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All News

October 01, 2007

CAF President Rice Resigns To Take Red Cross Job

Nationwide Search Underway For Replacement

Aero-News has learned Bob Rice, president of the Commemorative Air Force, announced his resignation in August to accept the position of executive director for the American Red Cross of Southwest Texas. Rice, who remained in his capacity as CAF president through this past weekend's AIRSHO, takes the helm of the American Red Cross on October 8.

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'The Gathering Of Mustangs And Legends' Draws Crowds In Columbus

P-51s And Their Crews Honored In Ohio

Amazing weather and an enthusiastic crowd greeted "The Gathering of Mustangs and Legends," held over the weekend at Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, OH.

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Klyde Morris (10.01.07)

FAA Overzealousness Reaches To The Lowest Levels...

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (10.01.07)

Aero-Linx!

In 1974 Burt Rutan left his job at Bede Test Center, moved his family to Mojave, California and started Rutan Aircraft Factory (RAF) in order to develop a non-conventional research aircraft he had designed while still in college-the VariViggen.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (10.01.07): Lead Sled

Aero-Terms!

Slang term for a high performance sailplane with high wing loading. The Lead Sled achieves a fast, flat glide while sacrificing some thermaling ability in weak conditions.

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Aero-News: Quote Of The Day (10.01.07)

"The pilot's continued flight into an area of known convective weather, resulting in a loss of aircraft control. Contributing factors were the failure of the FAA center controller to provide information on depicted severe weather to the pilot and the controller's delay in providing requested navigational assistance until it was too late to provide the pilot with effective assistance in avoiding severe weather."

Source: From the NTSB Final Report on the 2005 P337 accident that claimed the life of pilot Michael Zinn. Like the sad recent final report published on the accident that claimed the life of famed aviator Scott Crossfield, a 2005 P337 accident may have been avoided had controllers provided more timely weather info on the route of flight.

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