Fri, Jun 03, 2016
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, announced that they have conducted the first flight of the second flight test aircraft of their Mitsubishi Regional Jet, commonly referred to as the MRJ.
The aircraft took off from Nagoya Airport and confirmed its basic characteristics and functionality in airspace off the Pacific coast. According to Mitsubishi, this airplane will carry out flight tests primarily to confirm MRJ's performances in the future. “Stand by for a hard impact” were the words uttered by mission control to the astronauts aboard Apollo 15 in 1971 when it landed in the ocean on only two of its three parachutes inflated. Everything worked out fine, and now Blue Origin will be making a test of a similar occurrence with their crew capsule. Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said in an email last week that the next flight of the New Shepard, the fourth for this particular booster, will carry a mockup crew capsule as usual. But this time, a failure of one of the three parachutes is planned. General aviation pilots always love it when their airport gets fixed up, but this repair is about a different kind of airport. The City Assembly of Sitka, Alaska has voted to fund repairs to
the city's seaplane dock, which had been condemned over the winter. The dock had been deemed unusable after one of the pilings crumbled. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 06.02.16 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Thursday, June 2nd, 2016... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Brianne Cross and Christopher Odom, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton, and Earl Downs, this episode covers:
- MRJ's FTA-2 Completes First Flight
- Blue Origin Plans Parachute Failure Test On Next Flight
- Sitka, AK Seaplane Dock Slated For Refurbishment
- Congress Deflates JLENS Program
- Aero-Community Update
- Three Groups Vie For DARPA Contract
- Hartzell Approves Intercontinental Jet As Recommended Service Facility
- KC-46s Set To Arrive At First Basing Locations By Late 2017
- National Model Aviation Museum Announces New Exhibit
- Viking Announces First Russian Twin Otter Factory Endorsed Service Center
Get Comprehensive, Real-Time, 24/7 coverage of the latest aviation and aerospace stories anytime, at aero-news.net. And be sure to join us again next week for the next edition of "Airborne Unlimited" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, tomorrow!
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