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ANN’s Daily Aero-Linx (10.03.23)

Aero Linx: The Charles Lindbergh Site Early in the morning on May 20, 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh took off in The Spirit of St. Louis from Roosevelt Field near New York City. Flying northeast along the coast, he was sighted...

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ANN’s Daily Aero-Term (10.01.23): Standard Terminal Arrival (STAR)

Standard Terminal Arrival (STAR) A preplanned instrument flight rule (IFR) air traffic control arrival procedure published for pilot use in graphic and/or textual form. STARs provide transition from the en route structure to an outer fix or an instrument approach...

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (09.30.23)

“With the steadfast support of Daher as the TBM manufacturer—along with the vital contributions of many volunteers—TBMOPA has evolved a comprehensive safety program that can be of significant benefit to members in maintaining their aircraft and aviator skills at the...

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ANN’s Daily Aero-Term (09.30.23): Speed Segments

Speed Segments Portions of the arrival route between the transition point and the vertex along the optimum flight path for which speeds and altitudes are specified. There is one set of arrival speed segments adapted from each transition point to...

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ANN’s Daily Aero-Linx (09.30.23)

Aero Linx: The Luscombe Endowment The Luscombe Endowment is here to support public inquiry into things related to the Luscombe aircraft; Aircraft operation, Aircraft maintenance, and the history of the Luscombe Aircraft Company(s). You will find a large archive of...

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ANN’s Daily Aero-Linx (10.01.23)

Aero Linx: Youth Aviation Adventure Program (YAA) In 1997, Steve Wathen and Dan Kiser founded the Youth Aviation Adventure Program (YAA) in Columbus, Ohio as a way to help Steve’s son and other scouts from their troop earn their Boy...

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Rotor X/Rotorway Community Seeks Answers From Troubled Company

Numerous Reports of Undelivered Kits, Unsent Refunds, and Incomplete Deliveries Abound News, Information, and Opinion by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell In covering the aviation community for the 50 years (yup, I’m getting old…), since my first articles appeared in sport...

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ANN’s Daily Aero-Linx (09.29.23)

Aero Linx: The International Miniature Aerobatic Club (IMAC) Scale aerobatics is aerobatic operation of a radio controlled scale model of full-sized aerobatic competition plane. While other disciplines within the radio control community fly aerobatics, the requirement for scale aerobatic is...

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (09.29.23)

"Despite the system-related advantage of a kerosene piston engine in terms of CO2 emissions, any further development towards overall CO2 reduction is of great importance to us. SAFs represent a welcome opportunity to immediately optimize existing fleets with respect to...

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