Marc Lafo submitted this photo and note: “This is a picture a spectator took and shared with me while attending the Thomasville Fly-In in Georgia. This was my first fly-in using my own plane. It is a 1965 Mooney M20C that my co-owners and I converted to an E model over a 17-month restoration of the aircraft during the pandemic.”
Membership has its privileges
I spent the first portion of my career as a complete independent. I was completely solo. I didn’t belong to any organization, association, or group that required membership. That decision felt right. It wasn’t.
FAA to pay pilots for research study at Oshkosh
Eligible pilots who participate will receive a prepaid gift card between $300 and $500 (dependent upon current medical privileges at time of participation) on the day of the study.
Electric Aircraft Symposium returns to Oshkosh
More than 40 of the world’s electric aircraft developers and technology experts will be speaking at the 18th Annual Electric Aircraft Symposium, hosted by the Vertical Flight Society, held the weekend before EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024.
KSEZ first airport in Arizona to carry SAF
Sedona Airport now offers sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) produced by Neste in Long Beach, California.
There’s no reason for unprofessionalism on CTAF
After landing and while cleaning the airplane, the Aircraft Y pilot drove up to my hangar and berated me in front of my wife for “screaming into the traffic pattern at too high an airspeed and being only 400 feet below him and they were talking to center with a Bravo clearance (wrong, ZZZ Tracon owns the Class B around here so he would be talking to Approach, not Center) and even the SIC (Second in Command) Center Controller didn’t see you” and loads of other garbage. You get the drift.
Picture of the Day: Flying into Sedona
Karyn King submitted this photo with a note: “Our first flight of the year into Sedona was a bit bumpy, but spectacular, ride in our Nanchang CJ6. Joe Griffith pilot, Karyn King, copilot.”
Skywagons drop in on Duluth
Forty-three Sykwagons and their owner/pilots attended the 2024 International 180/185 Club convention.
Seattle high school wins Aviation Design Challenge
A team from Raisbeck Aviation High School in Tukwila, Washington, is the winner of the 2024 General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) Aviation Design Challenge.