By DALE FORTON. The Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) is now taking requests to speak at the National Aviation Maintenance Symposium, slated for Nov. 21-22. We are asking for interested parties to contact us for an opportunity to speak to our audience in the areas of new technologies, fatigue, human factors, SMS, customer service, sales, […]
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Super Bowl Sunday super day for GA
While millions watched the Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers in the NFL Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday, the local FBOs at the Big Easy’s airports were gearing up for their own second half as many of the more than 800 private aircraft that flocked there departed soon after the game ended, […]
Reel Stuff Film Festival takes off in April
The Reel Stuff Film Festival of Aviation will take place in Dayton April 11-14. The cinematic celebration of flight also serves as the public grand re-opening of the Air Force Museum’s 400-seat giant-screen theater, currently undergoing an $800,000 renovation. The First Annual Reel Stuff of Aviation offers a diverse lineup of flight-related feature films, documentaries, […]
LCI manager elected president of state association
NEW HAMPSHIRE – Laconia Municipal Airport Manager Diane Cooper-Terrill was recently elected president of the Granite State Airport Management Association (GSAMA), becoming the first woman to serve in that office. A long-time member of GSAMA, she has previously served as both secretary and treasurer of that organization. GSAMA is an organization of aviation professionals committed […]
Innovations: Open up
Casey Hansen, a pilot and CFI in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has launched OpenFlightManual.org, designed to bring the open source concept to flight training. Working with a team of volunteers, Hansen hopes to create and maintain an online depository of aviation information. “We’re building a free, open, sharable, online flight training manual,” he says on the […]
8,000th Van’s takes flight
On Feb. 4, Stephen Watson of Santa Clarita, Calif., took the first flight in his RV-7A, becoming the 8,000th completed RV reported to Van’s Aircraft. Watson works for the Jet Propulsion Labs in California, and chose the RV-7A despite the fact that the airplane is powered by a piston engine, with no rocket or jet […]
WACO kicks off Great Lakes Paint Scheme Contest
The WACO Aircraft Company has launched a Great Lakes Paint Scheme Contest. “With the Great Lakes 2T-1A-1 project coming along quickly, we are looking for a great new paint scheme to use on our first airplane,” officials said in a prepared release. Go to WACOAircraft.com to download the Great Lakes drawings. Submissions will be taken […]
FedEx Express donates 727 to SUN ’n FUN
SUN ’n FUN CAMPUS, LAKELAND, FL. – FedEx Express has donated a Boeing 727 to SUN ’n FUN to use as an interactive aviation classroom. SUN ‘n FUN CEO and President John R. “Lites” Leenhouts commented that, “It is truly an honor for SUN ’n FUN to be recognized by the aviation industry giant FedEx […]
Warbird nose artist at museum
On Feb. 17, as part of its February Open Cockpit event, the New England Air Museum welcomes Connecticut native Gary Velasco, who has developed a reputation as one of the finest “nose artists” in the business. “Nose art” refers to the caricatures painted on wartime aircraft, an art form popularized during World War II. Velasco […]