The June 2023 gathering of EAA Chapter 1246 at McKinney National Airport in Texas attracted a pair of helicopters and many planes and people as this video from Smitty Smith shows.
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Teen-built LSA takes flight
Four years after the project began, students involved in the Naples Youth Aviation Project (NYAP) in Florida recently unveiled the Sling 2 Light-Sport Aircraft they built.
Is it time to get your instrument rating?
Even if you don’t ever need to fly through a layer of clouds because you live in the sunny southwest where there’s nary a cloud in the sky, the training to become an instrument-rated pilot will improve your flying. Period.
What are the 20 best films about pilots?
The website Yardbarker recently updated its list of the 20 best films about pilots. But I think they missed a few…what do you think?
Video captures first flight of Bataan after restoration
After eight years of restoration, the Lockheed C-121A Constellation N422NA made its first flight on June 20, 2023. Named “Bataan,” the Connie was used as a personal transport by General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War.
How do you celebrate your 100th birthday?
A Fox Carolina news report documents the amazing 100th birthday flight of “Uncle John” Hartness at Triple Tree Aerodrome in Woodruff, South Carolina. Uncle John, who has volunteered at Triple Tree for years — he even has a fly-in named after him — says there’s “not a single thing I’d rather be doing” than flying.
Video captures scenes from the Moses Lake Air Show
Including the debut of a refurbished deHavilland Vampire jet fighter.
An air show and so much more
The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum’s Annual World War II Weekend is much more than an air show. Billed as “A Gathering of Warbirds,” those attending the June 2023 show in Reading, Pennsylvania, also got to see more than 230 military ground vehicles and some 1,500 fully-uniformed military and civilian re-enactors.
Pilots needed to transport survivors of human trafficking
Statistics show transportation is the No. 1 barrier to escaping.