Hawker Beechcraft Global Customer Support’s Quick Response Team will provide support at Super Bowl XLV Feb. 6 in Dallas and the Daytona 500 NASCAR race Feb. 20 in Daytona Beach, Fla. The Quick Response Team was introduced last year to provide on-site technical expertise and immediate support to Hawker Beechcraft owners and operators at popular […]
Lindbergh Foundation at Wichita Aero Club
The Wichita Aero Club’s February meeting will feature a panel discussion on “Aviation, the Environment and the Future,” featuring a panel of experts from the Charles A. & Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, moderated by John and Martha King of King Schools. The panel will discuss the foundation’s work related to aviation, the environment, current trends […]
Conklin & de Decker releases Budgeting Tool
Conklin & de Decker has released its LIFE CYCLE COST 2011 Volume I, an aircraft budget and financial analysis tool that provides ownership and operating cost data for more than 380 jets, turboprops, helicopters and piston aircraft. The budgeting software is part of a family of aircraft operating & acquisition products developed by Conklin & […]
Open canopy distracts pilot
This January 2009 accident report is provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. Published as an educational tool, it is intended to help pilots learn from the misfortunes of others. Aircraft: Czech Aircraft Works Sport Cruiser. Injuries: None. Location: Casa Grande, Ariz. Aircraft damage: Substantial. What reportedly happened: The pilot followed the manufacturer’s before-takeoff checklist, […]
Let silence reign
Jamie Beckett is a CFI and A&P mechanic who stepped into the political arena in an effort to promote and protect GA at his local airport. My local newspaper, The News Chief, ran a piece in its Reader’s Rants and Raves section this week that read as follows; “Where are the clear-thinking Winter Haven leaders […]
iPad: Godsend or gadget?
That’s the question AOPA’s Ian Twombly asks in a report at AOPA.org, which begins: “If an aviation company offered a moving-map GPS with a 10-inch display, a nation’s worth of charts and approach plates, flight planning, weather, a full aviation library, and the basic functions of a computer all for around $630, every pilot would […]
‘Win Me’ Luscombe delivered
It’s been several months since the Luscombe Endowment chose the winner of its “WIN ME” restored T8F Luscombe. While her name was drawn back in June, the winner of the airplane, Moiya Linden of Wickenburg, Ariz., was traveling and couldn’t arrange a meeting to transfer the airplane until the December holidays. Moiya has exclaimed her […]
Wipaire names Chuck Wiplinger president
Chuck Wiplinger has been appointed president of Wipaire, Inc. In a recent meeting to employees, Gene DePalma, assistant to the CEO, announced that the Board of Directors has elected Chuck to the new post. “Chuck is now ready to begin taking on more responsibility,” stated DePalma. Wiplinger began working for Wipaire in 1996 in the […]
Santa Monica can’t ban jets
A federal appeals court refused Friday to review a finding that Santa Monica can’t ban jets from its airport because of safety concerns, according to a story in The Washington Post, which noted that Santa Monica had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to review a 2009 decision by the […]