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DJI is aiming at the farming market with its latest agriculture drone, the DJI AGRAS T20. This agriculture spraying drone makes it accessible and scalable for farmers who are ready to apply digital insights and automated spray technology into their operations. The DJI AGRAS T20 is optimized to work in complicated environments and different agricultural lands, from its autonomous flight planning and terrain-sensing radar, to extended flight time, high payload capacity, and off-the-grid power options. SecTrans Chao has announc

"CTOL Trials Are An Essential Step Towards VTOL Aircraft Development..."

A milestone has been met in Samad Aerospace's Starling Programme, as November 2020 saw the successful conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) flight test of the company's 50% scale fully electric aircraft. Samad's Chief Technical Officer, Norman Wijker explains, "CTOL trials are an essential step towards VTOL aircraft development. Ticking off the CTOL flight capability is a crucial step towards the validation of all flight modes. With CTOL trials complete, we will begin hovering trials and the flight trials will be concluded by transition between hovering flight and aerodynamic flight in both directions"

The 2019 Flying Season Tallied Nearly 100 Flight Hours

The 2020 flying season has come to a close for B-29 Doc and that means the team is now in winter maintenance mode. While 2020 wasn’t what they planned for regarding tour stops and airshow appearances, their mission was still a success thanks to the hard work and dedication of so many volunteers, and those who joined them for a ride flight, or abbreviated tour stop. Those tour stops included these cities in nine states: Oklahoma City, Omaha, Branson, Fayetteville, Cincinnati, Washington, D.C./Northern Virginia, Terre Haute, Great Bend and of course, Wichita. In all, Doc traveled more than 3,200 nautical miles over some 53 flight hours.

SpaceX Dragon Cargo Craft Is Due To Lift Off This Weekend

The International Space Station is gearing up for the next-generation SpaceX Dragon cargo craft due to lift off this weekend. Meanwhile, the seven-member Expedition 64 crew kicked off the work week on space botany and human research. The newest Dragon resupply ship from SpaceX is due to launch to the station on Saturday at 11:39 a.m. EST with over 6,500 pounds of crew supplies and station hardware, including the NanoRacks Bishop airlock. The upgraded vehicle will dock on its own for the first time to the space-facing port of the Harmony module adjacent to the recently arrived Crew Dragon spacecraft.

By The End Of 2020 Customers Will Be Able To Use The SDR Or SDR Gateway As A GPS Data Source

Scott IPC and Satcom Direct (SD) have announced a new integrated data solution for joint Satcom Direct Router series (SDR), and Scott Plot Electronic Plotting solution customers. By the end of 2020 customers will be able to use the SDR or SDR Gateway as a GPS data source to accurately depict the aircraft position on Scott Plot, Scott IPC's worldwide Electronic Plotting Chart, without the need for additional GPS hardware. With GPS location, ground speed, and indicated altitude information provided in real-time by the SDR, Scott Plot will have direct access to this high confidence data for use within the plotting chart.

From 2009: CEO Carl Dietrich Provides Exciting Updates on the ‘Flying Car’

At EAA Airventure 2008, a group of award-winning MIT Aeronautical Engineers set the aviation industry ablaze with the introduction of their proof of concept “flying car.” The two-seat aircraft, designed to transform from a plane to a car in less than 30 seconds, allows a pilot to easily fold and stow wings for road use with quick wing-deployment for flight all from the comfort of the cockpit. Able to cruise up to 450 miles at over 115mph in air, as well as drive at highway sp

UASidekick Is Also Planning To Integrate Into Its Map Functionality Information About AMA's Flying Sites

AMA and UASidekick announced a new partnership to disseminate free recreational Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) flight planning to nearly 175,000 UAS hobbyists who are members of AMA. The software allows pilots to file LAANC authorizations with the FAA when flying in controlled airspace via a web portal and mobile application. It includes additional flight planning tools such as interactive maps, weather information and flight logs.

The Commission Is A Seven-Member Panel Appointed By The Governor

The Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission will hold its monthly meeting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, December 2, 2020. It will take place at the Oklahoma Department of Transportation Commission Room and by videoconferencing and teleconference using the methods listed below. Items to be addressed at the meeting include...

The B-1B Carried An Inert Joint Air-To-Surface Standoff Missile Under An External Pylon For The First Time

The B-1B Lancer’s expanded carriage capabilities comes one step closer to fruition following an external captive carry flight over the skies of Edwards Air Force Base, California, Nov. 20. The flight featured a B-1B Lancer assigned to the 412th Test Wing’s 419th Flight Test Squadron, Global Power Combined Test Force, and carried an inert Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile under an external pylon for the first time. This demonstration may pave the way possibly for the B-1B to carry hypersonic weapons externally.

During The Initial Takeoff The Airplane Stayed In Ground-Effect

On October 06, 2020 at 1533 Pacific daylight time, a Rans S-7 Courier amphibian airplane, N55893, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Spirit Lake, Idaho. The pilot sustained fatal injuries and the passenger sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot and pilot-rated passenger had flown from Ponderay Lake earlier in the day and landed at Treeport Airport to see an acquaintance. The passenger stated that they intended to fly to Timber Basin Airpark, Sagle, Idaho where the pilot was based. The pilot elected to depart runway 07 and during the initial takeoff the airplane sta

Aero Linx: Australian Sports Rotorcraft Association ASRA is a national sport and recreational association, representing people with an interest in building and flying gyroplanes. Under Civil Aviation Safety Authority accreditation, ASRA administers sport gyroplanes through the certification of pilots and the registration of gyroplanes in Australia. ASRA is concerned with improving standards of safety, pilot training and aircraft. It aims to promote reasonable and responsible practices in a manner accepted as professional to other aviation bodies and the public, while retaining our own identity, reducing costs and minimising rest

Go Around Instructions for a pilot to abandon his/her approach to landing. Additional instructions may follow. Unless otherwise advised by ATC, a VFR aircraft or an aircraft conducting visual approach should overfly the runway while climbing to traffic pattern altitude and enter the traffic pattern via the crosswind leg. A pilot on an IFR flight plan making an instrument approach should execute the published missed approach procedure or proceed as instructed by ATC; e.g., “Go around” (additional instructions if required).

“Adapting a small number of our healthiest B-1s to carry hypersonic weapons is vital to bridge between the bomber force we have today, to the force of tomorrow. This is a major step forward in our global precision fires capability and it is important we pursue these technologies to remain ahead of our competitors. My goal is to have a limited number of B-1s modified to become the roving linebacker of the western Pacific and the North Atlantic. Source: Gen. Tim Ray, Air Force Global Strike Command commander, detailing info about the B-1B Lancer’s expanded carriage capabilities as the process comes one step closer to fruition following an external captive carry flight over the skies of Edwards Air Force Base, California, Nov