Green Sky Adventures, Inc. is offering an HACman mixture control as a free incentive with the purchase of any Grand Rapids Technologies Engine Information System with FlowScan Fuel Flow. If you know what’s going on inside your engine, you can optimize your fuel burn to take maximum advantage of every drop of fuel, and GRT’s […]
Unsecured cowling leads to crash
The mechanic’s failure to secure the right engine cowling fasteners. Contributing to the incident was the pilot’s inadequate preflight inspection.
CAF P-51C Tuskegee Airmen is Airborne Again
The Commemorative Air Force (CAF) reports the Red Tail Project P-51C Tuskegee Airmen’s has returned to the skies. The first flight after a complete restoration was at 6:51 pm CDT on July 22, in Wahpeton, North Dakota. After five years the Red Tail Project has returnde the P-51C Tuskegee Airmen to flying condition. The aircraft […]
ForeSight brings enhanced vision unit to market
SportairUSA has introduced the ForeSight EVS (enhanced vision system) to the experimental marketplace. The unit will retail for $7,495 to $9,995, depending upon the customer’s choice of cockpit display. The package includes: camera, wiring harness and a choice of cockpit displays (7” Springer, slide-out LCD monitor which may be mounted in the panel or on […]
DA20 with Aspen Avionics certified
Transport Canada has certified Diamond‘s DA20-C1, equipped with the Aspen Avionics EFD 1000 Primary Flight Display (PFD). The DA20’s instrument layout retains the conventional Airspeed, Altitude, Turn & Bank and Vertical Speed Indicators, with the Aspen mounted in the center of the conventional 6-pack. “The ability to teach conventional instrument scan, offer an introduction to […]
Ethanol-powered race on, above runway at OSH
Paul Teutil, Sr., Fagen Orange County Chopper Paul Teutul, Sr. (above) of the famed Orange County Choppers, will race the ethanol-powered Fagen Orange County Chopper against Greg Poe in the ethanol-powered Fagen MX2 in front of the crowds on the main runway at EAA AirVenture, 2009. The race is currently scheduled for July 31 (Friday) […]
The Charleston Gazette: ‘General aviation holding its own at Yeager, despite economy’
The Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette has a positive story about general aviation at Yaeger Airport. An excerpt from the story: “We’re doing well,” Scott Miller, owner of Executive Air, the private aircraft concession at the Charleston airport, said Wednesday, during a meeting of Yeager Airport’s governing board. “I’m not sure why, exactly, but we are. […]
WOWK reports on charity flight challenges
WOWK, a CBS-affiliate in West Virginia, is another in a long line of mainstream media outlets pointing out the challenges (both current or potential) of “new costs and regulations for general aviation flights could put programs like Angel Flight in jeopardy.” Read the full story at the WOWK website.
Wired spotlights AirVenture
From Wired.com Autopia blog, “Like Sting, Bono or Madonna, only a handful of events in the world can pull off the single name and get away with it. Mention Indy or LeMans to a gearhead and he’ll know what you’re talking about. Mention Oshkosh to any pilot or aviation fan and they know your not […]