DENVER – Silent Falcon UAS Technologies (SFUAS), a former subsidiary of Bye Aerospace, has begun initial production of the Silent Falcon remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) to fill its first commercial orders. “Silent Falcon is the first solar-electric aircraft to enter commercial production,” noted John Brown, president of SFUAS. The patent-pending Silent Falcon is a solar-electric, all composite, modular small […]
General Aviation
Aircraft maintenance rating tool now free
Asset Insight now offers its Baseline Maintenance Rating tool free of charge online. Individuals interested in buying or selling an aircraft will find this to be a useful tool, allowing them to evaluate and compare airplanes based on an aircraft’s most significant financial “wild card” – its maintenance condition, according to company officials. The Baseline Maintenance Rating […]
G1000 upgrade now available for King Air
Garmin reports new capabilities for the G1000 on the King Air C90 are available through the latest software upgrade. The latest update offers new features including NextGen components such as Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) compliance and user-defined holding patterns. New NextGen features include: Barometric Vertical Navigation (Baro-VNAV) approach capability; ADS-B Out Compliance; and Area Navigation (RNAV) capability that includes […]
Crosswind crimps Cessna
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 […]
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 […]