SANDERSVILLE, Ga. — Kaolin Aviation has been tapped to design and produce firewall-forward (FWF) kits for kit-built aircraft to make the choice of ULPower engines easier, when the OEM airframer has not yet developed a FWF installation. “We realize that most builders don’t want to have to design and fabricate their own engine mounts,” said ULPower […]
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Sporty’s Eastern Cincinnati Aviation expands sales and service
Eastern Cincinnati Aviation, the FBO affiliate of Sporty’s Pilot Shop at Ohio’s Clermont County Airport (I69), is now an authorized sales center for American Legend Cubs. It also is a sales and service center for Robinson Helicopters.
First solo, first accident
The accident happened during the student pilot’s first solo flight at the airport in Ankeny, Iowa. The first landing was good, but on the second approach the airplane touched down flat and bounced several times. The post-flight inspection of the airplane revealed that one propeller blade tip was bent aft and the firewall was buckled. […]
Picture of the day: Over Edwards AFB
Robert Stambovsky, USMC retired, sent in this photo of him flying an ex-RAF Jet Provost T5A over Edwards AFB.
Groundbreaking held for new KLAL tower
There was a lot happening on opening day of this year’s SUN ’n FUN, including a milestone for Lakeland Linder Regional Airport: A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the airport’s new air traffic control tower. The new tower will be 141 feet, significantly higher than the 50-foot tower now in operation. “That was built in […]
First AOPA Fly-In of the year deemed a success
About 2,600 people and nearly 300 airplanes descended on Salinas Municipal Airport in California for the first Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Fly-In of the year held Saturday, May 16. Low clouds and icing in the surrounding mountains weren’t enough to deter pilots, hundreds of whom decided to drive to Salinas, AOPA officials noted. As […]
MT-Propeller’s new prop a hit
German manufacturer MT-Propeller planned only an introduction of its newest model at SUN n’ FUN 2015. But sales began almost from the moment the five-blade MTV-27 model was placed on display. “We were just hoping to show the propeller at SUN ‘n FUN and hoped for sales later, but we sold eight of them priced […]
Video: Critter’s Lodge Fly-In
Recently posted to YouTube by Scott Sundstrum is this video — shot by remotely piloted aircraft — of the Critter Lodge Fly-In in Texas. It covers the highlights of the fly-in in a little more than three minutes. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RU7WlCbcsU&w=560&h=315]
Keep pushing for medical reform
As of the start of this year’s SUN ’n FUN, more than 21,000 letters to Congress in support of the Pilot’s Bill of Rights 2 have been sent from EAA’s Rally Congress network by Experimental Aircraft Association members and other aviators. That legislation includes the aeromedical reform language that is easily the No. 1 regulatory […]