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The French take precautions over the 2016 Euro Cup hosting stadiums. Authorities are setting forth a plan to prevent air traffic and drone usage over the participating stadiums. The tournament will take place during June 10 and will last all the way to July 10. During those times the Chief security of the Euro Cup, Ziad Khoury has said that there will be an absolute “NO FLY ZONE “over those stadiums that will be participating and training during the course to the Cup. Read more >>

On May 25^th 2016, Reuters released an article about how FACC fires CEO after the company was caught with cyber fraud. FACC is an Austrian company that makes and manufactures aerospace parts. The cost of the cyber fraud totals up to about $47 million or 42 million euros. Once this occurred, there was an immediate meeting that was held on Tuesday with the supervisory board for FACC. The supervisory board decided to dismiss CEO Walter Stephan immediately after 14 hours of discussion. Read more >>

Hundreds of maintenance workers from all over America recently gathered together in Dallas for the Aerospace Maintenance Competition at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Read more >>

The Associated Press released an article to The Washington Post on May 24^th 2016 talking about the Canada Snowbird team is part of the Canadian Armed Forces that does aerobatics. They will be holding an event over the National Mall. The Canadian Armed Forces Snowbirds team will be using the Canadair CT-114 Tutor aircraft. There will be nine of these air-crafts that will partake in the event. In terms of directions, the air crafts will be making two east to west passes at an altitude of 1000 feet above the highest point at National Mall. Read more >>

AvGeekNet Editor posted an entry in Aviation Geeks technology about how the aviation industry is planning to get a hold of cyber security. Senator Ed Market introduced a new type of Cyber security Standards in terms of aircrafts in April to improve Resilience Act. The Resilience Act is also known as the Cyber AIR act. This Cyber AIR act is being required by the Federal Aviation Administration or FAA. The FAA also requires that airlines to report all cyber-attacks to the government. Read more >>

Aircraft Propeller Service, LLC, one of the world’s leading commercial airplane propeller Maintenance Repair Organizations (MROs), has recently created a state of the art component for MRO knowledge and training: the Prop U. This new training resource is anticipated to launch in the fall of 2016. Read more >>

After numerous delays, most notably with the helicopter’s gear box, the Sikorsky CH-53K program looks to be back on track. Read more >>

Boeing Business Jets has recently sold three of their new Boeing Business Jet Max models in Greater China. The BBJ program was introduced twenty years ago and currently has 21 BBJs in service in the Great China region. At a press conference at the Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (ABACE), the company president of Boeing Business Jets, David Longridge, suggested that this order for three BBJ Max models is just the start. Read more >>

The Canadian Press released an article talking about how a Canadian Chinese man has pleaded guilty. Su Bin 50 years of age, pleaded to conspiring to hack the U.S. defense contractor’s computer information in order to steal data on military projects. U.S. defense contractors include but not limited to Boeing. Information about Su Bin pleaded was released by court records on Wednesday. Read more >>

Bombardier Business Aircraft’s WAVE (Wireless Access Virtually Everywhere) system has been given supplemental certification from Transport Canada. Read more >>