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| COPA membership campaign winner
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COPA
COPA is pleased to announce the winner of the 2015 Take Flight with COPA Membership Campaign
Luc Poulin of London, Ontario, has won the Grand Prize package consisting of a five day trip for two to Whitehorse in the Yukon. They will be flying Westjet and staying at the Westmark Whitehorse Hotel and Conference Centre.
COPA Flight 106 members will be offering them a bird's eye view of the amazing Yukon scenery, topped off with a never to be forgotten flight over the glaciers in a beautifully restored 1943 Beechcraft Staggerwing.
COPA thanks the following companies who contributed the prizes in the package: WestJet, Westmark Whitehorse Hotel and Conference Centre, Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre, Driving Force, the White Pass and Yukon Railway and Yukon Wild.
Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame
Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame (CAHF) will induct four new members and recognize a Belt of Orion recipient at its 43rd annual gala dinner and ceremony, to be held Thursday, June 9, 2016, at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, at Rockcliffe Airport in Ottawa.
The new members are:
- Frederick James Carmichael: northern Canada aviation entrepreneur
- Kathleen Carol Fox: Flight Instructor; Transportation Safety Board of Canada Chairwoman
- William Ross Lennox: RCAF pilot; Chief Test Pilot P&WC
- Beverley Strahan Shenstone: aerodynamicist; aeronautical engineer
- Royal Canadian Naval Air Branch (1945-1968) — Belt of Orion Award for Excellence
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IAOPA
Early registration is ongoing for the upcoming IAOPA 28th World Assembly being hosted by AOPA US, July 21-24, 2016, in Chicago, Illinois. A link to the registration page can be found at www.iaopa.org that will guide you through the registration process. Early registration closes on Jan. 31, 2016, so make sure that you get registered now before the prices go up.
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Weathered claim markers and flooded pits left behind by enthusiastic Klondikers near Yellowknife became monuments to their frustration. If minerals in the Northwest Territories were to be more than just a curiosity, they needed to be of such rich grade that their isolation could be overlooked.
The early 20th century was an exciting time for mine hunters in Canada. A frenzy of exploration due to robust metal prices following the First World War enticed prospectors to keep searching for the next "mother load."
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| Test your search and rescue spotter skills
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NRC
The National Research Council is seeking volunteers for a short web-based study related to aviation search and rescue. The study seeks to assess how well individuals can spot a downed aircraft among night time infrared sensor images, with the goal of improving search and rescue operations, reducing search times, and lowering risks to search and rescue volunteers. Participants can access the study from their own computers at any time and it takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.
The study will be open until January 30, 2016.
Join the study: http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/sar_cse-sar_esc/eng/index.php
PRODUCT SHOWCASE
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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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By Mark Huber
 The FAA recently announced it has tasked the Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee's Rotorcraft Occupant Protection Working Group to look at possible solutions that would increase occupant survivability of older-design helicopters in an accident — particularly as they relate to blunt-force injury and post-crash fire. The group will be tasked with preparing a series of reports over the next six to 24 months, and there should be little doubt where the FAA is going with this.
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FLYING
Solar Impulse has finally raised enough money — $20 million — to resume its record-setting round-the-world trip, according to co-founder and pilot André Borschberg, who spoke at the United Nations climate summit in Paris.
The solar-powered aircraft has been parked in Hawaii since July, when Borschberg finished the trans-Atlantic leg of the journey. Because of a problem with overheating batteries, the Solar Impulse team had to delay the next leg of the trip.
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AVweb
A jet carrying actor and pilot Morgan Freeman made an emergency landing in Mississippi after blowing a tire during takeoff. Neither Freeman nor his pilot were injured when the SJ30 SyberJet landed at the Tunica airport and ran off the runway, according to an Associated Press report. The two men were the only ones on board the rare six-passenger SJ30, which had departed Clarksdale in northwestern Mississippi.
Freeman, 78, said in a statement he was bound for Texas to shoot a TV series.
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FLYING
Before people were fortunate enough to have access to powered airplanes, pilots supported their flying addictions by taking off in basic open gliders. Even after the advent of powered flight, people would fly gliders as it was a less expensive way to take to the skies. And the peace and quiet of powerless flight is still preferred by many pilots today.
A glider that became popular in Germany was called the Schulgleiter SG 38, designed as a trainer in the early 1930s.
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