In olden times – that’s 60 to 70 years ago – wrist watches with glow-in-the-dark radium numbers were popular. Whether we wore a Timex or a Rolex, that’s what we wanted. Our hands didn’t fall off . In those days, many aircraft instruments glowed in the dark. That, too, was accomplished with minute amounts of […]
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Updated fuel prices available
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Lone Star exhibit features rare art
The Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, Texas, has on display 35 original or first edition prints from The Dee and Betty Howard Aviation Art Collection, through September of next year. Featured are paintings by such recognized artists as Douglas Ettridge and Stan Stokes.Ettridge was born in London but spent many years working in the […]
Sun ‘n Fun getting ready for 2006
Are you ready for this? With fall just starting to take over Southern weather, the people at Sun ‘n Fun are already thinking spring. The 32nd annual fly-in will be held April 4 through 10 at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport near Lakeland, Fla. Its inspiring theme is “The Joy of Flight.” As in years past, educational […]
Eclipse certification on target for March
Eclipse Aviation took delivery of its first flight-ready autopilot from Meggitt in September, passing another milestone along the path to certification. Although the company had not met its goal for test flight hours as of late September, in part due to the gear-up landing of N505EA, CEO Vern Raburn said he remains confident that the […]
Commander finds new home in Missouri
Commander Premier Aircraft Corporation (CPAC), a newly formed company that bought the assets of the bankrupt Commander Aircraft Co., is setting up operations in Cape Girardeau, Mo. “Nearly 30 trailers are loaded and rolling and the drivers have been told to head for Cape Girardeau Regional Airport,” said Joel M. Hartstone, CPAC president and CEO. […]
Connie down under
Leave it to the astute readers of General Aviation News to know where the rarest of rare birds are. After we published a story on the Airline History Museum’s recent troubles with an engine failure on what was thought to be the last airworthy Lockheed Constellation, we learned that there is another airworthy Connie — […]
Wrongful death suits filed against Cirrus
Cirrus Design Corp. is being sued by the estates of two Michigan men who were killed in the crash of an SR22 in January 2003. The cause of the crash, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, was a non-instrument rated pilot continuing VFR flight into night IFR conditions. According to the NTSB report, the […]
NASA’s DC-8 Flying Lab finds new home
NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory tipped its wings in farewell as it departed the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for its new home at Grand Forks, N.D., last month. NASA will pay the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, $25 million over the next five years to maintain and operate the […]