especially when a language barrier is involved. The Federal Aviation Administration has launched a pilot program to translate into Spanish select web content for users of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS commonly referred to as drones). The program is expected to reach the nearly 25.6 million people living in the United States with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and will focus on Spanish, the most widely spoken language in the U.S. other than English. The FAA seeks to remove barriers for this segment of the U.S. population interested in drones. The FAA website will have basic drone safety information for recreational flyers with a sele