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


Aspen Avionics debuts new products, programs  
7/29/2010 12:46 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(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) 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...


(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."


Geared Drives gives Ravin 500 economical power  
7/28/2010 3:15 PM    Like   Read   Share  
(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.


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.


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