Monthly Archives: April 2018

Proposed French Drone Regulation Would Require Remote Identification

The French Federation of model airplanes (Fédération Française d’Aéromodélisme) has updated a 2015 proposal for hobby drones regulations.  In this new draft, the federation is urging lawmakers to force drone manufacturers to implement various components allowing authorities easier access to … Continue reading

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$6.5B Airliner Engine, Services Deal With GE Brings Business To Wilmington

American Airlines’ recent engine selection and services agreement with TrueChoice, a trademark of General Electric Co., will benefit several GE Aviation facilities located in the U.S., including its site in Wilmington. Officials with the company recently announced that American Airlines … Continue reading

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Raytheon’s New Radar Could Help Bring Flying Cars to Our Cities

Like many cliches, “flying under the radar” has a literal, real-world history. As the new object-detection technology proliferated in the years after World War II, military pilots knew it had trouble seeing things at low altitudes, where buildings and hills … Continue reading

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ASU Air Devils build and pilot their award-winning planes from the ground up

Photo by Jack Winn | The State Press ASU aerospace engineering majors Evan Draganchuk, freshman, Matthew Bajamundi, junior, and Nick Kolesov, sophomore, construct a plane they built in the Air Devils Club in Tempe, Arizona, on Friday, April 6, 2018. … Continue reading

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Robert L. Tush, 74, loved flying his amateur model airplanes

Robert L. Tush SHALLOTTE — Robert L. Tush, 74, passed away Monday, April 9, 2018, at Lower Cape Fear Hospice LifeCare Center, Wilmington. He was born Oct. 12, 1943, in Ayer, Mass., the son of the late Henry Tush and … Continue reading

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‘Air Force Un’: Does North Korea’s leader have a plane to fly on world stage?

This sharp contrast is the byproduct of a nation that has remained cloistered since the Korean War armistice in 1953 and invested a lopsided portion of its limited trade revenue into the development of military weapons. Since assuming power in … Continue reading

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NTSB: Ice caused incident that damaged plane during emergency landing at Austin Straubel

Buy Photo A mural about the life of World War II hero Austin Straubel, a Brown County native, was added in late 2016 to a wall of the baggage claim area in the airport that bears his name.(Photo: Doug Schneider/USA … Continue reading

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