Also: Starship Version 3 Postponement, Moog Auto Pilot Line Acquired, VAI Career Program, Coalition On Radio Altimeter Mandate Sikorsky and Robinson Helicopter Company have pulled the wraps off the new R66 TURBINETRUCK: an autonomous cargo variant built around the beloved Robinson R66 platform and powered by Sikorsky’s MATRIX autonomy system. The project takes a proven light turbine helicopter, removes the pilot from the equation, and turns it into a cargo hauler for internal and external lift, remote-site resupply, disaster response, and the kind of contested logistics planners talk about more every year. West Desert Airpark in Utah won an appeal that reversed the town of Fairfield’s decision to deny its business-license renewal. Leaders in the small community of Fairfield in the Cedar Valley area had denied a business-license renewal for the airport. In a 13-page decision, a hearing officer says the town lacked legal justification to deny the license. One of the more unique and enjoyable aspects of our Special Event coverage is that we’ve instituted an Aero-Stringer program 3 decades ago to allow promising volunteer writers, videographers, and photographers, with a true passion for aviation, to come aboard and help us cover the aviation experience through THEIR EYES and keep us in touch with the true rank and file of the aviation world… All this — and MORE in today’s episode of Airborne-Unlimited!!!
