The student pilot was flying a Cessna 172 on his first solo cross-country flight to Bardstown, Ky. The wind at the destination airport was from 120° at 6 knots. He chose to land on Runway 20. When the airplane was abeam the intended point of landing, he reduced power, added 10° of flaps, and obtained […]
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Picture of the day: WACO at sunrise
Peter Bowers of WACO Aircraft Corp. sent in these photos taken on an early morning “with the new Great Lakes by WACO in Sebring, Forida. The photos were taken a few weeks ago while on a barnstorming sales tour around the state.” Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? […]
Testing the octane rating of aviation fuel
A wise man once said, “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, then you have evidently not grasped the gravity of the situation.” When I first started working at Shell back in the late 1960s, we did a lot of work on octane requirements. Due to the poor correlation […]
Doolittle Toyko Raiders to receive Congressional Gold Medal
The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders will be awarded a Congressional Gold Medal on April 15 by leaders of the U.S. House and Senate. The medal, the highest civilian honor the United States Congress can bestow, will be presented to the National Museum of the United States Air Force by Raider, Lt. Col. Richard “Dick” E. Cole, […]
B-29 rollout celebrated
WICHITA, Kansas — Exactly 70 years after it was delivered to the U.S. Army Air Forces in Wichita, Kansas, the B-29 “Doc” was delivered again. On March 23, 1945, the B-29, one of 1,644 manufactured in Wichita during World War II, rolled off the assembly line at Boeing and was delivered to the Army Air […]
Tecnam twin tapped for NASA project
NASA has selected the Tecnam P2006T twin as the airframe on which it will evaluate the potential of LEAPtech (Leading Edge Asynchronous Technology), with the aim of developing safer, more energy efficient, lower operating cost and greener general aviation aircraft. LEAPTech is a key element of NASA’s plan to help a significant portion of the […]
Latitude Aviation launches Immersion Ground School
An Immersion Ground School has been scheduled for the last two weekends in May at Latitude Aviation’s newly leased hangar and office space at Pappy Boyington Field (KCOE) in Coeur d’Alene in Idaho. Covering the fundamentals of becoming a private pilot, the class will use the Gleim Private Pilot curriculum to cover the require subjects like aerodynamics, airplane systems […]
Mountain crash claims three
The commercial pilot and two passengers were on a cross-country flight in a Cessna 182. The trip included flying through a narrow mountain pass near Nikolai, Alaska. The typical route through the pass required making multiple turns, and the pass intersected with a box canyon. A family member reported the airplane overdue for arrival, and […]
Picture of the day: CX4
Sheldon Heatherington sent in this photo of a CX4 over Pensacola Beach and the Gulf of Mexico.