From its hasty ground-breaking ceremony in the spring of 1942 to its closure in the summer of 1965, Smoky Hill Army Air Field and later Schilling Air Force Base in Salina, Kan., collected countless memories and histories that may be gone but, with a little help from the community, will never be forgotten. The Salina […]
Fly casual
Guest Editorial By THOMAS P. TURNER “Fly casual.” If you’re a pilot and a fan of the “Star Wars” movies (hey, I was a teenager when the first one came out), this may be one of your favorite lines of the entire series. Han Solo tells his Wookie copilot Chewbacca to “fly casual” to avoid […]
Win on eBay, fly a jetpack
New Zealand’s Martin Aircraft Co., which unveiled its Martin Jetpack at last year’s AirVenture in Oshkosh, is holding an auction on eBay that will allow the winning bidder to become the first person, outside their close development team, to fly the Martin Jetpack as a fully fledged test pilot. “Our aim is to make the […]
Charter Civil Air Patrol member dies
One of the last surviving charter members of the Civil Air Patrol – Georgia Wing’s Col. Benjamin H. Stone Jr. – died Sept. 13 of natural causes in an assisted living center in Marietta, Ga. He was 95 years old. Born in Worchester, Mass., in 1914, Stone had a passion for flying for much of […]
IT trade magazine spotlights GA use
Dan Nesmith is an independent software vendor from Bend, Oregon. He employ’s seven technicians with pilot’s certificates and uses four general aviation aircraft to sell and serve customers across the United States. Read the entire story from the IT industry trade magazine Business Solution.
Cessna Mustang gets Russian certification
Cessna Aircraft Co. has received Russian type certification for the Citation Mustang from Russia’s MAK (Interstate Aviation Committee, Aviation Register). The Citation Mustang is now certified in 60 countries, including the United States. Cessna has delivered more than 200 Mustangs from the company’s Independence, Kan., facility since April 2007. The six-place Citation Mustang, which has […]
Safe hand propping DVD released
Windsock Productions LLC has produced a 15-minute DVD on safe hand propping. Created by veteran flight instructors John Pipkin and Kim Bevier, the DVD is designed to teach the critical risk factors associated with hand propping an aircraft and time-tested procedures for keeping you — and everyone else — safe during the process. Price $19.50. […]
Fuel mismanagement leads to misfortune
The pilot’s inadequate fuel management.
FAA proposes revamping pilot certifications
Washington, D.C. — The FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) to change pilot licensing certification should bring welcome changes and, perhaps, some unwelcome rules. Some are changes needed to bring aviation up to date. The trouble is, the changes are about 40 years late. In the 1960s, the Utility Airplane Council, predecessor of the […]