FAA Orders ‘Urgent’ 787 Repair After Engine Fails at 20,000 Feet
- FAA says pilots need updated instructions within seven days
- New version of General Electric's GEnx-1B engines prone to ice
Dutch students open world's first pop-up drone cafe [feedly]
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Dutch_students_open_worlds_first_pop-up_drone_cafe_999.html
The Hague (AFP) April 23, 2016
Would you like a drone with your cocktail? The world's first cafe using the tiny domestic unmanned aircraft as servers has opened in a Dutch university. The pop-up drone cafe will be serving up all weekend as part of celebrations for the "Dream and Dare" festival marking the 60th anniversary of the Eindhoven University of Technology. The 20 students behind the project, who spent nine mon
China to become aerospace power by 2030 [feedly]
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China aims for deeper space with new generation rockets [feedly]
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Beijing (XNA) Apr 22, 2016
China will take its new generation heavy-lift rocket Long March-5 to the skies later this year, and is planning even bigger models. According to Wang Jue, head of the Long March-5 project, the rocket has a liftoff weight of 869 tonnes, with a payload capacity of 25 tonnes to the low Earth orbit (LEO) and 14 tonnes to the geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). "It can carry more than two
Airbus calls for new aviation inventors - News24 [feedly]
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Cape Town - Airbus BizLab is a global aerospace business accelerator helping start-ups and Airbus internal entrepreneurs work together to speed up transforming their innovative ideas into valuable businesses. After its first successful year since ...
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Airbus Gains New Financing Ally in US - Wall Street Journal [feedly]
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Airbus Gains New Financing Ally in US
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Airbus Group SE will open itself up to financing from an unlikely source when the first jet is delivered Monday from its new factory in Alabama: the U.S. Export-Import Bank. The government-owned bank's guarantees have helped finance hundreds of Boeing ...
Students wowed by star UAV on China's space day - China.org.cn
China.org.cn | Students wowed by star UAV on China's space day China.org.cn Some 150 middle school students had a chance to take a close look at the Caihong [rainbow] series unmanned aerial vehicles – China's most popular UAVs on the export market – at the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA) on April 24, 2016, ... |
US Approves Sale of Surface-to-Air Missiles to Qatar | LM Awarded $73.8M FMS Contract for Japan’s F-35A | Maiden Flight of X-2 Stealth Pleases Mitsu Heavy Industries [feedly]
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Bombardier Creates Dedicated, Worldwide Learjet Aircraft Sales Team [feedly]
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NASA Marks Success for Most Complex Drone Traffic Management Test Yet at FAA Test Sites
In the first and largest demonstration of its kind, NASA and operators from the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test sites across the country flew 22 drones simultaneously to assess rural operations of NASA’s UAS traffic management (UTM) research platform.
“We didn’t have any testing problems today,” said Parimal Kopardekar, manager of NASA’s Safe Autonomous Systems Operations project and lead of NASA’s UTM efforts. “NASA extensively tested Technical Capability Level one and worked very closely with the FAA test sites, and the UTM research platform performed well. This test would not have been possible without the six FAA test sites – it was a collaborative effort to ensure a successful test.”
Full Text: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-marks-success-for-most-complex-drone-traffic-management-test-yet-at-faa-test-sites