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The CAF's C-47 transport airplane That's All, Brother is a pretty special airplane. It has the distinction of being the first aircraft to cross into Europe on D-Day. Last week, the airplane had a pretty special passenger. Dick Cole, who is the last surviving person who flew the famous Doolittle Raid over Tokyo in 1942, was aboard as the CAF commemorated the anniversary of the D-Day invasion. The FAA has accepted an application for a type certificate from Workhorse Group
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A GippsAero GA 10 turboprop airplane went down June 4 during flight testing at the Mojave Air and Space Port, resulting in the likely destruction of the airplane. The accident occurred around 1100 local time on June 4. The airplane was being flight tested at the National Test Pilot School, which was performing flight analysis for GippsAero, according to NTPS spokesman Dr. Alan Peterson. He said that no NTPS students, faculty or aircraft were involved in the accident. GippsAero sp
“FAA needs to accelerate its move away from the ‘one size fits all’ philosophy for UAS operations.” Source: George Ligler, proprietor of GTL Associates and chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee on Assessing the Risks of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration.
The General Aviation Advisory Group (GA Advisory Group) was announced by the Australian Government in October 2016 to provide advice to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport on matters affecting the General Aviation (GA) sector.
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