NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen last week challenged a “one-sided view of business aviation” put forward in a front-page story by The Wall Street Journal. In a statement sent to the newspaper and made available through social networking web sites like Twitter, Bolen said the story “greatly mischaracterized business aviation and did a disservice […]
Canadian Centennial of Flight Relay
This year is the 100th Anniversary of the first powered, heavier-than-air, controlled flight in Canada, made by J.A.D. McCurdy in the Silver Dart on the frozen surface of the Bras D’or Lakes near Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Under the leadership of the Canadian Aeronautical Preservation Association and the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Center, aviation museums and aviation […]
Luftwaffe flying wing at San Diego Air and Space Museum
A replica Horten 229 flying wing is being unveiled on June 24 as part of the San Diego Air and Space Museum‘s World War II Gallery. The National Geographic Society and Northrop Grumman Corporation teamed up to build the flying wing for a new television documentary premiering June 28. The top-secret Nazi fighter was replicated […]
Eye it before you fly it
When flying to an unfamiliar airport, pilots often wonder, “What will it look like when I get there?” With Fly the Pattern, pilots can answer those questions, and many more, before they even leave the ground. Designed to give pilots the ability to “Eye It Before They Fly It,” Fly the Pattern is recruiting airport […]
Lycoming STC for Cardinal RG
Two months after the certification of the IO-390-A1A6 engine, Lycoming Engines has earned a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for installing the engine in a Cessna 177 Cardinal RG. The Cessna 177 Cardinal RG’s original engine is a Lycoming IO-360. This is the first STC Lycoming has received as part of the Lycoming Echelon STC program, […]
Wilson Air Center hosts 13th annual POPA convention
Wilson Air Center recently hosted the 13th Annual Pilatus Owners and Pilots Association (POPA) Convention in Memphis. Thirty-five aircraft visited for a long weekend of classes, education, demonstrations and static displays. The world-renowned Memphis Peabody Hotel was the convention headquarters. Craig Fuller, AOPA president, was the keynote speaker, delivering a talk on the need and […]
Duncan completes first Aircell broadband systems in Falcons
Duncan Aviation recently delivered the first Falcon 900 with Aircell Axxess and ATG 4000 High Speed Internet System. Duncan Aviation will soon deliver the first Falcon 50 with the same system. The Axxess system, coupled with the ATG 4000, provide worldwide Iridium voice telephone service and broadband data in the continental United States. To read […]
Cessna EVS STC awarded
One Sky Aviation and Forward Vision recently received an STC to install Forward Vision’s EVS-100 (powered by Max-Viz) Enhanced Vision System as an “All Models List” for the entire Cessna single engine piston product line, including the 100 series, 206, and 207 models. Patrick Farrell, president of Forward Vision, notes the STC includes all 158 […]
Historic Essex County Airport has a lofty past
The general aviation airport in Essex County, New Jersey, is, at the age of 80, “a place of stories as varied as the 283 aircraft … parked off its two runways,” wrote Philip Read in the June 21 Essex Star-Ledger. The facility, operated since 1975 by the Essex County Improvement Authority, also is “home to […]