Rotor FX has launched Drone-Classifieds, with a full release set for Jan. 1. Drone-Classifieds provides a free platform for individuals, new developers and marketers to sell their new or used equipment or their latest unmanned developments. The portal allows the user virtually unlimited space to present their products, including any number of images, video links, […]
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Avfuel winner takes home BMW
Avfuel has revealed that James Bennett is the lucky pilot who won a two-year lease on a brand-new BMW in the Avfuel booth at the 2015 National Business Aviation Association’s Convention and Exhibition held in Las Vegas last month. After a month of logistics, the car arrived at Bennett’s home in the Pacific Northwest just in time […]
NASA launches competition for airspace redesign
NASA has launched a new competition for the redesign of our national airspace. Sky for All: Air Mobility for 2035 and Beyond is a $15,000 challenge to develop ideas for technologies that could be part of a clean-slate design and concept of operations for the airspace of the future. The challenge is open now. Deadline for submissions […]
GA pilot volunteers to fly heart patient home for Christmas
After undergoing a heart transplant less than two weeks before Christmas, a Maine man got the ultimate gift this Christmas — a free flight home. The 54-year-old has traveled from Rockland, Maine, to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and back 53 separate times, all courtesy of Patient Airlift Services (PALS), according to a report […]
GA airports included in FAA’s Runway Incursion Mitigation Inventory
Several popular general aviation airports, as well as a number of other airfields across the country, may participate in a new FAA program that will provide funding for the mitigation of runway incursions at facilities that have complex or potentially confusing runway-taxiway geometry, according to a report from the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA). In […]
AWOS to be installed at S52
A new weather reporting system will be installed at Methow Valley State Airport (S52) in Washington state in February. The Washington State Department of Transportation will purchase and operate the weather reporting system, also known as an Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS), for use at the airport in Winthrop and neighboring airports. Once activated, the AWOS will […]
NATA celebrates 75 years
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) celebrated its 75th year as the voice of aviation business Dec. 28. As a response to military efforts in 1940 to ground all private flying in America for the duration of World War II, activists moved to prevent the cessation of general aviation activity — in the process […]
First flight: Mooney M10
Mooney International Corp. has successfully completed the first flight of the M10T Proof of Concept (POC) aircraft. The first flight was performed by test pilot Len Fox on Wednesday, Dec. 23, in the vicinity of the Chino Airport in California. The flight lasted approximately 15 minutes, with Fox conducting basic flight maneuvers and verifying design data. […]
FAA releases tutorial on enhanced vision systems
As part of its #FlySafe national safety campaign, which aims to educate the GA community on how to prevent Loss of Control (LOC) accidents this flying season, the FAA has released information on its latest topic: Enhanced vision systems. WHAT IS LOC? According to the FAA, a Loss of Control (LOC) accident involves an unintended departure of an […]