Launched in April, Sporty’s free Takeoff app has been enhanced. Sporty’s recently added quizzes to its daily lineup of videos, articles, photos, podcasts and aviation news. “We’ve posted more than 250 items to Takeoff already, and we’re adding content at a rate of two or three new items every day,” says Sporty’s Vice President John […]
Flight Outfitters introduces The Bush Pilot Bag
Flight Outfitters has introduced the Bush Pilot Bag. “This is the bag I have wanted for a long time,” said Flight Outfitters President Mark Glassmeyer. “The Bush Pilot Bag has that backcountry look but also has fully flight functional organization pockets that pilots need, and you just can’t find them in similar looking bags made by the […]
Landing at fly-in goes awry
The pilot of the aerobatic, tailwheel-equipped Aviat Pitts S2B planned to attend a fly-in at the airport in Lakeville, N.Y. As he overflew the 2,500-foot-long by 60-foot-wide private turf runway, he noted that numerous airplanes were parked along its left side, and elected to favor the right side of the runway during the landing. During the […]
Pictures of the day: Sunset sorties
Megan Vande Voort sent in these photos, captured this summer at Pella Municipal Airport (KPEA) in Iowa:
Air Racing from the Cockpit: Expect the Unexpected
Dispatch from KTYQ, Indianapolis, Indiana: Holy crap my airspeed is good. I’m pushing the yellow arc. In level flight. The two latest speed mods are paying off in spades. I’m 600 feet up, low enough that the lush, vibrant greens of the Indiana countryside seem to be flashing by beneath my wings. High above, and to […]
Aviat Husky vs CubCrafters XCub
Is this the new Chevy vs Ford?
Godspeed Tom Wathen
I open all the mail General Aviation News receives. From time-to-time, a subscriber will write a note on their renewal notice. Most often the note is words of encouragement or appreciation. On occasion it is a complaint. We can’t please everyone. But when I read a note on Tom Wathen’s renewal notice, I was taken […]
Nall Report released
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Air Safety Institute (ASI) released the latest edition of the Joseph T. Nall Report, which provides the most comprehensive analysis of general aviation safety available. The latest edition includes data through 2013, the most recent year for which NTSB probable cause findings, aviation activity surveys, and other relevant data sets […]
NASAO awards first “Henry O” scholarship
A student attending the University of North Dakota has been selected to receive the first Henry Ogrodzinski (“Henry O”) Scholarship Award established by the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO). The $1,000 scholarship will be presented later this month to Jordan Aritt of Minnesota. The scholarship program was created and named after Ogrodzinski, who […]