FAA Announces Final Commercial Drone Regulations: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it has published the final regulations for Part 107 operational rules of commercial drone operations (small unmanned aircraft systems or UAS).
RANS Designs says their RANS S-20LS Raven has earned a special airworthiness certificate in the light-sport category (SLSA) from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and that the company will now offer a factory built version along with the previously available kit version available in the experimental category.
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Stealth Air Force LSB Boeing B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber Unveiled [ Picture ] – Looking very much like the current B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, the first picture of the coming B-21 LSB or Long Range Strike Bomber appears nearly identical.
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Boeing KC-46 Pegasus Tanker First F/A-18 Aerial Refueling Test Picture: a combined Boeing/U.S. Air Force aircrew aboard the KC-46 tanker successfully refueled an F/A-18 aircraft in flight February 10, 2016.
ISS resupply spacecraft Progress 59 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:09 a.m. (1:09 p.m. in Kazakhstan) Tuesday on a Soyuz rocket bound for the space station. Right after it separated from the Soyuz booster’s third stage, an unspecified problem prevented Russian flight controllers from determining whether navigational antennas had deployed and whether fuel system manifolds had pressurized as planned.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced a much anticipated Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) addressing regulations governing commercial drone operations in the USA. Most observers were surprised by the relatively relaxed regulations, though the rules are far from final at this time.
US President Obama says that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down. There were 298 passengers and crew on board, none survived.
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