WELLINGTON, Kansas — Air Plains Services, which specializes in extreme performance upgrades for a variety of general aviation aircraft models, marked a milestone in September 2017 with its 2,500th 180-hp engine upgrade for Cessna 172s. The milestone 172XP Extreme Performance engine upgrade was installed on N733EA, a 1977 Cessna 172N. “The rate of climb with […]
Stay tuned in with Air Scan
New from Sporty’s is the Air Scan radio/scanner, which pairs to a smartphone or iPad for playing music from your favorite app while Aviation Interrupt alerts you to any aviation transmissions on your preferred frequencies. You can use it in your home office, the desk at your FBO, or your workbench in the hangar to […]
Get accurate fuel levels with CiES system
The CiES digital fuel quantity system uses a high-technology sensor system that allows repeatable accurate measurement of fuel in an aircraft tank. The patented sensor system allows fuel measurements down to a change in fuel level to less than 0.03 of an inch, according to officials with Aircraft Spruce, which now carries the system. The […]
Fast Jets and Other Beasts
“Fast Jets and Other Beasts: Personal Insights from the Cockpit of the Hunter, Phantom, Jaguar, Tornado and Many More” has just been published. Over a 32-year military flying career that spanned a period when the Royal Air Force regularly replaced its fighter/bombers, author Ian Hall had seven front-line flying tours on five different types. His story starts […]
Pictures of the day: The Hat in the Ring
Gord McNulty sent in these photos of a Nieuport 28 replica at the Great War Flying Museum in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. “The replica is painted in the American Air Service colors of the 94th Aero Squadron,” he explains. “The ‘Hat in the Ring’ paint scheme represents serial 6159 as flown by Eddie Rickenbacker, who became […]
Badass Pilot premieres
AARP Studios has launched “Badass Pilot: The Series.” The unscripted five-part series follows jet pilot Art Nalls and his journey to buy and fly one of the rarest and most elusive planes in the world, a Harrier jet. “I think the title of this show says it all. Art is, in fact, a badass pilot, […]
College admission letters delivered by drone
Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois, kicked off the College Admission season with a special delivery to eight Romeoville High School students. One of the university’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems program drone delivered college admissions acceptance letters Nov. 13 to the students at their high school. “Being the first delivery of this kind in the nation demonstrates […]
Balloon aeronaut wins aviation weather quiz
Ed Chapman knows a thing or two about weather. When Paxton Calvanese, the developer of weather app Wx24Pilot, produced an online weather quiz for aviators, he anticipated that flight students, flight instructors and professional pilots would participate. But Calvanese was pleased to learn that the winner is not only a fixed-wing pilot in the Minnesota […]
90 years and counting…
PHOENIX, Arizona – Third generation family owned businesses are not very common these days, much less one that has been in business and prospered for 90 years. Cutter Aviation is one such business. William P. Cutter started the company in 1928 when he flew into Albuquerque as a traveling barnstormer, met a girl and knew […]