Also: 777 Improvements, Making Sense of UAV Hysteria, A4A Progress Report, CAM VA Approval, ALIAS, FMS Market Update
United Technologies Board of Directors has authorized a review of strategic alternatives for the corporation's Sikorsky Aircraft business, including a potential tax-free spinoff. As part of a portfolio review announced last December it was decided to look into the possibility of UTC and Sikorsky becoming separate companies. Three crew members from Expedition 42 consisting of Commander Barry Wilmore of NASA and two Russian flight engineers returned to Earth last Wednesday after a 167-day mission on the International Space Station that included hundreds of scientific experiments and several spacewalks. The FAA has told a UAV pilot in Maine to take down a personal website because he was selling photographs he had taken using his small UAV. According to the FAA, that's a "commercial use" and is prohibited. The weird thing in this story is that he was told not only to stop commercial use of the UAV, but that he had to take down his entire website! All this... and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 03.13.15 is chock full of info in this Daily news episode for Friday, March 13th, 2015... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Ashley Hale, 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:
United Technologies Mulls Sikorsky Spinoff
Expedition 42 Crew Returns Safely To Earth
FAA Tells UAV Pilot To Delete His Website
Boeing Unveils 777 Improvements
Barnstorming: Making Sense of UAV Hysteria
Airlines For America Recaps Year Of Progress
NBAA's CAM Program Approved For VA Benefits
ALIAS Prepares For Accelerated Take-Off
Flight Management System Market Worth $912 Million By 2020
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