Smith Equipment has released its new Optimizer Anti-Surge Flowmeter Regulator. Designed for MIG and TIG welding applications, the Optimizer helps prevent gas flow surges that normally occur when a welding operator activates a MIG gun or TIG torch. The Optimizer can lower gas costs by up to 50% and, by reducing overall gas consumption, also […]
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TMC Pacific Modelworks custom and hand-made models
TMC Pacific Modelworks answers the challenge of gift-giving for the aviator who seems to have everything, offering fine scale model airplanes. More than 1,000 military, commercial and private aircraft models are available. TMC also can make custom models from photographs supplied by aircraft owners. All details, from the obvious to the minute, are recreated on […]
Quest chooses Millennium to design Kodiak’s interior
Quest Aircraft Company has tapped Millennium Concepts, Inc. of Wichita to design, fabricate and certify a choice of interior packages for its new 10-seat single engine turboprop utility aircraft, the KODIAK. Designed as a modern STOL workhorse, the KODIAK features rugged construction, turbine power and a high useful load ideal for back-country humanitarian and missionary […]
Max Trescott’s Garmin G1000 CD-ROM Course now available
Building on the popularity of Max Trescott’s G1000 Glass Cockpit Handbook, and the online internet G1000 training courses at PilotLearning.com, Glass Cockpit Publishing has released its new G1000 CD-ROM course. Created and produced by a Master CFI who teaches daily in glass cockpit aircraft, this course not only explains the G1000 system, but teaches you […]
New Weldcraft TIG torch packages available
Weldcraft now has available six new TIG torch packages that offer all the components necessary for TIG welding in one package. Weldcraft offers four torch packages for air-cooled applications ranging from 150 to 200 amps and two water-cooled torch packages including either a 250- or a 350-amp torch. To complement a wide range of TIG […]
Free software helps builders
Where can an airplane builder go to glean free insight and tips from hundreds of their peers? ExperCraft offers just such a destination at ExperCraft.com via its Simple Log documentation software. In the two years since Simple Log’s debut, aircraft builders have logged 40,285 hours of progress on more than 100 different types of homebuilt […]
Ergonomically designed handles available for tools
Bondhus Corp. introduces an ergonomically designed handle for its line of wing and flag style tools. These tools have handles with hard thermoplastic cores for strength and split resistance, and soft rubber outer coating to ensure maximum comfort and grip. For more information:
New free email accounts promote flying
Pilot Journey has introduced a free email account with some interesting benefits. The service is available on PilotJourney.net or TogetherWeFly.com and includes 1 gigabyte of email space along with features such as automatic email notification and calendaring. The concept, according to Gary Bradshaw, president of Pilot Journey, is to encourage people into taking a discovery […]
LSA SportCruiser: Now with a flight training package
Customers of Sport Aircraft Works, importer and distributor of Czech Aircraft Works’ S-LSA aircraft (the Mermaid amphibian, the high-wing, cantilever Parrot sport-touring machine, and the SportCruiser) are now eligible to receive 20 hours of flight training in their own airplanes, meeting the minimum requirement for a Sport Pilot license. Training is offered at Sport Aircraft […]