Story and Photos by Lisa Bentson The 2019 Mark Hardin Memorial Air Race at Terrell Municipal Airport (KTRL) in Texas was also an educational experience that brought the fever and excitement of aviation back to the annual Memorial Day weekend event. Spectators came from the city of Terrell and surrounding area to watch the Sport […]
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Is your plane ready to fly?
Some fatal GA accidents have been caused by flying an aircraft that was undergoing maintenance and not approved for return to service.
Legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan to be honored at Oshkosh
From 1972 to 2010, Rutan unveiled 24 prototype airplanes at Oshkosh.
WWII bomber and fighter rides slated at the Museum of Flight
Take a ride in one of the five Collings Foundation WWII bombers and fighters.
Plane crashes after CFI and student wrestle over controls
Probable cause: The flight instructor’s failure to perform a go-around during final approach, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s failure to brief the student pilot on the positive transfer of aircraft control during preflight.
Picture of the Day: Timeless
Larry Snyder submitted the following photo and note: “My airplane, built 43 years after the first powered flight, visits the site of that historic, albeit brief, flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C. Photo taken 71 years after the Ercoupe was built. Aviation seems timeless.” Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the […]
The future of unleaded avgas
What will happen with unleaded avgas in the next few years?
World War II pilot returns to British airfield as part of D-Day commemorations
World War II Pathfinder pilot Lt. Col. David Hamilton from Prescott, Arizona, visited the same British airfield from which he and fellow pilots launched a pre-D-Day invasion strike on June 5, 1944. Hamilton’s visit to RAF North Witham in Lincolnshire, England, on June 2, 2019, is part of the activities taking place in England surrounding […]
Sebring Expo calls it quits
“It’s a wrap” as the iconic light-sport aircraft show called Sebring Expo (full name Sebring U.S. Sport Aviation Expo) is shutting down after 15 years. The show started the same year LSA arrived on the scene — barely a month after the FAA announced the new airplane and pilot certificate category — as the event […]