“Warm Weather IFR Planning with ForeFlight offers insightful tips to help identify weather that could interrupt our flight by looking at various tools readily available during the planning process,” said ASI Senior Director Paul Deres. “For example, selecting the IFR flight category overlay in ForeFlight gives us a birds-eye view of current weather across the region and helps us anticipate conditions we can expect for our flight.”
Aircraft
Picture of the Day: Sunset high and low wings
Matthew Baker submitted this photo and note: “Took this of a 172 and Piper Archer from our flight school at Bartow Flying Service at Bartow Executive Airport (KBOW) in Florida. After a pretty good rain and thunderstorm, the sky made for a beautiful scene.”.
Hypoxia demonstration an eye-opener for GA pilots at Oshkosh
General aviation pilots at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023 volunteered to sustain oxygen deprivation, turn blue, and emulate barely-sentient zombies in the interest of flight safety — their own flight safety.
PlaneFest includes Young Eagles, Orville Wright birthday celebration
During the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire’s recent PlaneFest! celebration at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (KMHT), 37 Young Eagles took flight, many for the first time.
Museum of Flight artist-in-residence creates sculptures with aircraft structures
Salmon’s artwork blends aircraft structures with traditional woodcraft techniques that have been used in England and the Northeast, according to museum officials.
New video analyzes Cherokee Lance crash
The new video from the AOPA’s Air Safety Institute, “High Aspirations,” recreates the events that led a Piper PA 32 Cherokee Lance to crash only minutes after takeoff from South Valley Regional Airport (U42).
Picture of the Day: It’s raining
Amirhossein Shirazian submitted this photo and note: “After takeoff it started to rain so we came back and landed at Payam International Airport (OIIP) in Iran.”
The oldest aircraft flown in to Oshkosh 2023
The oldest plane to fly in to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2023 was this freshly restored 1926 Waco 9, which won the Golden Age (1918-1927) Champion — Bronze Lindy Award.
Video: Gowen Thunder
Of Wings & Things columnist Frederick A. Johnsen, who is also the force behind the Airailimages YouTube channel, sent in this video he shot at Gowen Thunder, an air show held Aug. 26-27, 2023, in Boise, Idaho.