The First Flight Society is planning a celebration for Wilbur Wright’s 158th birthday.
Aircraft
New book on building a kit airplane released
“This is the book I wish I had before I started my kit airplane project,” says author Elby Gray.
Loss of control fatal for Piper pilot
Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in the exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack and an aerodynamic stall.
Tips to shoot stunning photos from your airplane
Want to capture the epic scenes you see while flying? A veteran pilot offers tips and tricks to get the best photographs you can.
Vulcanair shows off V1’s design changes for U.S. market
The company also updated plans on its new manufacturing facility in North Carolina, its collaboration to offer the DeltaHawk engine on the trainer, and a new financing program for flight schools.
NTSB introduces new online portal for accident reports
Now pilots can submit NTSB Form 6120.1 on a phone or computer directly on the NTSB website, “providing a user-friendly option that also ends the need for investigators to manually input the information,” NTSB officials said.
Garmin introduces its first carbon monoxide detector for aircraft
The GCO 14 integrates CO level monitoring and alerting into GTN Xi navigators, GI 275 flight instruments, and TXi flight displays.
Fuel contamination leads to total loss of engine power
Probable Cause: A total loss of engine power as a result of fuel contamination.
MOSAIC final rule expected by August
Designed to update the 2004 rules that created Light Sport Aircraft and the Sport Pilot certificate, the final MOSAIC rule — which has been in the works for years — is expected to be released this summer.