It’s the internship of a lifetime. This summer, Cory Ravetto, an aerospace engineering student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott, Ariz., campus, will spend five weeks in France, working at Daher-Socata, one of the world’s leading aircraft manufacturers. The senior from Bigfork, Mont., is one of two recipients of a prestigious scholarship awarded by the Experimental […]
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Mid-Continent Instruments promotes Marissa Reddick to purchasing supervisor
Mid-Continent Instruments has promoted Marissa Reddick to purchasing supervisor, tasked with ensuring that all parts received meet Mid-Continent’s best cost, quality and delivery standards. Reddick began her career at Mid-Continent Instruments in February 1997. She brings a broad knowledge base to the purchasing department, including an in-depth understanding of the lean manufacturing process, material resource […]
FBI deputy director nominated to head TSA
The Transportation Security Administration has been without an administrator for more than a year, but perhaps the third attempt to fill the post will be the charm as President Obama announced his intention to nominate FBI Deputy Director John S. Pistole to head that section of Homeland Security. Pistole has been with the FBI since […]
Boeing’s past meets its future
The Boeing Co.’s latest addition to its line of airplanes, the 787 Dreamliner, caught up to its ancestor, a Boeing Model 40, May 8 in the skies over Mount Rainier south of Seattle. The fully restored 1928 vintage Boeing Model 40, owned and flown by Addison Pemberton of Spokane, Wash., is the only flyable Model […]
Hartzell prop chosen for new Korean four-place plane
Hartzell Propeller Inc. has been selected by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) to supply its in-development KC-100 aircraft with Hartzell’s ASC-II propellers, as well as its S-Series propeller governors. Hartzell will supply the first propeller systems for the KC-100 program this summer. KAI, which began development on its first general aviation program in June 2008, expect […]
Air Zoo to unveil WASP exhibit
On May 28, the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Mich., will open “Fly Girls of World War II,” a traveling exhibit that showcases the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). The exhibit, created by WASP Deanie Parrish and her daughter, Nancy Parrish, of Wings Across America, shines a light on the contributions the WASP […]
Wings of Dreams to mark D-Day anniversary
Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum will mark the 66th anniversary of D-Day Normandy at its first monthly fly-in and drive-in breakfast at Florida’s Keystone Heights Airport (42J) on Saturday, June 5, from 8 to 11 am. Displays and a short program will commemorate June 6, 1944, the largest amphibious invasion in history and the sacrifices […]
B&S Aircraft celebrates 45th anniversary
B&S Aircraft Parts & Accessories, an AMETEK company, celebrates 45 years of providing maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for aircraft accessories, parts and components. The list of aircraft flying with B&S overhauled components includes virtually every type from the legacy Cessna 100-series up to the B-1 Lancer bomber, according to officials with the Wichita-based […]
Vintage aircraft fly in to Museum of Flight
Locally owned military aircraft will land at The Museum of Flight in Seattle on Memorial Day weekend for the annual Cascade Warbirds Fly-In, Saturday, May 29, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The collection allows visitors to view a wide variety of meticulously restored vintage military aircraft representing several nations’ armed forces from World War […]