OLYMPIA Airport, Wash. — Soloy Aviation Solutions has appointed James H.L. Cowan president and Chief Executive Officer. A mechanical engineering technology graduate from Purdue University, Cowan has spent his career in the aviation industry. He was the quality assurance manager for Dylan Aerospace, a Tier 1 supplier to the Boeing Airplane Company, before becoming an aviation client […]
Tire fails on takeoff
The pilot reported that, during the takeoff roll at the airport in Monroe, N.C., the Piper PA-46-500TP’s right main landing gear tire failed. He aborted the takeoff, and the plane departed the right side of the runway. The ground around the runway edge was uneven due to airfield construction, and the wings bounced as the […]
Pictures of the day: The next generation
A group of energetic students from Savannah de Rham’s Pre-K Class at Fisher Elementary School in Arlington, Vermont, recently visited the William H. Morse State Airport in Bennington, Vermont. The students received a tour of the airport and a number of aircraft, including a Cessna 182 used by the Civil Air Patrol for search and […]
Spokane Air Derbies a big hit in 1927
The first and only time that the National Air Races were held at Spokane, Wash., was during the week of Sept. 19, 1927. This was quite an adventurous undertaking for a small town such as Spokane, especially given that the previous two events in Cleveland and Los Angeles were money losers. However, Lindbergh’s solo flight […]
Saving Brookeridge
Brookeridge Airpark (LL22), in Downers Grove, Ill., is the closest residential airport to Chicago. Now thriving, it’s hard to believe that this airpark was on the verge of being closed in the late 1960s. In the early 1950s, pilot Austin Talbert had a vision to create a residential airpark where pilots could live with their airplanes. […]
Another unintended consequence of ethanol in auto fuel
By DEAN BILLING. Even though the settlement accord of the CEH lawsuit in California opened up the opportunity to reduce the lead footprint around California airports, I can find no airports adding unleaded mogas infrastructure and no supplier of ethanol-free auto fuel in California. I think it is a lost economic and public relations opportunity […]
Scholarship winner solos
The Flying Musicians Association reports that its first Solo Scholarship Award recipient, Drew Medina of Vero Beach, Florida, a senior in the Vero Beach High School jazz, symphonic, and marching bands, has completed his first solo flight. Drew’s flight instructor, director/chief engineer at Piper Aircraft, Buddy Sessoms, noted, “Drew is quiet, focused, driven, and definitely very diligent.” […]
Navy releases definitive history of Naval Aviation
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Navy has released online its recently-published, two-volume history of U.S. naval aviation. “United States Naval Aviation 1910–2010” by Mark L. Evans and Roy A. Grossnick is the Naval History and Heritage Command’s fourth update to the original history, which was initiated in 1960. That first issue celebrated the first 50 years of […]
Frasca installs sims at Metro State University
Frasca International recently installed two Cessna 172 Mentor AATDs (Advanced Aviation Training Devices) at the Aviation and Aerospace Science Department at Metro State University (MSU) in Denver, Colorado. During the installation, Frasca engineers also upgraded host computers on 10 of the university’s existing simulators and installed projector upgrades to its Cessna Mustang Flight Training Device (FTD). There are […]