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Quiz Me: July 30, 2010
Q: Does the completion of an Air Safety Foundation online interactive course or an in person safety seminar count as a flight review?
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Flight Design displays 'Lite' model
Flight Design is displaying the CTLS Lite at EAA AirVenture that dramatically lowers the price and substantially raises the payload. Based on the CTLS, the CTLS Lite is aimed at making the model more affordable and a better performer.
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Aspen expands geo-referencing, adds extended warranty
Aspen Avionics Inc. announced July 27 at Oshkosh that geo-referencing is now available on instrument approach procedures and airport diagrams displayed on the company's EFD1000 and EFD500 multifunction flight display (MFD) products.
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Belite offers bare bones aircraft price
Now you can get in the air, in a Belite ultralight under FAA Part 103 regulations, for $28,655. The aircraft weighs just 254 pounds, and is powered by a 50-hp Hirth engine.
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Garmin ESP certification expected in 2010
Garmin expects its innovative ESP (Electronic Stability and Protection) system to be FAA certified this year, company officials announced at the EAA's AirVenture on July 26.
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Custom design kit available for Cirrus
Scheme Designers and LoPresti Aviation have developed a range of decal designs to replace older-style or worn decals on Cirrus Design aircraft. They can be viewed at EAA AirVenture.
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Terrafugia unveils next-generation roadable aircraft
Terrafugia unveiled a model of its next-generation flying car on Monday that the company expects to fly publicly for the first time next year at AirVenture 2011.
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Lycoming offers light sport engine
Lycoming Engines is taking orders for its noncertified 233 light sport aircraft engine. Additionally, Lancair is taking orders for its piston Evolution aircraft powered by Lycoming’s TEO-540-EXP Integrated Electronic Engine (iE2).
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BRS profits up
It doesn't mean there is an aviation recovery in progress, but profits are up 232 percent at BRS Aerospace this year compared to the same period last year. The profits are mostly due to military orders for ballistic parachutes.
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Bose upgrades to A20 headset
Bose, long the standard for noise canceling headsets, has replaced the current A10 model with the A20 Aviation Headset, priced at $1,095. Without the Bluetooth link to your cell phone, it is $995.
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EAA names third president
Rod Hightower, a business manager and Stearman pilot and rebuilder, will become the Experimental Aviation Association’s third president since the organization was formed in 1953, EAA Chairman and President Tom Poberezny announced July 26.
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Lapsed medical problem eased by AOPA
When Lance Anderson of Waterville, Maine, developed some fears over whether he could pass his FAA medical, he let his medical lapse. He was happy flying low and slow around his home base early in the morning in a light sport airplane. But then, he became a grandfather for the first time. He started thinking how nice it would be to jump in an airplane to go visit his grandson outside of Boston.
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DC-3s prepare for mass Oshkosh arrival
Some 28 variants of Douglas Aircraft's pioneering air transport, the DC-3 - including many C-47 military transport versions, a rare DC-2, and a C-41 military VIP transport - gathered last weekend at Whiteside County Airport in Rock Falls, Ill.
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Mustang gets new interior option
Cessna is offering a new interior option for the Cessna Mustang called the High Sierra Edition. It was unveiled during EAA AirVenture.
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Hertz offers special savings to AOPA members
As an AOPA member, renting your next vehicle from Hertz not only gives you up to 25 percent off and free enrollment in the #1 Club Gold Program, but also grants you special bonus savings.
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PiperMatch program locates possible co-owners
Want to buy an aircraft, but need co-owners to share the costs? You can always put an ad in the newspaper, but now Piper Aircraft has something better: PiperMatch locates co-owners for you.
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Klapmeier teams up for new turboprop project
Former Cirrus Aircraft Chairman Alan Klapmeier has made a public return to the development of breakthrough technology aircraft, announcing that his new company, Kestrel Aircraft, will certify and build the single-engine Kestrel JP10 turboprop at a decommissioned naval air station in Maine.
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Movie about youngest pilot showing at AirVenture
The movie 'Pearl', about a 13-year-old Chickasaw girl who was awarded a pilot certificate in 1928, will be shown on the evening of July 30 at EAA AirVenture.
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Lam Aileron promises efficiency, savings
It was 1975 when the late Larry Lam, known as an innovative aerospace engineer, came up with an aileron design that eliminated adverse yaw. That wasn’t all it did.
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