Flying Again is the creation of Jason Schappert, his wife and business partner, Ashley Schappert, and director, John Ellis. There is a whole long list of other contributors who brought this feature-length movie to fruition, and all of them deserve their time in the sun. I encourage you to read the credits carefully when you […]
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First phase of hangar development begins at KLVJ
PEARLAND, Texas — Western LLC, a real estate development and design-build firm, recently broke ground on Phase I of a new hangar development at Pearland Regional Airport (KLVJ). Texas Aviation Partners (TAP), the airport management team at KLVJ, partnered with Western to develop a strategic master plan for the airport. The master plan will be developed in […]
Museum to screen new documentary on Naval aviators
SEATTLE — On Jan. 9 at 2 p.m. The Museum of Flight hosts a screening of the new documentary, “Eleven.” The film features recent interviews with World War II veterans who served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hornet during the war. They all flew for Carrier Air Group 11. The film’s director, George Retelas, will accompany the screening, […]
‘Pioneers of Stealth’ receive Spirit of Flight Award
DAYTON, Ohio – The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) has awarded its 2015 Milton Caniff Spirit of Flight Award to the “Pioneers of Stealth” in recognition of its contributions to the early development of low observables — or stealth — technology. The annual award, established in 1981 and later renamed in tribute to longtime […]
ROTOR FX launches Drone-Classifieds.com
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, […]
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 […]