Last year at Sun ‘n Fun Joe and Chris Gagliano, a father-son aerospace design team from Titusville, Fla., unveiled their design for a pusher prop inverted V-tail Light Sport Aircraft. This year they returned to report the proof of concept model has flown, and quite successfully.
The best of times, the worst of times…
May 5, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Flying yourself to a show like Sun ‘n Fun is always exciting, but it was especially poignant for Herb Rose from Sacramento, Pa.
Washington’s Evergreen Airport sold
May 5, 2006 by Leave a Comment
The Olson family, owners of Evergreen Airport (59S) in Vancouver, Wash., have sold the airport to a developer, Opus Northwest LLC. A closing date has been set for mid-July.
‘Miss Pearl’ Single-engine elegance
May 5, 2006 by Leave a Comment
It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This becomes apparent as you prowl the rows of aircraft on display at air shows and notice which airplanes have the “Judge Me” placards on their propellers. If you spend any time with judges at these events you begin to spot the little details that take points off – as well as those that add points.
Flying car wins MIT prize
May 5, 2006 by Leave a Comment
The Ford automobile and the airplane came on the American scene in 1903. Both were considered technological marvels of the modern age and it wasn’t long before inventors sought a way to combine the two and produce a flying car. Although many have tried, no one has been able to come up with a design that has been embraced on a commercial level.
Mutt Muffs: Ear protection for your pooch
May 5, 2006 by Leave a Comment
It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention. When it comes to the needs of a pet, some people can be quite inventive — and sometimes that inventiveness can lead to a new source of income.
Grass roots effort thwarts fuel bill
March 24, 2006 by Leave a Comment
When pilots in Washington State learned of legislation to require all automobile gas sold in the Evergreen State to contain ethanol, they went off like a stall warning horn.
Parks Service protects B-29 in Lake Mead
March 24, 2006 by Leave a Comment
Are you a diver? How would you like to dive on a B-29 that has sat undisturbed below the surface of Lake Mead near Boulder City, Nev., for the better part of the last century?
Are you a survivor?
March 24, 2006 by Leave a Comment
The better you plan, the better your day will be at a fly-in.
Protect your plane at a fly-in
March 24, 2006 by Leave a Comment
You put in hundreds of hours getting your plane from “project” status to showpiece and now you’re ready to take it to a fly-in for exhibition.
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