Wed, Jul 15, 2015
Following the record breaking oceanic flight of 5 days and 5 nights in the solar powered airplane by André Borschberg, Solar Impulse will undergo maintenance repairs on the batteries.
Despite having completed the longest and most difficult leg of the Round the World Solar Flight, the solar powered airplane has suffered battery damages due to overheating. The Solar Impulse team said in a news release that the damage to certain parts of the batteries is irreversible and will require repairs and replacements that will take several weeks to work through. A former Navy pilot and Top Gun graduate who is in prison on 31 charges of producing child pornography apparently sought help from China to get him out of jail. USA Today reports Lt. Daniel Chase Harris, who was found guilty in March of multiple charges of producing child pornography, allegedly wrote a letter denying the charges. Wright “B” Flyer Inc.’s one-of-a-kind airplane is ready to travel to the world’s biggest general aviation fly-in…by road. The slow-flying, open-air Wright biplane isn’t designed for cross-country flights, so it was loaded into its custom semi-trailer last Saturday for the
490-mile journey to Oshkosh for AirVenture 2015. EAA has invited the Miamisburg-based nonprofit organization to exhibit and fly the airplane for the first time at AirVenture. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 07.14.15 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode Tuesday, July 14th, 2015... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Brianne Cross, 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:
- Battery Issues Ground Solar Impulse 2 In Hawaii
- Navy Pilot In Prison Allegedly Offers U.S. Secrets To China
- Wright ‘B’ Flyer Headed For Oshkosh
- AirVenture Innovation Preview Debuts Saturday Night!
- Aero-Calendar 07.14.15
- Point Mugu Welcomes Last Navy EA-6B Prowler
- ATSB Releases Report To Educate Aerial Agriculture And Firefighting Pilots
- XCOR Has Hosted Its First XCOR Lynx Customer Day
- Teamsters Local 357 Files Lawsuit Against Republic Airways
- FAA Grants MT-Propeller STC For 5-Blade Prop On PA-46-310P/-350P
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 next week for the next edition of "Airborne Unlimited" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, tomorrow!
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