CHEF Homeschoolers, the winners of the third GAMA/Build A Plane Aviation Design Challenge, will spend the next two weeks building a Glasair Sportsman airplane at Glasair Aviation in Arlington, Washington. The four students from Cuba City, Wisconsin, won the all-expenses-paid trip to assemble the plane as part of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) competition […]
Aircraft Spruce Canada slates customer appreciation day
Aircraft Spruce will host its annual Customer Appreciation Day on Saturday, June 27, at its Canadian location at the Brantford Municipal Airport (CYFD). Representatives from a number of aviation companies, including Champion Aerospace, Concorde, Dynon Avionics, Full Lotus Floats, Gill, ICOM, LightSpeed, Navstrobe Lighting and Zenair, will be on hand to demonstrate their products during the event, which […]
Legend Cub gets carbon fiber amphib floats
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas — Now available are carbon fiber amphibious floats for the Legend Cub and Super Legend. Designed and manufactured by American Legend Aircraft Co., the LF1500A floats allow for takeoffs and landings on both water and terra firma, according to company officials. The LF1500A floats are purposely built for the Legend Cub and Super Legend. The floats […]
Avidyne updates iPad demo app
Avidyne has released a new version of its free IFD-Series FMS/GPS/NAV/COM iPad application. The updated app provides interactive, free-play demonstration capability for the new IFD440, as well as adding new IFD540 functionality that is representative of Avidyne’s soon-to-be-certified Release 10.1 software.Release 10.1 is Avidyne’s latest software upgrade for IFD540-Series FMS/GPS/NAV/COMs. R10.1 is also the baseline software […]
Bad first solo for student pilot
The flight instructor had the non-certified student pilot performing touch-and go-landings in Morrilton, Ark. The student had applied for, but not received, a student pilot certificate. She told investigators that she studied Gleim FAA Test Preparation since her first flight and believed that her flight instructor’s “diligent” flight training, along with the Gleim material, prepared […]
Picture of the day: First flight after his checkride
Matt Mccoy sent in these photos of his kids — Sarah, 7, and Benji, 10 — on their first flight after he passed his private pilot checkride.
The great migration of 1940
January 1940 saw a mass migration of light planes from throughout the United States to Florida. Held in conjunction with the Miami All-American Air Maneuver Air Races, the group flights of personal planes was known as the Light Airplane Cavalcade. Under the sponsorship of the Gulf Oil Co. and the manufacturers of Cub, Taylorcraft and […]
Wounded Marine earns private pilot license
When a door rigged with explosives in Iraq cost Sgt. Adam Kisielewski his left arm at the shoulder and his right leg below the knee, becoming a pilot wasn’t even a dream. It was Aug. 21, 2005, and for Adam, each minute was a time for survival, not dreams. He struggled to make it back from […]
Video: RPA test flights survey shoreline
PORT MANSFIELD, Texas – Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi conducted test flights this week (June 1-5) from a Port Mansfield airport through the university’s Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center that included an early morning launch in the dark and shoreline flights that matched on-the-ground surveying. The missions were at altitudes up to 3,000 feet and […]