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(SUMMARY) What's the first thing you would do if you just took delivery of a brand new airplane? If you said you were flying it to Oshkosh, no pilot would be surprised.
(SUMMARY) In a letter Monday to the General Aviation Avgas Coalition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acknowledged it has no jurisdiction to regulate the fuel an aircraft burns and has not established a deadline by which aviation gasoline's lead...
(SUMMARY) For most Rounders, as those who have crossed every longitude are known, their trip is over in a relatively short period of time. Not so for Detlef Heun and Lilliana Tagliamonte. Their rounder plan, which also includes touching all the latitudes, is...
(SUMMARY) Aspen's high valued glass cockpit is now approved for aircraft weighing up to 12,500 pounds. Certification of its Evolution primary flight display (PFD) for Class III aircraft, those weighing between 6,000 and 12,500 pounds, was among the new...
(SUMMARY) Call N74589 the Cinderella of AirVenture's DC-3 Anniversary Ball. Seven and a half weeks ago the DC-3 was sitting in a field at the Covington Municipal Airport (9A1) in Georgia-virtually abandoned, a landmark to area pilots and some residents, and an...
(SUMMARY) Glancing at its spec sheet you'd think it was a high-performance compact sports car: zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds, a Subaru EJ22 engine, a CVT belt-drive transmission, and less than 1,000 pounds total weight. And while you'd be mostly correct.
(SUMMARY) On Monday, after one of the most unusual days in the 40 years of Oshkosh, I ran into Hartzell Propeller patriarch Jim Brown. After we made universal comments about the soggy ground and the thousands of airplanes that weren't here because they...
(SUMMARY) It's been 75 years, that's three quarters of a century, since the prototype of the Flying Fortress series took to the skies for the first time over Seattle, Washington. For so many reasons, the B-17 Flying Fortress became an American icon.
(SUMMARY) In today's world of kit build-this and quick build-that, it is ever rarer to see an all-original, scratchbuilt airplane, once a common site at Oshkosh and other fly-ins around the country. One of those rare one of a kind scratchbuilt creations is...
(SUMMARY) What could be simpler than an electric powered airplane? A motor with just one moving part, a battery, a control box, some wires to connect them, just hook 'em up and fly, right? Radio controlled model folks have been doing it for years.
(SUMMARY) Cliff Cole of Grand Haven, Michigan, stopped into the Learn to Fly Discovery Center on Tuesday morning and told Jason Blair, executive director of the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI), that on July 25, 2009, he passed his sport pilot...
(SUMMARY) Have you ever dreamed of owning and flying your own Grumman FM-2 Wildcat? How about taking the controls of a fully restored 1938 Stinson SR-10 that was flown 140 times by American aviation pioneer Jimmy Doolittle? The opportunity to bid on both of...
(SUMMARY) Jessica Cox said her father never once shed a tear after she was born without arms. "He never saw me as a victim," she said, "and that has given me the strength to be the person I am."
(SUMMARY) The inspiration for the Ravin 500 kit plane may have been the venerable Piper Comanche, but the inspiration for the powerplant powering the Ravin on display here was from Chevrolet.
(SUMMARY) The Tuskegee Airmen Glider Club from Detroit, Michigan, is introducing young people to aviation in a very unique way: in a Schweizer SGM 2-37 motorized glider Air Force trainer. The group currently owns three of them.
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