The Experimental Aircraft Association has thrown its support to the new remotely piloted aircraft safety campaign, “Know Before You Fly,” during the 2015 Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) Expo. The campaign provides prospective operators of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) — also known as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) — with the information and guidance they need to […]
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Lightspeed launches $500 Burger Deluxe Getaway promotion
Lightspeed Aviation, which manufactures aviation headsets, is launching a promotion that plays off a story familiar to just about every pilot: the $100 hamburger. This year, however, it has added a side: A Markham leather flight bag from its new Adventure Flight Bag Collection for its Burger Deluxe Getaway promotion. Any eligible participant that registers a new Lightspeed Zulu […]
Applications open for Cascade Warbirds scholarship program
Applications are now being accepted for the Cascade Warbirds 2015 scholarship program. The organization works to promote the restoration, preservation, operation and public display of historically significant military aircraft; to acquire and perpetuate the living history of those who served their country on these aircraft; and to inspire today’s young people to become the aviation […]
FAA asks law enforcement for help in policing RPAs
The proliferation of small, relatively inexpensive remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) has created a challenge for the FAA, which is why the agency has asked the law enforcement community to help identify people who don’t follow the rules of the air or who endanger the nation’s airspace. On Jan. 8, the FAA released some guidance to the law […]
Industry to FAA: Repair stations know when to call it quits
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A coalition of aviation trade associations petitioned the FAA Jan. 9 to restore the right to voluntarily surrender a repair station certificate. In its new repair station rule, which became effective in November, the FAA will subject surrendered certificates to “acceptance for cancellation.” The coalition called for the removal of this requirement, which is […]
Tour set for world’s only flying B-29
DALLAS – The Commemorative Air Force Air Power History Tour, featuring the Boeing B-29 Superfortress FIFI, will visit airports in Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas starting Feb. 18 and ending April 3. FIFI will be accompanied by a variety of other vintage military aircraft at each stop. Air Power aircraft will be on display and selling […]
Museum to host play about ‘Flying Daredevil’
WINDSOR LOCKS, CONN. – The New England Air Museum will hold an original play by Alison Moncrief Bromage featuring the Connecticut aviation pioneer and daredevil, Charles Hamilton. The play will be performed on the following dates at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm: Sunday, January 18, 2015 Sunday, February 15, 2015 Sunday, March 15, 2015 Sunday, June […]
Women in Aviation names Class of 2015
Women who changed aviation history make up the Class of 2015 for the International Women in Aviation Pioneer Hall of Fame. These women will be honored at Women in Aviation’s 26th Annual International Conference, which will be held March 5-7, at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas. The ceremony will take place at the closing […]
Piper delivers G1000 Seminoles to UND
VERO BEACH, Fla. — Piper Aircraft has delivered three twin-engine piston-powered Piper Seminoles to the UND Aerospace Foundation, which provides training and aircraft for the University of North Dakota’s John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences. The pilot training aircraft, delivered in December, are now part of the Aviation Department’s training fleet of more than […]