Ever wish you could play on the same golf course as the professionals? You can, at North Carolina’s Pinehurst Resort, site of the 2005 U.S. Open Championship. The 2,000-acre resort, which boasts eight championship golf courses, is just one of three U.S. Open sites open to the public, according to Janeen Driscoll, communications manager. And […]
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Antique instruments declared radiation hazard
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 […]
Updated fuel prices available
Want to know where to find fuel and fuel prices to suit your itinerary and wallet? Control Vision, creators of the AnywhereMap, AnywhereWx, Pocket Plates and Anywhere EFB portable navigation systems, has the answer at 100LL.com. 100LL.com updates fuel, FBO and airport information on a continuous basis. You can use it to search for fuel […]
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 […]
Rare Pitcairn Autogiro joins EAA collection at Oshkosh
A rare Pitcairn PCA-2 autogiro, a revolutionary aircraft when introduced in 1930, has been donated to the EAA AirVenture Museum at Oshkosh by owner Steve Pitcairn. The Pitcairn autogiro, named “Miss Champion,” will be part of the display in front of the Vintage Aircraft Association’s Red Barn, in 2006.Pitcairn’s father, Harold, built only 20 of […]
Celebrations of Wright brothers’ feats planned
An elegant replica of a pioneering Navy airplane soon will hang in Dahlgren Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy. Built by Ken Hyde and his team of master craftsmen at The Wright Experience in Virginia, it is an authentic, but non-flying, Wright Model B like the one the Wright Co. delivered to the Navy in […]
Kodiak selects Garmin 1000
Quest Aircraft has selected the Garmin 1000 integrated avionics suite as standard equipment for its Kodiak aircraft. The Kodiak, a 10-place utility airplane powered by the Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34 engine, is on track for certification in early 2006. Base price is $1.1 million.