Responding to Indonesia’s massive 7.6 magnitude earthquake, MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship) has flown in an assessment team to the devastated city of Padang, in the coastal region of western Sumatra. The quake hit Sept. 30, destroying hundreds of buildings and homes, triggering landslides, knocking out power and cutting off roads into the city of approximately […]
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Florida Air Museum receives grant
The Florida Air Museum has received a grant to fund a February 2010 Aviation Adventures lecture by Florida documentary filmmaker Jon Anderson in observance of Black History Month. The subject of the lecture will be Anderson’s award-winning documentary, “Silver Wings & Civil Rights: The Fight to Fly,” which focuses on the Tuskegee Airmen. The $1,000 […]
InJet to seek new hires at NBAA convention
InJet is seeking new hires at the National Business Aviation Association 62nd annual convention in Orlando, Fla., this month. ACP Jets launched its private jet charter program, InJet earlier this year, and already there’s a need for increased capabilities and growth, said officials with the West Palm Beach, Fla.-based company. “With the economic environment and […]
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You may have noticed that there are some changes in the banner ads on The Pulse. We are delighted to announce that banner ads on The Pulse of Aviation e-newsletter, LivingWithYourPlane.com and GeneralAviationNews.com are now sold as a single unit. This combination gives advertisers exposure in three very popular and solid aviation venues with tens […]
Flight Line Internet Radio celebrates first anniversary
Flight Line Internet Radio, which carries news from General Aviation News at the bottom of each hour, recently passed a milestone, achieving more than 600,000 unique web site visits in its first year of existence. Flight Line Radio launched Flight Line Internet Radio (FLiR), the world’s first “Aviation Radio Station,” Oct. 1, 2008. “We have […]
Toy Flights help kids, boost aviation
Members of the New Bedford Pilots Association in Massachusetts will offer sightseeing flights over the state’s South Coast this Saturday to raise money to provide holiday toys and gifts for local children. According to a story at SouthCoastToday.com, Toy Flights is an annual event that began in the late ’80s. In addition to raising funds […]
GAN to be at AOPA Aviation Summit
The AOPA Aviation Summit is rapidly approaching. November in Tampa…what a nice way to go. We hope that those of you who are attending will stop by and see us. We’ll be at Booth 909. There’s still time to advertise in the issue we’ll be distributing there. It’s a great audience of potential customers that […]
Van’s delivers 3000th RV-8 kit
Tom Carter, of Big Fork, Montana, enjoyed his career in the cockpit of the F-16, so when it ended, he said needed an airplane that could scratch the “fighter” itch and still provide good cross-country performance and reasonable operating costs. After researching the matter, Carter flew his Cessna 180 to the VansAircraft.com factory in Oregon […]
LSAs, Unite!
SPLOG By DAN JOHSON “LSAs, Unite!” might be the campaign slogan. Sector-only air shows are rare. By that term I mean an all-one-class or -type event. Club fly-ins occur where all owners of a certain brand get together at a regional airport. A gathering of Van’s aircraft builders can bring quite a flock of flying […]