About 2,600 people and nearly 300 airplanes descended on Salinas Municipal Airport in California for the first Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Fly-In of the year held Saturday, May 16. Low clouds and icing in the surrounding mountains weren’t enough to deter pilots, hundreds of whom decided to drive to Salinas, AOPA officials noted. As […]
MT-Propeller’s new prop a hit
German manufacturer MT-Propeller planned only an introduction of its newest model at SUN n’ FUN 2015. But sales began almost from the moment the five-blade MTV-27 model was placed on display. “We were just hoping to show the propeller at SUN ‘n FUN and hoped for sales later, but we sold eight of them priced […]
Video: Critter’s Lodge Fly-In
Recently posted to YouTube by Scott Sundstrum is this video — shot by remotely piloted aircraft — of the Critter Lodge Fly-In in Texas. It covers the highlights of the fly-in in a little more than three minutes. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RU7WlCbcsU&w=560&h=315]
Keep pushing for medical reform
As of the start of this year’s SUN ’n FUN, more than 21,000 letters to Congress in support of the Pilot’s Bill of Rights 2 have been sent from EAA’s Rally Congress network by Experimental Aircraft Association members and other aviators. That legislation includes the aeromedical reform language that is easily the No. 1 regulatory […]
Flight training poll launches
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has launched its flight training poll, a survey that allows student pilots to share feedback on their flight training experiences. Survey results are used to determine AOPA’s annual Flight Training Excellence Awards. This is the fourth year for the poll, which provides data on the performance – good and […]
Downdraft catches Cessna
The pilot of the Cessna 182, accompanied by two passengers, was on a scenic flight near Carson City, Nevada. The airplane was climbing southwest, and approaching 9,000 feet MSL. The pilot planned to cross a mountain saddle between 400 and 500 feet AGL. The airplane encountered a strong downdraft and the airspeed dropped to about […]
Picture of the day: Formation flight
Bryan Stewart sent in this photo of a Cessna 180 and a Cessna 185 in formation over the Great Salt Lake. He relates: “We were following in a Cessna 210 as the photo plane. This was done as a favor for a friend who wanted to get both these airplanes in formation for quite some […]
A little solidarity can go a long way
When you get right down to it, politics are not really about Republicans and Democrats, Greens and Libertarians, Socialists and Capitalists. It’s about people. Individual people and how they interact with other individual people, and how those people plan, debate, and ultimately work together as their numbers grow into an ever larger group. The study […]
Most memorable aviation records of 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Aeronautic Association has released its list of the most memorable aviation records of 2014.They include: Free Three Turnpoint Distance: 1,052.37 miles; Record for gliders (motorgliders, flown single-place): After self-launching a Glaser-Dirks DG-1001M motorglider from Nahuel Huapi airport, near Bariloche, Argentina, Jim Payne soared along the Andes mountains for over 14 hours. His flight […]