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COPA
Join us December 6-7, 2016, at the Enercare Center in Toronto for the inaugural International UAV Show — Canada's largest gathering of UAV professionals and enthusiasts.
COPA's booth will be staffed with Subject Matter Experts on UAV insurance and UAV Operations for Small Businesses and Individuals.
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Wiarton Echo
If an Owen Sound company gets the green light, tourists on the Bruce Peninsula will take not only to the land and sea, but to the skies as well — as early as 2017.
At its Nov. 14 council meeting Dave Kalistchuk, owner of Owen Sound Flight Services asked the Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula council for a letter of authorization to initiate the expansion of his operations at the Billy Bishop Airport into Tobermory.
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The Register
As a little boy, Paul Dent knew he would be soaring high in the sky someday.
At just five years old, he became smitten with airplanes after watching a Trans Canada Airlines DC8 take off down the runway.
"I said 'I'm going to do that.' I never looked back," said Dent.
Even a Grade 2 school photo showed Dent holding onto a small toy airplane.
"I built a lot of model airplanes and I drew them too," said Dent. "I was just insane about airplanes."
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"Not a member yet? Or have you let your membership lapse? Visit us here and help us advance, promote and preserve your Canadian freedom to fly."
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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!
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| RV8 aircraft, ANTARCTICA mission completed!
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By Patrick Gilligan
Michel, flew non-stop 21 hours from Zucchelli to Marambio polar stations, battling headwinds across Antarctica's South Pole last week, collecting low level air samples and transmitting data via satellite to the Andalusian Center for Environmental Research sponsored by Andalusian Government — University of Granada.
When I shipped my Wheel/Skis to Tasmania, I include three COPA Flight magazines and more COPA decals. Michel had time to enjoy reading COPA Flight after his initial 17 hour non-stop flight to reach Antarctica. He was grounded at Zucchelli station for 6 days due to very strong headwinds.
Keep in mind, Michel flew across the North Pole last April, flying across both North and South Poles in year 2016. This is one for the record books for this pilot and his amateur built RV8 aircraft.
Michel sent this photo along with a note about COPA.
Thank you again Patrick for your support.
I still feel under some stress but relaxing and doing better.
Attached is a picture that is not the best one, but has a lot of meaning regarding (COPA’s) commitment (to aviation)!
I hope that you like it. Best regards
Michel
http://www.skypolaris.org/blog/
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The renowned all-metal CH-801 aircraft design from Zenair continues to evolve. Larger and sturdier than ever before, the aircraft is now offered with an extended wing, larger tail and increased Gross weight of 2,700 lbs. The aircraft is readily available and easy to assemble from the company’s kits and advanced components; it can be powered by a range of engines, from 200 to 260 HP. More…
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FLYING Magazine
Bush pilots operate in remote areas worldwide with little operational support. Career success and survival require extraordinary flying skills, self-reliance and resourcefulness, and above all, the right attitude, say bush pilots Glen Ferguson and Keith Saulnier. They represent the two bush-pilot career paths: missionary aviation and commercial operations.
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CTV News
A drone just missed hitting an A320 plane flying above the Shard skyscraper in central London in July — one of several near-misses involving passenger jets in Britain, a new report said.
The plane was approaching Heathrow Airport on July 18 and flying at nearly 5,000 feet (1,525 metres) when the pilot spotted a 50-centimetre (20-inch) drone off the right flight deck window. The UK Airprox Board report says "chance played a major part" in avoiding a collision and called it a "very near-miss."
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Castanet.net
A commercial airliner over Greenland guided a disabled Cessna to safety recently.
The Air Greenland de Havilland Dash 8-200 rerouted to help the small, private aircraft after the pilot declared an emergency in snowy conditions with limited visibility.
The Dash 8 was en route from Nuuk to Narsarsuaq with 27 passengers and crew when the emergency call came in.
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AVweb
The NTSB completed its investigation of two fatal midair crashes that occurred in 2015, and they issued a Safety Alert urging pilots to make use of cockpit technologies that can help them to see and avoid other aircraft. The alert reviews the two recent crashes as well as two earlier ones, and notes that in each case, the pilot had access to technology in the cockpit that may have helped avert the crash if it had been utilized.
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FLYING Magazine
Santosh Mathan, an engineer with Honeywell Aerospace, has developed what seems to delve into the realm of total science fiction — a system that allows a person to fly an airplane using only his or her thoughts. WIRED's Jack Stewart had an opportunity to try the system in a King Air C90 and was visibly shaken by the experience.
What Mathan calls the "brain-computer interface" works through a cap loaded with tiny electrodes that are pushed into the scalp with conductive gel.
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Air & Space Magazine
This December, the city of Kunming, a metropolis of 4.6 million in southwest China, is celebrating a group of Americans who 75 years ago saved the city from devastation. The First American Volunteer Group, better known as the Flying Tigers, was a short-lived unit, but during the seven months they flew combat, under the leadership of Claire Lee Chennault, they destroyed almost 300 Japanese attacking airplanes.
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AVweb
So now we have a Republican congress and a soon-to-take-office Republican president. What does this mean for general aviation's interests? For the airlines? For aerospace in general?
Probably about what it means for every other segment of the economy; no one seems to know enough to hazard a guess. Yet. In theory, the sacred project of the libertarian wing of the party seems within easy reach.
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