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 […]
Pictures of the day: The Hat in the Ring
Gord McNulty sent in these photos of a Nieuport 28 replica at the Great War Flying Museum in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. “The replica is painted in the American Air Service colors of the 94th Aero Squadron,” he explains. “The ‘Hat in the Ring’ paint scheme represents serial 6159 as flown by Eddie Rickenbacker, who became […]
Taking a moment to enjoy the view
It seems I’ve got a bit of an oil pressure problem. The temperature looks good, but the pressure on engine number 1, the engine that sits behind my left shoulder, is running significantly lower than it should. Lower than the rock solid 50 psi on engine number 2, that’s for sure. Having two engines means […]
Uncooperative weather doesn’t dampen Searey fly-in enthusiasm
Uncooperative weather didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the pilots and aircraft owners who attended the Searey Splash-In, Nov. 12, 2017, at Bowden’s Landing Island Lake Seaplane Base in Umatilla, Florida. Members of Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 534 were instrumental in the fly-in, with host Tom Bowden a member of the chapter. Other members provided food, […]
Badass Pilot premieres
AARP Studios has launched “Badass Pilot: The Series.” The unscripted five-part series follows jet pilot Art Nalls and his journey to buy and fly one of the rarest and most elusive planes in the world, a Harrier jet. “I think the title of this show says it all. Art is, in fact, a badass pilot, […]