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UPS Commences MD-11 Phase-Out

Trijets to be Replaced by 767-300 Freighters In 2023, UPS began the planned retirement of its aging MD-11 freighters. The passing of the venerable aircraft into the annals of aviation history marks the actualization, in part, of UPS’s ambition to...

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Fairchild RC-26B Donated to Hagerstown Aviation Museum

Lest They Vanish from This Earth On 06 February 2023, the Hagerstown Aviation Museum proudly announced the donation of a 1993 Fairchild RC-26B “Condor” Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft to its growing collection of Fairchild built aircraft. The donated machine—currently...

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Pentagon Discloses Details of Chinese Spy Balloon’s Destruction

“POP!” Goes the Weasel The White House has released details pertaining to the shooting down of a Chinese spay balloon that was allowed to traverse the entirety of the Pacific Ocean, Aleutian Archipelago, and continental United States—including numerous sensitive military,...

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FAASTeam Invites One and All to Celebrate Chuck Yeager’s 100th Birthday

Centennial of a Giant In remembrance of his many contributions to the broadening of mankind’s aerospace horizon, the FAA’s FAASTeam invites pilots, aircraft owners and operators, and all those moved by the profound and powerful enterprise of flight to celebrate...

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Aero-TV: Spectrum Aeromed’s Infinity 5000X System Impresses

The Very Best at the Worst of Times For more than thirty-years, Spectrum Aeromed has designed, prototyped, manufactured, and installed comprehensive Emergency Medical Service (EMS) interiors in both fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. The company’s Infinity 5000X medical station instantiates the...

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (02.09.23)

"We’ll make a business out of converting ATR-72s. It’s a good business. But the real aim is to demonstrate to the flying public, the airlines, and the customers of Airbus and Boeing that flying aircraft on hydrogen—particularly with this modular...

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Intuitive Machines to Redesignate Lunar Landing Site

Houston Company Aligns with NASA Artemis Objectives Intuitive Machines, LLC—the Houston, Texas-based supplier of space products and services that support sustained robotic and human exploration to the Moon, Mars, and beyond—is collaborating with NASA to prioritize the accumulation and return...

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Boeing to Slash 2,000 White Collar Jobs

Planemaker to Bolster Engineering and Manufacturing Staffs Seeking to simplify its much-impugned corporate structure, Boeing, the aerospace giant and builder of iconic, world-changing aircraft such as the 707, 747, 777, B-52 Stratofortress, and F-18 Super Hornet, is making ready to...

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Airborne 02.06.23: Dick Rutan’s Long-EZ, Aspen Upgrade, 5 B-24s Located

Also: Online Unleaded Avgas STC, General Atomics CEO, Sporty's 'IFR Month', Overture Production One of Dick Rutan's babies made its way to be immortalized in the Experimental Aircraft Association Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Rutan's aircraft, a Long EZ, joins his...

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Aero-TV: Recognizing the Invaluable Work of the Veterans Airlift Command

In Service of Those Who Served The aviation community abounds with largess. Air ambulance services save and safeguard lives. Charitable organizations such as the Flying Doctors of Mercy, Flying Samaritans, and the Missionary Air Force deliver physicians, medication, food, disaster...

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