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FAA Awards Nearly $2 Million to Embry-Riddle Drone Safety Project
As the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) develops policies to safely integrate unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, into the National Airspace System (NAS), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical…
Eagles Build Drone, Win Third Overall at International Competition
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students scored big at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ (AIAA) Design, Build, Fly competition, which pits university…
Posted In: Aviation | Engineering | Unmanned Systems
Aspiring Drone Pilots Can Now Train Remotely at Embry-Riddle
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Worldwide Campus recently received a first-of-its-kind waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that will allow students to…
Posted In: Aviation
Prescott’s Golden Eagles Flight Team Wins 13th National Championship
The first thing you see when driving into Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott Campus is a series of 12 prominent signs, one for every year the campus’ Golden…
Posted In: Aviation
Eagle Combines Passions, Uses Visual Art to Enhance Flight Training
Bella Memeo, an Aeronautical Science freshman at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott Campus, kicked off her college career by being named to the 2020 cohort of Boeing…
Posted In: Aviation
Extended Reality Can Improve Safety and Workforce Training, Embry-Riddle President Writes in Aviation Week
In his latest Aviation Week essay, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University President P. Barry Butler describes the value of extended reality technologies for workforce training and aviation…
Posted In: Aviation | Institutional News
Eagle Researchers Work to Improve Drone Awareness for Airspace and Aircraft Security
With more and more drones in flight each year and more and more sightings of drones intruding into airspace occupied by manned aircraft, a team of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University…
Posted In: Aviation | Computers and Technology | Security Intelligence and Safety | Unmanned Systems
Eagles Simulate Life in Space, on Earth
Two students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University recently joined the ranks of NASA trainees to experience long-duration space habitation — without leaving Earth. These “analog…
Posted In: Aviation
Aviation Executive: Air Taxis Will Drive Workforce Demand
Bonny Simi, the head of air operations and people at Joby Aviation, had a clear message for students hoping to succeed in aviation: If it’s your passion, go for it, because the…
Posted In: Aviation
Eagle Earns Boeing, Women in Aviation Scholarships in Pursuit of Pilot Dream
Alanah Pluchos has been interested in aviation for as long as she can remember and, in 2019, just before coming to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Pluchos was awarded scholarships…
Posted In: Aviation
Latina Pilots Unite! New Student Group Promotes Equality
Claudia Zapata-Cardone achieved her dream of becoming a pilot for United Airlines in 2015, but getting there wasn’t easy. As a Colombian-American woman in a male-dominated field,…
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Erik Lindbergh: Right Now is the ‘Most Exciting Time’ in Aviation
For Erik Lindbergh, whose grandfather Charles Lindbergh famously piloted the first-ever nonstop flight from New York to Paris, charting unknown territory comes naturally.
Instead of…
Posted In: Aviation
Embry-Riddle Alumnus Jared Isaacman One of Two Eagles to Crew First-Ever Civilian Spaceflight
Later this year, the first-ever rocket crewed entirely by civilians will launch into outer space — and half of its crew will be made up of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University…
Posted In: Aviation | Institutional News | Space
Birds vs. Planes: Embry-Riddle Students Conduct Study of Aircraft Wildlife Strikes
As an instructor at the Brazilian Air Force Academy, Flavio Antonio Coimbra Mendonça was flying in formation when one of his colleagues experienced a bird strike to the leading…
Posted In: Aviation | Research | Unmanned Systems
Boeing Exec: Innovation Drives Evolution
Embry-Riddle alumnus Steve Nordlund, who now serves as vice president of Phantom Works at The Boeing Company, by his own admission, was never an A+ student.
“It took me a long…
Posted In: Aviation | Institutional News
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