Air Plains Services will partner with Petersen Aviation Inc. on an Anti-Detonation Injection System (ADI), which will allow GA aircraft to use autofuel. In the early 1990s Petersen Aviation, based in Minden, Nebraska, certified ADI systems on Cessna 188s, 210s and Barons, which allowed operation of these aircraft using 91 octane autofuel when the anti-detonation […]
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Museum offers winter break fun
The International Women’s Air & Space Museum’s (IWASM) Aviation Education Center at Burke Lakefront Airport (BKL) in Cleveland will be open to the public Monday through Friday Dec. 20–Dec. 31. Admission is free to both the museum and the aviation education center. The museum will have two craft hours every day, at 11 am and […]
San Diego museum accredited
The San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM) has been awarded accreditation from the American Association of Museums. Accreditation is the museum profession’s primary formal acknowledgement of quality assurance, self-regulation and public accountability, museum officials explained. It grants national recognition for a museum’s commitment to excellence, governance, collections stewardship/management, public programs, financial stability, exceptional professional […]
Aero-Lift relocates
ARM Aerospace, provider of Aero-Lift aircraft storage hoists, has moved its company headquarters from Tuscon, Ariz., to Steamboat Springs, Colo. Manufacturing of the Aero-Lift and all its components was also geographically centralized in Wisconsin, allowing for more control over the entire manufacturing process, company officials said. “We’re excited about these new opportunities,” ARM Aerospace owner […]
Gweduck: The experimental dream machine
If you are not from the Pacific Northwest the term Geoduck — pronounced “Gooey duck” — probably conjures up an image of a mallard in molasses. Actually, it’s a form of shellfish native to Washington state. Recently, the term became synonymous with an experimental aircraft. The Mahon-Ellision Gweduck — note the phonetic spelling — is […]
Heavyweights not concerned about FlightPrep patent
AOPA and Jeppesen, two of the largest players in the online flight planning business, say a patent obtained by FlightPrep doesn’t affect their products and they are not willing to discuss it, according to a story at AVweb.com, which notes that AOPA says it’s “business as usual” for its flight planning product. Read the full […]
Java benefits GA
Flying High Coffee, LLC is contributing a minimum of 15% of all profits from coffee sales to fund youth scholarships and general aviation programs. Ponder for a moment how much coffee the aviation industry consumes, says Rob Riggen, a CFI and owner of Flying High Coffee. Now imagine if every time anyone in aviation drank […]
Advice for mounting tires
Taking time to stretch and add a dose of talcum powder may sound like a gymnast getting ready for the high bar, but those practices also apply to mounting aircraft tires. Essential to providing proper tire life, correctly mounting aircraft tires requires following the detailed mounting procedures provided by tire and wheel manufacturers for both […]
New director takes over at Air Force museum
The Air Force has named Senior Executive Service member and retired Air Force Lt. Gen. John “Jack” L. Hudson as director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, effective Dec. 16. He will replace Senior Executive Service member and retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles D. Metcalf, who […]