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COPA
CF Snowbirds / Snowbirds des FC 11 Captain Paul Faulkner (left) and 10 Captain The10jet — Blake "Naughty" McNaughton flew in to the Saugeen Municipal Airport (CYHS) in Municipality of Brockton for a pre-site inspection of Bruce County's most beautiful airport.
Pictured with the Snowbirds is the show's organizer, Southern Ontario Canadian Owners and Pilots Association — COPA Director Philip Marcus Englishman. The whole Snowbird team will return to SMA (CYHS) on June 21, 2017 to help celebrate Bruce County's 150th anniversary. And oh yes, we will also celebrate Canada's 150th as well — at Hanover/Saugeen Municipal Airport.
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Moose Jaw Times-Herald
Major Marc Andre Asselin can't say the E-word (eject) while we're in the cockpit, but he wants to make sure that I know what to do if we need to exit the aircraft so he reminds me.
I say it once, then I say it a second time, he says, when I say it the second time that's when you pull.
I look down at the yellow-and-black handle between my legs that'll rocket me out of the CT156 Harvard II in a third of a second if need be. "Exit the aircraft" is a rather euphemistic description, I think, for an activity that we might have to do 5,000 feet above southern Saskatchewan.
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Vancouver Sun
British Columbia has bucked the national trend by recording almost a 30-per-cent increase in aircraft accidents in 2016 over the previous year.
The federal transportation safety board reports 54 accidents involving all types of aircraft in B.C. in 2016, up from 42 in 2015 and a five-year average of 44. Planes were involved in 35 of the accidents last year, helicopters 12 and ultralights seven.
Canada-wide, there were 229 aircraft accidents in 2016, down from 251 in 2015 and a five-year average of 265.
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Simcoe.com
Pilot instructor Bill Dykie shows off the Evektor Sportstar training
plane to Olimpia and Craig Marchetti at the Midland Recreational
Aircraft Association Annual Winter Ski/Wheel Fly-In on Feb. 11.
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Fairview Post
It was cool to hear Doug Roy being interviewed on the radio by Canada's public broadcaster recently about the Fairview Aircraft Restoration Society and the Canso project.
There wasn't much new in the interview, but he mentioned they hope to have two former pilots from World War 2 come this summer for the "official" first flight of the Canso.
The event is likely to bring a lot of people to Fairview, Alberta, including more media than showed up for the 2014 visit by former pilot Hal Burns.
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AVweb
Sometimes it takes a village to fix an airplane and a remote Canadian town is sharing some of the credit for getting a Swiss International Airlines Boeing 777 back into revenue service. On Feb. 1 Swiss Flight LX 40 from Zurich to Los Angeles diverted to Iqaluit (formerly called Frobisher Bay), population 8,000, on Baffin Island, about 2,000 miles north of New York. One of its engines detected a fault and automatically shut down.
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The Globe and Mail
The Ikaros is a personal glider that would be manufactured by robotic filament winding. Its cost would be comparable with an average car, making it affordable for anyone, and Ikaros pilots would be able to experience, among other things, free fall and zero G.
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General Aviation News
For pilots looking for something different, the city of Havana, Illinois, and the Recreational Aviation Foundation have come up with the first-ever Migratory Bird Fly-in and Photo Shoot.
Slated for March 11, 2017, the fly-in will allow pilots to get up close to hundreds of thousands of migrating birds, according to officials.
According to RAF officials, the association's state liaisons are tasked with promoting recreational destinations unique to their areas.
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AVweb
Choosing which airplane to build is something deserving of serious consideration. There are so many cool designs and differing capabilities, it can leave you scratching your head. Taking a systematic approach to selection can eliminate the pain and error from the process. Let's explore what's involved and how to get off to a good start.
Before we talk about what to build, we need to understand why you would like to build. What are your goals for building an airplane?
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FLYING Magazine
Honeywell is working on adding crowdsourced weather data to its Weather Information Service app. Honeywell says the new capability, called Connected Radar, will deliver the most complete view of weather along an aircraft's route by aggregating weather data from radar systems onboard other aircraft in flight.
Connected Radar could be particularly helpful to helicopter pilots and dispatchers, especially those who fly over water where there's no radar coverage.
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AVweb
Just over a year after EHang's passenger-carrying autonomous drone was unveiled in Las Vegas, officials in Dubai said they plan to provide flights to the public in the aircraft by this summer. "The AAV [autonomous aerial vehicle] on display at the World Government Summit is not just a model but it has really flown in Dubai skies," said Mattar Al Tayer, chairman of Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority, at the summit in Dubai.
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