LoPresti Aviation has signed a 15-year lease for production space at Sebastian Municipal Airport on Florida’s east coast, the company said on May 5. The firm hopes to move into its new facility by mid-June and employ as many as 45 people within 18 months, as it builds prototypes for a new airplane known as […]
LoPresti Innovation Award goes to Bede
LoPresti Aviation has granted its 2009 Roy LoPresti Prize for Innovation in Aviation to Bede Inc. for its SpeedTrac wheel pants. The prize was created in the late Roy LoPresti’s name and in his memory by the LoPresti family, to recognize ideas which truly and profoundly offer innovations to general aviation. Each year, “one great […]
U.S. mayors release letter to Obama
Seventy mayors and county executives from across the country held a conference call with reporters on May 6, announcing their release of a letter to President Barack H. Obama communicating the crucial importance that small, general aviation aircraft provide to small towns and local economies across the country. During the call, Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer […]
Deadline near for new border-crossing rules
If you fly either into or out of the United States, you need to remember that the deadline for compliance with a new rule from the Department of Homeland Security, requiring pilots of private aircraft on international flights to submit reports to Customs and Border Protection, is May 18. The rule requires GA pilots to […]
First Flight Society honors Wright brothers
The First Flight Society is one of the world’s oldest organizations of aviation enthusiasts. It celebrates December 17 each year to memorialize the first powered flight. Pilots, military men and women and other fans gather around the Wright Brothers National Memorial to commemorate that historic moment in aviation. The event is sponsored by the First […]
Memorial Day forum slated at Flying Heritage Collection
A special Memorial Day forum at Paul G. Allen’s Flying Heritage Collection will feature a panel of veterans and military experts discussing the pivotal role that World War II bomber crews played in the outcome of the war. During the forum, slated to begin at 11 a.m., veterans will be honored at a ceremony. Veterans […]
NASCAR champion’s need for speed – in the skies
NASCAR Nationwide Series Champion Clint Bowyer recently took delivery of his Beechcraft Premier IA, a single-pilot business jet. With a cruising speed greater than 520 mph, the Premier IA is the only light jet in the world that satisfies his need for speed, Bowyer says. While in Wichita for the delivery, Bowyer toured the Hawker […]
Will a $22,000 chair fly?
A chair designed by an aerospace engineer is being marketed as more than furniture — it’s art. So says Dario Antonioni, who designed the $22,000 Carbon22 chair. “It’s not just furniture,” says Antonioni, an aerospace engineer turned product designer with a love of flight and technology that infuses the shapes, colors and materials of his […]
NE Aero Club’s Cabot Award goes to Rudy Frasca
The Aero Club of New England plans to fete Rudy Frasca as the 2009 recipient of the nationally acclaimed Godfrey L. Cabot Award, at a luncheon to be held at Seaport Hotel, Boston, on June 5, the organization said on May 6. Frasca will receive the award in recognition of his lifelong, innovative developments in […]