The Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, N.C., celebrates its 40th anniversary with a new exhibition: “Wings of Adventure: Smith Reynolds and the Flight of 898 Whiskey,” which examines the Golden Age of aviation. Reynolda House was built in 1917 by Katharine Smith Reynolds and Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco […]
Work on pilot headset fl ashlight wins NASA award
NASA’s Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program recently awarded New Mexico State University engineer Yu-Ping Tang the prestigious Engineering Award of Excellence for his work developing FLITELite, an LED flashlight for headset microphones. NASA gives the award to four engineering support centers each year. Tang, a professor and engineer at New Mexico State’s Mechanical Engineering Tech […]
Astronaut Gene Cernan tapped for Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy
Astronaut Eugene Cernan has been named winner of the 2007 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy. The trophy, presented annually by the National Aeronautic Association, is awarded “…to a living American for significant public service of enduring value to aviation in the United States.” It is one of the most prestigious aviation trophies in the world. Previous […]
NO AMOUNT OF MONEY
Being a retired flight instructor, I really enjoyed the article “Why can’t you find a CFI?” in the July 20 issue. The comments of all the people who contributed to that article brought back a lot of memories and this is one of them: We rolled to a stop and I got out of the […]
THE LIGHTER SIDE
I just picked up the July 20 edition and read the Scuttlebutt column, “Fear, full frontal nudity. . .and real estate.” Excellent humor! Loved the part about “I want my mommy” when given clearance for a “full approach!” I’m a retired Army aviator now working for Era Helicopters in Lake Charles, La. It’s refreshing to see […]
the buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
“This is the center of the universe. There’s nothing better than being at Oshkosh this week.” — Alan Klapmeier, co-founder of Cirrus Design, on AirVenture’s opening day “Don’t drop the airplane to fly the radio. An airplane flies because of Bernoulli, not Marconi.” — GAN contributing writer Mark Grady, who presented an Air Safety Foundation […]
Lightsaber on board next Space Shuttle
A lightsaber, the weapon made famous by Star Wars movies, will be taken into space aboard the next shuttle, slated for launch in October. The weapon, from the original 1977 Star Wars movie, is on loan from Lucas films. Since the beginning of the space program astronauts have taken trinkets into space. This is first […]
Eclipse 500 auctioned on eBay
The winning bid for an Eclipse 500, auctioned last month on eBay, topped $1.8 million. The winner is Morten Wagner of Denmark, who placed his winning bid of $1,833,945 at 2 a.m. his time on Aug. 11. The 35-year-old Internet entrepreneur took delivery of his jet earlier this month at Eclipse Aviation’s headquarters in Albuquerque. […]
SEADOG gets automated weather
When a hurricane hits, one of the first priorities is to get the local airport back up and running. That’s why the Southeast chapter of the American Association of Airport Executives created SEADOG: the Southeast Airports Disaster Operations Group. Besides sending personnel to help hard-hit airports get back into operation, the organization also has teamed […]