Also: Drone Sightings, Aero-Calendar, FAA UAS Symposium, VFA-213, Hawaiian Airlines, Piper SAIB, NASA

The Patrouille de France, France's military jet demonstration team, has released details on its ambitious six-week visit to the United States and Canada this spring. The team's first public appearance will be a photo mission with the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor as a backdrop on Saturday, March 25.

Two days later, on Monday, March 27, the team will conduct a second photo mission in Washington, DC. Among their other appearances, the team's first full demonstration will be at the Melbourne Air Show in Florida on April 1 and 2. The Patrouille de France will also perform at Sun n Fun on Monday, April 3 and Tuesday, April 4. After several days of breathless rumors, DJI has unveiled the new Matrice 200 and 210 drone series, purpose-built for professional users to perform aerial inspections and collect data. The M200 series’ folding body is easy to carry and easy to set up, with a weather- and water-resistant body, ideal for field operations. It offers DJI’s first upward-facing gimbal mount, opening up the undersides of bridges, towers and other structures to inspection. It is compatible with DJI’s powerful X4S and X5S cameras, as well as the high-powered Z30 zoom camera and the XT camera for thermal imaging. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water. The discovery sets a new record for greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!

Airborne 02.28.17 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Tuesday, February 28th, 2017... 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:

• French Military Jet Team Announces North American Tour Schedule 
• DJI Introduces M200 Series Drones
• NASA Finds Batch Of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star
• FAA Releases Updated Drone Sighting Reports 
• Aero-Calendar
• Registration Now Open For The FAA UAS Symposium
• VFA-213 'Fighting Blacklions' Holds Airborne Change Of Command
• Hawaiian Airlines Orders Trent 700 Engines
• FAA Issues SAIB For Certain Piper Aircraft
• NASA Establishes New Public-Private Partnerships

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