Subject: Boom prepares for XB-1’s inaugural flight
Vashon Ranger to be rigged for Able Flight | New airport coming to Letcher County, Ky., within 5 years | How drones play a crucial role in church restorations
Boom is gearing up for the first high-speed taxi tests of its XB-1 demonstrator in the coming weeks, with Boom targeting the first flight in early 2024 after completing these final ground and taxi tests.
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Able Flight hopes to acquire a new Vashon Ranger with hand controls designed by Clayton Smeltz to help scholarship recipients with disabilities achieve their dreams of flight.
Plans for a new airport in Letcher County, Ky., are in the works following approvals by the Federal Aviation Administration and state officials. The Letcher County Airport Board has found a potential location in Isom and aims to build the airport within the next five years.
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Church restoration with its complexity and heights is an ideal use case for drones in construction and a prime example of how the technology can be applied elsewhere. Rick Kuhn, a fifth-generation owner of Kuhn Construction, explains how his company uses drones for inspections and the advantages they offer.
Hill Helicopters has received over 1,000 orders and plans to make its certified HC50 available to the general public. Based in the UK, the company attributes some of its success to a relatively affordable price point, which is possible because of its GT50 gas turbine engine.
Pilots Gayle Gorman Green and Richard Green of Mansfield, Ohio, earned the Federal Aviation Administration’s Wright Brothers Master Pilot award for 50 years of safe flying, one of the few husband and wife teams to achieve the honor. Green is a retired US Air Force officer and former commander of the 179th Airlift Wing, while Gorman Green was CEO of airfield lighting company Manairco and comes from a family of aviators, with her parents and older brother also earning the Master Pilot Award in 2006 and 2022, respectively.
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