A free membership website for musician pilots, MusicianAviators.com, went live Feb. 1. The new social network is designed to bring together people who love music and flying, according to developers. “Our goal is to establish a community of musician aviators from around the globe by creating a space to gather and share our passions, stories […]
Aircraft Spruce Canada launches website
Aircraft Spruce has launched it Canadian website, which has all the features of AircraftSpruce.com, but is dedicated to serving customers throughout Canada. The website provides pricing in CND only, as well as show which products are in stock in the company’s Brantford, Ontario, warehouse — or when they will be in stock. The website also […]
DRE debuts upgraded headsets
DRE Communications has introduced upgraded versions of its active and passive noise attenuation headsets for both fixed-wing and helicopter applications. Advances in technology now enable the company to deliver state-of-the-art active noise reduction (ANR) for about half of the traditional market value, according to company officials. “Headset performance that pilots paid $1,000 for is now […]
Floats and Fuel Cells earns AS9100 certification
Floats and Fuel Cells Inc. and FFC Manufacturing have achieved the AS9100 Aerospace Quality Standard Certification. National Quality Assurance (NQA) recently presented Floats and Fuel Cells and FFC Manufacturing with the AS9100 and ISO9001:2008 certifications after the company successfully completed a rigorous Quality Management Systems Audit. The ISO 9001:2008 is the latest revision, and the […]
Life Cycle Cost 2010 released
Conklin & de Decker has released Life Cycle Cost 2010 Volume I, an aircraft budget and financial analysis tool that is part of a family of aircraft operating and acquisition products developed to provide ownership and operating cost data for more than 375 jets, turboprops, helicopters and piston aircraft. The budgeting software puts all aspects […]
Mid-Continent Instruments promotes Crain
Mid-Continent Instruments has promoted Tara Crain to Information Technology (IT) Supervisor and Project Coordinator. Crain’s responsibilities include the supervision of all software-related issues, including business management tools, coordination of IT projects and department goals. Crain began her career at Mid-Continent Instruments in December 2001. For more information: 316-630-0101 or MCICo.com.
Why should the tail wag the dog?
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Re: Is there a better name for general aviation?: Why not call what we do just…aviation. I submit that it is easy to make the case for retiring that first, ambiguous, word. After all, whenever I am required to define the term general aviation to non-flyers, I always repeat the general […]
Historic hangar at P08 to be rescued
The Coolidge City Council has unanimously agreed to save a historic World War II-era hangar that has fallen into disrepair at Coolidge Municipal Airport (P08) in Arizona, according to a story in The Arizona Republic. The story, which notes the council agreed to award a contract for the hangar’s overhaul, including replacement of outdated wiring […]
Free showing of feature film ‘Amelia’
The Museum of Flight in Seattle will offer a free presentation of the 2009 feature film about Amelia Earhart, “Amelia,” Feb. 4 at 6:30 p.m. Admission to the museum is free from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. as part of the museum’s Wells Fargo First Free Thursday. The museum was chosen by Twentieth Century Fox […]