Also: CAPSTONE Spacecraft, ALPA On The Warpath, SAS Strike, Tora! Tora! Tora!

Van's Aircraft is now flying the engineering prototype of the RV-15, their first high-wing bird, announced at Oshkosh last year. Van's JUST published a very short video of a test flight on YouTube and set the sport aviation community on fire.

The video shows N7357, conducting a pretty short takeoff followed by nearly a minute of inflight beauty shots. ScaleBirds’ Sam Watrous, has confirmed that their P-36 replica has now flown a number of times and outside of the usual teething pains, the P-36 looks to have a bright future. Overall controllability appears promising and the ground handling also appears to be on target. Instrumentation was a little off, so performance numbers are not yet available. The first flights were conducted by a respected member of the test flying community, Eliot Seguin, noting that “...you have a great little airplane here!” A number of Air National Guard aircraft—to include: A-10 Thunderbolt II, USAF Special Operations Command MC-12W Liberty, C-145A Combat Coyote, U-28 Draco, and USAF Reserves C-146a Wolfhound landed, took off and performed integrated combat turns on a closed 9,000-foot section of Michigan Highway-28. The occasion marked the first time integrated combat turns—which enable the quick rearming and refueling of running aircraft—have been conducted on a U.S. public highway. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!

Airborne 07.11.22 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Monday, July 11th, 2022... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Holland Lee. Holland is supported by ANN Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, as well as ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell. This episode covers:

• Breaking News... The RV-15 IS Flying!  
• ScaleBirds P-36 Radial-Engined Replica Is Flying 
• Highway Landings Advance Combat Agility
• NASA Re-Establishes Contact With CAPSTONE Spacecraft
• ALPA On The Warpath With DOT, Republic, SkyWest
• Piling On... Allied Pilots Association Voices Support for SAS Strike
• CAF Congratulates Tora! Tora! Tora! Crew As It Turns 50

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