
Memorial Day is over so I guess that means summer is here. But the wet weather is not necessarily making it easier on pilots. Add a little sun to the mixture and you have wet fields with tall grass. Jim Sweeney talks about how to do soft field takeoffs and landings as well as the special problems soft fields offer up to pilots.
Many people don't realize that the state of Hawaii has never had a civilian airshow. That amazing misfortune is about to change. We visit with Terri Thomas who is helping organize the Hawaii Airshow.
There are a lot of great airplanes out there. But of course some are better suited to some tasks than others are. This week Bever Borne joins us to talk about what makes a nice easy airplane to learn to fly.
One of the things I was most impressed with at the Sebring Sport Aviation Expo was the Chesapeake Sport Pilot booth. It was the only booth on the grounds to feature both airplanes and gyroplanes. Tim Adelman talks about how the folks at Chesapeake Sport Pilot are working to mainstream gyroplanes in the United States, as they are in other countries.
Sonex's single-place airplane made its first flight and Jeremy Monnett joins us to talk about how it went.
IFirst off, a correction: Though I took the proposed renaming of PiperSport to “SuperCruiser” directly from a Czech Sport Aircraft (CSA) news release, the new name did not stick. It’ll be the SportCruiser as it was before Piper assumed worldwide distribution. Widely reported in aviation media, Piper abruptly ended their almost-year-long relationship with manufacturer CSA in what ...
Dan Johnson joins us to talk about more of the LSA news that came out of the Sebring Expo. Of course some of the biggest news came just before the event with Piper saying that they were splitting with Czech Sport Aircraft. Dan talks about what happened, what is going on, and what Piper may be doing in the future. He also talks about the LSA barnstorming tour some LSA manufactures went on in Florida after the Sebring event.
Sonex Aircraft, LLC is proud to announce that the number one prototype of the new Onex single-place, folding-wing kit aircraft made its first flight yesterday, January 27, 2011 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, WI. Piloted by Sonex General Manager, CEO, and Onex designer Jeremy Monnett, the AeroVee-powered N111NX made an extensive flight orbiting the ...
I’d call this Day 4 but rush-deadline work for the mag intervened after the last day at Sebring so just getting to it now. The Sebring experience gets better every year, I believe precisely because Bob Woods keeps it consistently valuable without tricking it up with a lot of extraneous booths selling things like Miracle Kitchen ...
Dallas-based IndUS Aviation progresses with Chinese partner IPI Technologies and private investors in China to move production of the Thorpedo Light Sport Aircraft to the new LuYangHu General Aviation Development Zone in Weinan, China. Dr. Ram Pattisapu reports “I just returned from China this week. While there, we continued the development plans to begin building ...