
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.
Sun 'n Fun is coming up in just a couple of weeks and Dan visits with us about some of the things we can expect at the show. Building on the success of the LSA Tour after the Sebring Light Sport Expo, some manufacturers will be making stops together both to and from the Florida convention to show off the planes in airports on the path to Lakeland.
Sebring sees the introduction of plenty of products including new models of aircraft. Dennis Carley is importer now for the Cricket Aviation Storch, one of the newly introduced. The aircraft is manufactured in Columbia and goes through final assembly in Deland, Florida. It's a very unique airplane with a unique history. Dennis tells us all about it.
It's always exciting to learn about new aviation engines. Viking Aircraft Engines was at the Sebring Expo showing their engine based on the Honda Fit engine. Jan Eggenfellner joins us to talk about the history of and specifications for the Viking.
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.
One of the meetings that Jim Sweeney attended while in Sebring was hosted by the FAA and its purpose was to achieve one of the FAA Administrator's goals, the reduction of fatalities in amateur-built aircraft. Several ideas were discussed including getting aviation organizations and insurance companies more involved. However, preventing fatalities was an area where a better LODA procedure could be instrumental for all sorts of experimental aircraft.
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 ...
The seventh annual Sebring U.S. Sport Aviation Expo concluded on Sunday, January 23, with a good crowd to bring the four-day event to a close. Expo Chairman Bob Wood said attendance would likely be the “best ever.” Staying true to its roots, the Expo caters almost exclusively to light-sport aircraft (LSA), with all of the ...
The 2011 Sebring Sport Aviation Expo is a wrap and Jim Sweeney joins us to talk about what happened at the show. ASTM meetings, FAA meetings, new gyroplanes from Germany, and lots more filled the precious few days of the event in Florida.