A new subscription video on demand channel, AeroCinema, is set to launch in March 2016. Phil Osborn, the company’s CEO, is the former CEO of Network USA, creator of the Wings series, which ran in primetime on Discovery Channel for 12 years prior to its acquisition by Discovery Communications in 1999. AeroCinema is expected to launch […]
Curtiss museum reaches P-40 restoration milestone
HAMMONDSPORT, N.Y. — The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum reports it has achieved a milestone in its restoration of a historic World War II-era Curtiss P-40 aircraft, with the help of volunteers in its Restoration Shop. Two P-40s went down over the Florida Everglades in 1943, following a mid-air collision on a training flight. The planes remained in […]
Toys for Tots at KRNM
The 9th Annual Toys for Tots collection at Ramona Airport (KRNM) in California will be held Dec. 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers noted they will be cooking hamburgers with all the fixings for volunteers and anyone dropping off toys. Drop a toy at the event or at the office. You also can drop off […]
Earn your ForeFlight checkout with Sporty’s updated course
Sporty’s recommends regular recurrent training on your favorite electronic flight bag app to stay proficient. To support that effort, the company has completely updated its ForeFlight training program to bring it up to date with the latest version of the app. The Flying with ForeFlight program includes new training content that covers the latest features including procedures preview […]
Garmin introduces Terminal Safety Solutions
Garmin has introduced Terminal Safety Solutions, a set of technologies that provide a better state of situational awareness to pilots throughout the airport terminal environment, including SurfaceWatch, TerminalTraffic and SafeTaxi. SurfaceWatch SurfaceWatch provides visual and aural tools to help prevent pilots from taking off and landing on a taxiway, on a runway that is too short, […]
American Aero FTW donates $20,000 to Navy Seal Foundation
FORT WORTH, Texas – American Aero FTW, an FBO at Meacham International Airport in Fort Worth, Texas, presented a $20,000 check to the Navy SEAL Foundation at the National Business Aviation Association Convention last week in Las Vegas, doubling the contribution made at the convention last year. The Navy SEAL Foundation provides critical support to the Naval […]
Flight to funeral fatal
According to the pilot’s wife, he departed on a cross-country flight in a Focke-Wulf FWP 149D to attend a friend’s funeral. He told her he intended to stop to buy fuel at an airport 20 miles from the departure airport. Although the pilot indicated to her the night before the accident that he was concerned […]
Picture of the day: Fear me!
Smitty Smith from FromPlacesToFly.com sent in this photo, taken at the Texas Antique Aircraft Association Fly-in in Gainesville, Texas.
You Can Fly — it’s more than a slogan
Just shy of a year ago I launched on a new endeavor. It was an exciting task. It was unique. It was a bit daunting, too. In all the world there was only one other person doing what I was doing on a full-time basis, and she was nearly 3,000 miles away. Kay Sundaram took the […]