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Julie Boatman

I Hart Flying Scholarships Offer Opportunities

The I Hart Flying Foundation has partnered with Immaculate Flight to launch more than $20,000 worth of flight scholarships and pilot supplies donated for young women to leverage in order to follow their aviation dreams. A social media push for the end of 2020, titled “Seal Your Future,” promotes the efforts of IHFF and reminds […]

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Gold Seal Offers Scholarships for Impacted Pilots

Gold Seal wants to help—and so it’s offering its comprehensive ground school courseware for private pilots for free to 100 students who have been impacted in 2020 by COVID-19 restrictions and fallout. “We started this program back in May,” said Gold Seal founder, Russ Still. “After carefully going through the stories of over 1,000 students, […]

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ATP Provides Epic with Flight Docs, Mx Tracking

Epic Aircraft and ATP have partnered to utilize ATP’s Flightdocs and Aviation Hub services for documentation and tracking across Epic’s E1000 GX fleet. ATP is a provider of aviation software and information services based in San Francisco, California, while Epic—out of Bend, Oregon—certified the E1000 turboprop in November 2019, securing Flying’s 2020 Innovation Award. Epic […]

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Yeager Leaves a Legacy of Speed

Ask the average person on the street whom they would regard as the ultimate pilot, and you will typically get one of two answers: Charles Lindbergh and Chuck Yeager. The US Army Air Corps (and later US Air Force) pilot captured the world’s attention with his heroic feats, several of which advanced human in flight […]

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Embraer Updates Phenom 100EV, Delivers Market Report

At a time when we all wish we could pull out a crystal ball to look into the future, key companies within the business aviation industry have grappled with their own predictions about what 2021 and beyond will bring—and Embraer has joined the chorus of cautious optimism balanced with the reality of a market that […]

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Pratt & Whitney Hits Milestone with 50,000th PT6 Engine

Chances are, if you fly turboprop-powered aircraft, you have some time behind the Pratt & Whitney PT6 series engines. My own introduction to the legendary engine came when I first flew the Cessna Grand Caravan—and the marriage of the 182-like handling with the performance and reliability of the PT6A-114A (in that case) made the airplane […]

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DC-3: An Airplane for the Ages

First flown on December 17, 1935, the Douglas DC-3, an iteration of the DC-1 and DC-2, married reliability with performance and comfort in a way no other airplane had before. So much greater than the sum of its parts, an apt description for an airplane that has earned the right to be called “timeless” more […]

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IS&S Offers Autothrottle Solutions For Several Platforms

Innovative Solutions & Support offers aftermarket and standard ThrustSense autothrottles for several commercial and military platforms, including the Pilatus PC-12, and the Beechcraft King Air series, as well as the UMS (utilities management system) on Pilatus PC-24. The company offered a deeper look at these solutions during a presentation at VBACE 2020, presented by NBAA […]

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Textron Aviation Announces King Air 260

Textron Aviation announced the new Beechcraft King Air 260 at VBACE 2020, with the model already in production for deliveries to begin in the first half of 2021. The latest entrant in the legendary turboprop series joins the King Air 360, which entered service in late October, alongside the 360ER. Like the 360, the 260 […]

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First Fleet Praetor 600 Delivers to Flexjet

The first of Embraer’s Praetor 600 fleet for Flexjet delivered in late November 2020 from its Melbourne, Florida, facility, the company announced on November 30. Flexjet is the fleet launch customer for the new Praetor 600—and it plans to use the platform to support its operations in Europe. The provider of fractional ownership, aircraft leasing, […]

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