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Airborne Affordable Flyers 06.08.23: Velocity V-Twin 6, eSPRG Progress, RotorX

Also: AeroPup Soon To Fly, Bushliner, Dynon Offers Trade-In, Cubcrafters A much-modified version of the Velocity V-Twin has made its first flight in Sebastian, FL, out of Velocity Aircraft’s company HQ. Stretching a fiberglass / carbon-composite airframe 24-inches longitudinally and...

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Airborne Programming Continues Serving SportAv With ‘Airborne-Affordable Flyers’

With The eSPRG Only Weeks Away From Its Start Date, A-AF Will Help To Support Sport Flyers, Worldwide With the all-new and all-digital SportPlane Resource Guide getting ready for publication early next year, the Aero-News Network is pleased to announce...

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Airborne 06.07.23: Stunning P-47D Reborn, Jet It Relief, APA v ALPA

Also: iPad Mini Kneeboard, B-29 Doc Tour, AT-6D to WASP Museum, Bushliner Powerplants The Dakota Territory Air Museum’s Republic P-47D Thunderbolt—following a painstaking eight-year restoration—took flight for the first time in 79-years. Resurrected to its wartime glory by a dedicated...

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ANN’s Daily Aero-Term (06.06.23): Breakout

Breakout A technique to direct aircraft out of the approach stream. In the context of simultaneous (independent) parallel operations, a breakout is used to direct threatened aircraft away from a deviating aircraft.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (06.06.23)

“During this event, the NORAD aircraft also used flares—which may have been visible to the public—in an attempt to draw attention from the pilot. Flares are employed with highest regard for safety of the intercepted aircraft and people on the...

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NTSB Prelim: Cessna R182

Airplane Lifted Off Nose-High, The Wings Buffeted, And The Airplane Drifted Left Into Trees On May 21, 2023, about 1447 eastern daylight time, a Cessna R182, N182LG, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Macon, North Carolina....

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Aero-TV: Of Australia’s Jabiru Aircraft and Engines

The Antipodes Finest Four-Stork Aero-Mills Co-founded in 1988 by Rodney Stiff and Phil Ainsworth, Bundaberg, Queensland’s Jabiru Aircraft is an Australian, family-owned maker of kit and ready-built civil Special Light Sport Aircraft (SLSA). Unique among LSA and SLSA concerns, Jabiru...

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Airborne 06.01.23: Reno Seeks New Home, Jet It Kaput, SLS Criticized

Also: Diamond DA62 SurveyStar, Blue Origin, Radio Altimeter 5G SAIB, ALPA v 1500 HR Rule The Reno Air Racing Association (RARA) is now accepting bids from airports and localities seeking to partner with the organization for purpose of hosting future...

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ANN’s Daily Aero-Linx (06.07.23)

Aero Linx: Ercoupe Owners Club We fly an airplane that was the peak of pre-World War II development. It took more than a decade and a half before the features of the Ercoupe were the norm in civil aviation. Yet...

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Klyde Morris (06.02.23)

Klyde Is Getting A Bit Tired Of Life On The Road... FMI: www.klydemorris.com

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