PORT MANSFIELD, Texas – Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi conducted test flights this week (June 1-5) from a Port Mansfield airport through the university’s Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center that included an early morning launch in the dark and shoreline flights that matched on-the-ground surveying. The missions were at altitudes up to 3,000 feet and […]
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Flight Planner Pad introduced
A new Flight Planner Pad from ASA allows for either domestic or international flight plan filing using a single form. The front side of the flight planner sheets provide for input of preflight information, such as planned course, predicted winds, checkpoints, headings, estimated times, fuel, navaid frequencies, terminal information and communication frequencies. The back side […]
West Star Aviation opens satellite facility at KPWK
West Star Aviation has opened a satellite facility at Chicago Executive Airport (KPWK). A Class 4 Repair Station, West Star provides maintenance and avionics troubleshooting and repairs, minor inspections, customer assistance, as well as support for the AOG and mobile repair activity in the area. West Star will hold an open house at the new location on Wednesday, […]
Jerry Trimble Helicopters offers prize money at contest
The fifth Annual Touchdown Autorotation competition will be held June 28 at Jerry Trimble Helicopters (JTH) at the McMinnville Airport in Oregon. The contest begins at 10 a.m., and an all-you-can eat pancake breakfast is offered from 7 a.m.-12 p.m. The cost to enter is $75, and includes a Robinson R22 helicopter to use in the contest. […]
Aircraft Spruce exclusive distributor of Clecall
Aircraft Spruce is the exclusive distributor of the Clecall Steel Upright Cleco Pliers. The pliers are faster to use and easier to activate than standard Cleco pliers, according to company officials. They are spring-loaded to open with less effort. The handle compression distance has been reduced further for more comfort and to reduce fatigue and […]
Unfamiliar airplane, poor takeoff
The pilot of the Beechcraft Sierra was attempting to takeoff from the airport in Peyton, Colo. He had logged 71.4 hours, of which 6.1 were in the Beech Sierra.When the plane reached the rotation speed, he applied back pressure and the plane lifted off. When it reached an altitude about 50 feet AGL, the stall […]
Picture of the day: Celebration
Carlos Sanchez sent in this photo of a Cessna 180 flying over Villa de Reyes, Mexico. “We were celebrating my son’s new license,” he says.
Eagle Scout Project builds shelter at airport campground
PAYSON, Ariz. – Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. While the camping/picnic shelter was invented long ago, having one at the Payson Airport (KPAN) campground would’ve been nice when then 6-year-old James Nebrig and his family waited out a very wet thunderstorm in a tent. Sitting in that soaking tent, James started […]
Video: Saving ‘That’s All Brother’
Last year an iconic piece of history was discovered lying in an aircraft boneyard in Wisconsin. It was the Douglas C-47 “That’s All, Brother” — the airplane that led the massed paratroop drop on D-Day. The Commemorative Air Force reports it is in the final stages of acquiring “That’s All, Brother,” noting the C-47 will be […]