Julie Boatman Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Lindberghs Mark Anniversary With New Podcast

The month of May has been big in the Lindbergh family ever since Charles Lindbergh successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. This week, his grandson, Erik Lindbergh, and business partner/wife Lyn Lindbergh, celebrate the launch of their podcast, “Second Chances,” which aims to inspire those within the aviation industry and beyond. Many […]

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Julie Boatman Tuesday, May 28, 2019

FAA Launches Airmen Certification Standards for ATP

The FAA has released the new Airmen Certification Standards (ACS) for the airline transport pilot (ATP) rating, effective on June 28, 2019. The effort brings together the previously used practical test standards with additional requirements for the certificate, updates to the knowledge exam, and notes formerly distributed across a variety of source materials. As with […]

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Julie Boatman Thursday, May 23, 2019

Charging Stations Support Electric Fleet at Compton Airport

Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum doesn’t just pay lip service to the future with its name—the Compton, California-based flight academy embraced new technology two years ago as it accepted its first two Pipistrel ALPHA Electro Light Sport airplanes. The Compton-Woodley Airport at which Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum (TAM) is based recently announced the installation of charging stations that […]

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Julie Boatman Thursday, May 23, 2019

D-Day Squadron Marks Milestone Atlantic Crossing

“When the kids came over in 1944, they didn’t have GPS…they didn’t have 500 hours of time in the cockpit between them,” says Doug Rozendaal, pilot of That’s All Brother, a Douglas C-47 joining the 2019 D-Day Squadron in an epic trip across the Atlantic Ocean this week. He considers his crew very fortunate: Not […]

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