Corners
Hot Air Balloon race where the balloons, take off from identifiable
points on the ground, and as a each balloon gradually climbs
naturally to the right whilst traversing the states of Arizona, Utah,
Colorado, and New Mexico, they finally return to the take off site
and the balloon which lands closest to it's take off position is
declared the winner.
... when [IT] came to the time that our Bucks Hot Air Balloon Group needed to replace our trusty original Balloon Canopy et al, I was volunteered to take charge of the Design Process and so the play on words [BuckSHOT] IDEA of utilising the fact that farmers have been known to use a blunderbuss and buckshot to deter balloonists from flying too low over their livestock, I came up with the IDEA of Buckshot [BE]ing fired at the balloon and was subsequently able to secure the registration G-SHOT from the Civil Aviation Authority.
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rones, in partnership
with the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA), have
announced that they have deployed the Swiss U-space flight
information management system for drones, referred to as the FIMS
The FIMS is an aviation data exchange hub that connects skyguide’s
air traffic management system to UAS (unmanned aerial systems)
Service providers (USPs) with open interfaces to support safe and
compliant drone operations in low-altitude airspace. The FIMS
deployment represents a critical milestone in the development
of the Swiss U-space Implementation (SUSI) program, Switzerland’s
drone traffic management network infrastructure.
U-space complements traditional air traffic management (ATM)
systems by facilitating information exchange and interactions
between airspace authorities and drone operators. As part of
U-space, the FIMS is a cloud- based, interoperable platform that
distributes airspace information, directives and real-time traffic
from skyguide’s ATM system to drone operators through a network
of USPs.
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Added by Michael Grove at 9:23 on September 23, 2019