Our EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023 highlights, AOPA’s 85th anniversary flyover plan, light sport aircraft changes and the latest Boeing jobs forecast. Listen to Hangar Talk on your favorite podcast app, or AOPA Online.
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Gregory Davis, president and CEO of Eviation, talks in this interview about the company’s all-electric passenger Alice aircraft and how aviation’s electric revolution is here. Alice’s range of nearly 300 miles makes it a game-changer for commuter carriers and the quiet aircraft opens airports that have noise restrictions, Davis notes.
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LaGrange-Callaway Airport in LaGrange, Ga., plans to take on a $2.6 million project to build new hangars, pending approval of funding from the state’s Department of Transportation. A second project under discussion involves an investigation of the aging drainage system to determine which areas are in need of repair.
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The US Air Force has completed a three-hour flight test of a XQ-58A Valkyrie drone controlled by artificial intelligence algorithms, a significant development for the service’s "collaborative combat aircraft" program. The AI agents that piloted the unmanned jet were developed by the Air Force Research Lab’s autonomous air combat operations team.
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Bill Richey, a Wisconsin National Guard pilot for 39 years, made his last flight before retirement and was joined by his son Bryce, a fellow National Guard pilot who graduated from flight school last year. "I never took this job for granted, Richey said. "It’s been an honor and a blessing."
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More than 400 students attended the fifth annual National Naval Officers Association STEM fair in San Diego, where they learned about pursuing a career in Naval aviation and other STEM opportunities from active-duty and retired US Navy leaders. Some students left the event with National Naval Officers Association scholarships.
After more than 40 years of writing for AOPA Pilot, editing the Turbine Edition and serving as our in-house expert on weather, advanced air mobility and turbine aircraft, Thomas A. Horne decided to retire.
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