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All three students taking part in Redbird Flight Simulations’ One Week Ready To Solo campaign at Sun ‘n Fun are slated to fly their supervised solo flights Saturday morning. Nik Osterman, Chris Graves and Sherry Rosenkranz, all zero-time beginners, started daily training just before the show. So far so good; they will have completed their […]

Aspen Avionics’ software-based angle of attack indicator will go on the market in July for $1,995, the company announced Thursday. Introduced earlier this month, the AoA indicator is a software upgrade that will display real-time data on the Evolution’s primary flight and multi-function displays. John Uczekaj, Aspen’s president and CEO, said the company will promote […]

Lightspeed Aviation Foundation launched its sixth annual Pilot’s Choice Awards Thursday, with 12 charitable organizations named from hundreds of nominees as the finalists. They’ll seek online votes from the public to win up to $10,000 in grants from the foundation. The finalists are: Angel Flight West, Civil Air Patrol, Experience Aviation, JAARS, Miracle Flights for […]

Textron Aviation will provide Cessna Skyhawk 172s to four universities this year and offer internships with a new program, Top Hawk. The initial partners announced include Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Kansas State University, Liberty University and the University of North Dakota. Under the program, Cessna will provide a Skyhawk for the remainder of 2015 for the […]

American Legend’s Cub-style Super Legend, introduced four years ago, has some upgraded features including more carbon fiber components. American Legend has completed certification of its Kevlar and carbon fiber LF1500A floats for the Super Legend, filling customer demand. The floats come with a manual gear system and watertight storage. The Super Legend — a beefed-up […]

This year’s CAFE Electric Aircraft Symposium is set for May 1 and 2 in Santa Rosa, California. The event will feature talks by experts from Pipistrel, Airbus, Bye Aerospace, NASA, Northrop Grumman, PC Aero, Joby Aviation, Stanford University and more. The speakers will focus on recent advances in technology that aim to make it possible […]

The X-47B unmanned aircraft successfully demonstrated the first-ever fully autonomous aerial re-fueling on Wednesday, Northrop Grumman has announced. The X-47B launched from the Naval Air Station at Patuxent River, Maryland, and flew to a test site offshore. The UAS flew in close formation flight with an Omega K-707 tanker, and upon clearance from the tanker […]

It was probably inevitable that drone demos would be a part of a major show and this year they’re appearing at Sun ‘n Fun in the exhibit area for the first time. In a booth sponsored by Yuneec and Drone23, you can see small quadcopters demonstrated inside a large net cage that’s big enough to […]

Although the portable ADS-B In market has cooled of late, at Sun ‘n Fun, Levil Technology is introducing two versions of its ADS-B portables with improved performance and capability. The iLevil 2 SW is a portable intended for glareshield mount and the new version has a larger solar cell area for better battery life, and […]

It’s been nearly nine years since Garmin released its G600 retrofit primary flight display system and although the company has been making small improvements along the way, it previously lacked some features that owners might expect in a modern PFD/MFD, including georeferencing of Garmin’s Flite Chart approach procedures, ADS-B traffic symbology, plus more weather data […]