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July 13, 2022

Sonex Two-Place Jet Trainer Set for Oshkosh Debut

Ready Your Deposits, Aspiring Jet Pilots

Sonex Aircraft, LLC—the Oshkosh, Wisconsin-based manufacturer of kit-aircraft—is accepting deposits for its SubSonex JSX-2T, a two-place, home-built, personal jet. Aside from being a capable aircraft in its own right, the JSX-2T is intended, in part, to serve as a trainer for pilots seeking to transition into Sonex’s single-seat SubSonex JSX-2—upon which the new airplane is based. Sonex asserts it designed the JSX-2T to be “the lowest cost jet trainer ever.” 

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First Images From Webb Space Telescope Dazzle

I Spy With My $10-Billion Eye …

The mediocrity and self-aggrandizement in which the modern age wallows is occasionally punctuated by instances of genuinely wondrous achievement deserving of sincere admiration and heartfelt accolades. The dazzling, first images gleaned by the Webb Space Telescope mark such an achievement, and confront a populace riven by ideological division and simmering enmity with the sobering knowledge that it is capable of better. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most powerful tool of astronomy ever launched into space.

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Blue Angels’ F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets Taking Care With Seattle Event

Seven Jets, Millions of Fans, and a Malcontent 

Seattle’s annual Seafair is a city-wide hootenanny celebrating all things maritime. The summer festival comprises eight-weeks of neighborhood events which culminate in the annual Torchlight Parade—a nighttime extravaganza that draws upward of three-hundred-thousand spectators—and the famed Lake Washington hydroplane races. By sea and by land, Seafair revelers demonstrate en masse the effects a few weeks of sunshine can have on a populace habituated to rain. Yet for all Seafair’s nautical and terrestrial delights, the party wouldn’t be complete without the Blue Angels flashing across the clear(ish) skies of the Puget Sound August.

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Aero-TV at SnF22: Curtiss SB2C Helldiver—A Noble Turkey Among Warbirds

Cry Homely, and Loose the Dogs of War!

War is the crucible in which a nation’s will and its resources are amalgamated by the heat of its fury. Nothing motivates a people to innovation and advancement more so than war, and World War II motivated American ingenuity and industry like no conflict before or since. The Second World War was entered into with canvas biplanes and bolt-action rifles, and exited with jets and nuclear bombs. The race for newer and better weapons saw belligerents on both sides of the ideological divide develop and field machines that even now—eighty-years on—remain enshrined in memory, i

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Airborne 07.05.22: Elektra Trainer, Top Gun $1B, AEA Pilot's Guide

Also: Virgin Orbit Scores, B-29 Doc Adds Milwaukee, Mackay Trophy, Special Mission Longitude

Elektra Solar has successfully test-flown the Elektra Trainer, the company’s two-seat, electric, ultralight aircraft. With test-pilot Uwe Nortmann at the controls, the Elektra Trainer prototype departed Memmingen International Airport in southern Germany on 29 June. The aircraft rose, silently and sans-emissions, after an impressively brief, one-hundred-meter takeoff roll, and climbed at a brisk, eight-meters per second and remained aloft for twenty minutes. At altitude, the Elektra Trainer operated in a low-cruise mode that drew only about ten-kilowatts of powe

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Airborne 07.05.22: Elektra Trainer, Top Gun $1B, AEA Pilot's Guide

Also: Virgin Orbit Scores, B-29 Doc Adds Milwaukee, Mackay Trophy, Special Mission Longitude

Elektra Solar has successfully test-flown the Elektra Trainer, the company’s two-seat, electric, ultralight aircraft. With test-pilot Uwe Nortmann at the controls, the Elektra Trainer prototype departed Memmingen International Airport in southern Germany on 29 June. The aircraft rose, silently and sans-emissions, after an impressively brief, one-hundred-meter takeoff roll, and climbed at a brisk, eight-meters per second and remained aloft for twenty minutes. At altitude, the Elektra Trainer operated in a low-cruise mode that drew only about ten-kilowatts of

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Recovery of Stolen Aircraft Unlikely

Losses to Russian Chicanery Approach $10-Billion

In the frantic days following Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Moscow cobbled together legislation authorizing Russian air-carriers to add aircraft leased from foreign countries to Russia's aircraft register, thereby effectively defaulting on extant leases and loans. The maneuver was prompted by Russian certainty in the imminence of Western sanctions that would have seen the aircraft repossessed by their owners.

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Drone Competition Pits Man Against Machine

Air Races Asimov-Style

From its inception as a literary form, Science Fiction writers have plumbed the subtleties of the human condition by pitting man against machine in conflicts that have raged from Earth to Arrakis to Tatooine to Caprica. The contests of intellect, cunning, strength, and speed imagined by Asimov, Clarke, and P.K. Dick were recently actualized at the University of Zurich (Earth), where a trio of champion (human) drone-racers squared-off against a number of autonomous racing quadrotor drones developed by Professor David Scaramuzza’s Robotics and Perception Group.

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Turkish Civil Aviation Authority Cooks Its Own Goose

Regulatory Body Extorts Turkish Pilots

The Turkish civil aviation authority seems to be maneuvering to hold the country’s pilots hostage. Against the backdrop of the looming summer tourism season, the Turkish Directorate General of Civil Aviation has decreed that Turkish pilots seeking to work for foreign airlines must obtain letters of consent from their previous employers. The agency has declared that it will hold the application verifications of pilots who resign without first obtaining such letters for six-months. 

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Queensland Police to Receive Bell 429 Helicopters

Giddy-up, Giddy-up, Giddy-up 429 …

Queensland—Australia’s northeastern-most and second-largest state—will take delivery of three new Bell 429 helicopters for Queensland Police Service’s POLAIR fleet. The helicopters—which are slated for delivery in late 2023–will be used to patrol southeast Queensland and support crime fighting efforts in the community. The Queensland Police Service will join the New South Wales Police—their neighbors to the south—as Bell 429 operators, with the latter having commenced operations of its trio of new Bell 429 helicopters last year.

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NTSB Prelim: Cessna TR182

(Pilot) Observed Flames Emitting From The Area Near The Pilot’S Rudder Pedals

On June 16, 2022, about 1128 Pacific daylights time, a Cessna, TR182, N756EG, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Davis, California. The pilot sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that he observed smoke coming from the instrument panel shortly after departure from runway 17 at University Airport, Davis, California.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (07.13.22)

Aero Linx: The International Association of Professional Gyroplane Training We are an Association of people who fly, build or regulate Gyroplanes, who have a dream of a single Gyroplane pilot licence accepted in every country around the world, and a community of Gyroplane Pilots who are free from accidents.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (07.13.22)

“Absolutely thrilling! The equipment is working perfectly, and nature is full of surprising beauty. Congratulations and thanks to our worldwide teams that made it possible.” Source:  John Mather, Webb senior project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, reacting to the first images received from the new NASA Webb space telescope.

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