A decade after the first delivery of a Kodiak 100, Quest Aircraft has unveiled the next generation of the Kodiak 100: Series II. In the Kodiak 100, Series II, the standard equipment list has been expanded to include Garmin’s next generation G1000NXi, as well as an Angle-of-Attack indexer, digital 4-in-1 standby, Flight Stream 510 and […]
Fatal accident claims Mid-Continent’s Pat Napolitano
WICHITA, Kansas — Over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics lost a valued employee and friend. Pat Napolitano was involved in a fatal airplane accident Friday, May 25, 2018, south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The aircraft involved was a Beechcraft Staggerwing (BE-17/G, Registration Number 79091), owned by Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics, […]
Honest Vision: The Donald Douglas Story
“Honest Vision: The Donald Douglas Story” is now available from ASA. The book features timeless leadership lessons from an engineering mind and aviation icon, according to ASA officials. Written by Julie Boatman Filucci, author of “Together We Fly: Voices From The DC-3,” the Donald Douglas Story is an exploration into the life of Donald Wills […]
FAA puts out Help Wanted sign for safety inspectors and technicians
The FAA is now accepting applications from experienced candidates to fill aviation safety positions at various facilities throughout the country. These positions are critical to the agency’s mission to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world, agency officials said. The FAA is hiring: Aviation Safety Inspectors to administer, investigate, and enforce safety […]
Broken shoulder harness increases severity of injuries in crash
The pilot and the passenger, a friend who was previously a student pilot but never completed his training, were making their first flight together. The pilot, who sustained serious injuries, did not recall the accident. The passenger reported that the pilot took off from the departure airport and then transferred the controls to him and […]
Picture of the Day: Flying again after 23 years
Roger Barcus sent us this photo with a great subject line in the email: Finally owning and flying again after 23 years. Good instructors are invaluable! He explains: “I bought a 1970 Mooney M20E Dec. 13, 2017. Jim Schulze was my instructor, who did a first class job using not only his skill and knowledge, […]
The realization of a dream
When the idea of flying first became real to me, I became a voracious reader of aeronautical magazines. My imagination went wild with the idea of not just flying, but of actually owning an airplane. The reality of my situation was somewhat less optimistic than my imagination. For one thing, I was living in a […]
New app helps pilots learn from accidents
The Flight Chain App has launched, designed to help pilots learn from the chain of circumstances in an accident. Flight Chain App is an easier way to read NTSB aviation accident reports by letting pilots see the accident chain, developers note. In addition to viewing accident chains, pilots can search accidents, browse accident rulings, read […]
Superior delivering factory-new new O-170/A-65 cylinders
Is your Piper Cub, Aeronca Champion, Ercoupe, Taylorcraft, or other such aircraft using tired cylinders? If so, Superior Air Parts is now delivering factory-new Millennium Cylinders for Continental Motors O-170/A65 engines. “The reintroduction of the Superior A65 cylinder is in direct response to countless requests from aircraft owners and engine shops to bring this popular […]