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AOPA Editor Michael Collins Has Died Of Covid-19 Veteran AOPA publications editor Michael P. Collins died Thursday night from complications of COVID-19, the association said on Friday. Collins had been hospitalized in Maryland for about two weeks after contracting the disease earlier this month. He was 59. Collins joined AOPA in 1994 as managing editor of AOPA Pilot magazine and oversaw development of Flight Training magazine and the association’s digital product, ePilot. According to AOPA, h...

Qantas to Expand Pilot Training Facilities in Australia (22 Feb 2021) Qantas has unveiled plans to expand its pilot training facilities in Australia, moving flight simulators and training pilots in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. The relocation has been triggered by the need for Qantas to move its current simulator centre from Mascot in Sydney to make way for a major roads project. The relocation will see Qantas, with support from the Queensland Governme...

Well... you don’t see this every day. Following a recent episode of Airborne Unmanned, featuring a thumbnail showing a hydrogen fueled Pipistrel Hy4 prototype built by MAHEPA, we received the following warning from YouTube. “We wanted to let you know our team reviewed your content, and we think it violates our sex and nudity policy. We know you may not have realized this was a violation of our policies, so were not applying a strike to your channel. However, we have removed the following co...

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More News Classic Aero-TV: Camp AMA - Where Tomorrow’s Aviators Get Started From 2019 (YouTube Version): A Week-Long Program Open To Young People Ages 13-19 The Academy of Model Aeronautics offers a lot of programs designed to foster interest in model avia>[...] ANNs Daily Aero-Term (04.04.21): Landing Area Landing Area Any locality either on land, water, or structures, including airports/heliports and intermediate landing fields, which is used, or intended to be used, for the landing>...

Saudi military personnel in the u.s. while officials investigate the vetting process. joining me now, dinesh desousa, an.do we need to start being a little more clear eyed about the saudi kingdom come all these years after 9/11? >> i think we do. certainly, no country had more of the 9/11 hijackers than saudi arabia. and it seems like we have, to some degree, forgotten the lessons of 9/11 pickle a saudi guy looking for military training, flight training, you would think that would ring an alarm ...

Of naval instructor pilots leading to arm themselves and military bases in the wake of the deadly pensacola shooting. carley: the pentagon suspense flight training for saudi students. >> reporter: air, land and sea training on paz for 860 saudi students, their training will continue but only inside classrooms. it is part of a defense department review of international student training on military bases following the deadly shooting at the pensacola naval base just last week. saudi student opened...

U.s. while officials investigate the vetting process. joining me now, dinesh dsouza. do we need to start being a little more clear eyed about the saudi kingdom come all these years after 9/11? >> i think we do. certainly, no country had more of the 9/11 hijackers than saudi arabia. and it seems like we have, to some degree, forgotten the lessons of 9/11. a saudi guy looking for military training, flight training, you would think that would ring an alarm bell, but apparently not enough. i realize...

Themselves on military bases, this in the wake of the deadly pensacola shooting. the pentagon suspends flight training for saudi students. good morning. >> reporter: we are listening to the plea that was made. air, land and sea training on paz for 850 students, their training will continue but only inside classrooms was part of a defense department review. all international student training on us military bases following the deadly shooting at the pensacola naval base last week. a saudi student ...

Air force, the pentagon tonight is now ordering a review of the vetting procedure for foreign military students here in the u.s. and theyre no longer allowing more than 300 saudi flight training students here in the u.s. to fly, at least for now. and heres abcs martha raddatz. >> reporter: the 303 saudi flight students, now grounded, are spread between three florida naval bases. pensacola, the scene of the deadly shooting, nearby whiting field and mayport naval air station. among the more than 8...