Tailwind Technologies Inc., the parent company of Hartzell Propeller Inc., has purchased the energy system assets from Kelly Aerospace Energy Systems, LLC, of Montgomery, Alabama, creating a new company, Hartzell Engine Technologies LLC. Price of the transaction was not disclosed. The new company will be led by Mike Disbrow, who also currently serves as senior […]
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NGPA awards $15,000 in scholarships
The National Gay Pilots Association (NGPA) Education Fund awarded $15,000 in scholarships this summer, bringing the total amount awarded to $117,000 since the fund’s inception. The scholarships are available to students pursuing an aviation career as a professional pilot and are merit-based upon criteria established by the NGPA Education Fund. Factors considered include: demonstrated academic […]
Free admission for kids
Kids 11 years and under will receive free admission during October to the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
Mr. Melton’s ‘new’ Howard
When you are restoring a vintage aircraft, it can be quite a challenge to meet self-imposed deadlines. Presley Melton of North Little Rock, Ark., knows this only too well as the owner of a 1943 Howard DGA-15P. “It was a basket case when I bought it eight years ago,” he explained when we caught up […]
What’s Wonder Bread got to do with GA?
AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli posits a new theory about the stagnating GA industry: He says blame Wonder Bread. In his blog, which you can read in full here, he states: “As long as diverging income inequality continues, as long as the better paid wage earners find their pay to be stagnant or declining, flying is going […]
Sky Hope Network launches
A team of five industry professionals have formed a new non-profit organization, Sky Hope Network, to offer business aviation support in emergencies. Sky Hope founder Robin Eissler, Vice-President of Jet Quest, Inc., was a critical player in the Corporate Aviation Responding to Emergencies (C.A.R.E.) relief efforts that responded in 2005 to Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath and […]
A plane that lands like a bird
Everyone knows what it’s like for an airplane to land: The slow maneuvering into an approach pattern, the long descent, and the brakes slamming on as soon as the plane touches down, which seems to just barely bring it to a rest a mile later. Birds, however, can switch from barreling forward at full speed […]
Planes on Poles… really!
From the press release, “Don’t roll your eyes when you hear I have yet another app. This one is so stupid you have to love it!” Okay, maybe that part is from the pre-roll to the release, but AircraftMerchants president and nascent iPhone/iPad app-creator Todd Huvard has done it again. This time with Planes on […]
Able Flight awards new scholarships
Able Flight has awarded two new scholarships to help two aspiring Sport Pilots: Brandy Hofstetter and Ajantha (A.J.) Nanayakkara. Hofstetter was only 17 months old when she was paralyzed in a car crash, and that accident and the trauma to her young body could have defined her life. But she has never let that happen. […]