Bombardier Aerospace has launched its all-new Learjet aircraft, provisionally named Learjet NXT, which company officials are calling “the next generation in Learjet excellence.” A public unveiling of the new jet is expected in October 2008, in time to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the first flight of a Learjet, according to Pierre Beaudoin, president and […]
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Shell Aviation fuels growth of next generation
Shell Aviation recently contributed $5,500 to the EAA’s Young Eagles program and $2,000 to Able Flight Inc. Funds for the donations come from the proceeds of the “AeroShell Cow T-shirts” offered by AeroShell Lubricants, and from the auction of rides with the AeroShell Aerobatic team at this summer’s AirVenture. “AeroShell strongly believes in the positive […]
Flying Tiger ‘Tex’ Hill dies
Brig. Gen. David Lee “Tex” Hill was exactly the sort of man we describe as a living legend. He died Oct. 11 at the age of 92, very much a legend in his own time and, doubtless, for a long time to come. He was affable, candid, endowed of a great sense of humor, a […]
Cessna sold more than $1B at NBAA
Cessna is reporting that it sold 178 aircraft, valued at more than $1 billion, at the National Business Aviation Association convention last month. During the three-day event, Cessna took orders for 101 Citations, 59 Caravans, 13 single-engine pistons and five SkyCatchers. These orders were in addition to those announced opening day for 30 Citation Xs […]
Aeronautics program receives wind tunnel from NASA
The Kent State Aeronautics Program in the College of Technology at Ohio’s Kent State University received a wind tunnel from NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland this October. The wind tunnel will be used to support course instruction in the aircraft design, applied flight dynamics and structures courses. It was built by engineers and scientists […]
Nolan Herndon, Doolittle Raid navigator, dies at 88
Nolan A. Herndon, a member of the Doolittle Raiders who was held captive in, then escaped from, the Soviet Union after participating in the famous bombing raid on Japan, died of pneumonia Oct. 7 at the age of 88. He was the last survivor among the three Doolittle Raiders from South Carolina. Herndon was a […]
Keep the pressure on in user fee battle
Candice Miller is not a pilot, but she has become a voice for GA in the House of Representatives. Miller, a Republican who is serving her third term as representative of the 10th District in Michigan, has joined the battle against user fees, working to pass the House FAA Reauthorization bill. The daughter of a […]
Are you working healthy?
Could working on or building an airplane make you sick? Staying safe is the goal of every pilot, as well as every FBO owner and manufacturer. But being accident free doesn’t mean staying healthy, according to James W. Allen, an environmental health physician and an aviation medical examiner. Known as Doc Allen, he’s written a […]
Student pilot wins Sporty’s sweepstakes plane
Otto Sorg of Dexter, Michigan, is the winner of Sporty’s 2007 Sweepstakes Aircraft, a Cessna Skyhawk SP equipped with a Garmin G1000 glass cockpit. Sorg, a software analyst, took delivery of his airplane in late September, accompanied by his wife, Linda, and his flight instructor, Theresa Whiting. Sorg’s interest in airplanes developed as a paratrooper […]