Aircraft Sales and Parts Sells Powered Parachute, Canopy Divisions
Aircraft Sales and Parts Ltd., the manufacturer of the Summit and Steel Breeze powered parachutes (in addition to the Chinook Plus 2 and Beaver...
Garmin Introduces Engine Monitoring and Autopilot to the G3X Suite
The first news from the US. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring is that Garmin has expanded the G3X EFIS capabilities with EIS (engine monitoring) and a dedicated autopilot module.
Pilot My-Cast Now on iPhone, iTouch
Garmin has announced that its Pilot My-Cast application will now be available for the iTouch and iPhone devices from Apple. Pilot My-Cast is an aviation weather, flight planning and flight filing app for U.S. and Canadian customers.Pilot My-Cast is designed to take advantage of the iPhone/iTouchs gesture-based user interface and includes five intuitive tabs at the bottom of the page for routes, flight plan, weather, airport information and settings.
Lancair Announces Simplified Pricing for Evolution
Lancair International announced today that it is changing the pricing strategy on its Evolution kit aircraft. Because both the turbine and piston aircraft are...
Oops, We Missed One
Despite our diligent efforts, we missed listing a manufacturer in the February 2010 issues Rotorcraft Buyer's Guide. The company is Rotary Flight Dynamics, which manufactures the Dominator gyro.
Aircraft Sales and Parts Sells Powered Parachute, Canopy Divisions
Aircraft Sales and Parts Ltd., the manufacturer of the Summit and Steel Breeze powered parachutes (in addition to the Chinook Plus 2 and Beaver RX550 Plus), has announced that effective February 1, 2010, its PPC division will be sold to Summit Aerosports, Inc. in Michigan.
Lancair Announces Simplified Pricing for Evolution
All of the major components firewall-aft for the Evolution are bundled into the base price; engine (Pratt & Whitney turbine or Lycoming IE2 turbocharged piston), paint and interior are extra.
GRT Adds Lightning Detection to Horizon HX EFIS
GRT Avionics, a unit of Grand Rapids Technologies, Inc., has received approval for its Stormscope WX-500 software interface from L3 Communications - Avionics Systems....
GRT Adds Lightning Detection to Horizon HX EFIS
GRT Avionics, a unit of Grand Rapids Technologies, Inc., has received approval for its Stormscope WX-500 software interface from L3 Communications - Avionics Systems, designed to integrate the Stormscope WX-500 with the Horizon HX EFIS MFD.
Zenair Ships First Float Kits
Less than a year after announcing it would be returning its float production to North America, Zenair Ltd. has begun deliveries of its lightweight...
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Wind Tunnel
Last month we took a look at using hinge-line offset to aerodynamically balance control...
Aero ‘lectrics
Proper sizing and selection of the wire that goes into an aircraft can have a profound effect on the efficacy of the installation.
Dan’s World
Columnist and RV builder Dan Checkoway advocates keeping it simple so that you can actually afford to fuel and fly your homebuilt aircraft. He claims many builders buy into the hype about the latest and greatest equipment must-haves, and then complain about the price at the pump.