Ground Effect Advisors (GEA) has created a scholarship focused exclusively on flying clubs. The winning applicant will receive more than $3,500 worth of products, services, and support towards getting a flying club off the ground. Associated with the scholarship, GEA has launched StartAFlyingClub.com, a website dedicated to supporting the startup and evolution of flying clubs. […]
Super Bowl Sunday super day for GA
While millions watched the Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers in the NFL Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday, the local FBOs at the Big Easy’s airports were gearing up for their own second half as many of the more than 800 private aircraft that flocked there departed soon after the game ended, […]
Reel Stuff Film Festival takes off in April
The Reel Stuff Film Festival of Aviation will take place in Dayton April 11-14. The cinematic celebration of flight also serves as the public grand re-opening of the Air Force Museum’s 400-seat giant-screen theater, currently undergoing an $800,000 renovation. The First Annual Reel Stuff of Aviation offers a diverse lineup of flight-related feature films, documentaries, […]
LCI manager elected president of state association
NEW HAMPSHIRE – Laconia Municipal Airport Manager Diane Cooper-Terrill was recently elected president of the Granite State Airport Management Association (GSAMA), becoming the first woman to serve in that office. A long-time member of GSAMA, she has previously served as both secretary and treasurer of that organization. GSAMA is an organization of aviation professionals committed […]
Sensenich introduces RV prop
Sensenich has introduced a ground adjustable composite propellers for Van’s RV aircraft. The new propeller features Sensenich’s proprietary airfoils on a semi-scimitar planform for improved takeoff and climb performance, according to company officials. The blades are internal pressure molded using prepreg carbon fiber and fiberglass, featuring a co-cured leading edge erosion shield, and includes an […]
Wicks Aircraft offers O-Ring kit
Wicks Aircraft now offers a selection of O-rings in a kit for homebuilders. “The temptation is always there to re-use things like O-rings, and the result is too-often a leaky seal,” says Wicks president Scott Wick. “Having to take time to find or order O-rings makes that temptation even greater. With our Home Builders Kit, […]
Innovations: Open up
Casey Hansen, a pilot and CFI in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has launched OpenFlightManual.org, designed to bring the open source concept to flight training. Working with a team of volunteers, Hansen hopes to create and maintain an online depository of aviation information. “We’re building a free, open, sharable, online flight training manual,” he says on the […]
8,000th Van’s takes flight
On Feb. 4, Stephen Watson of Santa Clarita, Calif., took the first flight in his RV-7A, becoming the 8,000th completed RV reported to Van’s Aircraft. Watson works for the Jet Propulsion Labs in California, and chose the RV-7A despite the fact that the airplane is powered by a piston engine, with no rocket or jet […]
WACO kicks off Great Lakes Paint Scheme Contest
The WACO Aircraft Company has launched a Great Lakes Paint Scheme Contest. “With the Great Lakes 2T-1A-1 project coming along quickly, we are looking for a great new paint scheme to use on our first airplane,” officials said in a prepared release. Go to WACOAircraft.com to download the Great Lakes drawings. Submissions will be taken […]