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August 31, 2019

FAA Eases Restrictions On Drone Operations Over Some Federal Facilities

Working To Ensure That Certain Restrictions Are Narrowly Tailored And Remain In Effect Only When Necessary

The FAA is working with other federal agencies to minimize the impact of flight restrictions on drone operators flying near select federal facilities.

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Gatwick Airport Initiates Planning Process To Use Its Existing Northern Runway

Confirms Its Intent To Start Preparing A Planning Application To The Planning Inspectorate (PINS)

Gatwick Airport has formally started the process to bring its existing Northern Runway into routine use by submitting a notice to the Planning Inspectorate (PINS) of its intention to prepare an application for development consent.

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Testing Of X-59 Virtual Forward Window Successful

Test Flown Aboard A Beechcraft King Air

NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST, aircraft is poised to usher in a new dawn of supersonic commercial aviation through its culmination of unique technologies that lend themselves to quiet supersonic flight.

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CIMON Is Back On Earth After 14 Months On The ISS

A Successor To The Technology Experiment Will Have Additional Functionality, And Is Currently Being Built And Tested By Airbus

CIMON has returned to Earth: the Crew Interactive Mobile CompanioN (CIMON), the astronaut assistant featuring artificial intelligence, arrived back on its home planet on board a Dragon spacecraft from US company SpaceX. The SpaceX-18 undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on August 27, 2019  at 16:59 Central European Summer Time (CEST). The capsule then touched down in the Pacific Ocean around 260 nautical miles southwest of Los Angeles and was recovered at 22:21h CEST.

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U.K. CAA Demands Explanation From BA Over Cancellation Confusion

Airline Told Passengers Flights Would Be Cancelled Outside Planned BALPA Strike Dates

The U.K Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says it is "seeking an explanation" from British Airways over notifications of flight cancellations prior to planned strikes by BALPA pilots in September.

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CNAF, X-Force Create Model to Improve Super Hornet Readiness

Force Readiness Analytics Group (FRAG) Analyzes Data In The Field Of Aviation Readiness

Graduate students from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) joined data scientists from Commander, Naval Air Forces (CNAF) at Naval Air Station North Island for the first-ever collaboration between the National Security Innovation Network’s (NSIN) X-Force Program and CNAF.

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ExoMars Rover Leaves U.K. For Testing Ahead Of Launch

Mission Is Planned For July 2020

The European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover is leaving the U.K. for Airbus in Toulouse where it will undergo crucial testing ahead of delivery to Thales Alenia Space.

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Air Force Base Selects Dedrone For Small UAS Threat Tracking And Defense

F.E. Warren Air Force Base Elects To Continue Using Dedrone's DroneTracker Platform

Dedrone, a provider of small UAS (sUAS) detection and tracking technology announced the continuation of their license agreement with F.E. Warren Air Force Base. F.E. Warren was selected to test the Dedrone platform in June of 2018 as part of a DIU testing phase that included six Department of Defense (DoD) facilities, and has been continuously testing, evaluating and using the capability for over a year.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (08.31.19)

“Our goal is to create an electronic means of vision for the X-59 pilot that provides performance and safety levels equivalent to or better than forward-facing windows.” Source: Randy Bailey, XVS subsystem lead.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (08.31.19): P-Factor

A tendency for an aircraft to yaw to the left due to the descending propeller blade on the right producing more thrust than the ascending blade on the left.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (08.31.19)

Ercoupe Owners Club

From the website: "We fly an airplane that was the peak of pre-World War II development. It took more than a decade and a half before the features of the Ercoupe were the norm in civil aviation. Yet the industry finally followed.

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