Duncan Aviation has been selected as a full-service, factory-authorized, category 1 service center for the ARTEX 406 Series Emergency Locator Transmitter. Customers can send units to Duncan Aviation for maintenance and programming needs. Duncan Aviation has six factory-trained technicians who are ARTEX-certified. With advanced scheduling, these units can be turned in one day. For more […]
New product makes flight planning a snap
RMS Technology has just added Snap, a new feature now available in Flitesoft, its popular flight planning software program. Snap makes it easy to carry Flitesoft on a USB flash drive for use on any Windows computer. A 2 GB USB flash drive will hold Flitesoft, all your saved aircraft and route files, your pilot […]
Florida rookie Jason Newburg wins at Reno
When something bad happens, a lot of people can let it get them down. Not Jason Newburg, who took something bad and turned it into victory. The Edgewater, Florida, aerobatics performer bought a Pitts Special S-1 in Jamaica. When it arrived in Florida, he found it had been damaged in shipping. The plane, now named […]
Doctor’s order: Fly a one-of-a-kind airplane
It all started for Jeff Laskin when he was in first grade in Chicago. “I was so excited about wearing a ‘Mighty Mouse’ costume for Halloween,” he recalls. “I remember jumping off the desks pretending to fly until the teacher ‘grounded’ me.” But that teacher couldn’t ground his dreams of flight. Those dreams were put […]
Above-average hurricane season forecast
The 2007 hurricane season will be one of “above-average” activity, according to Dr. William Gray of Colorado State University, one of the best-known and most accurate forecasters. Gray’s “early season forecast,” issued Dec. 8, predicts 14 named storms, seven of which will become hurricanes. Three of those will be major hurricanes, meaning category 3, 4 […]
Tuskegee Airmen’s perfect record questioned
The Tuskegee Airmen never lost to enemy fighters a bomber they were escorting. That has been accepted as fact for 61 years, since the end of World War II. On Dec. 10, however, Tuskegee Airmen Historian William F. Holton told the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser that Air Force records show at least a few bombers escorted […]
Lighting the way?
Lighting the way? Many years ago an aviation savvy dad with a sense of humor informed his child that the Christmas lights he put on the house every year were there because each roof was, in essence, a landing pad. This explanation satisfied the child until she learned the significance of colors in aviation. Once […]
LoPresti Fury selling furiously
“Who wouldn’t want a personal fighter?” asked Rj Siegel, vice president for operations at LoPresti Aviation. Everyone wants one, it would seem. The day the company started taking orders for the Roy LoPresti-designed Fury, with absolutely no fanfare and little publicity, it took 16 firm orders for the long-awaited plane. “We’ve been selling one aircraft […]
Eclipse resolves pre-production snags
As the first Eclipse 500 customer delivery drew near, the company issued three Customer Technical Communications revealing several problems and their solutions. Typically of Eclipse, the issues were presented in a straightforward manner. They are not expected to hamper initial deliveries by much, if at all, said Eclipse CEO Vern Raburn. Eclipse still expected to […]