Making its debut at SUN ‘n FUN was the V24 from Softex Aero, a four-seat, low-wing, composite, twin-engine, T-tail, experimental. [Read more…]
By STEVE WIGHTMAN
I blame my flight addiction on Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous quote: “For once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk with your head turned skyward, for there you have been and there you long to return.”
Beginning with flying model airplanes in my teens, my eyes were often turned skyward. I’d read about airplanes, engines and feats in then hard-to-find aviation magazines like a bear devours chocolate bars. [Read more…]
DENVER, Colo. — Officials with XTI Aircraft Company (XTI) say they are accelerating the development program for the TriFan 600 vertical takeoff airplane, and are “redoubling efforts to translate excitement about the aircraft into $3 million in actual investments.” [Read more…]
ADDISON, Texas – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America (MHIA) Aircraft Product Support Division has received FAA approval of a new Angle of Attack (AOA) system for MU-2 aircraft. [Read more…]
OLNEY, Texas — Air Tractor has received FAA certification for factory production line installation of the Electronics International MVP-50T turboprop engine analyzer in all production Air Tractor aircraft.
Going forward, the glass panel engine instrument display will be optional equipment in all models of Air Tractor aircraft. [Read more…]
With a goal of “perpetual flight,” Daniel Preston and a small group of engineers and professors are working to design an unmanned, autonomous, solar-powered electric airplane that can achieve that milestone of staying aloft around the clock … even during the longest, darkest night of the year.
And why, you might ask, would you need such a plane? [Read more…]
Progressive Aerodyne of Tavares, Florida, manufacturer of the Searey Light Sport amphibian, achieved a significant milestone March 18 when CEO Adam Yang traveled to China and flew the first LSA to be certified there, a Searey Elite. [Read more…]
Lancair has sold 76 Evolution kits; 61 are currently flying. So what makes one particular model unique? Its powerplant.
Rather than use a Pratt & Whitney PT-6, this Evolution holds a 350-horsepower, electronically controlled Lycoming iE2 engine. [Read more…]
Flight Design USA reported its first shipment of CTLS and CTLSi aircraft from AeroJones Aviation will arrive at Airtime Aviation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, late this week or early next.
AeroJones Aviation, from Taichung, Taiwan, will produce and distribute, under license, the CT-series of aircraft for Flight Design of Germany. AeroJones will also manufacture spare parts as well. [Read more…]
Zenair Ltd. of Midland, Ontario, Canada, and M-Squared Aircraft of Mobile, Alabama, report that production of the ready-to-fly STOL CH 750 Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) will resume. [Read more…]
