BEDFORD, Mass. — Executive Flyers Aviation celebrated its 50th anniversary March 4. The family owned flight school and aircraft repair station has been in constant operation at the Laurence G. Hanscom Field Airport in Bedford, Mass., since 1964. The school has continued to evolve over the last half-century, incorporating the latest technological advances in flight […]
Flying robots help train athletes
PRINCETON, N.J. — A new flying robot is being developed to help athletes elevate their performance while helping to prevent sports injuries, including concussions, cardiac incidents, and heat-related illnesses. Borne out of a New Jersey flight academy, the AeroTrainer is an unmanned aerial video biotelemetry system designed to give athletes and teams, together with their […]
Honeywell’s Bateman receives award
Honeywell Aerospace’s Don Bateman has been recognized with the 2013 Elmer A. Sperry Award for Enhancing the Art of Transportation by developing technology that has eliminated accidents and saved thousands of lives. The Elmer A. Sperry board recognized Bateman, chief engineer technologist for Flight Safety Systems and Technology at Honeywell, for his development of Honeywell’s Ground […]
Loose canopy distracts pilot
Aircraft: Skeeter 1M. Injuries: 1 Fatal.Location: Oklahoma City. Aircraft damage: Destroyed. What reportedly happened: The pilot was flying his homebuilt airplane on a cross-country flight when the canopy came loose. He diverted to another airport to land and secure the canopy. He was on the downwind leg in the traffic pattern and another airplane was on final […]
Google to manage Moffett Airfield
A Google subsidiary, Planetary Ventures, has been tapped to take over management of the 1,000-acre Moffett Federal Airfield (NUQ) a former U.S. Navy base located four miles from Google’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. The airport is the home of Hangar One, built in the 1930s to house the Navy’s 784-foot dirigible U.S.S. Macon. The airport […]
Video: ‘Scariest take off I’ve ever seen’
Using an airplane to trim the tops of trees is a bad idea. FlightChops posted this video to his YouTube channel in an effort to learn from the mistake of another. Fortunately a narrow gap just to the left of centerline allowed a little extra space. Too bad it was needed. See the video below or on YouTube.
Link: ‘Crashing a Belite Airplane’
James Wiebe, owner of Belite Aircraft, has an opinion. He’s one of the more transparent people I’ve met. It doesn’t surprise me he wrote about the accident of a Belite UltraCub on his website. The details of this stall/spin accident, in which the pilot survived, is eye-opening.
P52 installs AWOS
Belfort Instrument Co. has installed an AWOS AV at the Cottonwood Airport (P52) in Cottonwood, Arizona. The Belfort Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS AV) provides pilots with Wind Speed, Wind Direction, Wind Gusts, Temperature, Humidity, Dewpoint, Altimeter Setting, Density Altitude, and Visibility. The Cottonwood AWOS information will be available via VHF broadcast, telephone, as well […]
Wearable WingX: WingX Pro7 for Pebble
Hilton Software has introduced WingX Pro7 for Pebble, which uses the watch’s low-energy Bluetooth connection to integrate with the WingX Pro7 running on an iPad or iPhone. WingX Pro7 for Pebble displays crucial navigation information including: GPS Speed, Track, Altitude, and WAAS flag Estimated Time Enroute (ETE), Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA), Desired Track (DTK), […]