Our customers want guaranteed performance and unmatched reliability, and their engine of choice for peace of mind is the PT6 turboprop. With 430+ million flying hours – more flying time than any other engine in the market – the PT6 is a proven engine and the most prolific in the segment.
Story and Photos By HOWARD LEVY Woody Saland’s career is all about jets, but when it’s time for fun, he’s all about flying low and slow. Saland is manager of technical programs for Teterboro, N.J.-based Falcon Jets, the U.S. division of the French Dassault organization that produces Falcon light jets and fighter aircraft. Besides dealing …
Guangzhou May 1997
Pilots are famous for being passionate about flying, but they’re also famous for being pessimistic about flying. Call me hopelessly naive, but I think there is still a lot to be thankful for as pilots. With that in mind, I’d like to offer seven good things about general aviation right now.
The seventh annual International Wreckchasing Symposium is slated for Sept. 24-25. Aviation archaeology and wreck-chasing enthusiasts will gather at the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum in Pueblo, Colorado, to discuss historic aircraft crash events, abandoned airfields and long forgotten airway beacon sites. The symposium, sponsored by the museum, will include speakers from throughout the international aviation …
Find the right answer the first time with this useful handbook of preliminary aircraft design. Written by an engineer with close to 20 years of design experie..
Piper Aircraft, Inc. is a manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, located at the Vero Beach Municipal Airport in Vero Beach, Florida.
Flying | Pilot | Outdoors | Summer activities | 2022 | Pilot Girl | Career | Aesthetic | Motivational | Nature | Planes | Helicopters | Private Pilot | Commercial pilot |
Blackwing "completely pulverized" the speed record, according to company officials.
It’s a grand day when your aircraft project rolls out of the hangar ready for its first flight. It’s an even bigger day when you fly your creation to AirVenture for the first time. Lon Dienst from Poplar Grove, Ill., sort of skipped the first flight phase because he was in such a hurry to …
Photo taken at Tianjin - Zhangguizhuang (Binhai) (TSN / ZBTJ) in China on May 5, 2012.
Would anyone be interested in a 250-horsepower aircraft capable of crossing the continent in just over eight hours at an average speed of 252 miles per hour while using only 61 gallons of aviation fuel, about 40 miles per gallon in cruise? That’s what California aviator Klaus Savier did the day before SUN ‘n FUN …
Hidden in the rolling hills near Summerville, Georgia, is perhaps the ultimate “man cave” for anyone who likes classic cars, airplanes, and related memorabilia. Owned by Greg Wyatt, 56, one of the country’s leading dealers in investment-grade vintage Corvettes, the building is crammed full of collector cars for sale, typically 30 or more at a …
Great aerial adventures followed in the wake of World War I as aviation tried to find its post-war role. It was a period of conquest of the oceans and continents — the NC-4 across the Atlantic via the Azores; Alcock and Brown’s first non-stop flight from Canada to Ireland; the R-34 airship’s first round-trip flight …
This mix of warbirds and vintage civil aircraft spans decades and includes the last flying Lisunov Li-2, Boeing P-26A Peashooter and Northrop N9M Flying Wing.
Hi, the North American/General Aviation GA-38X was three engined low-wing medium transport aircraft project of 1932,powered by three P&W Wasp engines...
Don Tevis sent in this photograph for Picture of the Day, explaining: “Spacewalker II resting just off the grass runway at Emporia Municipal Airport (KEMP) in Kansas after a perfectly fun afternoon of flying. This Spacewalker has the Lycoming 0-235 engine.” Would you to like have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? You …
Read sample
The Bogert Aviation 04M-BBU is a universal Big Bogi general aviation aircraft towbar.
