Air Serv International puts out call for pilots Air Serv International is looking for a few good pilots. The not-for-profit humanitarian aviation organization currently has overseas openings for experienced pilots. Be it war, floods, famine, epidemics or any other humanitarian crisis, an Air Serv plane is usually there providing vital support to relief operations. From […]
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The ultimate ‘Gift of Flight’? Eight classic jet fighters and trainers for sale
A British auction company is offering what may be the ultimate gift to a pilot. Eight de Havilland Vampire and Venom military jets are being offered “by tender,” as the British say, which means make offers. The two Vampire trainers, a Vampire fighter and five Venom fighter-bombers can be bought individually or as a collection, […]
Ups and downs
When you sell airplanes for a living, life has its ups and downs…literally. Like many of the other air shows — and many other sales people — Gobosh salesman Tony Settember gave demonstration rides all day long during the Copperstate Fly-In held earlier this fall in Arizona. The high-wing LSA, which made its debut at […]
Can eBay help kids get into aviation? Build A Plane bets on it
Build A Plane, a non-profit organization that helps teach science, technology, engineering and math to young people by having them build or restore real airplanes, is tapping into the popularity of the online auction site eBay. Starting late last month, the organization began auctioning off a wide variety of one-of-a-kind items, from aviation collectibles and […]
Music to the ears
Is the sound of an airplane’s engine music to your ears? Do conversations with Air Traffic Control have a certain lyrical quality for you? If so, then you will enjoy Belgian composer Bruno Misonne’s newest CD, titled “Aviation Music.” Misonne has made the airplane an instrument in his music. Vocals are sound bites of air […]
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“I am going to wear my old uniform if I can find it and still fit into it!” — a World War II veteran preparing for a USO-style hangar dance to raise money for the North Carolina Air Museum “It seems I was born to go fast — fast cars and fast airplanes.” — NASCAR […]
A pride of pilots
You know that photograph of a pride of lions under the wing of a Twin Otter? This is the Copperstate Fly-In version; a “pride” of EAA members, Chapter 691, the Green Chile Chapter from Santa Fe, N.M., to be precise. The gaggle of guys took shelter from the Arizona sun in the shade of a […]
True Flight Aerospace plans summer roll-out for Tiger
As more of the tooling for the well-regarded Tiger arrives in Georgia from the airplane’s most recent manufacturing plant in West Virginia, True Flight Aerospace – the new owner – is projecting that production there will start “early in 2008.” True Flight’s chief executive, Kevin Lancaster, says the four-seat, single-engine Tiger will be manufactured “in […]
‘Candy Bomber’ becomes LSA owner
Col. Gail Halvorsen, who became known as the “Candy Bomber” during the Berlin Airlift, is now the owner of a Remos G-3. During the Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948-1949, Halvorsen dropped candy attached to small parachutes to the children of Berlin. These days the 87-year-old visits schools and gives talks about the Berlin Airlift. […]