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Cirrus Chute Deployment Fails Over Texas, Pilot Still Makes Safe Landing

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A 2001 SR22, With A REPACKED CAPS Chute, Experiences Rocket Firing But NO Chute Deploy You know you're having a bad day when a flight goes so bad that you feel you must resort to using a parachute to see you safely through the flight... but the day is TRULY bad when that chute fails and leaves you to battle the emergency that you thought you had escaped from. Earlier Thursday, Cirrus Pilot Tim Valentine, flying near Addison Texas aboard N715CD, experienced some mode of instrument failure while ... Quick Read

Airborne 05.17.13: X-47B Carrier Launch, New CAF Base, Space Oddity... For Real

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Also: Wanna Buy A Control Tower?, SAC 7-35 Airdata Computer, Remembering Frank Beagle, Exp 35 Astros Drop In, 777X Team Named, AF Academy Grads Will Get Their Flyover! The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator (UCAS-D) completed its first ever carrier-based catapult launch from USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) off the coast of Virginia Tuesday. The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) has announced plans to establish the CAF National Airbase at a major metropolitan area and its intent to launch a ... Quick Read

Europe Looks To Develop New Cockpit Safety Protocols

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ACROSS Designed To Reduce Cockpit Stress And Workload Pilots are often noted for their ability to deal with high workloads. However, air accident studies have shown that times of high stress or a depleted crew can lead to potentially fatal errors. ACROSS ... an EU-funded research project developing new cockpit solutions to both manage and reduce aircrew operations ... is intended to develop, integrate and test new cockpit solutions to help manage peak workload during a flight, in order to ... Quick Read

Florida Air Tour Company Hopes To Add Helicopter Location

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But Some Neighboring Business Object Due To ... Noise In an effort to increase its business by appealing to cruise ship passengers, Cape Canaveral (FL) air tour operator Florida Biplanes & Helicopters hopes to gain permission to operate from a helipad in a commercial district. But some neighboring businesses, such as Florida Beer Co., say the aircraft is too loud, and have objected to the new location. ... Quick Read

No New State Plane For Nebraska This Year

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Budget Moves Forward Without $2.2 Million Appropriation For The Purchase The Nebraska legislature has been batting around a $2.2 million budget line item that would have allowed the state government to purchase a Beechcraft super King Air B200 from the University of Nebraska Foundation. But when the last of the bills that make up the state budget was presented last Friday, the money was not included. ... Quick Read

Boeing Questions New Neighbors At Gary, IN, Airport

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Concerned About How Close A New Hangar Will Be Built To Its Existing Structure The airport authority board for Chicago/Gary International Airport in Indiana has unanimously approved an application from East Lake Management and Development Corp. to use an existing hangar and build a new structure for its fleet of corporate jets. ... Quick Read

Environmental Group Seeks To Stop Practice Of Bison 'Hazing' With Helicopters

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Aircraft Used To Herd Animals In Wild Areas A practice knows as bison hazing used by the Montana Department of Livestock is the target of a renewed legal challenge from an environmental group called the Alliance for the Wild Rockies (AWR). ... Quick Read

Skeldar V-200 Successfully Completes Flight Test Milestones

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Key Capabilities Verified For Saab Vertical Lift UAS Defence and security company Saab has verified a number of key capabilities of its Skeldar V-200 vertical lift UAS through flight campaigns at different sites in US and Sweden demonstrating the system’s performance for both land and sea based operations. A number of successful customer demonstration flights have also been conducted. ... Quick Read

ANN FAQ: Feel The Propwash (Updated)

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New Form Makes Subscribing, Unsubscribing Even Easier While we're very proud of our newly-redesigned website, we know that some folks really enjoy the convenience of having their Aero-News dropped into their e-mail boxes every day. Our new site makes that process even easier than before. ... Quick Read

Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (05.16.13)

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"Today we saw a small, but significant pixel in the future picture of our Navy as we begin integration of unmanned systems into arguably the most complex warfighting environment that exists today: the flight deck of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier." Source: Vice Adm. David Buss, commander, Naval Air Forces. ... Quick Read

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