WEST CHICAGO, Ill. — A capital improvement project to widen and rehabilitate the primary runway at DuPage Airport (KDPA) has been completed ahead of schedule and approximately half a million dollars under budget. The $11.4 million development allows the general aviation airport to accommodate large business jets, including the Boeing Business Jet, according to airport officials. Officials project that the widened […]
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Personal cabin pressure monitor introduced
Just introduced is the AltAlert personal cabin pressure monitor. AltAlert mitigates the risk associated with hypoxia, which is typically difficult (if not impossible) to recognize, according to company officials. Developed using licensed NASA technology and brought to market by patent holder Aviation Technology, AltAlert is a wearable and mountable instrument that provides a secondary sensing and […]
First flight: Diamond DA50 with turbine engine
A DA50 powered by a turbine engine made its first flight Jan. 19 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, with Christian Dries, CEO of Diamond Aircraft, as test pilot, along with Ingmar Mayerbuch, the company’s head of flight test. The concept was first introduced at the general aviation show AERO Friedrichshafen in April 2013. “This aircraft with this turbine […]
Applications now being taken for Upwind scholarship program
SAN CARLOS, Calif. — Applications are now available for the Upwind Summer Scholarship Program, now in its third year of operation. Upwind aims to transform a high school student into a private pilot during the summer between their junior and senior year. Upwind selects high school students and awards them a scholarship that includes everything they need […]
Third annual Take to the Skies AirFest prepares for takeoff
Returning to Durant, Oklahoma, the Take to the Skies AirFest will be held at the Durant Regional Airport-Eaker Field (KDUA) on Saturday, April 25. Presented by the Choctaw Casino Resort, this will be the first airshow of the season in Oklahoma, according to Debby Standefer, president of the Take to the Skies AirFest. “We are excited to […]
Latest edition of ‘Flying IFR’ released
In the fifth edition of “Flying IFR,” author Richard Collins covers all aspects of modern IFR flying, including the perfection of basic attitude instrument flight; light airplane operation in the middle high-altitudes beginning at 18,000 feet; IFR flight in and around ice thunderstorms and at night; best practices in new, modern glass cockpits; and managing […]
Girlfriend walks into propeller
The pilot reported that he and a passenger were preparing to take off in a Quicksilver Sport from an airport in Camarillo, Calif. The airplane has a rear-mounted engine and the engine was running when the passenger’s girlfriend approached the airplane from behind to check an airframe-mounted camera she had installed to document the flight. Several […]
Picture of the day: Loop de loop
Reader Gene Lee sent in this photo of him performing a loop in his RV-7a over McKinney, Texas.
An aerial adventure to Puerto Rico
By AMELIA REIHELD. “Who wants to go along as copilot on an aerial Caribbean adventure to see the REAL Puerto Rico?” That question, posed on an online pilot forum by Bostonian and friend Dan Figueroa, caught me in a weak moment. My hand shot up well before better sense took over. It was an easy […]