CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has scheduled test flights for the week of June 1 from the Port Mansfield airport through the university’s Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center. A launch in the dark and shoreline flights that match on-the-ground surveying are planned for this round of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), or drone, […]
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Air race team awards scholarship
The Racing Aces team, Dianna Stanger and Joyce Wilson, who won the 2014 Air Race Classic, awarded a $2,500 scholarship at the Southeast Texas Fly-In to Yasmina Platt, Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association (AOPA) Regional Manager of the Central Southwest Region. Yasmina was born in the Canary Islands, Spain. Raised in Zaragoza, she has called […]
DuPage Airport named 2015 Illinois Reliever Airport of the Year
WEST CHICAGO, Ill. – The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) Division of Aeronautics has chosen DuPage Airport as the 2015 Illinois Reliever Airport of the Year. The award, which is presented to an airport serving general and corporate aviation needs in a large metropolitan area like Chicago, comes on the heels of the successful completion […]
WAI receives $10,000 grant from UPS Foundation
Women in Aviation, International has received a $10,000 grant from The UPS Foundation. The grant will be used toward providing teaching materials for Girls in Aviation Day, an international outreach program planned for Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. That day, WAI’s nearly 100 chapters around the world will provide learning opportunities and conduct hands-on aviation activities to introduce […]
Drones survey flood damage and assist search and rescue efforts
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A test-site research team from the Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Excellence & Innovation (LSUASC) at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has been dispatched to Wimberley, Texas, to conduct low-altitude research flights in the wake of devastating flooding. The town of Wimberley, about 30 miles southwest of Austin, was struck […]
New RPA law blog launches
WASHINGTON. D.C. — The Pillsbury law firm, which formed a multidisciplinary team focused on Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) in March 2014, has launched its new RPA law blog. The team is comprised of lawyers across multiple practices and sectors, including Aviation, International Trade, Energy, Real Estate, M&A, Intellectual Property, Communications, Privacy, Global Security, Finance, Technology, Insurance and Government Contracts, […]
Solberg Airport wins in court
Score one for Solberg-Hunterdon Airport (KN51), the embattled privately owned, public use airport in Readington Township, New Jersey. On May 4, Superior Court Judge Paul W. Armstrong dismissed the township’s lawsuit to acquire the development rights to the airport through eminent domain. Eminent domain is the power to take private property for public use by […]
Bluebonnet Fly-In postponed due to recovery efforts at San Marcos Airport
SAN MARCOS, Texas — Due to the recent hardships faced by the local community after the Hays County flooding during Memorial Day weekend, Redbird Skyport will postpone the Bluebonnet Fly-In at San Marcos Airport. The fly-in, originally scheduled for this Saturday, May 30, will now take place on June 6. To support those affected by […]
NTSB Safety Alert urges pilots to ‘See and Be Seen’ in the air
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a Safety Alert urging pilots to “vigilantly look out for other aircraft and to make their own presence known.” Officials note the board has investigated numerous general aviation accidents in which pilots operating near one another did not maintain adequate visual lookout and failed to […]