With the uncertainty lingering around the best way to navigate flight on the airlines during the current pandemic, the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has embarked on a tour of the US, visiting rural and suburban airports in a bid to demonstrate their utility to local communities. General Aviation Advancing America gatherings bring together aviation, […]
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, stood in the gunsight of an awesome derecho storm that hit the state on Monday, August 10, in the early afternoon hours. A derecho, usually associated with rapidly-moving bow-echo or squall-line thunderstorms, packs immense straight-line winds, often in excess of 100 mph—and it remains far more difficult for meteorologists to predict than […]
Richard Perry enjoys flying as much as the next pilot, but many of his flights also serve an important purpose. Since 2009, Perry has been flying people in need of medical care to treatment facilities throughout New Mexico and Texas. He has also assisted in bringing children to adoption camps where they are given a […]
After bringing the historic Boeing B-29 Superfortress, “Doc,” to stellar flying condition through decades of challenging physical labor, the volunteers at Doc’s Friends will not let a pandemic stand in the way of showing off their pride and joy. Along with the Commemorative Air Force’s “Fifi,” “Doc” became the second flying Superfortress in the world […]
We’d all like to live in a world with less extra paperwork—particularly when it comes to anything that duplicates effort, or leaves us having to wait for our slot on another person’s schedule. That’s why companies within the aviation industry seek efficiencies whenever they can to streamline the required approval processes in concert with the […]
Having a high-fidelity home simulation theater just ratcheted up in importance over the last six months for a lot of pilots. When the real thing is difficult—or nigh-on impossible—practicing maneuvers and instrument procedures from the comfort of your now-very-familiar home office takes on a shine—and may even be considered a necessity for pilots to stay […]
In honor of Aviation Day, August 19, celebrating Orville Wright’s birthday, we bring you a piece that explores the stories around the first powered, controlled flight–and inspires us all to go to Dayton where the brothers lived. Blame it on “alternative facts.” Or maybe it was “fake news” — the 1930s version, anyway. It turns […]
When renewable fuel production begins in early 2024 at the renewed Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo, California, near San Francisco, it will be impossible to find a drop of crude oil, or conventional gasoline or diesel products at the site. Instead, raw materials such as used cooking oil, fats, greases, and soybean oils will be […]
Skydiving operators would like to carry as many people aloft for a single jump as possible—while observing the aircraft’s weight limits. However, the FAA has issued an important safety alert for pilots—20013—warning operators of a possibly overlooked hazard when using aircraft that are certified with two control wheels, such as single-engine Cessnas. In most skydiving […]
The Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots has inducted its new president, Corbi Bulluck, in a virtual ceremony at the 90-year-old organization’s annual convention in July. The convention was planned to take place in Long Beach, California, but the in-person event was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bullock takes over from Jan McKenzie, now […]
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