The US Champs Have Become The World's Champs!

One of the most rewarding events ANN and Aero-TV have participated in over the last year was AIA's extraordinary Team America Rocketry Challenge. Fun, inspiring, challenging... all these words do little to impart the amazing event that we witnessed and shot over the course of a few days... and we can't wait to do it again. However; one of the truly great 'bennies' of this event was meeting the next generation of America's rocket people... and that includes the TARC 2010 National Champions, Penn Manor High School... who went on to the International competition and took ALL the marbles there as well.

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Potentially Devastating Crash Yielding Few Details At This Point

While the NTSB will, necessarily, need a lot more time before filing a final report, the pictures and other details making themselves known show one thing, conclusively... that this could have been a truly tragic accident --and for reasons well beyond the hazards encountered by those aboard. Pictures and ground track data indicate that the Premier came perilously close to taking a course/energy line that could have severely hazarded people on the ground... and the pictures of nearby photographers running to avoid the approaching jet provide dramatic testimony to the possibilities.

Five-Segment Booster "Key Element" To NASA Heavy-Lift Capability

A second fully developed Ares five-segment solid rocket motor, known as Development Motor-2 (DM-2), will be tested in the Utah desert by Aliant Techsystems (ATK) and NASA later this month.

Adds Battery Backup Power To Trilogy Design

The FAA has granted TSO authorization to L-3 Avionics Systems for the Trilogy ESI-2000 Electronic Standby Instrument with battery backup, the company announced Thursday.

Training Tool Already In Place And In Use In Dallas

The first Embraer CAE Training Services (ECTS) Phenom 300 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) has been qualified by the FAA, EASA, and the Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency (Agencia Nacional de Aviacao Civil - ANAC).

Longer Time On Wing, No Scheduled Hot Section Inspections Or Overhauls

GE Aviation has made an on-wing engine upgrade program available for certain configurations of the CF34-3A2 engine, which will allow the engines to go from a hard-time maintenance schedule to an on-condition maintenance schedule.

Nondirectional Beacon An L/MF or UHF radio beacon transmitting nondirectional signals whereby the pilot of an aircraft equipped with direction finding equipment can determine his/her bearing to or from the radio beacon and "home" on or track to or from the station. When the radio beacon is installed in conjunction with the Instrument Landing System marker, it is normally called a Compass Locator.

Aero-Linx: VHPA Online Museum An On-line Museum of the Helicopter War in Southeast Asia, this site is dedicated to the men who fought the war. It is a tribute to those who did not return. It's the hope of all involved that you will find and enjoy information on your unit as well as others. If you are not a veteran of the war we welcome your visit and hope that you will gain a new perspective of what it was like for those who were there. The mission is not to entertain but rather to educate the viewer and provide a glimpse of day to day life for the Pilots and crewman who lived it...

"A review of amateur video taken at KOSH showed the accident airplane in a left base turn to final for runway 18R. The airplane appeared to overshoot the runway centerline during this turn and then level its wings momentarily before entering a slight right bank simultaneously as the nose of the airplane pitched up. The airplane then turned left toward the runway centerline and began a descent. During this descent the airplane’s pitch appeared to increase until the airplane entered a right bank and struck the grass area west of the runway in a nose down, right wing low attitude." Source: Excerpted from the NTSB Preliminary Report filed in the early stages of the investigation into the probable cause for the crash of Beech Premier N6JR,

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