Leading Edge Aviation, a Bend, Ore.-based helicopter company, reports it has maintained its ability to get private student loans even in these tough credit market. The company’s helicopter program offers flight training. It also is affiliated with Central Oregon Community College, which gives students additional options for financing, according to company officials. Veterans also have […]
Reel Stuff Film Festival lands North American premier of ‘Der Rote Baron’
The National Aviation Hall of Fame’s Second Annual Reel Stuff Film Festival of Aviation will host the North American premier of a World War One epic, “Der Rote Baron,” released in Europe last year but not yet screened for American theater audiences. The German feature film brings to life the tale of legendary World War […]
Autopilots DVD released
Sporty’s latest video release is “Pilot’s Guide to Modern Autopilots.” Featuring the Garmin GFC-700 in a Cessna 182 and the S-TEC 55X in a Cirrus SR-22, “Pilot’s Guide to Modern Autopilots” demonstrates preflight and set-up procedures a pilot should do on every flight. Scenario-based training in both VFR and IFR conditions will help a pilot […]
Hartzell props available for RVs
Van’s Aircraft now offers Hartzell Propeller’s new ASC-II advanced composite constant speed propellers on its current line. Van’s RV models powered by Lycoming -360 engines will accept the new Hartzell two-blade ASC-II composite props, while the RV-10 (pictured) with Lycoming -540 powerplants can use the new three-blade composite propeller. Builders can order the propellers direct […]
Rotax conversion kit debuts
Bully Hawk Aero Performance Inc. has developed a Turbo Conversion Kit that company officials say turns the 80-hp Rotax 912 series engine into a turbocharged equivalent of the Rotax 914. It is available either as a kit for $8,495 or through Bully Hawk’s conversion centers. For more information: BullyHawk.ca
Gulfstream cuts production, balances 2009-2010 deliveries
General Dynamics said on March 5 that, as a result of deterioration in its Gulfstream order backlog, particularly during the month of February, and continued weak demand, Gulfstream Aerospace has decided to cut large-cabin aircraft production and green-aircraft deliveries from a projected 94 to 73 in 2009. Gulfstream plans to reduce production of its mid-size […]
Aviation Week Laureate Awards winners named
Aviation Week has named the winners of its 52nd Annual Laureate Awards, recognizing exceptional strategy, heroism or leadership in aviation, aerospace and defense. The Laureate honorees have improved their organizations, championed new technologies, and changed aviation history, the publication stated. The Laureate Awards were held March 3 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, […]
‘Nanostitching’ could strengthen airplane skins, says MIT
MIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to stitch together aerospace materials, in work that could make airplane skins some ten times stronger at a nominal increase in cost, according to a March 4 news release from the institute. Advanced composites reinforced with nanotubes also are more than one million […]
FAA clarifies its meaning of ‘current’
FAR 91.409(f)(3) requires aircraft owners and operators to maintain their aircraft in accordance with a “current inspection program recommended by the manufacturer.” In a recent interpretation, an FAA attorney stated that owners and operators are not legally obligated to adhere to the most recent updates to maintenance instructions or inspection programs. Only the maintenance requirements […]