Also: Aeroscraft Flies, New Dynon, FreeFlight's ADS-B Out Option, WWII Airmen Come Home, Swift Fuels Opens Up

ANN has confirmed that aviation’s resident ‘bad boy’ David Riggs has died in a crash of his Lancair while in China for an airshow. The accident occurred outside Shenyang when Riggs Experimental Amateur-Built Lancair 320 went down in a lake. Unfortunately, Riggs had a passenger that was also killed.

The latest addition to Boeing's Dreamliner stable ... the longer, higher-capacity, dash 9, made its first flight in the skies over Washington State Tuesday. The airliner lifted off the runway just after 11:00 am PDT and flew for about five hours, running tests of its flight controls and other systems. The airplane used in this flight testing is not a test airplane. It will eventually fly in Air New Zealand livery sometime next year. The world’s newest and most unique lighter-than-air aircraft, a half sized prototype of the Aeroscraft, dubbed the ‘Pelican’ made its first tethered flight September 7, though shifting winds at the former military base in Tustin, CA, where the project is being developed, prevented an untethered flight test. All this... and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!

Airborne 09.20.13 is chock full of info about the half-week period ending Friday, September 20th, 2013... 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 Glen Moyer, this episode covers:

• Foreseeable Tragedy: Aero-Crook David Riggs Killed In China Lancair Crash
• Boeing's 787-9 Makes First Flight
• First Flight For Aeroscraft Lighter-Than-Air Aircraft
• Embraer Delivers 1,000th E-Jet
• Boeing Forecasts Growing Need For New Pilots In Asia Pacific Region
• 50th National Championship Air Races Wraps Up Historic Week
• Dynon Introduces SkyView 7.0 With Charts
• FreeFlight Systems Develops ADS-B Out Retrofit Option
• FAA Updates Rules On Biennial Flight Reviews
• Barnstorming: The True Tragedy Of The David Riggs Story
• Remains Of WWII Airmen Identified
• Swift Fuels LLC Opens Aviation Gasoline Blending Facility
• UAV Operator 'Lands' Quadcopter Just In Front Of German Chancellor Merkel

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