Pilot Journey has introduced a free email account with some interesting benefits. The service is available on PilotJourney.net or TogetherWeFly.com and includes 1 gigabyte of email space along with features such as automatic email notification and calendaring. The concept, according to Gary Bradshaw, president of Pilot Journey, is to encourage people into taking a discovery […]
Free software helps builders
Where can an airplane builder go to glean free insight and tips from hundreds of their peers? ExperCraft offers just such a destination at ExperCraft.com via its Simple Log documentation software. In the two years since Simple Log’s debut, aircraft builders have logged 40,285 hours of progress on more than 100 different types of homebuilt […]
Max Trescott’s Garmin G1000 CD-ROM Course now available
Building on the popularity of Max Trescott’s G1000 Glass Cockpit Handbook, and the online internet G1000 training courses at PilotLearning.com, Glass Cockpit Publishing has released its new G1000 CD-ROM course. Created and produced by a Master CFI who teaches daily in glass cockpit aircraft, this course not only explains the G1000 system, but teaches you […]
TMC Pacific Modelworks custom and hand-made models
TMC Pacific Modelworks answers the challenge of gift-giving for the aviator who seems to have everything, offering fine scale model airplanes. More than 1,000 military, commercial and private aircraft models are available. TMC also can make custom models from photographs supplied by aircraft owners. All details, from the obvious to the minute, are recreated on […]
‘The Few’: The tale of American pilots in the Battle of Britain
“The Few, The American Knights of the Air Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain,” by Alex Kershaw, details the exploits of American pilots who risked criminal prosecution, not to mention their lives, to fight in the Battle of Britain. At the time America was neutral, and those who joined in the […]
‘A Legacy of Letters’: Book chronicles World War II hero’s hopes, dreams, fears
In 2002, Clinton Frederick returned to his grandparents’ house for a family wedding. Remembering from his childhood that the attic contained Japanese swords, a parachute and other World War II memorabilia, he decided to look around up there. In an old trunk he found more than 100 letters written by his father, Capt. George Frederick, […]
Ed Davis, Viet-nam POW, dies at 67
Retired Navy Capt. Edward A. Davis, who was 67, died Nov. 7 of pancreatic cancer near his home in Lancaster, Pa. Davis was a North Vietnam prisoner of war for 7-1/2 years. After retirement he became an outstanding motivational speaker, focusing on management under difficult circumstances – a subject he knew well. Davis had flown […]
Gen. Jacob Smart dies at 97
Retired Air Force General Jacob E. Smart died Nov. 12 at his home in Ridgeland, S.C. He was 97. Smart planned the audacious low-level raid on Romania’s Ploesti oil fields and refineries during World War II. A third of Nazi Germany’s oil was produced and refined at the Ploesti fields. The legendary raid was flown […]
FAA warns ‘mogas’ users about ethanol: Alcohol and airplane engines don’t mix, agency says
The FAA finally has taken notice of the potential problems posed by ethanol to users of automobile gasoline in airplanes. The Experimental Aircraft Association and many aviation publications, including this one, have been warning pilots flying on ‘mogas’ about the hazards of ethanol – a form of alcohol – for several years. In a Special […]