Sikorsky Aircraft and By Kids For Kids Co., an organization that inspires kids to be successful inventors, has awarded a California teenager the Igor Sikorsky Youth Innovator Award for envisioning a small unmanned helicopter that could carry relief supplies and electrical power to the scene of a natural disaster or other catastrophic event. Tharon Trujillo, […]
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Museum needs votes to win grant for Korean War memorial
The Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, Calif., is a finalist in the Pepsi Refresh Everything contest. They want to use the money to build a Korean War memorial. Museum officials ask pilots to vote as often as they can.
Piper names two top execs
Piper Aircraft Inc. named two executives to lead the company’s sales, customer support and marketing programs. Drew McEwen has been named Head of Global Sales and Business Development, responsible for the company’s worldwide dealer network, regional sales directors and global fleet sales. Previously he was Director of Sales, Americas. Veteran Piper executive Lisa Giessert will […]
Professional Aircraft Accessories expands
Professional Aircraft Accessories has broken ground on a 20,000-square-foot expansion, which company officials said solidifies the company’s commitment to Titusville, Fla., and aviation jobs in Brevard County. “This has truly been a joint effort,” said President Robert Bial. “We have been in this community since the company was founded in 1997 and the support we have […]
How cool are we?
Touting family business in her December 2011 column for Inc. magazine, columnist Meg Cadoux Hirshberg asked for input from her readers. One struck a chord: “Not many kids have their dads pilot them to summer camp or get to watch fireworks from the air. My former company, Rokop Corporation, which supplied continuous casting machines to […]
First solo: Hugh O’Handley
We recently asked pilots on our Facebook page to share the story of their first solos. Here’s one from Hugh O’Handley of Pelzer, S.C.: I have been lucky and have always had instructors that were great mentors. I first attended a flight school at Sky Acres Airport in Billings, N.Y., in 1973. I was 19 […]
Plan keeps Ross Lake open to seaplanes
Seaplane pilots will continue to enjoy camping on Ross Lake in the North Cascades National Park as the National Park Service released the Final Ross Lake National Recreation Area General Management Plan (GMP) and Environmental Impact Statement Dec. 1. Officials with the Washington Seaplane Pilots Association (WSPA) said they were very pleased to see the […]
Canada Hall of Fame inducts four
Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame (CAHF) will induct four Canadians, and recognize a Belt of Orion recipient, at its 2012 annual gala dinner and ceremony on Thursday, June 14, 2012. The hall’s inductees are: Nils Christensen, founder of Viking Air and a World War II pilot; Air Marshal Harold “Gus” Edwards, a World War I […]
WWII pilot gives $2 million to flight nursing program
A pioneering female aviator who served her country during World War II has made a gift to Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing — a gift that combines her love of flight and her dedication to nursing. Alumna Dorothy E. Ebersbach, who passed away Nov. 14, has pledged $2 million to […]