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NTSB Prelim: Autogyro MT03

Pilot Noticed That The Gyroplane Was No Longer Climbing And Had Entered A Slight Descent On June 29, 2026, about 1148 Pacific daylight Time, a MTO Sport gyroplane, N423AG, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident at...

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ANN’s Daily Aero-Linx (07.16.26)

Aero Linx: Flying Dentists Association Earn your dental continuing education credits while doing what you love – flying! The Flying Dentists Association combines the love of travel, the opportunity for quality family time and the chance to connect with colleagues...

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NTSB Prelim: Lancair Legacy 2000

Just Before Touchdown, The Tower Controller Transmitted To The Pilot That The Landing Gear Was Still Retracted On June 16, 2026, about 0906 Pacific daylight time, an experimental amateur built Lancair Legacy 2000, N84BZ, was substantially damaged when it was...

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ANN’s Daily Aero-Term (07.16.26): Secondary Radar/Radar Beacon (ATCRBS)

Secondary Radar/Radar Beacon (ATCRBS) A radar system in which the object to be detected is fitted with cooperative equipment in the form of a radio receiver/transmitter (transponder). Radar pulses transmitted from the searching transmitter/receiver (interrogator) site are received in the...

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Classic Aero-TV: Stratos 716X Jet Defies Convention

From 2022 (YouTube Edition): Oregon Company Seeks to Redefine Jet Set Developed by an engineering team comprising veterans of aircraft design and certification programs at Bombardier, Cessna, Icon, Piper, SyberJet, Epic, Glasair, Kestrel, and Lancair, Redmond, Oregon-based Stratos Aircraft’s 716X...

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Airborne 07.13.26: Remembering Wally Funk, Apache Pilots, Ryanair Incident

Also: Falcon Field Landing Fees, Australia Retires CT4A, Cathay Pacific NATO Intercept Wally Funk, the pioneering pilot, astronaut, flight instructor, and longtime friend of the aviation community, passed away Wednesday evening in Grapevine, Texas at the age of 87. She...

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Airborne 07.17.26: Hummel Multi-Cruiser, Van’s Plans 4 OSH26, B737 MAX Record

Also: Swift Fuels Expansion, CJ3 Gen2/King Air 360 Debut, eVTOL 'Milestone', MOSAIC Visionaries, LIVE Morning Brief Now and then, something truly unique shows up on the sport aviation scene... but an affordable, all-metal ULTRALIGHT Multi-Engine airplane? Yup... Hummel Aircraft has...

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Airborne 07.16.26: Sully’s Alzheimer’s, Wright Sites, SkyPlay-ForeFlight

Also: MOSAIC Visionaries at OSH26, Operation Airdrop, Dutch-German AOPA Fly-In, Starship Flt 12 Investigation Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the retired US Airways captain whose remarkable handling of Flight 1549 became known around the world as the Miracle on the Hudson,...

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Klyde Morris (07.17.26)

There's More Than One Way To Get To Oshkosh, Klyde FMI: www.klydemorris.com

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ANN’s Daily Aero-Term (07.15.26): Flight Management Systems

Flight Management Systems A computer system that uses a large data base to allow routes to be preprogrammed and fed into the system by means of a data loader. The system is constantly updated with respect to position accuracy by...

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