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By Ryan Clark
 For five weeks, Crete2Cape Vintage Air Rally pilots will travel from Greece to the southern tip of Africa. They will fly low over African terrain, while spending time over open water and days over African wilderness. Participants will raise awareness of Africa, aviation history and the love of general aviation. If you're crazy enough, you could even join them. The rally begins Nov. 13 in Crete, bound for Cape Town in South Africa. Read the full itinerary.
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| Call for Neil Armstrong scholarship applications
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COPA
Applications for Neil Armstrong Scholarships are now being accepted. First place scholarship is valued at $7,000. Second place $3,000 and third place $2,000.
Application forms are available at the COPA office or online:
http://copafoundations.org/new-page/.
Applications must be sent to COPA's office in Ottawa, Ontario, by March 1, 2016.
The purpose of the scholarship fund is to honour one of Canada's foremost aviation members, and to provide flight training to worthy young persons who exemplify the fine character, optimism and love of adventure which were the characteristics of Neil J. Armstrong Qualified applicants shall be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants not less than 15 years of age on the date of application and not older than 21 years of age.
The Chronicle-Journal
A pilot attempting to land a small plane at Hearst's airport in Ontario, Canada, had to veer off and make another approach because four snowmobilers were on the runway.
Provincial police said the plane circled away from the airstrip and landed safely during a second attempt.
There were no reports about anyone else being on the aircraft. Police said the sledders were crossing the runway at the time of the incident.
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Pembroke Daily Observer
638 Algonquin Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron is celebrating the success of four new pilots. In seven short weeks, the teens achieved what many adults only dream of.
Flight Sgt. Sara Hill and Flight Sgt. Tristan Fleming earned their glider pilot license as part of the glider pilot scholarship course at Mountian View Cadet Flight Training Centre near Trenton. The two spent over 100 hours studying flight theory, navigation, meteorology, air law in addition to learning to fly a Schweizer SGS 2-33a.
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| Call for nominations — COPA Board of Directors
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COPA
Every two years half of the positions on the COPA Board of Directors are up for election. In 2016 a total of nine positions will need to be elected.
Visit: http://www.copanational.org/2016_Board_Nominations.cfm for more information.
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The name "CubCrafters" is synonymous with innovation. Our Carbon Cub literally redefined expectations of "backcountry aircraft". Now, the Carbon Cub CA is ready for pilots in Canada. Contact us and Find Your Adventure!
Learn More at cubcrafters.ca
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Air & Space Magazine
At the Kentucky State FairGrounds in November 1911, the purple handbill promised armored cars, motorcycles, artillery, an ambulance corps, a re-enactment of Mexican guerrillas battling U.S. Army infantry, and most important, the "Wright's Aviators — Kings Of The Air." The copy was breathless: "Aviator P.O. Parmelee who did scout duty for U.S. Government on the Mexican border during the revolution, and Aviator Clifford Turpin, the world's two greatest Aviators fight a desperate duel in the skies."
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By Mark Huber
 A coalition of industry trade groups recently released a white paper advocating easier instrument flight rule, or IFR, flying for Part 27 helicopters — those weighing under 7,000 pounds. The goal is to combat the perennial problem of helicopter meets cloud, helicopter meets ground, and people die — either by loss of control or controlled flight into terrain. It remains a major cause of all helicopter EMS accidents and a leading cause of all Part 27 helicopter accidents.
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General Aviation News
According to author Julie DeStefano: Because of the kindness of a complete stranger, a Champ sits at the ready in a hangar a few miles away, just waiting for me to take her up for a flight.
That kindness is the gift of organ donation, which came to me at a time in my life where I doubted that I would ever see the earth from a small airplane, much less as the pilot.
I hope that in telling you my story, you will consider becoming an organ tissue and eye donor — if you have not done so already.
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AVweb
The annual ultralight-led flight of a flock of whooping cranes from Wisconsin to Florida has been officially canceled but not for aviation-related reasons as in the past. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it's pulling its funding for the well publicized effort, mostly because it doesn't work. After 20 years and $20 million spent to try to create a new flock of cranes based in Wisconsin in the summer and Florida in the winter, it turns out that the cranes saw through the human-engineered plan.
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AVweb
Wanna buy an airplane cheap? A company called Aeromarine LSA may have just what you're looking for in the form of the Merlin PSA, which debuted at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Florida. The Merlin PSA — for Personal Sport Airplane — is a lightweight, single-seat aircraft powered by a Rotax 582 two-stroke engine.
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