There is a new way to save money on commercial aircraft insurance: Paying for insurance per hour. Flight schools, aircraft rental operators, charter operators, flying clubs, aerial mapping and survey, and any other qualifying commercial operators that are MyFBO.com subscribers are eligible for the new Pay-By-The-Hour Insurance Program. Subscribers pay a fixed premium charge for […]
China aviator tour slated
Travel Aire Tours will lead the seventh annual VIP tour for American aviators to China next March, but the upcoming tour includes something extra: Those on the tour will be honored guests at the opening of Phase I of the 300-acre Flying Tigers Heritage Park at the old Yang Tang Airfield outside Guilin, Chin. The […]
New Aircraft Spruce catalog available
Aircraft Spruce & Specialty began distributing printed copies and CD versions of its new 2009-2010 catalog at EAA’s AirVenture 2009, which opened today. With more than 800 pages, the Aircraft Spruce catalog has become to aviation what the Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs were to all Americans a century ago. Few people today begin a […]
Fuel mismanagement leads to emergency landing
Fuel exhaustion due to the pilot’s inadequate in-flight planning and his failure to refuel while en route.
Van’s RV-12 earns S-LSA certification
Van’s Aircraft RV-12 was awarded a Special Light Sport Aircaft (S-LSA) certificate on July 21. The certification represents the culmination of three years of design, testing, and attention to the details of complying with all the requirements of the Light Sport Aircraft category. The next day, Van’s East Coast representative Mitchell Lock flew his first […]
Williams Memorial received $450,000
Decision Making with Dick Rutan
Fly Right Films will release its second volume in its Aviator Series, “Decision Making with Burt Rutan” at this week’s EAA AirVenture fly-in. Click here to see a video trailer (or see below). From the Fly Right Films website: In Decision Making with Dick Rutan, you’ll fly shoulder-to-shoulder with Dick Rutan, one of the most […]
COPPERSTATE Fly-In to Host Fuelventure 400
The Casa Grande, Arizona-based COPPERSTATE Fly-In will include the Fuelventure 400 on October 24. This event is a competition to determine the most fuel efficient aircraft. The intent of Fuelventure 400 is to spawn competition for fuel efficiency improvements. The competition is simple: each aircraft and passengers are weighed. Each entrant then flies a 400-mile […]
‘Fly4Life’ Mission Aviation Calendar Now Available
Missionary pilot and aviation artist, Jim Rendel, has created a 14-month calendar with detailed drawings of aircraft used between 1930 and 2010 in humanitarian and mission aviation. Rendel grew up in northwest Nigeria where his parents were missionaries with SIM (Serving in Mission). Growing up in a remote area meant that Rendel and his siblings […]