Thu, Apr 02, 2015
A prototype BD-22 has gone down in Port St. Lucie, FL, resulting in the fatal injury of the pilot, the only person on board the airplane.
The pilot was identified as 67-year-old Joseph Loney of Port St. Lucie. One of the last of the 80 men to climb aboard 16 B-25 bombers and launch from an aircraft carrier in April 1942 to attack Tokyo has gone west. ANN has learned that Lt. Col. Robert Hite passed away Sunday Morning at a nursing home in Nashville, TN. It’s reported that Hite had been among eight of the Raiders to be captured by the Japanese and imprisoned for 40 months after the raid. For most of the last decade, the Aero-News Network, Aero-TV and Airborne has been honored to partner with the Aircraft Electronics Association to bring exciting news about the latest and greatest avionics developments to the aviation world. Live Aero-TV high-definition coverage of the AEA 2015 Convention will run through the week and here’s a peek at the planned schedule. We start things off on Wednesday, April 8 at 9:30 in the morning Eastern Time with the exciting and fast-paced live TV coverage of the Opening And the amazing AEA New
Product Introduction program. www.aero-news.net/live. All this... and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 04.02.15 is chock full of info in this Daily news episode for Thursday, April 2nd, 2015... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Ashley Hale, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton, and Earl Downs, this episode covers:
- BD-22 Prototype Down, Pilot Lost
- Gone West: Lt. Col Robert Hite
- ANN Announces AEA 2015 Convention Aero-TV LIVE Webcast Schedule
- OSHA Orders Pilot To Be Reinstated After Being Illegally Fired
- AirVenture Theater In The Woods Preliminary Schedule Set
- Aero-Community Update: Airborne Partnership Overview
- Russian T-50 Program Sees Funding Cuts
- Balloon-Assisted UAV Brings Back Stratospheric Aerosol Samples
- Russia Says It Is In Talks With The U.S. For New Space Station
- Paul Tibbets' Grandson Will Command B-2 Unit
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 for the next edition of "Airborne" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, tomorrow!
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