The Antique Airplane Association, in tandem with the Air Power Museum, will host the 2008 Invitational Fly-In at Antique Airfield (IA27), in Blakesburg, Iowa. The fly-in, slated for Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, will commemorate the 90th anniversary of the beginning of air mail service in the Unites States. “I cannot remember a theme of […]
General Aviation Technology Challenge kicks off
NASA and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation have teamed to award the largest technology prize ever offered for general aviation. The organizations have recast the Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) challenge for 2008, renaming it the General Aviation Technology Challenge. Several winners will share in the $300,000 prize purse, funded by NASA, including the […]
Neil Armstrong honored at Purdue University
A bronze sculpture of Neil Armstrong was recently unveiled at Indiana’s Purdue University. The sculpture is in front of the university’s new engineering research and education building, which is named for the first astronaut to walk on the moon. Artist Chas Fagan, from Charlotte, N.C., created the work. The sculpture of Armstrong, depicted as an […]
Frasca celebrates 50th anniversary
Simulator manufacturer Frasca International celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. “I founded Frasca International in 1958 after working as a flight simulator instructor and maintenance engineer in the Navy,” said Rudy Frasca, president. The company has delivered more than 2,000 simulators to flight schools, airlines and the military in 70 countries around the world since […]
BAD ADVICE?
I believe Paul McBride may have given some bad advice regarding not pulling the prop through on engines that are not being used regularly (“Ask Paul: Prepare your plane for winter,” Nov. 9 issue). Unless Teledyne Continental Motors changed its policy recently, it “requires” the prop be pulled through every seven days or the warranty […]
HELP!
Can someone please help? I know of a crashed American DC-3 in the jungles of New Guinea and wish to know where we might find the plate with the manufacturer’s details and the aircraft serial number. If we know the aircraft number we hope to trace the crew and its family members in the USA. […]
MORE HELP NEEDED
We are restoring a 1946 BC-12D Taylorcraft and need a glare shield — the panel over the fuel tank that the windshield sits on and is connected to the instrument panel. If you can give us any help in finding this panel it will be greatly appreciated. NANCY MILWRICK, MANAGER Flying M Ranch Airport Lincoln, […]
STILL NO. 1
In Letters to the Editor of your Oct. 19 issue, Lou Drendal commented on Meg Godlewski’s article about the 35-ship formation at Oshkosh in your Aug. 24 issue (“The largest OSH formation?”). He suggested that I was “not even close to correct” when I said it “was the largest formation ever at Oshkosh.” He cited […]
MORE ON OSH FORMATIONS
Regarding the highest number of airplanes flown into Oshkosh, read “The Cessna 120/140 Story Book” by Dorchen Forman for a number never to be duplicated by one kind of civilian plane: 163 Cessna 120s, 140s and 140As flew in a trail into Oshkosh. All one kind of plane, within 15 horsepower of each other — […]