DAYTON, Ohio — A National Park Service official toured the Wright Company factory site Tuesday, April 30, the highest-ranking park service official so far to tour the place where America’s aerospace industry was born. Patty Trap, deputy regional director for the park service’s Midwest Region, said the project to restore the first American factory built […]
General Aviation
Maximum Manuals automates manual creation
Maximum Manuals has developed an automated process for manual creation. Operators are able to create, purchase, and receive their customized MELs and RVSM manuals in as little as two hours, according to company officials. This is accomplished by using the SMART Manual Process. SMART is a Server Managed Automated Response Technology, accessible to all customers […]
Chicago returns for Oshkosh opening day concert
One of the music world’s legendary bands will be back at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2013, as Chicago will take the stage on Monday, July 29, for the event’s opening-night concert. The concert, presented by Ford Motor Company, is free to all AirVenture attendees that day and will be held on Phillips 66 Plaza immediately following […]
New features, ADS-B weather for AOPA’s FlyQ iPad Electronic Flight Bag
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has just made the FlyQ EFB (electronic flight bag), an in-cockpit iPad application, smarter with the release of version 1.1. New features include Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) in-flight weather with support for the new Dual XGPS 170 ADS-B + WAAS GPS receiver. When paired with the Dual ADS-B […]
Un-airworthy airplane crashes
Aircraft: Beech 18. Injuries: 1 Fatal. Location: Miami Gardens, Fla. Aircraft damage: Destroyed. What reportedly happened: The pilot held an ATP certificate and had in excess of 6,400 hours of flight experience. He was the president and director of operations for the company that maintained the airplane, which was kept outdoors when not flying. The […]
Flight delay
By RAEANN SLAYBAUGH More than 60 years elapsed before 87-year-old Karl Klingelhofer of Tucson, Ariz., revisited his love of aviation and earned his sport pilot’s license. But if you ask him when he decided he wanted to fly, he draws a blank. He can’t pinpoint an instance or a moment that lit a spark — […]
Ethanol repeal efforts make progress
Further evidence that consumers demand an ethanol-free alternative has been provided in recent weeks by actions at both state and federal levels. As reported by this blog on Feb. 20, Florida State Representative Matt Gaetz has led an effort to repeal his state’s mandates on the use of ethanol blends in vehicles. While off-highway use, […]
‘Game-changing’ GA tax bill inked in Indiana
Pilots fueling up general aviation aircraft in Indiana can expect to see savings of $100, $250, or more each time they taxi to the pumps now that lawmakers have passed a package of aviation tax exemptions and restructurings. According to a report at AOPA.org, the joy also will extend to lower sales-tax line items on […]
Kitson wins First-to-Solo challenge
During the 2013 Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week — March 4-10 — that attracted more than 17,000 girls and women to air and space facilities across four continents, pilots flew balloons, ultralights, airplanes, seaplanes, and helicopters to introduce 5,316 girls and women to the magic of flight in a small aircraft with the hope to […]