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(AD) The best logbook application just got mobile! Logbook Pro for iPhone now available from iTunes.


(SUMMARY) Are amateur-built aircraft operations getting safer? Can industry identify any trends involving them and take steps to improve their safety even further? Those are the two main questions members of the Amateur-Built Joint Safety Committee (AB-JSC)...


Olds school: Robin Olds was passionate patriot  
7/28/2010 3:15 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) Patriot with a passion, respectfully rebellious. Definitions that might begin to frame Brig. Gen. Robin Olds, but would still fall short of the man. Robin Olds' daughter Christina shared vignettes of her famous fighter-pilot father in a Forum session...


FiFi Readying for AirVenture 2011  
7/28/2010 3:15 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) Combine two old air warriors and a modern-day troubadour and the result is a star-spangled touring event like no other before: the Commemorative Air Force's Red, White & Loud Tour starring country music star and pilot Aaron Tippin and the world's...


It's never too late to follow your dreams  
7/27/2010 12:21 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) After an illness almost killed him in 2003, Michael Combs decided he would live life with no regrets. That meant he would learn how to fly. He earned his sport pilot certificate last fall, and this April, took off in an LSA Remos GX from Salina,...


Creating "The Flight Experience"  
7/27/2010 12:21 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) EAA and Sporty's, Sporty's and EAA. The appearance of these two names together happens again and again as the world leader in pilot supplies teams with the world leader in recreational aviation on projects to encourage youth to enter aviation and...


Around the Field  
7/27/2010 12:21 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) An airplane jigsaw puzzle, and life in the Bonanza camp.


Stinson Model O  
7/27/2010 12:21 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) Full-size airplanes are often the inspiration for radio-controlled model aircraft. Occasionally it happens the other way around.


New Warbird area dedicated to honor all veterans  
7/27/2010 12:21 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) A prominent new concrete parking apron in the Warbirds area leads northward to a striking bronze eagle sculpture, flanked by flags on a pair of grassy knolls. It's a lasting tribute to veterans from all branches of service, all eras.


Klapmeier back in the airplane business  
7/27/2010 12:21 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) Alan Klapmeier and I have been discussing, some would say arguing, about what's wrong and right about general aviation, and more importantly, about what's possible to change and what is not, for well north of 20 years. We're both older, more...


We have a new leader!  
7/27/2010 12:21 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) Rod Hightower, a longtime EAA member, pilot, aviation enthusiast, and businessman, will become EAA's new president on September 7. Tom Poberezny, chairman and current president, made the announcement on Monday at an opening day press conference....


Nearly two dozen DC-3s rumble over Oshkosh  
7/27/2010 12:21 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) Twenty one DC-3s shook the skies over AirVenture Monday afternoon (July26) as part of a mass arrival and demonstration. The flight was part of the largest gathering of DC-3s since World War II with approximately 35 DC-3 aircraft parked on the grounds...


Speed record set in AirVenture Cup Race  
7/27/2010 12:21 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) Canadian Marty Abbott, flying the race 104 Turbine Lancair Legend C-GUTT, averaged 401.09 mph in Sunday's running of the AirVenture Cup Race from Mitchell, South Dakota, to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.


Garmin ups the safety margin  
7/27/2010 12:21 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(SUMMARY) Yesterday at EAA AirVenture 2010, Garmin introduced a new stability augmentation system for incorporation into its G1000 and G3000 integrated flight decks to help prevent a pilot from losing control of the airplane.


(SUMMARY) Pilots looking for a low-cost, fully functional alternative to high-priced moving map GPS displays may have an answer in the new iFly 700, a sectional chart-based GPS moving map display listing for $499.


(SUMMARY) Since its first year at AirVenture Oshkosh 1999, KidVenture has grown steadily from a side attraction for children to a destination for the entire family, like a convention within the convention. Located at Pioneer Field across from the...


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