RENO, Nev. – The National Championship Air Races is selling raffle tickets to win a 2015 Lexus RC350F Sport, provided by the Dolan Auto Group, to benefit the organization. Tickets are $100 each and only 1,000 tickets will be sold.The drawing will be held Dec. 31, 2015, at 10 a.m. at the National Championship Air […]
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Want an arrival route for your home airport?
There are many benefits to standardized arrival and departure routes. Noise abatement and terrain avoidance are two of the most prominent. If Don Drummond has his way, a good many pre-planned routes will soon be popping up at smaller airports around the country. Drummond’s PilotPath is designed to aid the creation – and sharing – […]
Composite textbook now in ebook
“Essentials of Advanced Composite Fabrication and Repair” is now available in eBook ePub format from ASA. The textbook, which can also be downloaded from iBooks, is a primer for beginners to composite technology, yet also works as a resource for long-time composites professionals, according to ASA officials. The book covers a wide array of composites fundamentals, […]
Cowan named president and CEO of Soloy Aviation Solutions
OLYMPIA Airport, Wash. — Soloy Aviation Solutions has appointed James H.L. Cowan president and Chief Executive Officer. A mechanical engineering technology graduate from Purdue University, Cowan has spent his career in the aviation industry. He was the quality assurance manager for Dylan Aerospace, a Tier 1 supplier to the Boeing Airplane Company, before becoming an aviation client […]
Tire fails on takeoff
The pilot reported that, during the takeoff roll at the airport in Monroe, N.C., the Piper PA-46-500TP’s right main landing gear tire failed. He aborted the takeoff, and the plane departed the right side of the runway. The ground around the runway edge was uneven due to airfield construction, and the wings bounced as the […]
Pictures of the day: The next generation
A group of energetic students from Savannah de Rham’s Pre-K Class at Fisher Elementary School in Arlington, Vermont, recently visited the William H. Morse State Airport in Bennington, Vermont. The students received a tour of the airport and a number of aircraft, including a Cessna 182 used by the Civil Air Patrol for search and […]
Spokane Air Derbies a big hit in 1927
The first and only time that the National Air Races were held at Spokane, Wash., was during the week of Sept. 19, 1927. This was quite an adventurous undertaking for a small town such as Spokane, especially given that the previous two events in Cleveland and Los Angeles were money losers. However, Lindbergh’s solo flight […]
Saving Brookeridge
Brookeridge Airpark (LL22), in Downers Grove, Ill., is the closest residential airport to Chicago. Now thriving, it’s hard to believe that this airpark was on the verge of being closed in the late 1960s. In the early 1950s, pilot Austin Talbert had a vision to create a residential airpark where pilots could live with their airplanes. […]
Scholarship winner solos
The Flying Musicians Association reports that its first Solo Scholarship Award recipient, Drew Medina of Vero Beach, Florida, a senior in the Vero Beach High School jazz, symphonic, and marching bands, has completed his first solo flight. Drew’s flight instructor, director/chief engineer at Piper Aircraft, Buddy Sessoms, noted, “Drew is quiet, focused, driven, and definitely very diligent.” […]