Pia Bergqvist

Gulfstream Aerospace has expanded its preowned services to help connect existing owners with potential buyers around the world. The new brokerage service will provide marketing opportunities through the company’s worldwide network of customers, and Gulfstream’s sales representatives can also assist with market analysis, pricing and financing to complete the sale of the airplanes. Preowned brokerage […]

Even if you don’t have the cash to get launched to outer space, the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA), which is in the process of developing Spaceport America, is hoping to make you a space tourist. The organization has released plans for what it calls the Spaceport America Visitor Experience, with two separate centers located […]

Do you ever look to the skies and wonder what airplanes are flying above you? If you have an iPhone 4S, you can simply ask Siri – the service that not only answers your questions, but actually talks back too. But apparently it’s important to use proper language when you talk to Siri, just like […]

I’m of the school of thought that there is no such thing as too much training. And while you may think underwater emergency egress training may be superfluous if you stay within the confines of our borders, the day you end up upside down in an airplane in one of the Great Lakes, the Gulf […]

Actor John Travolta has donated his Gulfstream II to the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame, collocated with the Museum of Aviation at the Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Georgia. According to the museum’s director of marketing, Bob Dubiel, Travolta donated the airplane in memory of his deceased son, Jett. Dubiel also said the […]

Max Trescott was the 2008 National Certified Flight Instructor of the Year. Based in Palo Alto, California, he publishes aviation books and software, including Max Trescott’s GPS and WAAS Instrument Flying Handbook and Max Trescott’s G1000 Glass Cockpit Handbook. He teaches in Cirrus and other glass cockpit aircraft, and in Lake amphibians. He can be […]

Utah Valley University recently released a brief video highlighting major milestones in aviation history in a video animated in 3D. While it’s impossible to include all major historical events in 3:35 minutes, the video does a good job of including some of the most significant achievements, from Leonardo Da Vinci’s early drawings to the first […]

Popular belief says the cleaner the leading edge of an airfoil is, the more efficient it becomes. But scientists are now looking into how strategically placed bumps on the main rotors of helicopters may boost performance. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Göttingen, Germany, claim they got the idea of using the concept […]

Whether it’s a rubber chicken, a pig or a red-ribbon streamer, the pitot tube cover is a critical piece of equipment that is sometimes ignored or forgotten by pilots. Designed to prevent debris or bugs from entering the pitot tube while the airplane is parked, this cover takes seconds to put on and remove. Omitting […]

The Grumman Albatross amphibian was designed in the late 1940s and was primarily used in the Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard. But a company called Row 44 based in Westlake Village, California, recently found a new use for the large flying boat. An in-flight broadband and entertainment provider for the airlines, the company found […]