Paulo Iscold Receives August Raspet Memorial Award
Paulo Iscold, 40, has been announced as the 2016 winner of the EAA's prestigious August Raspet Memorial Award, which recognizes an individual or group that has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of light aircraft design. Notable past recipients include Dick VanGrunsven, Burt Rutan and Paul Poberezny.
Garmin introduces new ways to interact with GTN 650/750
Garmin announced an expanded feature set, an enhanced user interface and additional wireless connectivity solutions for its popular GTN 650/750 touchscreen navigators. New GTN...
Garmin® revolutionizes database management with wireless Database Concierge
Garmin announced an expanded Connext portfolio of connectivity solutions with the Flight Stream 510 MultiMediaCard (MMC), enabling wireless aviation database transfer capabilities between the Garmin Pilot™...
And Out They Come
Drilling out rivets can seem like a step backwards for any builder, but you can also look at it from another direction and realize that if you need to do it, you NEED to do it--and therefore, it is a step forward towards completion, or in this case, in the direction of finishing a repair.
New Garmin navigation databases bring cost-effective solutions to the cockpit
Garmin announced a new, cost-effective Garmin Navigation Database, single navigator bundles and all-inclusive OnePak database options for select Garmin avionics and portables. OnePak database...
ADSB-Out–Two of Four Complete
Trying to keep number of family airplanes flying and up to date is never easy, and since one or two fly a couple of...
Sonex Provides Kit Hardware with WBParts
Sonex Aircraft announced a new relationship with aircraft hardware distributor WBParts to provide the company's SmartKits hardware packages with Sonex Aircraft airframe kits. WBParts...
Ninety Knots
My AirVenture NOTAM booklet came fairly late this year, despite having ordered it the day it was available. Not to worry--I downloaded the document...
Jon Croke's Zenith CH750 Cruzer
My new Zenith CH750 Cruzer is powered by a rebuilt Continental O-200 engine driving a WhirlWind propeller. From start to finish the kit took...
Flight Data Systems L2e Light Speed to EFIS Adapter Available
Flight Data Systems in cooperation with Light Speed Engineering announced the availability of the L2e adapter.
The L2e allows you to display the parameters of your Light Speed ignition module directly on your EFIS during flight. Your EFIS can record these parameters for download and diagnosis.
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