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Apache Guardian's Dutch Debut, Four Years for Mimouss - Rafale Solo Display Pilot, Leonardo – Complete Helicopter Solutions, World Defence Show 2024 - Saudi Arabia, Remembering the Pioneers, William Reid
Flying High Comic, Calgary International Airport Sets Record, A Heavyweight Dogfight, Elevating Expectations: Flair Airlines' Impactful Year in Review, Flying Officer Percy Burton, Aviation Management, Remembering the Pioneers: King Bladud
Volaria Aeronautical Festival, F-16 Flight Showcases Operational Strength, Aeromedical Evacuation Day, NAS Oceana Air Show, Right-sizing the Sri Lanka Air Force, 50 Years of Women Flying in the US Navy, Remembering the Pioneers: Abraham Wald
The Canadian International Airshow, USS Ford: First of its Class, High Skill, High Altitude: The Gendarmerie Mountain Flying Training Centre, Bastille Parade Over Paris, Spanish Forces’ Parade in Madrid, Host Nation Support: More than Just a Phrase, Remembering the Pioneers: Dr. Robert Goddard
Stronger Together - Air Defender 2023, Grifone 2023, Jimmy Thach, AirVenture 2023 Facts and Figures, Remembering the Pioneers: William 'Bill' Piper Sr.
Westfield International Air Show, Into the Unknown: Embraer KC-390 for Portugal, Jesús Villamor, Aviation Management: Communications and Structural Strategies, Remembering the Pioneers: James McDonnell
Anatolian Eagle 2023, Employee Evaluations, Alan McLeod, FAMEX 2023 - Mexico Aerospace Fair, Remembering the Pioneers: Kenneth Whiting
User Radia has announced plans to meet the logistical challenge of transporting enormous wind turbine blades by designing, building and operating the world’s largest aircraft. This unique aircraft will enable the deployment of the largest and best-performing wind turbines of the present and future to locations currently inaccessible to wind energy at a scale and speed that was previously impossible.
The Canadian Armed Forces is set to participate in the largest NATO exercise in decades, that will serve to rehearse NATO’s Deterrence and Defence plans to counter threats to the Euro-Atlantic area.
Pioneering flying car, the Switchblade, recently completed its maiden flight in Washington State.
This year’s annual convention turned out to be another record-setting year. Attendance was approximately 677,000, up from the previous record of 650,000 last year. But attendance numbers weren’t the only record.
June saw an unprecedented number of movements of military aircraft all over Germany and the surrounding region. The reason: Exercise Air Defender 2023. More than 250 aircraft, including some 190 fighter jets, and more than 10,000 soldiers from 25 countries were on the move for two weeks.
Aviation comic by Crystine Muller.
Aviation comic illustrated by Crystine Muller
High Flyer Comic - Illustrated by Crystine Muller
Aviation comic illustrated by Crystine Muller.
Aviation comic illustrated by Crystine Muller
As we all know, “test driving” an aircraft is not the same as test driving a vehicle. You don’t pop down to your local dealership and take out the latest model for 30 mins, to see how it handles and how it feels.
I am very fortunate to have had many opportunities to fly different aircraft. Often this is because of the distance between the buyer and seller and is done as a service to assist in the movement of the plane to the buyer.
After the review of thousands of logbook pages, and years of reviewing entries in my own aircraft, I have discovered something. As owners, we do a terrible job of ensuring our logbooks are kept in great shape. I am not pointing fingers, unless you consider the one I am pointing at myself, as I am a culprit of this as much as anyone else.
We say a sad goodbye to Kathy Wrobel, who has written many excellent articles with valuable advice on purchasing and selling aircraft, as well as aircraft ownership in general.
Insurance is fundamentally about providing financial stability, so it is extremely important to have and to understand. This is especially true for those of us in aviation because of our industry’s high severity of losses, and even occasional fatalities.
I had sold an aircraft to Europe that was to be shipped in a container, so the other day I went up to a small airport with a small crew to pick up the aircraft, as well as its floats and some other accessories that were to go with it.
Aircraft have been stranded, folks struggling to get to where they are going. Some are having close calls, but thankfully so far no incidents.
Coast Dog Aviation, a well-known western Canadian maintenance organization, recently announced that a Transport Canada supplemental type certificate (ST) had been issued for the installation of a Cessna 206 cargo door modification, which provides a significant increase in safety.
The TransCanada Highway crossed below me as I glanced at the Cav's airspeed read out. We eased up through 80 mph with the RPM good and the plane climbing strongly. I smiled to myself and thought for the tenth time that evening how much I love my airplane.
Aviation lore abounds with stories of pilots summarily losing their flight privileges after running afoul of seemingly arbitrary, mysterious medical requirements. And yet, in my opinion, this usually wasn’t really the case.
What do we see from above? What do pilots see that no one else does?
"When I think about my first article of 2020, where the year seemed so full of hope and great expectations, it seems like a blink of an eye ago and a million years ago all in the same feeling."
It has been a very busy year with aircraft sales here at Prairie Aircraft Sales Ltd. The year started off great; we were in the midst of the springtime shows when everything came to a screeching halt. March, all into lockdown.
In the spring of 2019 I received a call from a client who wanted to sell their aircraft. They were not really interested in going through the whole process and just wanted me to purchase it as it was. That is not uncommon and I have a few aircraft for sale now that are being sold “as is where is”. This means you need to do your own due diligence and know there will probably be a few surprises.
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