My wife and I were empty-nesters for a minute there. Our son is a great success, living in New York City with his own growing family. Our daughters had moved out and were sharing a house together. Then one daughter moved home. A few months later the other followed suit. We are empty-nesters no more. […]
Master Pilot Award and a flight in a Stearman
Nov. 21, 2017, was a good day for Barton “Bart” Welsh. He received the FAA’s Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for 50-plus years and more than 6,000 hours of safely navigating the skies. This came after a Dream Flight in a Stearman a few months ago by the Ageless Aviation Dreams Foundation for his military service. The […]
Watch company offers Golden Ticket for free ticket to anywhere in the world
Forget touring a candy company. The Abingdon Co., which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2017, has placed a Golden Ticket in one watch box. Once the ticket is discovered, the ticket can be redeemed for a roundtrip ticket anywhere in the world, according to company officials. “I have been wanting to offer the Golden Ticket […]
US Sport Planes named Jabiru LSA distributor
US Sport Planes of Denton, Texas, has been appointed the North American importer and distributor for Jabiru Light-Sport Airplanes for North America. The company will be the exclusive importer and market the full line of LSA airplanes manufactured in Australia by Jabiru Aircraft. Jabiru Aircraft has sold more than 2,000 aircraft and more than 6,000 […]
New BINGO Fluid Detector provides exact fuel levels
Just introduced is the BINGO Fluid Detector, which provides an indication of fluid presence or absence, giving pilots a better fuel management tool, according to officials with Radiant Technology, also known as Belite Electronics. It is typically installed at the point in the tank where the pilot wants to be alerted. For instance, at one-quarter […]
Blue Angels to headline Myrtle Beach air show
The first air show in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in more than a decade will take off April 28-29, 2018, at the Myrtle Beach International Airport, with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels headlining the show. “Horry County Department of Airports is excited to partner with JLC Air Show Management and welcome the Wings Over Myrtle Beach […]
RV-7 breaks up inflight
The airline transport pilot was conducting a personal flight in the experimental amateur-built Van’s RV-7, with one passenger on board. Several witnesses near Hurricane, Utah, reported that they heard the airplane’s engine and that it sounded like it was making power changes. They then saw airplane debris floating in the air. One witness stated that […]
Picture of the day: Glowstick attack
David West sent in this photo, explaining: “I flew my aircraft with a colleague from SpaceX to a dry lake bed in Southern California. We collected wind data in support of parachute testing for the Dragon 2 program. We decided to camp there overnight, and I had some fun with glowsticks and long-exposure photography.”
Game-changing Fokkers served on both sides of the Atlantic
When Anthony Fokker’s team introduced the futuristic Fokker D.VII biplane fighter to Germany in 1918, its welded steel tube fuselage and wings with less external bracing and rigging were a game-changer. Clocking speeds as high as 124 miles an hour, the D.VII was bested in that regard by the contemporary British S.E.5 and French SPAD […]