Lightspeed Aviation, which manufactures aviation headsets, is launching a promotion that plays off a story familiar to just about every pilot: the $100 hamburger. This year, however, it has added a side: A Markham leather flight bag from its new Adventure Flight Bag Collection for its Burger Deluxe Getaway promotion. Any eligible participant that registers a new Lightspeed Zulu […]
Applications open for Cascade Warbirds scholarship program
Applications are now being accepted for the Cascade Warbirds 2015 scholarship program. The organization works to promote the restoration, preservation, operation and public display of historically significant military aircraft; to acquire and perpetuate the living history of those who served their country on these aircraft; and to inspire today’s young people to become the aviation […]
Precision Flight Controls partners with Ryan Aerospace
California-based Precision Flight Controls has partnered with Ryan Aerospace of Southport, Australia, to develop and produce helicopter aviation training devices. Systems simulating the Robinson R22, R44, R66 and Bell Jet Ranger 206 and 407 helicopters will be the first systems to be developed, according to company officials. Precision Flight controls will distribute the new systems through its worldwide distribution […]
Failed O-ring leads to loss of power
The student pilot, accompanied by a flight instructor, were practicing takeoffs and landings in a Piper Cherokee at the airport in Winder, Ga., when the airplane’s engine lost all power. The CFI took the controls and attempted to glide to a runway. The airplane was not aligned with the runway centerline and went off the edge […]
Picture of the Day: Luscombe at sunset
Walt Kahn sent in this photo he says has been in his computer for a long time. “I don’t know much about it except that it’s a fabric wing Luscombe,” he says.
FAA asks law enforcement for help in policing RPAs
The proliferation of small, relatively inexpensive remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) has created a challenge for the FAA, which is why the agency has asked the law enforcement community to help identify people who don’t follow the rules of the air or who endanger the nation’s airspace. On Jan. 8, the FAA released some guidance to the law […]
Industry to FAA: Repair stations know when to call it quits
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A coalition of aviation trade associations petitioned the FAA Jan. 9 to restore the right to voluntarily surrender a repair station certificate. In its new repair station rule, which became effective in November, the FAA will subject surrendered certificates to “acceptance for cancellation.” The coalition called for the removal of this requirement, which is […]
Study shows new app improves pilot’s vision
A study commissioned by the Israeli Air Force has shown that using a new app from GlassesOff resulted in “significant improvements in critical visual functions” of pilots in need of reading glasses. The study, which was presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, showed that by using the mobile app pilots […]
Tour set for world’s only flying B-29
DALLAS – The Commemorative Air Force Air Power History Tour, featuring the Boeing B-29 Superfortress FIFI, will visit airports in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas starting Feb. 18 and ending April 3. FIFI will be accompanied by a variety of other vintage military aircraft at each stop. Air Power aircraft will be on display and selling […]