Archive for 2010

Update On FAA’s Radical Proposals For Airports

There appears to be some confusion among readers, particularly lawyers, who have expressed doubt about our story on the FAA Order 5190.613, the Airport Compliance Manual.
There was even one suggestion made to our website that we fabricated the information for some personal reason. Here is the exact news release as sent by the EAA but [...]

CAF Teams Up With Country Music Star

Country music singer Aaron Tippin and the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) have announced they are joining forces to honor American military aviation "and remind Americans of the men and women of the armed services who have sacrificed for our freedoms."
Tippin will officially be the 2010 CAF celebrity spokesman, including special appearances at various CAF events [...]

Cable Kicks Off First Show Of Year With A Bang

Story And Photos
By Jim Mumaw
Cable Airport in Upland, Calif. was the place to be in more ways than one on the second weekend of January.
While a large portion of the country was enduring extremely frigid temperatures, the weather for the opening airshow of the season was more like a pleasant summer's day in the [...]

Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something For USA

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state, an intolerable one."
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
By Jack Cowan
Thomas Paine had it figured out, no doubt.
The present band of bandits doing their dirty work on the banks of the Potomac [...]

Why Do We Do The Crazy Things We Do?

By Wayman Dunlap
Editor/Publisher
The issue has always been; why do we do what we do?
I have been a pilot even longer than I've published this paper and have lost more than 100 close friends (my very best friend, in fact), acquaintances and business clients to airplane crashes - usually very high time, experienced former test pilots, [...]

Flights Of Fancy

By Paul Berge
John Locke had been airport manager long enough to know not to ask the city for a new windsock.
Budget cuts, they’d say. Patch the old one.
So he did. Over and over until he wondered if any of the original sock remained.
He stared up at the old rag snapping in the wind as though [...]

Want To See Your World Explode?

Special to Pacific Flyer

On a blistering hot day in the jungles of Southeast Asia many years ago, my Navy unit received a message that we should stay away from certain grid coordinates - well away - the next day.

In fact, if we could get to Saigon, it would be better.

“What’s up?” our grizzled [...]

RAM Aircraft Can Do It All With Engines

RAM Aircraft, LP is an aircraft engine overhaul facility and general aviation support center located at Waco Regional Airport in Waco, Texas.
Founded in 1976, RAM has focused on engineering airframe and engine improvements for general aviation's most popular airplanes for over 30 years. RAM has decades of experience in overhauling and installing Continental engines in [...]

Piper’s New Light Sport Aircraft

Piper Aircraft Co. is jumping into the Light Sport Aircraft market with a low-winged two seater it calls the PiperSport.
This one, unlike Cessna's which is made in China, will come from the Czech Republic and was already being manufactured. It was previously sold as a SportCruiser by Czech Sport Aircraft.
It made its first appearance [...]

Stewart Systems, the perfect finish!

Stewart Systems covering products and top coats are safe, simple to use and solvent free.
Whether you are building in your basement, garage or hangar you can safely use all of our covering and coating products, as there are no solvents involved. Our products are very low in odor.
All Stewart Systems products [...]