A Q&A session with aviation legend Kermit Weeks and a discussion on Flying the Marine One presidential helicopter are just two of the topics covered this fall through free EAA Webinars, supported by Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. Participants in EAA Webinars are able to ask questions before and during each session. The lineup also […]
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NJ-based program flying high
A business education partnership in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, has been awarded a $100,000, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) grant for using aviation education programs as a tool for igniting a passion for Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM). The program, based at a GA airport, includes everything from summer camps to building an experimental […]
Public meetings slated for Iowa Aviation System Plan
The Iowa DOT Office of Aviation will be hosting public input meetings to provide information on the draft 2010 Iowa Aviation System Plan update and to obtain input on the future aviation system in Iowa. Meetings will be held: Thursday, Nov. 4, Spencer Municipal Airport, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, Mason City Municipal Airport, 6:30 […]
Lawmakers call for investigation into attempt to lure Hawker Beechcraft to Louisiana
Three members of Kansas’ U.S. Congressional delegation say they are suspicious that Louisiana may be using federal funds to try to lure Hawker Beechcraft to their state, according to KansasReporter.org, which reports that U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts said that Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds given to Louisiana to help with economic recovery after Hurricane […]
Indiana Aviation Museum to close
By RICK A. RICHARDS, For General Aviation News Most boys have a model airplane or two. So does Jim Read, but his collection fills an entire hangar at Porter County Municipal Airport (VPZ) in Valparaiso, Ind., and every one of them is airworthy. Now, after a decade of sharing his collection with the public as […]
Research targets barriers to flight training
If public schools had a drop-out rate of 70 to 80%, the outcry would be deafening. Yet that is what America’s flight schools overall face, and is a significant contributing factor to why the pilot population continues its downward trend, according to officials at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). “The past 20-plus years […]
Nourishing flight innovation
Sedgwick County Commissioner Gwen Welshimer has proposed making the county, which includes Wichita, the Air Capital of the World, “an incubator for future flight innovation,” according to a blog by Emily Behlmann at the Wichita Business Journal. The post notes that Welshimer thinks the county needs to be a leader in the personal flight industry, […]
A first: GA aircraft land at Edwards AFB
For the first time in the history of Edwards Air Force base, nearly 100 civilian general aviation aircraft, and 15 civilian-owned retired warbirds flew in, and landed on the Rosamond Dry Lakebed Oct. 1 to attend Flight Test Nation 2010 Lakebed Fly-In. “The primary purpose of this fly-in is to educate the civilian flying public […]
California budget includes delay in costly flight school regulations
The California state budget released Oct. 7 includes a measure that would delay the implementation of costly flight school regulations in the California Private Postsecondary Act of 2009 until July 1, 2011. According to a report at AOPA.org, the association “has worked with key lawmakers during the past few weeks to include this much-needed delay […]