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Airborne 09.25.23: OSIRIS-REx Returns!, AF Pilot Shortage, NAA Record

Also: FlexJet Goes Starlink, NASA Astro Heads Home, EAA AeroEducate, De Havilland Project

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) team has completed a truly historic event... against incredible odds. 

A well-traveled capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu is now on Earth. It landed at 8:52 a.m. MDT (10:52 a.m. EDT) on Sunday, in a targeted area of DoD’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City. The Air Force will fall approximately 120-aviators short of its fiscal-year 2023 pilot recruitment and training goals. The service ascribes the shortfall to “mechanical issues with training aircraft.” As fiscal 2023 draws to a close, the USAF anticipates finishing the period having pinned wings on only 1,300 of the 1,470 new pilots it aspired to graduate over the preceding 12-months. Aero-News Network congratulates Sonex builder Lou Toth, who set a National Aeronautics Association (NAA) speed over a recognized course record in Dreamcicle, his AeroVee powered, tricycle gear, orange-and-white-liveried Sonex The record was set in Class R for Microlights per European standards. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne-Unlimited!!!

Airborne 09.25.23 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Monday, September 25th, 2023... 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:

  • OSIRIS-REx Returns Asteroid Sample to Earth
  • USAF to Fall Short of Fiscal 2023 Pilot Production Goal
  • Sonex Pilot Sets NAA Speed Record
  • Flexjet Launches Starlink Inflight Connectivity 
  • Record-Setting NASA Astronaut Readies for Return to Earth  
  • EAA AeroEducate-Estes Rockets Partnership Announced  
  • County Council Approves De Havilland Project Despite Opposition

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