If you are one of the hundreds of people who have been waiting years for Sport Pilot/Light Sport Aircraft to become reality, this could be the year you get your hands on a ready-to-fly Light Sport Aircraft (LSA). In April the first ready-to-fly models, which are European imports, were certified by the FAA and made […]
Picking the right LSA for you
Are you in the market for a Light Sport Aircraft? With so many options in both the ready to fly and the build it yourself genres, there are lots to choose from. One of the first questions you need to ask is whether you want a ready-to-fly model or a project? On the plus side, […]
Return of the Cub
If you learned to fly before 1965, chances are you have some stick time in a Piper Cub. For many people, even the aviation-challenged, the little yellow aircraft is synonymous with pleasure flying. Is it any wonder then that several aircraft manufacturers who are targeting the Sport Pilot/ Light Sport Aircraft market are producing aircraft […]
Interest grows in B-29 at bottom of Lake Mead
A B-29 that crashed into Lake Mead in July 1948 was not found until 2002. Now, not a week goes by that officials at the National Resource Area of Lake Mead in Boulder City, Nev., do not get an inquiry from someone who wants to dive on the bomber. “I get at least two or […]
Coming to America: More S-LSAs are certified by the FAA
The Light Sport Aircraft field is growing. In mid-May the Hansen AirGroup received FAA certification for two Special Light Sport Aircraft (S-LSA), a Tecnam Sierra and a Tecnam Echo Super Echo. The company expects to have a third aircraft certified by mid-June. The aircraft are manufactured by S.R.L. Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam of Italy and are […]
AirVenture 2005: Celebrating the past, looking toward the future
If your summer air show plans include shopping for a Light Sport Aircraft, picking up gadgets that enhance your aviation experience, admiring rare warbirds or basking in the glory of record setting aircraft, you’ll want to be at Wittman Regional Airport (OSH) in Oshkosh, Wis., July 25-31. This year’s EAA AirVenture promises all that, and […]
Teaching the next generation
Recently I witnessed an exchange between father and teenage daughter. The daughter, a student in the inaugural class of Seattle’s Aviation High School, was begging her father to let her start her flight training now. She is 14. “No, not until you’re older,” he said. “I don’t want to spend all that money and have […]
Next-generation Zeppelins launch
The future of reliable wireless communications may soon be — literally — up in the air. Sanswire Networks LLC, a subsidiary of GlobeTel Communications Corp., has developed the Stratellite, an unmanned high-altitude rigid airship that will provide a stationary platform for transmitting wireless communications services. “We see ourselves as a replacement for low altitude satellites […]
Flying Heritage Collection to highlight Arlington Fly-In
Some of the finest vintage warbirds in the Pacific Northwest will make their public debut during the Northwest Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention in Arlington, Wash., July 6-10. The aircraft, part of the Flying Heritage Collection owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, are normally kept in hangars at the Arlington Municipal Airport […]