For days in November, the employees at Van’s Aircraft had been watching the Hobbs meter on the company’s website, waiting for news of the 1,000th RV-9/9A to fly. On Nov. 20, John “Bert” Bertucci of Prairieville, Louisiana, rang the bell with his new RV-9A. “I have always wanted a plane of my own, so in June 2013 I […]
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Video: Crowdfunding launches to fund drone study of oyster beds
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — With an eye toward re-opening recreational oyster harvesting in Northeast Florida, the Marine Science Research Institute, Department of Geography and the Environment, and the School of Aviation at Jacksonville University have launched a crowdfunding project with Experiment.com aimed at using drones to measure the health of local oyster beds. With a campaign target […]
Former test pilot to speak on F-22 at Air Force museum
DAYTON, Ohio — Former test pilot Paul Metz will present “The First True Stealth Fighter: Evolution of the F-22 Raptor,” during a free lecture on Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Metz’s talk will trace the military, geo-political and technical forces that drove the more than 30-year […]
Clark receives honor from NBAA
Joe Clark, a partner in Seattle’s Gateway USA, Clay Lacy Aviation, has received the Meritorious Service to Aviation Award from the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA). Presented at the 2015 NBAA Convention in Las Vegas, it recognizes “extraordinary lifelong professional contributions to aviation.” Past honorees include legends and luminaries Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Bill Lear, Arnold Palmer […]
ATP releases two new products
SAN FRANCISCO – Aircraft Technical Publishers (ATP) has released two new products: ATP Tool Compliance Manager and ATP Employee Compliance Manager. ATP TOOL COMPLIANCE MANAGER ATP Tool Compliance Manager is designed to ensure the highest levels of accuracy, safety, and compliance for aviation maintenance tools requiring tracking and calibration, according to company officials. With ATP, maintenance providers […]
Landing on lake goes awry
The pilot was landing a wheel/ski-equipped Cessna 185 on a frozen, wind-blown, ice and snow-covered lake near Nenana, Alaska. He had established a landing area earlier in the day, by laying down ski tracks with a friend’s ski-equipped airplane. Upon touchdown, the plane did not slow as expected, and it began to veer off the […]
Picture of the day: Snowy day
Reader Jan Tišler sent in this photo, captioned “snowy day in Ljubljana Airport (Slovenia) 21.11.2015.”
AeroCinema prepares for takeoff
A new subscription video on demand channel, AeroCinema, is set to launch in March 2016. Phil Osborn, the company’s CEO, is the former CEO of Network USA, creator of the Wings series, which ran in primetime on Discovery Channel for 12 years prior to its acquisition by Discovery Communications in 1999. AeroCinema is expected to launch […]
Curtiss museum reaches P-40 restoration milestone
HAMMONDSPORT, N.Y. — The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum reports it has achieved a milestone in its restoration of a historic World War II-era Curtiss P-40 aircraft, with the help of volunteers in its Restoration Shop. Two P-40s went down over the Florida Everglades in 1943, following a mid-air collision on a training flight. The planes remained in […]