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What’s it like to fly F-15s? “It’s a great job,” says Capt. Tony Bierenkoven, demonstration team commander and pilot for the West Coast F-15 Demonstration Team, which performed at Sun ‘n Fun. “I’ve flown every day this week.” The team that flew at Sun ‘n Fun is based at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. […]

A little more than three years after being announced, the Diamond D-Jet had its first flight April 18. Conducted from the London International Airport in Canada, home of Diamond’s North American operation, the first flight lasted one hour and six minutes. The flight was designed to evaluate 19 test points. After take off and climb […]

Scott Crossfield was a hero who lived up to the expectations of his admirers. Not all of them do, you know. Crossfield died during the night of April 19 after encountering a Level 6 thunderstorm over Georgia, while flying his Cessna 210 toward Virginia. The wreckage was found the next day in a wooded gully […]

Many improvements are in the works for the 28th Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In (RMRFI), scheduled June 24-25 at Front Range Airport (FTG) in Watkins, Colo. Expect to see more classic Warbirds — static displays as well as aerial performers — during the fly-in’s third year at Front Range. Activities include daily aerobatic shows, workshops and […]

When most of us think of Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) we envision police helicopters looking for people on the ground or expensive all-weather systems in Gulfstream cockpits. It’s hard to imagine FLIR in small general aviation aircraft at a price of $18,680. Harder to imagine than that is the many ways in which FLIR can […]

Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, has been selected as the host airport for the Gathering of Mustangs & Legends, slated for Sept. 27-30, 2007. The 1999 gathering at Kissimmee, Fla., brought together 65 P-51 Mustangs and 12 Legends for what was considered one of the great aviation events of the 20th Century. Columbus is […]

If you’ve never heard of ADS-B or seen how it shows what’s sharing airspace with you, you need to get together with Todd Sprague of PC Avionics. He can show how his software and an ADS-B box aboard your airplane can enhance your safety exponentially. ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) tracks all air traffic around you […]

If you’ve spent any time at Sun ’n Fun, you’ve probably run into Pat or Vic Boyce. The couple are known around the grounds as “go-to” people. You need an answer? Pat will find it for you. Need someone to run the workshops or raise money for a state-of-the art telescope? Vic’s your man. Originally […]

A proposal led by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to develop Daytona Beach International Airport into a model prototype of the airport of the future was recently passed by the Volusia County Council. Joining ERAU in the Teaching Airport Advanced Integrated Technology Project are Lockheed Martin, Transtech Airport Solutions Inc., ENSCO Inc., and Mosaic ATM. “These multinational […]