It bills itself as the “Seaside Golf Capital of the World” — and rightly so. Myrtle Beach, S.C., boasts more golf holes per person than any other city in the nation. More than 4.13 million rounds of golf are played each year at the 117 golf courses in the area. And you can bet that […]
Snap rolls and putts, all in one day
It’s been called some of the best public golf on Earth and can be found along the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Alabama. The trail starts in the northern part of the state in Muscle Shoals and winds its way through the state, down to Mobile. For pilots wanting to play the trail, there’s […]
Head to the Sunshine State for great golfing
Florida is well-known for its great flying weather. That weather also makes it ideal for golf. There are more than 1,000 golf courses throughout the state. And while courses may be getting crowded now as snowbirds head South, one tourism official notes that from May through October golf courses “are never crowded, so you can […]
Pilots get special invite to Pinehurst
Ever wish you could play on the same golf course as the professionals? You can, at North Carolina’s Pinehurst Resort, site of the 2005 U.S. Open Championship. The 2,000-acre resort, which boasts eight championship golf courses, is just one of three U.S. Open sites open to the public, according to Janeen Driscoll, communications manager. And […]
Celebrations of Wright brothers’ feats planned
An elegant replica of a pioneering Navy airplane soon will hang in Dahlgren Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy. Built by Ken Hyde and his team of master craftsmen at The Wright Experience in Virginia, it is an authentic, but non-flying, Wright Model B like the one the Wright Co. delivered to the Navy in […]
Connie down under
Leave it to the astute readers of General Aviation News to know where the rarest of rare birds are. After we published a story on the Airline History Museum’s recent troubles with an engine failure on what was thought to be the last airworthy Lockheed Constellation, we learned that there is another airworthy Connie — […]
NASA’s DC-8 Flying Lab finds new home
NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory tipped its wings in farewell as it departed the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for its new home at Grand Forks, N.D., last month. NASA will pay the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, $25 million over the next five years to maintain and operate the […]
The Buzz
“During my 37 years of flying, I have observed the results of hundreds of weather events, including F4 tornados, straight-line winds, microbursts and severe thunderstorms. What I saw today was the equivalent of an F4 tornado that traveled over 100 miles along the Gulf Coast combined with a tidal wave. The difference was, this tornado […]
When to go REALLY means TO GO
One way to cut the cost of the $100 hamburger is to pack your lunch. Many airport restaurants can help you with this. For example, the owners of Narrows Landing restaurant at the Tacoma Industrial Airport in Washington state now offers boxed lunches for pilots. Each box contains a sandwich of your choice, fruit, cookie […]