Dick Rutan hung around the Fly Right Films booth at the May 2-3 Alaska State Aviation Conference. Turns out Rutan and Fly Right Films owner and filmmaker Charlie Hewitt are collaborating on a second volume of The Aviator Series. Titled “Decision-Making with Dick Rutan”, the video will be released at AirVenture Oshkosh this summer. See […]
GA News and ExperCraft join forces
General Aviation News and ExperCraft Simple Log have joined forces to offer a unique assistance and opportunity to the homebuilt aircraft marketplace. ExperCraft Simple Log is a powerful, yet easy-to-use system, allowing builders of experimental/homebuilt aircraft to store and share their project log information on line. ExperCraft will become a source of features about builders […]
Epic unveils new designs
“Now’s the time to invest.” That is exactly what Rick Schrameck, president of Epic Aircraft, is doing. In a flurry of announcements on Tuesday and Wednesday at Sun ‘n Fun, Schrameck shed light on Epic aircraft that are coming to market, as well as some market research he is conducting. First up, the Focus is […]
Pilots to the rescue
Debi and Bob Boies were adopting a rescue doberman from Tallahassee, Fla., to their home in Landrum, S.C., and needed someway to transport the dog quickly and safely. Friend Jon W. Wehrenberg suggested he fly to Tallahassee to pick up the dog. Upon completing the mission, Jon began researching animal rescues and found that roughly […]
Have plane, will tug
Airplanes are big part of Sun ‘n Fun, obviously. The only part bigger are the people, such as the Exhibit Hosts committee, which is led by Bonnie Perkins. A crew of eight to 10 people worked for three days (from 7 a.m. to sundown or beyond) before the show to move in dozens of aircraft. […]
New Kindle DX to display approach plates?
I spotted an interesting slide from TechCrunch’s LiveBlog of the new Amazon Kindle DX introduction. That doesn’t look like a book in the above shot. There is no mention of the Kindle DX being used for anything beyond reading in the author’s notes, but a quick trip to the Amazon website found the following mention […]
Lightning strikes light sport
Arion Aircraft has entered the crowded Light Sport Aircraft market with an S-LSA dubbed the Lightning LS-1. The LSA was awarded its S-LSA certification April 15. The LS-1 is rooted in Arion’s experimental Lightning, which got its start when Pete Krotje and Nick Ottenback decided to build an airplane around the Jabiru engine. The pair […]
Wasilla man wins Husky
R.C. Cline of Wasilla, Alaska won the Alaska Airmen’s Association 2009 raffle aircraft. The Aviat Aircraft Husky A-1B has lots of equipment that make it a great backcountry aircraft. Cline was supposed to be out on a flight, but was able to juggle his schedule to make it to the May 2-3 trade show and […]
Sun ‘n Fun Today digital edition a hit
More than 5,400 individuals have viewed more than 104,000 pages of the digital edition of Sun ‘n Fun Today. Produced in partnership with Sun ‘n Fun, General Aviation News produces a daily newspaper for each of the six days of the fly-in. To see show coverage, click here.