Thu, Nov 02, 2023
Korean pilot MinChan Kim, 19, emerged as the overall winner of the 2023 FAI World Drone Racing Championship.

Coming in a close second was Japanese pilot Yuki Hashimoto, 16, who displayed remarkable speed and agility throughout the championship. Completing the top three was Victor Jonsson, 31, from Denmark, whose consistent and calculated flying secured him a spot on the podium. SpaceX vice-president for build and reliability William Gerstenmaier has urged lawmakers to streamline extant regulations for purpose of increasing the number of FAA personnel tasked with issuing space-launch licenses. The April 2023 inaugural orbital test-flight of SpaceX’s Starship platform—the largest, most powerful rocket yet conceived of by humankind—proved something less than a resounding success. Bombardier unveiled exclusive images of its EcoJet research project’s second test phase last week. The promising flight tests were conducted with an 18-foot-wide demonstrator and have generated important results, contributing to the advancement of this pivotal project. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of
Airborne-NextGen!!!

Airborne-NextGen 10.24.23 is chock full of info in this Weekly News Episode, Tuesday, October 24th, 2023... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Holland Lee, Sophie Hurlock, Brianne Cross, Christopher Odom, and Laura Hutson, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, and Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, this episode covers:
- 2023 World Drone Racing Championships In the Books
- FAA Allegedly Failing to Keep Up with Space-Launch Industry
- Bombardier Ramps Up EcoJet Initiative
- Archer to Launch International Operations Across UAE
- EPA Endangerment Finding on Leaded Avgas Elicits Stakeholder Response
- Honeywell to Develop Ground-Control Station for Supernal
- Cranfield University Joins European Alliance for Zero-Emission Aviation
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-NextGen" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, next week!
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