Picture of the Day takes us to Italy. Frequent contributor Piergiorgio Goldoni sent in these photos, taken during a flight in an Alpi Aviation Pioneer above Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park, a state-held natural preserve in northern and central Italy. He notes they took off from Sassuolo Airstrip in Modena, Italy, and flew from Cerreto Pass […]
Book: The 25 Most Influential Aircraft of All Time
If you had to pick what you believed were the 25 most influential aircraft of all time, could you do it? Could you limit it to just 25? Are there 25? For that matter, what you believe to be influential might be vastly different from a list compiled by Bill Lear or Bill Boeing. A […]
F-104 flight training takes off at Kennedy Space Center
American businessman John Rost has become the first to complete a new FAA-approved F-104 flight training program at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The new civilian astronaut training program for licensed pilots is offered exclusively by commercial space marketing company Infinity Space, Inc. Ground school and in-flight instruction is provided by Starfighters, Inc., operators […]
KTKI breaks ground for new hangar
McKinney National Airport (KTKI) in Texas hosted a groundbreaking ceremony March 2, 2018, to begin construction of a new 39,900-square-foot transient hangar. The groundbreaking ceremony for the transient hangar celebrates the first phase of this project, according to officials. The second phase, which consists of a new state-of-the art 17,000-square-foot executive terminal, is scheduled to […]
AIR opens applications for scholarships
Aviation Insurance Resources (AIR), an aircraft insurance broker based in Frederick, Maryland, is offering its Get into the Air aviation scholarship for a third year. Previous scholarship winners come from all walks of life, including an aviation museum director and ice skater working towards a private pilot certificate, a student pilot following in the footsteps […]
Latest edition of Aviation Maintenance Technician textbook released
The latest edition of the Aviation Maintenance Technician Series: General has just been released by ASA. The Aviation Maintenance Technician Series textbooks by Dale Crane were created to set the pace for maintenance technician training and serve as an essential resource to pass the FAA Knowledge Exam, according to ASA officials. The new fourth edition […]
Fuel starvation leads to forced landing
During cruise flight in the experimental, amateur-built Mustang II, the private pilot attempted to move the fuel selector from the left to the right fuel tank. During that process, the engine lost power, and the airplane sustained substantial damage during the subsequent forced landing near Normangee, Texas. The pilot was seriously injured in the crash. […]
Picture of the day: Remember Meigs Field?
Ronald Payne sent in this blast from the past for Picture of the Day, a photo of base to final at Meigs Field in Chicago. The photo was taken in 1997, six years before the airport was closed. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley had been trying to close the airport on Northerly Island since 1994 […]
Will you fly the aircraft of the future?
This article may either excite you or annoy you. I understand. I have mixed feelings about a new class of airplanes I don’t understand as well as familiar, legacy ones. Perhaps like you, I’m annoyed because I didn’t foresee this and because these new proposed machines are not my experience over many decades of flight. […]