Rick Rademacher, who has been a pilot for more than 40 years, is the longtime proprietor of a computer store called The Hackerey in Urbana, Ohio. This year he decided to combine business with pleasure when putting up his Christmas decorations, decorating a Kolb draped with flashing LED Christmas lights and synced with an audio […]
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Santa visits GMU
There was a special visitor at last Saturday’s open house at South Carolina’s Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU): Santa. Santa greeted kids at the free event, which included tours of aircraft maintenance facilities, hangars, airplanes, fuel provider facilities and the airport’s control tower. The open house also included static displays, while Discovery Flights in an LSA […]
Sporty’s battles student dropout rate
Sporty’s Academy, the educational arm of Sporty’s Pilot Shop, recently participated in AOPA’s Flight Training Summit that focused on retaining more student pilots. One significant finding from AOPA’s research study was that fully two-thirds of student pilots describe their motivation for beginning flight training as primarily recreational. Recognizing this fact, Sporty’s Academy, which conducts flight […]
Volunteers of the Year awarded at Air Zoo
The Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Mich., recently honored volunteers Alan Wright, Larry Rolfe and Ryan Knapp with the Volunteer of the Year Award. Wright and Rolfe received the award in the adult category, while Knapp took the honor in the youth category. “All three volunteers exemplify the essence of volunteerism,” said Tamra Stafford, Air Zoo […]
Belite introduces two new instruments
Belite Aircraft has updated several of its avionics and is also offering two new instruments: A solid state gyro-based Turn Rate Indicator, designed as an IFR backup instrument for experimental aircraft; and a new Air Speed Indicator with a greater speed range. Belite’s new battery backup version of the Turn Rate Indicator utilizes a solid […]
Restoring a special B-17
By BILL WALKER, For General Aviation News The man was in his 80s, too frail to lift himself through the door of the iconic aircraft being restored in the gallery of the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Savannah, Ga. “What if he hurt himself?” someone asked. “The museum might be liable,” someone else worried […]
Setting the record straight
FlightPrep has been in the news lately about enforcing its Online Flight Planning Patent. Some of the news has been wrong, according to company officials, who sent an open letter to the aviation community to clarify information. The letter states: Stenbock and Everson, Inc., or FlightPrep as people know it today, is a small company, […]
Want to live like the Lears?
Bill Lear Jr.’s last residence at Spruce Creek Fly-In in Florida has been put for sale by his widow, Brenda. There are plenty of photos of the hangar home online, which should give you a chance to see how the other half lives. Check it out at 1780doolittle.com
FAA loses track of 119,000 aircraft
According to an Associated Press story, the FAA is missing key information on who owns one-third of the 357,000 private and commercial aircraft in the U.S. — a gap the agency fears could be exploited by terrorists and drug traffickers. The story notes that “About 119,000 of the aircraft on the U.S. registry have ‘questionable […]