The flight instructor and student pilot departed their home airport with about 34 gallons of fuel on board the Piper PA-28 for a planned 60-mile, round-trip, cross-country instructional flight. The student pilot reported that, after landing at the destination airport, they completed two more full-stop landings before returning to, and then landing uneventfully at, the […]
Pictures of the Day: Crowning the winners
The 10th Sport Air Racing League race season wrapped up for the year with the Rocket 100 Air Race in Taylor, Texas, and the crowning of the league’s National Champions for 2017. From left to right: Race 53 William E. Dubois, Production Silver; Race 35 Charles Cluck, Katalina Ramirez, and Dove Ramirez, Production Gold and […]
Rare Beech Bayless Lightning strikes at Beech Party
By CELIA VANDERPOOL Down a twisty, two-lane country road about an hour’s drive southeast of Nashville, Tennessee, is an uncommon sight, even for a rural airport runway. The expected pilot challenges of trees, split rail fences, a log cabin, and nostalgic-looking hangars give way to an enormous grass runway extension. There was more than ample […]
FAA chief: Collaboration key to maintaining U.S. leadership in aviation
As his term at the FAA comes to an end early next year, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told members of the Aero Club in Washington, D.C., the “only way forward” is to foster more “constructive relationships” in the aviation community. “The result is the safest, largest, most complex, and most efficient air transportation system the […]
Air Plains hits milestone
WELLINGTON, Kansas — Air Plains Services, which specializes in extreme performance upgrades for a variety of general aviation aircraft models, marked a milestone in September 2017 with its 2,500th 180-hp engine upgrade for Cessna 172s. The milestone 172XP Extreme Performance engine upgrade was installed on N733EA, a 1977 Cessna 172N. “The rate of climb with […]
Stay tuned in with Air Scan
New from Sporty’s is the Air Scan radio/scanner, which pairs to a smartphone or iPad for playing music from your favorite app while Aviation Interrupt alerts you to any aviation transmissions on your preferred frequencies. You can use it in your home office, the desk at your FBO, or your workbench in the hangar to […]
Get accurate fuel levels with CiES system
The CiES digital fuel quantity system uses a high-technology sensor system that allows repeatable accurate measurement of fuel in an aircraft tank. The patented sensor system allows fuel measurements down to a change in fuel level to less than 0.03 of an inch, according to officials with Aircraft Spruce, which now carries the system. The […]
Fast Jets and Other Beasts
“Fast Jets and Other Beasts: Personal Insights from the Cockpit of the Hunter, Phantom, Jaguar, Tornado and Many More” has just been published. Over a 32-year military flying career that spanned a period when the Royal Air Force regularly replaced its fighter/bombers, author Ian Hall had seven front-line flying tours on five different types. His story starts […]
Mooney and Boeing biplane collide on runway
According to the pilots of a Mooney and a Boeing A75N, they arrived at the non-towered airport in Farmington, Delaware, and entered the traffic patterns for opposing sides of the 3,588-foot runway at approximately the same time. The Mooney entered the pattern on a left downwind for Runway 34. The pilot said he made radio […]