Also: NOAA Weather Balloons, UT Plans To Hire 35K, Bell 505 Emergency Flotation, MN HS Aviation Program 

A dozen men have walked on the moon... yet today, only four survive to relate the extraordinary personal experiences of having walked the surface of a world other than Earth. Alan Bean, astronaut, artist and Lunar Module Pilot, has gone west at the age of 86.

Bean’s life was extraordinary and spanned two pivotal manned space programs. He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at age 37 in November 1969, joining Pete Conrad in the landing, and served as the Lunar Module Pilot. He made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second manned mission to Skylab -- America’s first manned space station. The prototype Belite Chipper has gone down in Anchorage, AK after an accident that pilot/builder Jim Wiebe attributes to likely fuel starvation. Pilot/Designer Jim Wiebe is opretty much unscathed. A new variant of the Diamond Aircraft DART series completed its first flight earlier this month, performing a basic flight program including a couple of low approaches, system checks, landing gear operation at different speeds as well as short field take off demonstration. The DART-550 is powered by a General Electric GE H75-100 turboprop engine with 550hp featuring electronic engine and propeller control (EEPC) system, a five blade, full feather MT propeller and features Martin Baker MK16 ejection seats. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!

Airborne 05.30.18 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Wednesday, May 30th, 2018... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Brianne Cross, Christopher Odom, and Laura Hutson, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalist Tom Patton, this episode covers:

• And Then, There Were Four... Alan Bean Goes West
• Belite Chipper Down In Alaska
• Diamond's Aerobatic DART-550 Flies For The First Time 
• NOAA Adopts Technology To Automate Weather Balloon Launches 
• United Technologies Plans To Hire 35,000 People
• DART Announces FAA Approval Of Its Bell 505 Emergency Flotation System 
• Minnesota High School To Offer Aviation Program 

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