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ENCOURAGE FOSTER PROMOTE PROVIDE Encourage members of Foster equal treatment Promote aviation Provide an affirming the LGBT community to of the LGBT aviation safety through training, social and professional pursue their dreams in community through seminars, publications, network for the LGBT aviation. advocacy and outreach. and best practices. aviation community. The Worldwide LGBT Aviation Commmunity Dear readers, Regrettably, we are no longer accepting photos for our 2021 ACN-RAA Photo Contest as the deadline has passed. If you missed it this year, there’s always next year! The year in which the photo was taken is not a condition of entry, so save those great shots for another opportunity in 2022! This year, we have received over 100 entries. On October 1, we’ll announce the top-15 entries and public voting will go live. Prizes for the top-15 winners are: Grand Prize: US$250 with the winning photo on the cover of the October 2021 issue of Aero Crew News accompanied by an explanation of perhaps what inspired the photo including the circumstances or efforts to obtain the photo. Winners will share with us what they want us to know about their amazing shot. First place prize: US$125 with the photo published in the feature along with the photographer’s name and a brief description in the October 2021 issue. Second place prize: US$75 with the photo published in the feature along with the photographer’s name and a brief description in the October 2021 issue. Third place prize: US$50 with the photo published in the feature along with the photographer’s name and a brief description in the October 2021 issue. Prizes for places 5 through 15: Rain Alertz umbrella, with access to the company’s app., with the photo published in the feature along with the photographer’s name and a brief description in the October 2021 issue. Remember, our public vote will take place between October 1, 2021 and October 31, 2021. Votes cast will determine the winners who will be contacted by email. Voting will be available at https://rebrand.ly/ACN_RAA_Photo_Contest. Official rules can be found at https://rebrand.ly/ACN-RAA-Rules. Fly Safe, Craig D. Pieper Craig D. Pieper About the Publisher Craig Pieper is the Publisher and Founder of Aero Crew News. Craig obtained his Bachelors of Science in Aeronautical Science, along with a minor in Aviation Weather, from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2001. Craig is also a First Officer for a major airline with a type rating in the Boeing 737 & Embraer 145 and has logged over 8,000 hours of flying time since his introductory flight on November 14th, 1992. 8 | Aero Crew News BACK TO CONTENTS August 2021 Last month was a milestone in our travel industry — the beginning of the era of space tourism. It’s been on the horizon for decades, but until there was a launch that CREDITS put the untrained aloft, it was still just a concept. I had to shake my head when some of the talking heads on the Publisher / Founder news questioned the point of the flights of Virgin Galactic Craig Pieper with Richard Branson aboard and the flight of Blue Origen’s Aero Crew Solutions, CEO New Shepherd with Jeff Bezos. They scoffed at the future of Scott Rehn an industry for only the super wealthy. The era of manned Editor flight within the atmosphere began with baby steps, too. Deborah Bandy The early Boeing Clippers that Pan Am flew from New York Layout Design to Southampton, England cost $12,000 in today’s dollars! Michelle Harvey Regardless of the nay-sayers, one day, space travel will Additional Contributors be a “thing.” I like to think I’ll remember this “one small Eric Ray, Gary Krasnov, step” as we watch this new phase unfold. I’d like to tell my Reini Thijssen, Justin Abrams, Sergio Sovero, Eric Hoolihan, Paul grandchildren (not too soon, please) about where I was when Wickstrom, Craig Pieper, I watched these first adventurers reach the edge of space. Garrett Anderson Aviator Bulletins Provided by the companies listed Photographs By Photographs as noted. Grid Updates Email: [email protected] Social Media Marketing By Aero Crew Marketing Nate Racine © 2021 Aero Crew News, All Rights Reserved. September 2021 | 9 AVIATOR BULLETINS United Customers Can Now Access 3,000 COVID Testing Locations at Albertson Companies and Walmart Through Airline’s Mobile App and Website Airline’s digital channels now offer customers easy access to more than 3,000 testing locations via Accenture and CLX Health’s TrustAssure™ Platform integration Customers can book appointments and have test results directly validated on United’s mobile app and website to be cleared for travel Starting August 19, 2021, United customers can access even more COVID testing locations, including more than 3,000 new Walmart and Albertson Companies locations across the U.S., through the airline’s website and mobile app in the Travel Ready Center. Customers can now easily book COVID-19 testing appointments at more than 3,800 total testing providers powered by Accenture technology and the CLX Health’s TrustAssure™ network and have their results delivered within 4 to 48 hours of their test and directly submitted to United’s website and mobile app to be reviewed for their flight. 10 | Aero Crew News BACK TO CONTENTS United remains the only airline that gives customers our integrated testing solution, our customers can easily destination-specific travel requirements and the ability schedule their COVID-19 test at one of our convenient store to upload country-specific required forms, testing results locations, and results are seamlessly and confidentially and vaccination records, all within the United App and on delivered to United Airlines.” United.com. To date, nearly 3.3 million vaccination records, “Our TrustAssure™ platform was engineered to deliver test results and destination entry forms have been a compliant, clinically sound, state of the art solution that submitted through United’s online platforms. leverages interoperability to thousands of COVID testing “United continues to deliver solutions that make it locations around the world,” said Joseph Gonzalez, Chief simple for customers to understand and meet all testing Strategy Officer for CLX Health.