As a work of the American federal government, the recording is in the public domain. This two-hour tape recording of the communications of Air Force One personnel following the assassination is a new discovery which was recently donated to the National Archives. As part of NARA’s roll-out strategy for this high-profile item, the digitized recording was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons at the same time as it was revealed on archives.gov. We hope that the upload of these files to Wikimedia Commons… (blog.wikimedia.org) More...
A southern California flight school owner faces the loss of his two-year-old business, along with the Cessna 172 he rented to a well-known customer. The Jan. 20 seizure of N5283E and arrest of Lino Rodriguez-Chavez by border patrol agents marked the fourth arrest and seizure of a light aircraft involved in the smuggling of people, rather than drugs, since 2010. (www.aopa.org) More...
The flight was grounded for a month in northern Alabama around the holidays as the group sparred with the Federal Aviation Administration over whether its ultralight pilots were properly licensed. The FAA eventually relented and granted them temporary waivers to continue, but in the next two weeks the birds covered only 14 miles.... "Maybe we have stayed too long in Alabama and for them migration is over" (www.latimes.com) More...
Washington - The first test flight of a commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station could happen in late March, Nasa said on Thursday. The Dragon spacecraft, owned by US company SpaceX, could launch no earlier than March 20 but a more fixed date would follow in the next couple of weeks, Nasa spokesperson Mike Suffredini told reporters. (www.news24.com) More...
