Aviation

Context: https://wwmt.com/news/local/waco-aircrafts-closing-cease-manufacturing-maintenance-services-drimor-centennial-junker-airplane-production-battle-creek-western-michigan-economy-infrastructure

A bit more context: this was the direct result of mismanagement and misaligned goals, allegedly, in my opinion.

If there’s interest, are there groups I should talk to about resurrecting this?

e: I’m picturing a sort of open-source effort to save this history. And, weirdly, this all overlaps with my skillset.

It was not immediately clear if the drone actually collided with the aircraft. The airline’s maintenance team “found no damage after thoroughly inspecting the aircraft,” United Airlines said in a statement to The Times.

The measure applies to aircraft with a gross weight of 12,499 pounds or less operating under Part 91. It prohibits airports from using ADS-B information to calculate, generate or collect fees tied to landings, including touch-and-go operations, or fees based on an aircraft entering a specified radius of airport airspace.

"In National Geographic's new six-part series TOP GUNS: THE NEXT GENERATION, cameras follow a class of Navy and Marine Corps student pilots as they enter the final and most unforgiving phase of elite strike fighter training."

"Data reveals civil aviation’s most astonishing, exceptional survivals—and shows no seat is reliably safe."