The University Aviation Association (UAA) recently presented five awards to educators from around the nation. The William A. Wheatley Award for 2012 was presented to Dr. Elizabeth Bjerke, associate professor and assistant chair of Assessment, Aviation Department, at the University of North Dakota (UND). Bjerke is active in numerous national and international aviation related organizations, […]
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A poetic checklist
When Kenneth Karnes, now 75, recently started flying again after a several-year hiatus, he bought a Cessna 210 and began studying the airplane and procedures. One day his son, David, picked him up from the airport and noticed he was reading something. It turned out the elder Karnes had written a poem to help him […]
Rare bird to be featured at Copperstate
One of the world’s only Aero Vodochody L-39 ZA Czechoslovakian fighter jets will take to the skies this week in Casa Grande, Ariz., at the 40th annual COPPERSTATE Fly-In & Aviation Expo. Now based at Stellar Airpark in Chandler, Ariz., the journey for this stunning red-white-and-black Czechoslovakian L-39 ZA fighter jet — owned, maintained and […]
Able Flight calls on pilots to participate in ‘#Giving Tuesday’
Everyone knows about Black Friday, that frenzied national day of shopping the day after Thanksgiving. Now there’s an alternative: It’s “#GivingTuesday”, the first-ever national day of giving, slated for Tuesday, Nov. 27. To fund a new flight scholarship for people with disabilities, Able Flight is asking 400 pilots (or family and friends of pilots) to […]
Congressman urges FAA to expand use of existing unleaded fuel
LOS ANGELES — Rep. Henry A. Waxman has sent a letter to Michael Huerta, acting administrator of the FAA, to encourage the expanded use of unleaded fuels that are available today to reduce toxic lead emissions from general aviation aircraft, particularly in airports with close proximity to residential areas. “General aviation fuel now accounts for […]
Company demonstrates ADS-B fully autonomous collision avoidance for UAS
R³ Engineering (R³E) recently completed a demonstration of an ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast) based, fully autonomous collision avoidance sequence, executed by a sense and avoid system installed on an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). On Friday Aug. 10, an AWSAS — R³E’s All Weather Sense and Avoid System — installed on a research UAS, with no […]
New general aviation airport opens in Kansas
A new general aviation airport has opened in Kansas. Rooks County Regional Airport (RCP) was dedicated Sept. 29, according to a post at NBAA.org. The $6 million project, funded in part by an FAA Airport Improvement Program grant, involved constructing a 5,000-foot paved runway on a site that lies between the cities of Plainville and […]
University Aviation Association elects officers
Dr. José R. Ruiz of Southern Illinois University Carbondale recently assumed the University Aviation Association’s (UAA) top elected position as president for 2012-13. As one of his first official duties, he announced the election of Dr. Julie Speakes to a one-year term as president elect and Jorge E. Calaf to a two-year term as treasurer. […]
FlightSafety founder passes away
A.L. Ueltschi, founder of FlightSafety International, passed away peacefully at his home in Vero Beach, Florida, Oct. 18. He was 95. As pilot of Pan American’s first corporate plane — his regular passenger was company founder Juan Trippe — Ueltschi hit upon the idea of opening a testing and training center for the booming aviation […]