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April 30, 2015

Airborne 04.30.15: ECA Condemns 'Pay-To-Fly', Sun Country, UAV Pilot Tased

Also: True Blue Power, AEA, Quadcopter Type Cert?, House Armed Services Committee, NASA Balloon, Textron 1Q/15

We often hear about airline pilots wanting higher wages, but here’s a case where the airlines require the pilots to pay them for the privilege of flying their airplanes. There is a growing trend in Europe that requires young pilots to pay an airline for flying its aircraft and passengers. The European Cockpit Association strongly denounces what they call an unacceptable practice used by airlines and intermediary agencies in Europe, and calls upon EU decision-makers to ban such “Pay-t

Airborne 04.30.15: ECA Condemns 'Pay-To-Fly', Sun Country, UAV Pilot Tased

Also: True Blue Power, AEA, Quadcopter Type Cert?, House Armed Services Committee, NASA Balloon, Textron 1Q/15

We often hear about airline pilots wanting higher wages, but here’s a case where the airlines require the pilots to pay them for the privilege of flying their airplanes. There is a growing trend in Europe that requires young pilots to pay an airline for flying its aircraft and passengers. The European Cockpit Association strongly denounces what they call an unacceptable practice used by airlines and intermediary agencies in Europe, and calls upon EU decision-makers to ban such “Pay-to-fly” schemes. As the pilots of Sun Country picketed Friday outside of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association announced sup

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Bell Employees Face Layoffs

Some 1,100 Jobs To Be Cut From Global Workforce

Despite Textron's report of higher first-quarter earnings over 2014, employees of its Bell Helicopter subsidiary are facing layoffs across its global workforce as production of the V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft falls and the market for civilian helicopters continues to be soft.

Airbus Foundation Coordinates Relief Flight To Nepal

Medical Personnel And Aid Relief Transported Aboard An A350 XWB Test Aircraft

The Airbus Foundation has coordinated with the French Government’s Crisis Center the transport of 50 humanitarian staff, 21 metric tons of food and medical aid from Paris to Kathmandu onboard an Airbus A350 XWB test aircraft. These are destined to the victims of the terrible earthquake that shook the country on 25 April, the worst in more than 80 years, leaving thousands of people dead, injured or sleeping in the open.

EASA Approves Max Gross Weight Increase For MD 900/902 Explorer

Certification Approves Additional 270 Pounds Of Payload capabilities

EASA has approved an increased maximum gross weight of 6,770 pounds for the MD 900/902 Explorer helicopter. The extra 270 pound payload will allow operators in all market segments to expand the already superior mission capabilities of this versatile twin-engine aircraft. The FAA previously approved this increase in March 2013.

ISU Granted FAA Approval For Unmanned Flight At Two Locations

Indiana State University First In That State To Be Granted COA

Indiana State University is the first higher education institution in the state to receive approval to fly unmanned aerial vehicles.

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AAIB To Investigate Accident At Airshow

Pilot David Jenkins Was Fatally Injured During Performance In Edge 360 Airplane

The U.K.'s Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) has opened a query into an accident which occurred last Wednesday at the opening of the Old Buckenham Airshow in Norfolk in the eastern portion of England.

Nurse Falls From Helicopter During Rescue

Had Been Working To Retrieve A Woman Who Had Fallen While Hiking In Texas

A nurse working for STAR Flight in Texas has been fatally injured in a fall from a helicopter during a rescue operation.

Mexican T-6 Down During Air Show

Pilots Ejected From The Aircraft Before It Impacted Terrain

A Mexican Air Force Hawker Beechcraft T-6C Texan participating in an aerial demonstration went down Saturday, but fortunately both pilots were able to eject from the aircraft before it impacted terrain.

Aerolíneas Ejecutivas Acquires Six New Learjet 75 Aircraft

The New Aircraft Will Be Added To ALE’s MexJet Fleet

Aerolíneas Ejecutivas (ALE) has introduced its new fleet of 6 Learjet 75 business aircraft at an event which took place at ALE’s hangar and facilities at the Toluca International Airport. The aircraft are currently available for charter and will be operated through ALE’s MexJet fleet.

Airmen Return A-10 To Air After Catastrophic Engine Failure In Iraq

Number One Engine Failed During Refueling Mission

A maintenance repair team from the 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron recently responded to an A-10C Thunderbolt II that suffered a noncombat-related engine failure and had to divert to Al Asad Air Base, Iraq.

NASA, Boeing ecoDemonstrator 757 Plane Visiting Shreveport For Bug Research

Will Test Non-Stick Coatings On Wings To Reduce Insect Residue

NASA will test non-stick wing coatings designed to minimize insect residue and help reduce aircraft fuel consumption during flights in Shreveport, Louisiana during the next two weeks.

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Air New Zealand Selects PurePower Engines For A320neo Aircraft

Deliveries Of Engines For 13 Aircraft To Begin In 2017

Air New Zealand has selected Pratt & Whitney's PurePower PW1100G-JM engines for 13 firm A320neo family aircraft. The agreement also provides fleet management support services for up to 16 years. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2017 and continue through 2019. The PurePower Geared Turbofan (GTF) family of engines has completed more than 17,000 hours of testing, including 4,000 hours of flight time.

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President Obama Nominates Coast Guard Vice Admiral To Head TSA

Peter V. Neffenger Has Served As Vice Commandant Of The U.S. Coast Guard Since May 2014.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced his intent to nominate Vice Admiral Peter V. Neffenger as Assistant Secretary for the Transportation Security Administration at the Department of Homeland Security.

Classic Aero-TV: Historically Unique -- Marlin Horst's Exquisite Fairchild 71

Exotic Rebuild Reveals Aerial Work Of Art

During EAA AirVenture 2014, ANN's Michael Maya Charles took the time to get a history lesson about a great airplane from days gone by. By 1929 aviation was being recognized for its ability to transport people and cargo to areas that were extremely hard to get to. This led the Fairchild Company to come up with a single engine transport plane known as the Fairchild 71. ANN's roving reporter met up with Marlin Horst who was responsible for the restoration of one of these classic Fairchild's. In this video, Horst recounts the massive project of first locating an airplane as

Russian Progress Cargo Vessel Suffers Malfunction After Launch

Spacecraft Out Of Control, Docking Plans Scrapped

Russia launched its Progress 59 mission to resupply ISS Tuesday at 3:09 a.m. EDT (1:09 p.m. local time in Baikonur) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, but the spacecraft suffered a malfunction shortly after launch that will prevent it from delivering the more than 6,000 pounds of food, fuel, and supplies on board to the International Space Station crew.

House Aviation Subcommittee To Hold Roundtable Meeting On Safety Issues

Part Of Process For FAA Reauthorization

The Subcommittee on Aviation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), will conduct a roundtable policy discussion Thursday on aviation safety issues as the Subcommittee and the full Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure continue to work toward a bill to reauthorize the FAA.

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House Science Committee’s NASA Budget Bill Draws Space Community Support

Chairman Smith: 'We Must Continue To Invest In NASA As The Only Government Agency Responsible For Space Exploration'

The two-year NASA reauthorization bill introduced Tuesday by House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) and lead sponsor Congressman Steven Palazzo (R-MS) and fifteen cosponsors has drawn letters of support from the Planetary Society, the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership/Citizens for Spaceflight Exploration-Texas.

Problems With iPad EFBs Ground Several American Airlines Flights

More Than 24 Flights Affected By Software Issue

American Airlines pilots using iPads loaded with Jeppesen EFB software were grounded for a brief time Tuesday when problems arose with the software loaded on the devices.

AeroSports Update: S-LSA Transition Training

Jumping Out Of A Bonanza Into An S-LSA Seems Like It Should Be A Snap, But In Reality, It May Not Be

As an already certificated pilot, when we hear the term, “transition training,” we commonly associate it with moving from a familiar airplane to a more complex airplane. Because special-light sport aircraft (S-LSA) have simplicity regulated into their design, it’s easy to not correlate them with the need for transition training. After all, aren’t they just little two-place planes like a Cessna 152?

Florida UAV Bill Would Make Most Unmanned Aircraft Photography Illegal

But No Criminal Penalties Are Included In The Measure

A bill heading to the desk of Florida Governor Rick Scott would make it illegal to use a UAV to capture images of "privately owned real property or of the owner, tenant, or occupant of such property with the intent to conduct surveillance without his or her written consent if a reasonable expectation of privacy exists."

Airborne 04.29.15: AMA Responds To NPRM, Johnny Kazian Goes West, Solar Impulse2

Also: BRS Chutes, Noise Complaints Ground Aerobat, Airline Thefts, UAV Flight School, Uber Helis, Drone Mail Delivery

The Academy of Model Aeronautics has published its response to the FAA’s notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the regulating of small unmanned aerial systems, also known as sUAS. The AMA website leads into their response with the following statement: “The Academy believes that the FAA must address and adjudicate the 33,000 plus comments to its interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft and resolve the issues and concerns presented before moving forward in finaliz

Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (04.30.15)

"We should be OK. The program plans for these kinds of things to happen." Source: Astronaut Scott Kelly, on the loss of the Progress 59 cargo vessel carrying supplies for ISS.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (04.30.15): Maintain

To continue to follow, or work within, certain conditions: maintain Flight Level 290 until further advised; and to make sure that certain conditions continue: ATC must maintain separation

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (04.30.15)

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