Landmark Aviation has signed an agreement with BLR Aerospace to become an authorized dealer for the Everett, Wash.-based aerospace research and development firm. The arrangement allows five Landmark Aviation locations, previously designated as Raytheon Authorized Service Centers, to install winglets designed, certified and manufactured by BLR on King Air 200 aircraft. For more information:
Personalize your logbook
Sporty’s Pilot Logbook can now be ordered to include a custom plaque with the pilot’s name. The plaque can accommodate two lines of up to 15 characters each. The Senior Pilot’s Flight Log includes 32 total columns. Seven blank columns allow the pilot to customize the logbook to meet individual requirements or to make additional […]
Aircraft Spruce introduces2006-2007 catalog
Aircraft Spruce & Specialty’s 2006-2007 catalog includes a wide range of new, aviation-related products intended to assist homebuilders, restorers, people maintaining GA aircraft and pilots with virtually any type of mission profile. Included are basic construction materials like fiberglass and foam, T-6 aluminum, 4130 steel tube or plate, Sitka spruce, Ceconite and aircraft grade plywood, […]
Miller Electric and Weldcraft toshowcase products, providewelding demos at AirVenture
Visitors to Miller Electric’s booths at this year’s AirVenture will have the opportunity to see and participate in MIG and TIG welding and plasma cutting demonstrations. Also on hand will be the Miller 75th anniversary Chopper, built by Orange County Choppers on the TLC hit show American Chopper, as well as the latest Miller welding […]
TravelScoot: An easier way to get around
Does a walking problem prevent you from flying into places where ground transportation is not available? Until now electric mobility scooters were far too heavy and way too bulky to fit in small airplanes. Hardy Huber, builder of one of the first Wheeler Express composite fourseaters, has changed that. His TravelScoot is the world’s lightest […]
A Field Guide to Airplanes
You are on the grounds at AirVenture — or any other air show — and trying to impress your traveling companion with your aircraft knowledge. Your companion points to a particular aircraft and asks what it is. You have no idea. You can avoid this particularly nasty form of aviation embarrassment by carrying “A Field […]
“Wings of Paradise”
“Wings of Paradise, Hawaii’s Incomparable Airlines,” by Peter N. Forman is a fascinating tale of the human courage, underhanded plots, dirty politics, brilliant imagination, chicanery and other intriguing elements that went into the formation and operation of the airlines serving the Hawaiian Islands. Most of the book is devoted to airlines that were born, grew […]
The Story of the Boeing Company
“The Story of the Boeing Company,” by Bill Yenne, is a massive book, nearly a foot square and weighing an impressive four pounds, which tells the story not only of Boeing itself, but of the many other firms that have combined to become the world’s largest aerospace company. Its 35 chapters are supplemented by helpful […]
Air taxi boosters take their case to lawmakers
“Most of our travelers will come off the highways,” DayJet Vice President Traver Gruen-Kennedy told a Congressional policy forum last month, strongly suggesting that any lessening of road traffic enhances public safety. “We will be serving secondary markets from point A to point B,” he stated. “We’re not going to be flying in Class B […]