SEATTLE — The fly-in arrival of the Museum of Flight’s 1935 Lockheed Electra, one of only two in the world, is scheduled to arrive Sept. 21 at 1:45 p.m. The rare airliner is the same type as Amelia Earhart’s famous plane, and it will be the center piece of a permanent Earhart exhibit opening in […]
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Simsbury Fly-In set for Sept. 15
The 28th Annual Simsbury Fly-In and Car Show, the largest event of its kind in New England featuring displays of over 600 airplanes and cars of every vintage and type, will be held Sept. 15 at Simsbury Airport (4B9) in Connecticut, with a rain date of Sept. 22. This year’s event will include a replica […]
EAA sets AirVenture dates through 2020
EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. — EAA AirVenture Oshkosh has set its dates for the next seven years through 2020. While the 62nd annual EAA fly-in convention at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wis., will be held on July 28-Aug. 3, future years will schedule the event to run completely in late July. That slight […]
NASA helicopter test a smash hit
HAMPTON, Va. — Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center dropped an old Marine CH-46E helicopter fuselage filled with 15 dummy occupants from a height of about 30 feet Wednesday, Aug. 28, to test improved seats and seatbelts and gather data on the odds of surviving a helicopter crash. They used cables to hoist the helicopter […]
MIT, Harvard offer free online aviation courses
If you’re interested in airplanes and wish you knew more about aerodynamics — or air traffic control, space policy, satellite engineering or airline management — you can study all of those topics and more, for free, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, via the university’s OpenCourseware website, according to a post at AVweb. A bit intimidated? […]
Latest issue of FAA Safety Briefing now available
The September/October 2013 issue of FAA Safety Briefing, which focuses on aviation citizenship, is now available online. Articles highlight the shared values, customs, and culture we share as citizens of the general aviation community. Among the feature articles in this issue include: “To Be, Rather Than to Seem” – a look at how a personal […]
Share your memories of Paul Poberezny
Do you have a favorite memory of Paul Poberezny? How about a story of how this general aviation icon inspired your own flying? We are putting together a tribute to Paul in our next print issue and would like to include our readers stories and thoughts. You can send them to [email protected] or include them in […]
Would you fly more if avgas was $1 a gallon?
How does fuel price really influence general aviation? This October, a group of companies will use the Skyport aviation laboratory, in San Marcos, Texas, to find out by selling avgas for $1 a gallon. “This experiment isn’t about the cost of avgas,” says Jeff Van West, director of Redbird Media, and spokesman for the experiment. […]
Airline cockpit still a dream for many
The cockpit of a Part 121 airline is still the dream of many pilots. However, following the Colgan Airlines accident in 2009, Congress passed a law requiring all airline pilots hold an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate. That certificate requires a minimum of 1,500 flight hours and 23 years of age. A trio of universities, […]