Wicks Aircraft Supply is offering some suggestions for stocking stuffers, including hand-held radios, headsets, and more. Hand-held radios make an excellent gift for pilots and aviation enthusiasts, according to officials with the company, which has a special on its A23 family of Icom VHF transceivers that feature voice recording and playback, 200 memory channels, one-touch […]
Tempest rolls back prices
Tempest has rolled back prices on its new, rebuilt and overhauled carburetor line, Tempest Volare. After acquiring the MSA carburetor product line from Precision over a year ago, Tempest has completed the move of the product line from Marysville, Wash., to its Volare manufacturing facility in Gibsonville, N.C. Upon completion of the move, Tempest manufacturing […]
September Master Instructors named
Master Instructors LLC and its Board of Review recently accredited four CFIs as Master Instructors. Of the approximately 93,000 CFIs in the United States, fewer than 700 have earned Master accreditation, according to officials, who note the last 14 FAA National Flight Instructors of the Year were Master CFIs. In addition, the FAA has approved […]
Sporty’s Flight Review updated
Pilots preparing for their next flight review don’t have to go it alone. Sporty’s Flight Review video covers topics every pilot should be prepared for in a flight review, such as regulations, weather reports, airspace, aeromedical factors, aeronautical charts, and airport signs and markings. Sporty’s Flight Review has now been updated with all-new weather segments […]
Buying time
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress has once again failed to act on FAA reauthorization and been forced to pass another short-term extension to keep the agency in business. This latest extension, like the several before it, is for three months, expiring Dec. 31. The House was first to act, as it was when okaying the full […]
TCM plant shuts down for week
Teledyne Continental Motors has shuttered its plant this week, while the engine manufacturer plans to have salaried employees work only four day weeks for the rest of the year. According to a story in the Mobile’s Press-Register, the plant will be shut down this week. It also will close for the week between Christmas and […]
Astronaut returns to Earth with piece of missionary history
After a two-week journey of more than 5.7 million miles around the Earth, astronaut Patrick Forrester and fellow space shuttle Discovery crew members landed safely Sept. 11 at Edwards Air Force Base in California with a piece of missionary history. The item, part of an airplane battery box, comes from martyred missionary pilot Nate Saint’s […]
Florida Air Museum receives grant
HISTORY has awarded the Florida Air Museum on the Sun ‘n Fun campus at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport a $10,000 Save Our History grant. The museum will partner with the Central Florida Aerospace Academy (CFAA) of Kathleen High School, which is on the Sun ‘n Fun campus, to develop a new museum exhibit featuring “Florida’s […]
Wright plane replica crashes
Pilot Mark Dusenberry was injured Oct. 1 when he crashed a replica of the 1905 Wright Flyer III in Dayton, Ohio. According to a story in the Dayton Daily News, Dusenberry, an Ohio Department of Transportation engineer who built and flies the replica plane, had been practicing for the re-enactment flight scheduled for today. The […]