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April 05, 2023

Brew Crew Blunder Wastes USAF Effort

The Flyover that Wasn’t

The fans were met, the venue set, o’er head the B-1 peeled—yet not one eye its splendor spied—as the ballpark’s roof was sealed ...

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New King Schools Programs Benefit CFIs

The Wisdom of Kings

Flight instructors strive in perpetuity to keep tabs on their students’ progress while perpetuating their own CFI careers. To those ends, King School has announced the introduction of two new initiatives: the Flight Instructor Program, designed to allow instructors to track their students’ progress through King Schools courses; and Your First Flying Lesson, a recruitment inducement of sorts by which CFIs can foster the enthusiasm of individuals with nascent interests in learning to fly.

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Virgin Orbit To Shut Down

What Goes Up …

In a regrettable instance vividly illustrative of the fierce competitiveness within the nascent commercial space-launch sector, Sir Richard Branson’s cash-strapped Virgin Orbit announced it will shut down operations and lay-off 675 of its 775 employees after failing to secure what a company representative called “meaningful funding.” Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart made the fateful announcement on Thursday, 30 March 2023 during an all-hands company meeting.

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Seaplane Pilots Association Revamps Website

Comprehensive Upgrades to Alaska Coverage

The Winter Haven, Florida-based SPA is about the complex and consuming business of revamping its website to provide users the most accurate and current information pertaining to the nigh-incomprehensible entirety of the Last Frontier’s lakes, cabins, and amenities. Upon completion of the upgrade, the SPA’s website will chronicle the names and locations of every navigable body of fresh and saltwater in Alaska, as well as the facilities located upon the waters and shores thereof.

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Washington State Legislature Considers SAF Bills

A Tale of Two States

Two bills currently before the Washington State Legislature, if adopted, stand to make the Evergreen State among the most competitive places in the world to produce and utilize SAF. Senate Bill 5447 seeks to establish a combination of tax incentives and clean-fuel standards for SAF production. Additionally, House Bill 1216 seeks to facilitate the siting of SAF or other clean energy facilities in regions around the state.

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E.U. CO2 Policy Ruinous to European Aviation Sector

The Pitfalls of Utopian Idiocies

The E.U.’s Fit for 55 legislation sets an initial goal of reducing European CO2 emissions by 55-percent in 2030—compared to 1990 levels. The initiative comprises bloc-level obligations to scale-up the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) by all flights departing European airports. European airlines fear the imminent loss of revenues, passengers, or both to rival air-carriers based outside the E.U., the whole of which are legally entitled to ignore the Fit for 55 legislation, which is broadly disparaged as a preliminary step toward the E.U. central government’s long-term goal of European carbon neutrality by 2050.  

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NTSB Releases Final Report on November 2022 Midair Collision

Two Piper J3C-65s Tangle over Texas

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its final report on a 03 November midair collision between two Piper J3C-65 airplanes conducting flight operations at Weslaco, Texas’s Mid Valley Airport (TXW).

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