If you’ve been thinking of adding an Instrument Rating to your pilot certificate, WINGsReality EDU’s next ground school starts May 24. The class is delivered live from WINGsReality EDU’s classroom in Orono, Maine and online. For those interested in a classroom feel, but can’t make it to Orono, students at Hampton Airfield (7B3) and Merrymeeting […]
Just 103 Solo proves renewed ultralight interest
Unveiled only nine months ago, Just Aircraft’s Part 103 unfinished prototype is generating a surprising amount of interest. Overall this seems part of a surge in Part 103 interest, for plenty of good reasons: Greater freedom (no license or registration required), No medical of any kind needed, and The aircraft can be delivered ready-to-fly. The […]
New Vietnam War exhibit opens Memorial Day Weekend at Museum of Flight
SEATTLE — On May 26, 2018, the Museum of Flight opens “Vietnam Divided: War Above Southeast Asia,” a permanent addition to the museum’s glass-walled main gallery that focuses on the air war over Southeast Asia from 1955-1975. Using displays based upon the design of military airbase protective barriers, the exhibit is not meant to be […]
FreeFlight Systems partners with Avidyne to provide ADS-B In
FreeFlight Systems will provide its certified RANGR ADS-B receivers to Avidyne customers. Avidyne will bundle an IFD system and a ADS-B Outcapable Mode S transponder with FreeFlight Systems RANGR-RX ADS-B receiver to offer a complete ADS-B solution, company officials said. The TSO-certified RANGR-RX provides pilots with ADS-B Flight Information Services Broadcast (FISB) and Traffic Information […]
Instructional flight ends fatally
The sport pilot had recently purchased the airframe-parachute-equipped light-sport airplane, a Jihlavan Airplanes SRO KP 5 ASA, and was receiving instruction in it to satisfy insurance requirements. Radar data indicated that, during the flight, the airplane’s groundspeed decreased from 94 to 62 knots, consistent with airwork including slow flight and stall practice. Subsequently, several witnesses […]
Picture of the Day: Wowing the crowds
Grant Boyd, a frequent contributor to General Aviation News, sent us this photo of a Pitts S2BE biplane taking off for a sunset flight. “The plane wowed the crowd at Stearman Field near Wichita, who gathered for food and music on a beautiful Kansas Saturday night,” he reports. Would you like to have your photo […]
Sea Dart jet seaplane skimmed into history
If everything aeronautical seemed possible in the heady post-war jet age, some aircraft designs found where the limitations were. The Convair F2Y Sea Dart was one of four delta-wing jets in design or production by that San Diego company in the 1950s. Convair embraced the delta planform as its ticket to supersonic performance. But early […]
EAA Chapter 543 launches new program to teach kids how to build aircraft
Youngsters in Lake County, Florida, who want to learn how to build and repair homebuilt experimental airplanes now can take advantage of a free program. Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 534, based at the Leesburg International Airport in Leesburg, Florida, has launched a program to teach young people the technical aspects of building and repairing experimental […]
Oshkosh NOTAM now available
EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — The FAA has released the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2018 Notice to Airmen (NOTAM), featuring arrival and departure procedures for EAA’s 66th annual fly-in convention July 23-29, 2018, at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh. The NOTAM, which is in effect from 6 a.m. CDT on Friday, July 20, until noon […]