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| GAMA: Industry recovering; still trails pre-pandemic activity |
| The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) issued its latest quarterly report of new aircraft shipments on September 1. Piston aircraft deliveries increased 12.3 percent when compared to the first six months of 2020. GAMA President and CEO Pete Bunce said the industry continues to progress in its recovery efforts, but that "we still trail when compared to how the industry was faring before the onset of the pandemic."
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| Cirrus opens facilities in Arizona, Texas |
| Cirrus Aircraft announced new facilities in two states, including a new Cirrus Flight Training facility and satellite engineering center in Arizona, along with another satellite facility in Texas that supports product development. Cirrus Aircraft Innovation Centers in Chandler, Arizona, and McKinney, Texas, are already operational. The flight training facility in Scottsdale is set to open in October.
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| Embry-Riddle students create augmented reality program for flight training |
| A team of students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Prescott, Arizona, campus spent the summer developing augmented reality holograms of a virtual cockpit. The holograms, to be used with HoloLens 2 goggles, will enable flight students to practice skills in a virtual Bombardier CRJ–700. Students wearing headsets can step through interactive training modules that give them access to view schematics and information about the aircraft in 3D. Another model under development will let students look around the flight deck and manipulate buttons, switches, and controls as they would in real life, according to SignalsAZ.com.
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| N.Y. Tuskegee Airmen chapter launches flight academy |
| The RedTail Flight Academy, based at New York Stewart International Airport (SWF) in New Windsor, New York, opened September 10. The new flight academy is intended to guide minority students to careers in commercial aviation through mentoring and financial assistance with flight instruction. The academy was founded by the Maj. Gen. Irene Trowell-Harris Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc. Seven students are participating in the inaugural class, according to the Times Herald-Record RecordOnline.com.
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